ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice of the caretaker prime minister, Thursday approved promulgation of Civil Servants (Amendment) Ordinance 2013 making all the employees of the devolved ministries permanent civil servants in the organisations to which they were transferred and are ...

PESHAWAR - The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) have announced names for three ministries in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial government.Sirajul Haq, Inayatullah Khan and Habibur Rehman have been put forward for the ministries of education, zakat and finance. Speaking to the media after a meeting, provincial ...

TRIPOLI Gunmen in Libya’s Tripoli kept up their siege of ministries on Monday despite the adoption of a law to purge Gaddafi-era officials from their posts, with some demanding the government’s resignation. Different groups at the justice and foreign ministries, however, failed to reach ...

ISLAMABAD - Taking notice of the excessive loadshedding across the country, caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso directed the Ministry of Water and Power to take immediate measures to bridge the widening gap between the electricity demand and supply. The premier gave these directions while ...

All ministries have assured their complete cooperation regarding ongoing efforts to render voting rights to overseas Pakistanis, ECP Secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed said on Wednesday.Speaking to reporters after attending a key meeting on voting rights of overseas Pakistanis at the ECP office, Ahmed said ...

ISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on Education and Training was informed Friday that the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis have occupied the hostels and auditorium of Ministry of Education and Training that has hindered the process of imparting ...

SIALKOT (PPI) - The mega project of establishing 225MW power project along the banks of Upper Chenab Canal near Nandipur has been delayed due to the alleged differences between the Ministry of Water & Power and Ministry of Law, as both of these ministries were opposing each others proposals ...

LAHORE Provincial Minister Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah Khan has said the divisions and ministries being devolved to Punjab by the federation are unimportant since the federal government has held back heads with it having assets of billions of rupees. The Punjab government will ...

ISLAMABAD - Failing to meet the deadline set for the devolution of three ministries to the provinces the Implementation Commission on 18th Constitutional Amendment has decided to devolve the rest of the ministries in one go to provinces by June 30. Sources in the Implementation Commission informed ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) The Parliamentary Commission constituted for the implementation of 18th Amendment on Thursday formally decided for devolution of ministry of sports, environment and women affairs to provinces till mid of the current month. The Parliamentary Committee met in Islamabad under the ...

KARACHI - Sindh High Court on Wednesday summoned to Attorney General of Pakistan and the respondents regarding creating some ministries in the federal government, which were actually the provincial subject. A division bench comprising Justice Ghulzar Ahmed and Justice Shahid Anwar Bajwa was ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday merged Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Law and Justice. Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr. Babar Awan will look after the affairs of newly formed Ministry for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs. The ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman National Assemblys Standing Committee on Commerce Engr Khurram Dastagir Khan Thursday said that due to the ongoing sugar crisis, the government faced loss of Rs800 million as the whole crisis was the result of connivance between Ministries of Commerce, Industries & Production ...

ISLAMABAD - The lack of coordination among various organs of the government is well obvious from the fact that the ministries of commerce and textile have set entire different targets for the exports for the ongoing fiscal year 2009-10. Mian Shaukat Masud, President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce ...

KARACHI - Sindh High Court Thursday directed Ministries of Interior, Defence and Foreign Affairs to submit till January 15, 2009 their comments on detention of Dr. Aafiya Siddiqui by US authorities. Intekhab Alam Suri & Imran Ahmed of Human Rights Network, filed pro bono petition against Defence, ...

ISLAMABAD -The additional charge assumed by the PPP Ministers of the portfolios vacated by the PML-N leaders has created an opportunity for the bureaucracy in the "orphan" ministries to get away with whatever they want. One of such case occurred in the Ministry of Petroleum where PS to the ...

LAHORE-The new Government's casual approach to tackle  issues of national importance was also reflected in its handling of Prime Minister Gilani's media team, whose seven, out of total 13 members, could not accompany the PM to the USA on Saturday last due to inefficiency of the concerned ...