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ASF intercepts CM’s staff officer

By: Amraiz Khan | May 23, 2013

lahore-The ASF officials on Wednesday intercepted the staff officer of Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi at the Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore when he tried to get aboard the special ...

PIA to hire ‘tainted’ ex-employee as consultant

By: Amraiz Khan | May 22, 2013

Lahore - PIA’s management is going to hire Kamran Hassan as marketing consultant who is former PIA officer and allegedly remained involved in embezzlement of Rs 400 million during his service ...

Saudis minimise Umrah visas for Pakistanis

By: Amraiz Khan | May 21, 2013

LAHORE - The Saudi government has minimised the number of visas for Umrah during coming Ramadan to 25,000 only whereas last year this number was 125,000, said a travel agent on Monday. He said that ...

Cricket community wishes Imran Khan well

By: Amraiz Khan | May 09, 2013

LAHORE - Top Pakistan former cricketers not only visited Imran Khan in hospital Wednesday but also wished him well in their statements after the politician and former Test captain recovered from a ...

Indians’ airline flying in Pakistan

By: Amraiz Khan | May 07, 2013

lahore - Capt Nadeem Yusafzai, during his tenure as DG CAA, gave approval to four new airlines to start domestic operations within Pakistan, which include an airline Rayyan Air, owned by two Indian ...

DHA defending scammers?

By: Amraiz Khan | April 29, 2013

LAHORE  - The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) is reluctant to provide land record of Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) to FIA, which is investigating a staggering land scam told sources in the ...

Sarabjit critical after attack in jail

By: Amraiz Khan | April 27, 2013

Lahore - A high-profile condemned prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, who is an Indian citizen, was shifted to a local hospital in a critical condition on Friday evening after he was attacked by two inmates. ...

Rehired officers running NFML costing national kitty millions

By: Amraiz Khan | April 25, 2013

LAHORE -  National Fertilizers Marketing Limited (NFML) is being run by retired officers who were rehired in the department after being given golden handshake under Voluntary Retirement Scheme ...

PIA fears foreign airlines may assert hold on int’l routes

By: Amraiz Khan | April 22, 2013

LAHORE -  PIA management fears foreign airlines could assert a hold on certain international routes due to delay in procurement of A-320 planes, sources in the national flag carrier said on ...

Saudi Arabia deports Pakistanis for ‘begging’

By: Amraiz Khan | April 16, 2013

LAHORE - While most of the Pakistanis perform Umrah as a religious duty, there are many who go for the pilgrimage to get opportunity to earn "easy money" through begging.The Saudi  authorities ...

PIA crews flying off with drugs

By: Amraiz Khan | April 15, 2013

LAHORE – Drug trafficking by the PIA crews has risen to alarming level, as two such incidents within last 10 days has put the national flag carrier’s reputation at stake, statistics ...

PIA chief to face SC for flouting service laws

By: Amraiz Khan | April 14, 2013

LAHORE – PIA chairman will appear in the Supreme Court on Monday on holding more than one office in violation of the PIA rules, said an officer of the national flag career on Saturday. He said ...

Umrah cut fares of no use for scores

By: Amraiz Khan | April 13, 2013

LAHORE – The PIA has introduced special Umrah fares and the new price of return ticket from Karachi is Rs40,000 and Rs48,000 from other cities inclusive of taxes and fuel surcharge. The ...

PIA female flight attendant detained in UK

By: Amraiz Khan | April 11, 2013

LAHORE – UK airport security authorities detained a PIA female flight attendant carrying several mobile phones in her hand bag at Manchester Airport when she was going to board Lahore bound ...

Notices SERVED for not SERVING director

By: Amraiz Khan | April 09, 2013

LAHORE – Four PIA officials, including shift manager, at Allama Iqbal International Airport (AIIA) were issued displeasure letters by the station manager merely for the reason that the shift ...

