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ٹرانسپرینسی انٹرنیشنل کی شفاف نظم حکمرانی کیلئے حکومت کو سفارشات
بلڈنگ پلان کی منظوری کے نظام کو ڈیجیٹلائز کرنے، کےفور منسوبے کو مکمل کرنے اور ملک بھر میں ای شکایات سینٹر قائم کرنے پر زور
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Sale of substandard ghee, cooking oil by USC annoys PAC
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday expressed annoyance over the sale of substandard ghee and cooking oil by the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) and asked the auditor general of Pakistan (AGP) to submit a report on it in one week. The PAC also asked the AGP for the performance audit of the USC […]
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Broadsheet Chronicles
In yet another installment of the sordid saga of Broadsheet, the UK-based asset recovery firm has paid the Sharif family 20,000 pounds. It is simply standard British practice for a petitioner to pay the other legal team once it asks for withdrawal of a case (Broadsheet has pulled out of its claim on Aventfield properties […]
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ECP declares NA-75 polling void, orders fresh elections in entire constituency
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday declared by-polls held in the NA-75 Sialkot-IV constituency null and void, and issued an order for re-polling in the entire constituency on March 18. Furthermore, according to a press release by the Commission, the Punjab Chief Secretary and Inspector General of Police have been summoned on […]
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TIP reveals loss of Rs. 13.5b in FBR’s contract
Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) has pointed out the violation of PPRA rules by FBR, in tender for IT-based solutions for the electronic monitoring (a track and trace system) for tobacco products, sugar, fertilizers, and cement causing loss of Rs. 13.5 billion in contracts of Rs.39.4 billion. In a letter written to Chairman FBR Vice chairman […]
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IT-based solutions: TI-P raises questions over FBR’s tender
ISLAMABAD: Transpa-rency International- Pakistan (TI-P) has raised serious questions on FBR’s tender for IT-based solutions for electronic monitoring ( track & trace) system for tobacco products, sugar, fertilizers and cement, claiming it will inflict a Rs 13.5 billion financial loss on the national exchequer. In a letter to Chairman FBR, Javed Ghani, Vice Chair, TI-P […]
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PPRA halts inking of Rs25b deal
Agreement is aimed at installing electronic monitoring system to check tax evasion. ISLAMABAD: The Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) on Monday restrained the government from entering into a roughly Rs25 billion worth of deal for installing an electronic monitoring system to check tax evasion after it received a complaint about alleged favouritism in the process. […]
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CPEC body seeks recovery of Gwadar land
Occupation of 116 acres of prime land causes slowdown in work on Gwadar projects. ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) on Monday directed ministries to immediately get 116 acres of prime Gwadar land vacated, which was under the possession of law enforcement agencies and was hampering work on CPEC. The delay in […]
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Hearing of Thatta water supply reference adjourned due to lawyers’ strike
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad has adjourned the hearing of Thatta water supply references against former president Asif Ali Zardari, Ejaz Ahmed Khan and others following the strike of lawyers, ARY News reported on Monday. The accountability court’s judge Azam Khan conducted the hearing of Thatta water supply reference against Asif Ali Zardari, former […]
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Senate polls & political malaise
RECENT controversies over the form and nature of the Senate election lay bare some long-standing and fundamental problems with Pakistan’s political landscape. The first, and what some may call the original, sin of this moment is the issue of political corruption: elected legislators taking money to produce outcomes that are out of step with either […]
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