MUZAFFARGARH: A PML-N union council chairman was shot dead by unidentified attackers on Monday night...
Police said Malik Fiaz Hussain Kapahi, 50, a resident of Mochi Wala and chairman of Ganga UC, was returning home after visiting Rohallan Wali police station, along with his friend Zafar, when some unknown attackers opened fire on them...
HYDERABAD: Members of the All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers’ Union (CBA) took out rallies and held demonstrations in several Sindh towns on Thursday, demanding 150 per cent rise in salaries, pensions and other privileges in the upcoming budget...
In Hyderabad, members of the union including workers of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company, various wings of Wapda, powerhouses, water wings and the National Transmission Dispatch...
MANSEHRA: The secretaries of different union councils in Mansehra continued their strike on fourth consecutive day on Sunday...
The secretaries of 59 union councils in the district had gone on strike on Thursday to demand up-gradation of their basic pay scale to 12 from the existing 6...
KARAK: Poll candidates in Isak Chountra union council here will make arrangements for women to cast their votes during the re-polling on July 30...
It is to mention here that the women of the union council had partially participated in the 2013 general elections...
ISLAMABAD: Most PML-N union council chairmen boycotted the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad’s (MCI) 10th session on Friday to protest being ignored in the leadership and bureaucracy’s decision making...
Those in attendance included chairmen from the PML-N and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) repeatedly asked the mayor about the development budget and their powers, but did not receive satisfactory answers...
PESHAWAR: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is contemplating a proposal to restore the district and union council tiers of the local government system that were abolished in 2019 and 2013, respectively...
The PTI government in the province had abolished the union council tier of the LG system through the KP LG Act, 2013, and replaced union councils with wards and introduced a new tier of village and neighbourhood councils... ...
Dr Qibla Ayaz, the former dean Faculty of Islamic and Oriental Studies of the University of Peshawar, was appointed the chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) by the law ministry on Friday, DawnNews reported...
President Mamnoon Hussain has approved the appointments of the new chairman and members who have been appointed for a tenure of three years...
The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has called a meeting on May 16 to examine a reference filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry proposing the ouster of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry...
The JIT will include a member each from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), NAB, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), State Bank of Pakistan (SBP),...
ISLAMABAD: The elected representatives of Islamabad Bar Council (IBC) disowned the advocate general Islamabad as their non-elected chairman and demanded the government to amend the law to hold elections for the post...
IBC Chairman Mohammad Shuaib Shaheen and other elected members, in a resolution, expressed reservations over the working of ex-officio chairman IBC Advocate General Islamabad Mian Abdul Rauf...
CHAKWAL: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has found itself in a tough battle with the Sardar Ghulam Abbas group over the office of Chakwal district council chairman...
Of 71 union councils (UC) of the district, elections were held in 68...
Members of the Pakhtun Council at Punjab University (PU) staged a protest after the former chairman of the council Alamgir Wazir allegedly went missing from the university on Saturday evening...
According to Pukhtun Council activists, Alamgir was last seen outside the Hall Council in PU New Campus on Saturday when some unidentified people arrived in a vehicle and took him away from gate number 14 of the campus around 5pm...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) — the top regulatory body of lawyers — expressed its regret at the Lahore incident where lawyers and the police clashed with each other after an arrest warrant was issued against the president of the Lahore High Court Bar Association’s (LHCBA) Multan chapter...
In a statement issued on Monday, PBC vice chairman Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon and chairman executive committee Hafeezur Rehman condemned the...
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided rationalising the workforce of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) to minimise the salary bill being paid out of federal budget...
Therefore, it has asked PSM to consider options available under the Pakistan Commercial and Industrial Employment Ordinance of 1968 to keep its manpower at bare minimum essentially required to operate a closed mill...
KARACHI: Around 14,000 employees of Pakistan Steel received their salaries for the months of August and September 2015 on Wednesday...
A spokesman for Pakistan Steel, Syed Abdul Hafiz Shah, said that the two-month salary bill comes to Rs960 million...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is considering withdrawing a suit filed against the European Union at the World Trade Organisation in 2014 over imposition of countervailing duties on export of polyethylene terephthalate (PET)...
The EU had imposed countervailing duties on import of polyethylene terephthalate from Pakistan, Iran and the United Arab Emirates in June 2009...