Power outages grow

By: Amraiz Khan | April 08, 2013

LAHORE – Power generation on Sunday went down to 7,000MW against demand of over 13,000MW pushing the general public in 18 hours loadshedding in urban areas and rural feeders went virtually ...

FIA addl director poking nose

By: Amraiz Khan | April 07, 2013

LAHORE – Former FIA director Waqar Haider, after taking charge as Additional Director of Anti Corruption Circle, has started interfering in affairs of director Qudratullah Marwat, sources in ...

PIA income surges after corrupt staff reshuffling

By: Amraiz Khan | April 06, 2013

LAHORE – After transferring officials backed by PIA’s employees union Peoples Unity (CBA) from passengers handling section, national flag carrier has started earning billions of rupees in ...

FIA DG writes to interior secy over deputation trend

By: Amraiz Khan | April 02, 2013

LAHORE – The FIA Director General in a letter to the Interior Secretary, pointed out the maneuvering of postings on deputation in FIA by officers of different departments, sources in FIA told ...

Deputationists taking over FIA

By: Amraiz Khan | March 28, 2013

LAHORE – In Violation of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Appointment Promotion and Transfer Rules 1975, deputationists are holding key posts in FIA, adding to that an officer, who does not ...

‘B-777 plane’ hijacked

By: Amraiz Khan | March 23, 2013

LAHORE – Not a so small model of B-777 plane has disappeared from a PIA office, sources said. The sources said the six-foot long and four-foot wide model, showcased at the PIA TOM (Ticket ...

Three Khaki ‘docs’ to help cure ill PIA, CAA

By: Amraiz Khan | March 22, 2013

LAHORE - The three serving army officers will advise retired General Yasin Malik for restructuring and improving the state of PIA and CAA which have already wasted over Rs250 billion of the poor tax ...

Chairman considers making ‘cosmetic changes’ in PIA

By: Amraiz Khan | March 21, 2013

LAHORE - PIA Chairman Lt Gen (r) Yasin Malik is considering to make changes in PIA, which for past five years has been crippled by corruption and incompetence, which has hiked total accumulated ...

E&T reshuffle on the cards

By: Amraiz Khan | March 19, 2013

LAHORE – A major reshuffle in the Punjab Excise and Taxation (E&T) Department is on the cards as the the department secretary sent has sent a summary on transfer and posting to the chief ...

Punjab govt still ‘unstained’

By: Amraiz Khan | March 14, 2013

LAHORE – Despite being accused of serious irregularities in various projects, including the Metro Bus, by almost all major parties, (PPP, PML-Q and PTI), proofs against PML-N is yet to be ...

Haj a more distant dream for most Pakistanis

By: Amraiz Khan | March 10, 2013

LAHORE - Performance of Haj and Umra has become a very expensive obligation for poor and middle class Muslims eager to undertake this dream journey with their lifelong savings, thanks to PIA and ...

FIA ‘Punjab director’ sent on leave

By: Amraiz Khan | March 07, 2013

LAHORE – Not surprisingly, Federal Investigation Agency Director General Anwar Virk has sent the agency’s Punjab Director, Waqar Haider, on a 15-day leave after the Supreme Court summoned ...

FIA reverts to humanistic policy

By: Amraiz Khan | March 02, 2013

LAHORE – The Federal Investigation Agency Friday brought back the previous policy about deportees after Interior Minister Rehman Malik resented the action of FIA Director Waqar Haider.Under a ...

FIA sits on Pepco scam involving billions

By: Amraiz Khan | March 02, 2013

LAHORE – The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) does not seem interested in taking action on a mega scam involving procurement of substandard transformers to Pakistan Electric Power Company ...

E&T Dept to throw tax net on firms

By: Amraiz Khan | February 17, 2013

LAHORE – The Punjab Excise and Taxation (E&T) Department has decided to put 6,000 private companies into tax net to meet the professional tax target set by Punjab government, sources said ...

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