HYDERABAD:The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), for the first time since 1987, looks set to repeat history in Hyderabad Municipal Corporation by securing the slots of HMC’s mayor and deputy mayor...
It trounced Jamaat-i-Islami and Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (Noorani) backed ten-party alliance — Tameer-e-Ittehad Hyderabad — formed on a one-point agenda: to beat the MQM...
Associaton president Jagmohan Kumar Arrora said that, like the Christian community, the Hindu community should also be provided representation in the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC)...
“Many Hindus residing in the garrison city want to play an active role in the democratic system and raise their voices for their community, but there is no member appointed to minority seats from the Hindu community,” he said...
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has notified committees at the district level to hand over the local government’s assets to the metropolitan municipal corporations (MMC) that would start functioning after the forthcoming local government elections...
He said the committees would prepare the list of funds, assets of the district government departments in Rawalpindi, Attock, Jhelum and Chakwal to hand them over it to the municipal...
Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad's (MCI) Mayor Sheikh Anser on Monday submitted an appeal in the Supreme Court against the Capital Development Authority (CDA), saying that the latter had not handed over powers that the MCI was entitled to under the Islamabad Local Government Act, 2015...
The petition further said that no development funds had been allocated to the MCI, due to which the municipal body was "handicapped to take upon...
The mayor, who is also the opposition PML-N metropolitan president, reached the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC) to take charge of his office along with union council chairmen belonging to the PPP, PTI and the PML-N...
Later, however, the administration opened the door of the mayor’s office but senior officials, including chief municipal officer Ali Abbas, left their offices as soon as the union council chairmen entered the...
ISLAMABAD: The Municipal Corporation of Islamabad (MCI) is collecting 200pc increased property tax in contradiction to a court decision and without legal backing...
According to him, the CDA lent Rs20 billion to the MCI since the latter had no fund to disburse salaries to its employees and to render municipal services...
KARACHI: The 54mm of rainfall in Karachi over the past two days exposed serious deficiencies in the city’s physical readiness to handle major weather events, as electrocution and flooding left nearly eight citizens dead and brought life in many areas to a complete standstill...
Experts warned on Friday that the fast depleting departmental capacity of the municipal bodies, growing encroachments and non-disposal of solid waste could...
KARACHI: The Sindh government, with the help of the World Bank Group, on Friday launched a $240 million megaproject — the Competitive and Liveable City of Karachi (CLICK) — to bring in radical reforms in infrastructure with particular emphasis on increasing efficiency of the city’s local government delivery system...
The Sindh government had sought the WB’s assistance to help improve the operational functionality of the Karachi...
KARACHI: City administrator and provincial government’s spokesman Barrister Murtaza Wahab said on Sunday that his aim was the restoration of the city and vowed to bring about a ‘basic change’ in its municipal infrastructure...
He said the help of citizens and government agencies was also necessary for the betterment of the city...
His mistrust is not completely misplaced: the federal government has failed to transfer assets and responsibilities from the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) admin to the newly-formed Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation...
“It is ironic that this delay in the distribution of assets and departments between the metropolitan corporation and the CDA/ICT has increased anxiety among voters, who have...
KARACHI: Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) is inducting two Aframax-category tankers and will soon be commencing a coastal ferry service between Karachi and Port Qasim, and Karachi and Gwadar...
They met in the wake of the signing ceremony held for the renewal of the evergreen memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the DGDP and Pakistan National Shipping Corporation...
ISLAMABAD: Negating the gist of the 18th Amendment, the federal government has decided to retain assets worth billions of rupees of the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC)...
The corporation’s management has filed an appeal against vacation of a stay order that had stayed away the provinces from occupying PTDC hotels and motels...
BAHAWALPUR: Under the new local government set-up the city may get corporation status while there could be a district council and five municipal committees in the district...
According to sources in regional election commission, the proposed Bahawalpur corporation will comprise 21 urban union councils (UCs) and a district council, besides 88 rural UCs, for which preparation of drafts of the delimitation of constituencies was under...
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) acquired the banknote- and prize bond-printing functions of Pakistan Security Printing Corporation (PSPC) from the federal government on Wednesday...
The National Assembly (NA) on Tuesday lent its approval to a bill filed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf's (PTI) Asad Umer seeking the empowerment of the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) and the equitable distribution of resources...
”Explore: What happened to the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation?The bill, in its "statements, objects and reasons" outlines the following;Asad Umar appreciated the decision of the Punjab government...