The writer is a member of Pakistan Today's Islamabad bureau. He can be reached at [email protected].
NATIONALThe two premier state-owned institutions, Pakistan International Airline Cooperation Limited (PIACL) and Pakistan Television Cooperation (PTV) are at loggerhead over non-payment of taxes on sponsored tickets issued on the instructions of former<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/30/pia-ptv-at-loggerhead-over-sponsored-air-tickets-issue/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALA major reshuffle took place at the federal level as 22 bureaucrats were transferred to various positions. A notification available with Pakistan Today states that BS-22 officer of Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS)<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/29/major-reshuffle-22-bureaucrats-transferred/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALISLAMABAD: Former chief executive officer (CEO) of Punjab Saaf Pani Company (PSPC) Capt (r) Muhammad Usman has been appointed as the director general of Punjab Food Authority (PFA). According to the notification<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/27/former-saaf-pani-ceo-appointed-pfa-head/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONAL–Shahzad Arbab to face the challenge of providing equal opportunities to all civil servants –Key posts are currently given to PAS officers under Establishment Division’s SRO ISLAMABAD: The Advisor to Prime Minister on<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/26/can-the-new-pm-advisor-end-pas-hegemony-in-bureaucracy/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALISLAMABAD: While instructing other departments to implement the Supreme Court’s (SC) order regarding repatriation of officers to their parent departments, the Establishment Division (ED) observed silence over the matter of deputations serving in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/14/establishment-division-flouting-apex-court-orders-on-officers-repatriation/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ISLAMABADOut of 91 complaints, 50 cases disposed of during the last six months ISLAMABAD: A drastic increase in filling of number of harassment cases can be witnessed in the Ombudsperson Secretariat since the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/12/ombudsperson-gets-large-number-of-harassment-cases/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALISLAMABAD: The Establishment Division (ED) on Tuesday instructed the ministries, divisions, departments and provincial governments to implement the Supreme Court (SC) orders regarding the repatriation of officers to their parent departments. Sources told<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/07/establishment-division-directs-repatriation-of-officers-to-parent-departments/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONAL–With a major reshuffling in bureaucracy on the cards, PTI looks to find the right officers for important ministries ISLAMABAD: Federal secretaries, serving in important ministries, have started lobbying to retain their current<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/05/secretaries-lobby-to-retain-ministerial-positions-under-pti-govt-to-be/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ISLAMABADISLAMABAD: In what appears to be shocking development, as bribe rampant in some of the government departments, Pakistan Irrigation (Power) Union CBA President Muhammad Atiqur Rehman Khan gave a cash worth Rs0.1 million<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/05/cba-leader-levels-charges-against-nirc-officials/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Election 2018–Govt officials at polling stations unable to exercise their right to vote due to flawed ECP mechanism –System of balloting, result transmission system turns out to be a disaster ISLAMABAD: Thousands of polling<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/26/thousands-of-polling-officials-fail-to-cast-votes/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALISLAMABAD: Despite the presence of a large number of women bureaucrats in federal as well as provincial bureaucracy, a few are serving on the important slots, Pakistan Today has learned. Although the CSS<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/21/women-bureaucrats-not-being-given-preferred-postings/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALISLAMABAD: The federal government has kept mum about the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief minister’s (CM) proposal to appoint his blue-eyed officers as chief secretary (CS) and inspector general police (IGP). Sources told Pakistan<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/19/federal-govt-mum-on-kp-cms-nominations-for-top-posts/" title="Read more" >...</a>
