K-P’s hospitals are transformed into donkey sheds: Supreme court

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Wednesday, 9 July 2014

Islamabad: Supreme court has raised the question about the development programme of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government. Further SC has unveiled K-P’s hospitals have been transformed into donkey sheds.

SC has mentioned that K-P government’s development schemes are not being monitored properly.

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Published in the XReports.net, on July 9th, 2014

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Rs7m spent on Iftikhar Chaudhry’s temporary residence

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Sunday, 16 March 2014

ISLAMABAD: After his retirement last December, former Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has comfortably settled into a government house next to his old official residence for six months. However, what is disturbing is that the renovation and maintenance work done at his ‘temporary’ abode has cost over Rs7 million.

According to official details of renovation and maintenance at the residence of the former CJ available with Dawn, the amount has been spent on the purchase of new furniture, bathroom fittings, curtains, wooden floor and rugs.

Just the purchase of new furniture cost Rs1.6m and renovation of bathrooms ran up a bill of Rs1.4m.

The ex-chief justice, who retired on Dec 11, left his former official residence and was given house No 12 in the Judicial Enclave, where a judge of the apex court was residing.

According to official details of renovation work, Rs1.6m was spent on the purchase of new furniture, Rs1.4m utilised on renovation of bathrooms, Rs0.6m on bathroom fittings, Rs0.27m on whitewashing, Rs0.75m on purchase of new curtains, Rs0.15m on supply of new rugs, Rs0.6m on construction of a shed, Rs0.35m on laying of wooden floor, Rs0.35m on purchase of floor tiles, Rs0.25m on roof treatment and Rs0.2m on purchase and fixing of marble slabs.

It has been learnt that some of the work is still in progress and the details of these expenses will be known later.

The opposition has already obtained information about what it termed ‘extravagance’ committed in the name of maintenance and brought the matter to the notice of parliament.

An inside source said the former CJ, who gave a number of historical decisions during his five-year term in office, asked for renovation and maintenance work in his present official residence soon after he shifted his family there.

The order was conveyed to the Pakistan Public Works Department (Pak PWD), which is responsible for maintenance work in many government buildings, including the Prime Minister House, the Presidency, Supreme Court building, Ministers’ Enclave and Judicial Enclave.

However, a senior official of the Pak PWD, under whose domain the Judicial Enclave fell, refused to carry out heavy maintenance work in the residence. He said he did not have the funds required to meet the expenses of the extraordinary maintenance work.
Later the case was referred to the Pak PWD headquarters and the department’s top brass gave approval for the work.

The Pak PWD Director General, Attaul Haq Akhtar, said he was not aware of any expenditure in the house of the former CJ. He, however, said it would not be around Rs7m. “Normally we carry out petty maintenance work at government houses but not for that huge [an] amount. How is it possible that Rs7m have been spent on the maintenance of a three-bedroom house?”

The DG said whatever amount had been spent on the residence of the former CJ had not been approved by him. “I have neither seen any such estimates nor approved them,” he claimed.

In reply to a query, Mr Akhtar said the former CJ has been provided a house in the Judicial Enclave for six months, for which he was authorised.

Opposition curious

An opposition politician, Senator Farhatullah Babar, said he had sent a question to the Senate Secretariat asking for details of the amount spent on lodging, security and stay of the former CJ in his new house. “We have already invoked parliamentary instruments to find the truth behind reports of extravagance at public expense in massaging the ego of individuals. We will then [raise] the issue in parliament appropriately,” he added.

“One is not surprised given the well-known penchant of the former CJ for protocol, security, pomp and show,” Mr Babar said.

Supreme Court Registrar Dr Faqir Hussain told Dawn he was not aware of the maintenance and renovation work.

The registrar agreed that he would reply to queries on the renovation work if they were e-mailed to him, but was unable to answer them even two weeks after the questions were sent to him.

“I have checked such kind of renovation work at my end but could not find anything. I came to know that all such details would be available with PWD so it is better to contact the PWD people to confirm your report,” the registrar told this reporter.On the other hand, sources said the registrar was fully aware of the work done in the residence of the former CJ because he was coordinating with officials of Pak PWD on the matter.

Information Minister Pervez Rashid, who also holds the portfolio of law, was reluctant to comment on the issue, saying he was not aware of any such renovation and maintenance work.

He, however, said that maybe the condition of the official residence provided to Mr Chaudhry required such a heavy maintenance work. “If such a heavy amount has been spent on that house, even then it would be considered as value addition to an official residence that would be handed over to any other judge after six months’ stay of the former CJ.”

