Form 35A Companies Ordinance 1984 Pakistan

'Pakistan had the ability to conduct a nuclear test in 1984'

ISLAMABAD: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, said Pakistan had the ability and had planned to conduct a nuclear test in 1984, but General Zia opposed the idea as it would have curtailed international aid Pakistan was receiving due to the ongoing Soviet occupation of Afghanistan...

“We were able and we had a plan to launch nuclear test in 1984 however; then President General Zia had opposed the move,” said...

Why Orwell’s 1984 matters so much now

But by far the greatest beneficiary of our newly piqued national anxiety is George Orwell’s 1984...

The Twittersphere responded with allusions to 1984, and Penguin announced plans for a special 75,000-copy reprint, noting that since the inauguration, sales for the novel have increased by 9,500 per cent...

First India death sentence over deadly 1984 anti-Sikh riots

An Indian court on Tuesday handed down the first death sentence over anti-Sikh riots in 1984 that left nearly 3,000 dead following the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi...

The 1984 carnage erupted just hours after then-premier Gandhi was killed by her Sikh bodyguards...

Senate strikes down Companies Ordinance

ISLAMABAD: The Senate blocked Companies Ordinance 2016 with a majority vote on Thursday on the grounds that it should be promulgated through parliament...

The Companies Ordinance 2016, which was to replace the Companies Ordinance of 1984, was rejected by the Senate within minutes of the start of the session...

Analysing the Companies Ordinance 2016

Eyebrows rose on Nov 4 when Finance Minister Ishaq Dar presented the Companies Bill 2016 to the National Assembly...

“The president of Pakistan is pleased to promulgate the Companies Ordinance, 2016, on Nov 11 in order to replace the Companies Ordinance, 1984,” the minister announced...

Naya Pakistan housing authority ordinance to be presented in NA today

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has recently promulgated three ordinances for promotion of housing schemes in the country and one about establishment of Naya Pakistan Housing Authority (NPHA) will be laid before the National Assembly on Monday (today)...

According to the agenda of the lower house, Minister for Housing and Works Tariq Basher Cheema will lay the Naya Pakistan Housing Authority Ordinance, 2019, before the lower house...

SEZ Ordinance promulgated

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Thursday promulgated the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 for rapid industrialisation and enhancing economic activities...

The amendments in the ordinance will make the SEZ regime more business friendly...

NA committee to take up controversial NCA ordinance today

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defence is set to take up on Monday (today) a controversial ordinance making it binding on the federal government to provide unlimited funds to the National Command Authority (NCA)...

The NCA (Amendment) Bill, 2016, was tabled by the government in the National Assembly and the Senate during the budget sessions — three months after its promulgation in the form of an ordinance... ...

Chinese varsity gets legal cover thru’ ordinance

LAHORE: The Punjab government on Friday promulgated an ordinance to give legal cover to a Chinese technical education university being established in Lahore...

The Punjab Tianjin University of Technology Lahore Ordinance 2017 was promulgated after its authorisation by the governor...

Hafiz Saeed to be kept in house arrest under MPO ordinance

The five will, however, continue to be kept under house arrest; but under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO)...

PPP submits bill to amend ordinance on food adulteration

LAHORE: The PPP submitted on Wednesday a bill to the Punjab Assembly proposing amendments to the Punjab Food Adulteration Ordinance, 1960, which deals with the terms of imprisonment and fine for those involved in food adulteration...

Mr Jehangir said the existing terms of imprisonment and fine had failed to achieve the purpose of the Ordinance...

Sindh's National Accountability Ordinance Repeal Act challenged in apex court

The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Thursday received a petition against the controversial law repealing the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999 passed in Sindh...

Earlier on Thursday, a notification issued by the secretariat of Sindh Assembly passed on directions for printing of the ‘National Accountability Ordinance 1999 Sindh Repeal Act, 2017,’ in the Sindh Government Gazette...

Four held for violating Ramazan ordinance in Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI: Four people were arrested on charges of violating Ehtram-i-Ramazan ordinance in Pirwadhai area on Thursday, police said...

The ordinance bars people from eating, drinking and smoking in public places during the fasting hours...

Governor Sindh refuses to sign bill to repeal NAB Ordinance

Governor Sindh Mohammad Zubair has refused to sign the National Accountability Ordinance 1999 Repeal Bill 2017, terming it unconstitutional and in contradiction with the federal law...

He has sent the bill back to the Sindh Assembly to reconsider and discard since it is "repugnant to the provisions" of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 and the Constitution...

CM Sindh criticises NAB ordinance, vows to stand by accountability bill

A visibly irritated Murad Ali Shah criticised the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999 in his Sindh Assembly speech on Wednesday, vowing to press for the bill repealing the ordinance...

Earlier in the Sindh Assembly, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Pakistan) lawmaker Faisal Subzwari had questioned the provincial government's "mala fide" intention in passing the NAB Repeal Bill which, in his view, was an attempt to protect the...