Plea Filed in SC Challenging Delay in Judges’ Appointment
Plea Filed in SC Challenging Delay in Judges’ Appointment, A petition has been submitted in the Supreme Court against the delay in the appointment of judges today.
The petition has been filed by Advocate Akram Sheikh in which the federation has been made a party. In the application, it is argued that the government has been deliberately delaying the judges’ appointment requesting the court to sought record regarding the SC’s suggestion in this regard with the President’s and Governor’s version on that. The court was also asked to interpret Article 6 of the constitution, besides its imposition on those who tried to breach it.
Plea Filed in SC Challenging Delay in Judges’ Appointment was first posted on February 9, 2010 at 5:24 pm.
Shaukat Tarin Chairs ECC Meeting
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet met under the chairmanship of Federal Minister for Finance, Shaukat Tarin at the PM’s Secretariat here Tuesday.
The ECC approved the recommendations of the PPIB Board for the revival of 10.5 MW power project by Davis Energen Limited.
ECC made it mandatory to produce national identity cards to get a pack of 2 kg sugar from the USC outlets.
The ECC allowed allocation of additional 16 MMCFD gas to the Pakarab Fertilizer Limited from SNGPL system from 2012 upto 2019.
The ECC also decided that the Shell’s offer at 15% Brent + $ 0.50 per MMBTU, subject to further improvement in the final round of negotiations will be accepted for upto 1MTPA Medium Term supplies of 6 years and 2.5 MTPA from 7 to 20 years.
The ECC was told that the overall CPI-based inflation registered decrease of 0.49 percent in December 2009 over November, 2009.
The stock of wheat as on January 31, 2010 amounted to 5.9 million tons as against 1.7 million tons in the same period last year, thereby showing a higher stock of about 4.2 million tons compared with last year.
The meeting was informed that trade deficit improved by 29.0 percent to $ 7.0 billion in July-December 2009-10 from $ 10.0 billion in the same period last year.
The ECC noted that workers remittances amounted to $ 4,531.0 million in July-December 2009-10 as against $ 3,640.0 million, showing an increase of 25.0 percent over the same period last year.
Foreign exchange reserves stood at $ 14.5 billion as on February 4, 2010 – up from $ 6.4 billion on November 25, 2008.
The provisional FBR tax collection stood at Rs.693.3 billion on net bases during July-January 2009-10 as compared to Rs.630.5 billion in the same period last year, thereby posting an increase of 10.0 percent.
Shaukat Tarin Chairs ECC Meeting was first posted on February 9, 2010 at 6:08 pm.
PML-N Responsible for Attack on Sheikh Rasheed: Shujaat
Pakistan News: PML-Q leader Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain said that it was conspired to kill Sheikh Rasheed, whereas the government was trying from more than two years to postpone the by-polls in Punjab.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore on Tuesday, Ch. Shujaat Hussain said that the government has failed completely to postpone the by-polls so for it changed the tactic this time. PML-N cannot bear defeat in Lahore and Rawalpindi after humiliating defeat in Swat and Manshera, he said adding that PML-N was the only party to be benefited from this attack. He suggested that PML-N should withdraw their candidate if they were not guilty. He said that PML-Q will strongly protest the postponement of by-elections.
PML-N Responsible for Attack on Sheikh Rasheed: Shujaat was first posted on February 9, 2010 at 7:09 pm.
