Over 8000 prisoners sentenced with death by Pakistani courts during the last two decades are still waiting to meet their fate in the country's death cells, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) …
Davis arrested for a double murder, a Pakistani court today rejected his claim that he has diplomatic immunity and said it would go ahead with his trial. During the last hearing of the case, …
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F.P. Islamabad Office ISLAMABAD: United States of America (USA) has deported 190 Pakistanis during the last two years after arresting them under different charges, said Minister of State for …
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday took some vital decisions to augment and boost the overall administration and facilitate conduct of inquires, investigations and filing of references on fast track, a spokesman for the NAB said. It was decided that the accused in a case be arrested after due verification on merit and case-to-case basis at the stage of inquiry. It was also decided that an effective strategy would be devised to arrest the proclaimed offenders. These decisions were taken in a meeting chaired by Chairman NAB Justice (retd) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah here at the NAB Headquarters. It was agreed to hold a video conference fortnightly between the HQ and regions to expedite the processing of cases and to save time and money. The meeting decided to change the name of the Oversees Wing to the International Cooperation Wing. In order to clear the backlog, the meeting decided to review all the cases pending before 2005 by a committee in the EBM at the region headed by the DG concerned, representatives of prosecution and operations to scrutinise whether the cases are worthwhile of further processing or to be recommended for closure due to non-availability of trial-worthy evidence. All such cases will be referred to the HQ for final decision to ensure transparency in the system. The Prosecution Wing informed the meeting that a total of 161 civil and criminal appeals were pending in the Supreme Court while 444 appeals were pending in all the high courts during the last six months ending on Dec 31, 2010, out of which 348 had been filed by the accused. Furthermore, 1,056 writ petitions were filed out of which 1,045 had been filed by the accused during the same period. It was decided to follow the cases of stay order in which sufficient time has passed. The meeting was informed that in 2010, 43 references were filed against 32 in 2009 by the chairman NAB despite the fact that the post of chairman was vacant for almost five months. The DG (Awareness Prevention) said that the focus of anti-corruption strategy must simultaneously be placed on preventive measures along with the enforcement. It was also decided that NAB shall monitor the tender notices and ads for contracts published in the print media. The DG Balochistan highlighted various cases, including the misappropriation in the BISP through fake beneficiaries, food department, police, cases of public cheating and development works by using substandard material being handled by the Balochistan bureau. The chairman, in his concluding remarks, appreciated the hard work and the efficiency of the DGs in handling the difficult task of uprooting corruption from the society.
As many as 2,043 people, mostly civilians, were killed in US drone attacks in northwestern parts of Pakistan during the last five years, a research has revealed.
KARACHI: Federal Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Babar Awan has said that all ”grievances” of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) will be removed. “I was part of the meeting of MQM delegation which met the prime minister and the president and also last night I had a meeting with the president here last night and we are hopeful to remove MQM’’s concerns,” Babar said here on Tuesday. Talking to media persons at a function of Sindh Madrassatul Islam (SMI), he said MQM chief Altaf Hussain’’s concern were genuine and he fully agrees with MQM leadership. The MQM has expressed its concern over the socio-economic problems of the people and same were the views of the present government, he added. The law minister said that government was determined to resolve the problems of the masses during next two years. He had also praise for JUI chief Fazlur Rehman and said that Rehman played a good role in the coalition government. “Difference of opinion is part of the democratic process and do not believe in policy of dictation as had been in the past,” he pointed out. He said the government was in no haste and it will complete its tenure and will present people friendly budget in next two years. Babar Awan said that despite global economic meltdown and being in a state of war, the country has achieved significant stability during the last three years and attracted investment as well. He said government has rehabilitated over 2.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Swat and at the same time made efforts to deal with natural disaster of floods which caused huge devastation. To a question about the decisions taken recently by the judiciary, Babar Awan said that present government will always respect the decisions taken by the judiciary. About the anti-corruption drive of the present government, he said that a major move was in the offing to catch big bank defaulters. “It would be better for the defaulters to volunteer and surrender the defaulted money,” he added.
Pakistan's intelligence agencies have warned that the National College of Arts (NCA), sensitive installations, railway stations, shrines, imambargahs and other worship places in Lahore are at the risk of potential terrorist attacks during the last 10 days of Ramazan.