ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday said that no Non-Government Organisation (NGO) working against the country's national interest will be allowed to continue its work in Pakistan...
He said that some NGOs were performing out of their respective domains and they should be probed...
The group said on Monday it was seeking clarification after the interior ministry told it and other organisations that they must halt operations in Pakistan within 60 days...
It said that in 2015 Pakistan ordered all INGOs already operating in the country to register with the ministry, a process that entailed submitting detailed accounts of their funding...
I was conducting fieldwork for my doctoral studies on the issue of NGOs in democratisation in Pakistan...
It does not only offer Asma’s insights on NGOs, international funding and the nature of democratisation in Pakistan, it also gives us a peak into her humanist nature...
GILGIT: The Gilgit divisional administration has suspended registration of 320 NGOs, including a Chinese entity, and 30 seminaries operating in the division, for failing to provide details of their funding sources and activities...
According to a list provided to the media by Assistant Commissioner, Gilgit, Rana Waqas on Monday, 320 local NGOs and 30 seminaries’ registration had been suspended and their bank accounts frozen...
Addressing a news conference at Swat Press Club here on Thursday, she warned the NGOs to refrain from committing the illegal acts...
However, she said, some NGOs in the area were hijacking the activities and cases highlighted and resolved by Khwendo Jirga...
Deputy Commissioner Abdul Kabir Khan accompanied by Assistant Commissioner, Alpuri, Tariq Mehmood and a police contingent sealed the NGOs’ offices...
He said the NGOs had been directed to provide NOCs, but they failed to do so...
They urged the administration to evolve appropriate monitoring system to make the activities of NGOs fruitful...
They made the complaint during a meeting, held here the other day at the office of additional political agent, with the representatives of various NGOs...
Later, talking to reporters in Taxila, the interior minister outlined the government’s plans to tackle such INGOs, saying that all organisations had to pass through three layers of scrutiny before they were allowed to work in Pakistan...
“We do not want to ban any NGOs, but they will have to respect the code of conduct and [their] charter of registration...
CHARSADDA: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq said on Saturday that the NGOs working on anti-Pakistan agenda could not be allowed to work in the country...
Mr Haq said that certain NGOs were working here to fulfil the agenda of enemies of Pakistan...
HYDERABAD: A meeting of around 50 NGOs has called for establishing a minority rights commission at the provincial level to ensure implementation on legislation introduced by the Sindh Assembly with regard to minorities...
The Sindh Assembly has introduced legislation on forced conversion, five per cent quota of jobs, deletion of hate material from textbooks and inclusion of chapters on minorities’ rights in the curriculum...
“Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has directed the high-level inter-ministerial committee, set up under Special Assistant to PM Tariq Fatemi for reviewing laws and regulations regarding accreditation and working conditions of INGOs working in Pakistan, to submit its report expeditiously,” said a terse statement issued by the PM media cell...
A second source, in the know of pressure put up by the international community, said all...
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq regrets the government has backtracked on the issue of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) under pressure from the US...
In a statement issued here on Monday, he said the government, especially Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, had taken a clear stance on NGOs but retreated when pressed by the US...
ISLAMABAD: The federal government decided Tuesday that all International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) presently working in Pakistan will continue to function for a period of six months within specified areas of operation allowed by the authorities...
The decision was made by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while chairing a high-level meeting at Prime Minister House in the federal capital to discuss issues relating to the working...
KARACHI: The Sindh government has warned more than 4,000 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to get themselves registered by submitting updated financial details and other required documents within a week or face cancellation, officials in the social welfare department said on Wednesday...
Thousands of NGOs are registered with various ministries and departments of the Sindh government, including the departments of social welfare,...
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has notified the draft Associations with Charitable and Not-for-Profit Objects (Licensing and Corporate Governance) Regulations, 2017, to obtain public opinion...