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ISLAMABAD: Public Accounts Committee chairman Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Monday said all government departments had misused the railways from the day Pakistan came into existence. The PAC met today to review the prevailing state of affairs in the railways ministry. Briefing the committee, Railways Secretary Sami Khilji said that railway’s annual revenue was Rs21 billion, out of which 12 billion rupees were being spent on oil consumption. The committee directed the railways authorities to submit a report about the financial irregularities in two weeks. Taking notice of theft of railways tracks [...]

KARACHI: Chairman of the Constitutional Reforms Committee and PPP leader Raza Rabbani warned Wednesday that non-implementation of the 18th Amendment would be dangerous. The CRC had the right to devise a policy of judges’ appointment, but it preferred views of judges,” he said this in ‘Meet the Press’ program at Karachi Press Club. Under the 18th Amendment Bill, concurrent list was almost removed, he said, adding that except Criminal Law and Testimony Law, out of 46, 44 items would be transferred to provinces by June 2011. Rabbani said that provinces would also have the power to make legislation [...]

KARACHI: Chairman Traders Action Committee Siddiq Memon has urged the government to take notice of the humiliating treatment being meted out to Pakistani star Shoaib Malik in India, warning the traders community may launch a protest in this regard. In a statement issued here on Monday, the TAC chairman said the government should take immediate notice of the humiliating treatment given to Shoaib in India. Memon warned that Indian goods would be boycotted at trade centers if any action was taken against the cricketer. He said the Indian government should provide security to Shoaib and remove the [...]

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Amir Maulana Fazlur Rehman said Sunday that Pakistan could not afford sectarian tension and violence. A group of prominent clerics led by Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council Hafiz Tahir Mahmud Ashrafi and Maulana Zahid Mahmud Qasmi called on JUI-F chief in the federal capital. Rehman urged the Ulema to play their positive role to save the society from the menace of sectarian violence. Following the meeting, the PUC Chairman told media that an attempt was made to first trigger Sunni-Shia riouts under a planned conspiracy. Now, he said, similar attempt [...]

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms, Mian Raza Rabbani Friday presented the committee report containing 100 recommendations to restore the 1973 Constitution in its original form. The landmark document that emerged after nine months marathon delibarations has proposed to do away with the notorious 52/2B, LFO, 6th and 7th schedule as well as the most demanded concurrent list. In a very charged atmosphere in the House Rabbani presented 100 proposals to amend the Constitution amid continued thumping of desk across the divide.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday congratulated the Chairman and members of Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms and said the whole nation was proud of the political leadership on their achievement. The Prime Minister on his arrival at the Parliament House, embraced the committee’s Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani and other members. He lauded their hard work, political sagacity and commitment in producing the draft of Constitution Reforms unanimously agreed by all parties. He complimented the Committee for the tedious work and dialogue in a democratic spirit [...]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) warned the Chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) that he may be put behind bars if the judicial orders delivered on National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), were not implemented, Geo News reported Monday. Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday said in his remarks that it is unthinkable why the court order on the NRO is being criticized; though, the Parliament threw it away terming it ‘a stinking mouse’. Justice Ramday wondered what wrong was done in delivering the NRO verdict that a volley of invectives is being showered. A seven-member of the SC headed by [...]

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Ijaz Butt said that he is under tremendous pressure to sell five acres of land of the National Stadium Karachi to a party. Ijaz Butt said before the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly that the colonies of the Army and the Judges are situated on 18 acres of land belonging to the National Stadium while he is being pressurised for selling five acres of land to a party. He revealed that the said piece of land values at Rs2.5 billion. The PCB chairman said that matters for constructing a stadium in Islamabad had been finalized with the [...]

LAHORE: Former Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Lt. General (r) Tauqir Zia has said that the Senate Sports Committee should not have made the issue of match-fixing public if it was not to name the players involved. Former skipper Aamir Suhail said Senators did not clarify the situation so he won’t comment. Speaking to reporters following his announcement to contest election of Lahore City Cricket Association, Zia said that the decision was taken to take the Lahore Cricket to right direction. He backed star all-rounder Shahid Afridi as the best available choice to lead the national team. While [...]

WASHINGTON: Dr Naseem Ashraf, former chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and a friend of former president Gen Pervez Musharraf (retd) has rejected allegations of embezzlement of millions of rupees in various accounts of the board, Geo News reported. He defended himself and said he would go to Pakistan to face the charges. He was of the view that Auditor General of Pakistan had conducted audit, which did not prove any embezzlement in the accounts. A preliminary inquiry conducted by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Supreme Court orders has accused Ashraf of misappropriation. Ashraf [...]