Published in the XReports.net, on March 15th, 2014 | DAWN

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Fake degree cases hit PTI’s legislators

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Monday, 8 July 2013

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Islamabad: The fake-degree issue is being faced by legislators of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

The Supreme Court directed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA Faisal Zaman to appear in the court on Monday in connection with his fake degree case. Faisal Zaman defeated Pir Sabir Shah in the May 11 elections.

In a writ petition Muhammad Irshad, Attaur Rehman and Muhammad Fahad stated that MPA Faisal Zaman had secured the Business Administration degree from the Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria was fake as it had already been declared fake by the Higher Education Commission.

Taking action on the allegation levelled against the MPA Faisal Zaman, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry directed the petitioners, plaintiff, officials of HEC and Election Commission of Pakistan to appear in the apex court on Monday.

The Lahore High Court on Friday extended interim bail of former federal minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i- Insaf (PTI) MNA Ghulam Sarwar Khan in fake degree case till July 05.

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If PM indicted then judges' manikins will be charred: Aitzaz Ahsan

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Friday, 23 March 2012

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Aitzaz Ahsan, who led the movement for the judiciary in 2008, has said that Supreme Court made an issue out of nothing in the contempt case. According to sources; Aitzaz reasoned that current bench has issued the contempt notice to PM Gilani, so now a new bench should take on the hearings from here. It is to be remembered that Aitzaz was one of the prominent leader of Lawyers Movement in the post Musharraf era. Further news can be seen in the following Image.

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Nawaz to Gilani, How time changes

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Saturday, 21 January 2012

The two political leaders who accompanied Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gilani to the Supreme Court on 19 January 2012 for his hearing, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Asfandyar Wali Khan, were accompanying Mr Nawaz Sharif when he had to visit Supreme Court in 1997 for his hearing. Wow, How time changes.

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Gilani offers Zardari to resign : Report

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Tuesday, 17 January 2012

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today offered to resign shortly after the Supreme Court served him a notice for contempt of court for failing to reopen graft cases against the President, according to a media report.
Gilani told a meeting of top leaders of the Pakistan People's Party and its partners in the ruling coalition that he was ready to quit if the step strengthened the government and parliament, a news channel quoted its sources as saying.

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CCTV footage exposed real face of SC: Protocol was given to Nawaz Sharif

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Saturday, 3 December 2011

When PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif reached the Supreme Court on Thursday, the court officials welcomed him with special protocol as, due to his arrival, entry passes to other people were also not issued.
Supreme Court Additional Registrar Sajid Mehmood Qazi issued instructions in particular to the security officials deployed there regarding protocol of Nawaz Sharif.
When Nawaz Sharif entered the premises of the Supreme Court at the hearing of the memogate scam, he was received by the high officials. He was taken to the court No 1, but by taking advantage of leniency by the security officials, his armed guards also entered the court along with weapons, which was against the decorum of the court.

While on Friday SC said No protocol or special favour was given to PML-N leaders in the court premises or in the Court Room No.1, where the larger bench heared petitions regarding the memo scandal.

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Now please check out the CCTV footage of Supreme Court, which reveals the covered story. Real face of Supreme Court / Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Iftekhar Chaudhry has been exposed. SC is biased towards Pakistan Muslim league (N).

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Dr AQ Khan: PTI neither possesses a team nor a party, hence can’t bring about a revolution

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Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Dr Abdul Qadeer, a renowned scientist, has said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) neither possesses a team nor a party, hence can’t bring about a revolution. 

Talking to a private TV channel, he said that in other provinces there was anarchy and killings but the Punjab Chief Minister was being targeted over a natural calamity, dengue.   "The history of US was that of betrayals and we should rely on China. Pakistan helped China in hour of need and China has never forgotten it. Without an appropriate leadership, slogans and rallies are of no use. If the Supreme Court could not investigate the assets, how Imran can do it,” he observed.   Despite clear orders of the Supreme Court, the letter was not written to the Swiss official, he added. He termed Imran Khan’s rally as a one man show.

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Baber Awam took 5.2 million cheque from Sindh government

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Sunday, 30 October 2011

PPP Zulfiqar Mirza exposing Babar Awan, saying he asked 5.2 million to fight contempt of court case of Sharjeel Memon. Afterwards Sindh government gave him 5.2 million cheque to fight the case of Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon.

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