Fake CPNE gets SECP’s axe
ISLAMABAD: Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has cancelled the registration of a fake company listed in the name of Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE). A decision to this effect was…
Court reserves decision on ex-SECP chief’s plea to quash record tampering case
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday reserved its decision regarding Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) former chairman Zafar Hijazi’s plea seeking to quash the FIR filed against him in…
FIA sends notices to 100 Pakistani investors in Dubai real estate
KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Anti-Corruption Wing has sent notices to 100 rich Pakistanis, who own properties in Dubai to investigate money laundering from Pakistan to Dubai. The people who were sent…
CJP takes suo motu notice of foreign bank accounts held by Pakistanis
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday took suo motu notice of foreign bank accounts held by Pakistani citizens. The CJP said there are reports that people in positions…
SECP official records statement against Dar in illegal assets reference
ISLAMABAD: Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) official Sidra Mansur on Tuesday recorded her statement, as the accountability court resumed its proceedings in the illegal assets reference against former finance minister Ishaq…
Court rejects plea to acquit former SECP chief in record tampering case
ISLAMABAD: A local court on Friday rejected a plea to acquit former Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) chairman Zafar Hijazi in a record tampering case related to Sharif family’s Chaudhry Sugar Mills.…
AG tells SC Tareen confessed to earning over Rs70m ‘illegally’ through insider trading
ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf Ali on Thursday informed the Supreme Court (SC) that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen had confessed before the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) that he earned…
Court to ‘diagnose’ Dar’s illness when he appears in person
ISLAMABAD: The accountability court on Wednesday dismissed Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s plea seeking exemption from personal appearance and ordered his guarantor to appear in person and ensure that Dar also appears before the…
SECP ordered to freeze shares of Hassan and Hussain Nawaz
ISLAMABAD: The accountability court hearing graft cases against the Sharif family directed the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Tuesday to freeze the shares of Hussain and Hassan Nawaz, sons of ousted…
Former SECP Chairman Zafar Hijazi indicted in record tampering case
ISLAMABAD: A special court of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday indicted former Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) chairman Zafar Hijazi in a record tampering case pertaining to Chaudhry…
Zafar Hijazi’s indictment in record tampering case deferred till 20th
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Wednesday deferred the indictment of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) former chairman Zafar Hijazi in Chaudhry Sugar Mills record tampering case till October 20 due…
Zafar Hijazi to be indicted on October 4
ISLAMABAD: The special central judge on Tuesday announced to indict former Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) chairman Zafar Hijazi on October 4 in the record tampering case of Sharif family’s…
PPP sought British help to probe Sharifs’ ‘money laundering’ in 2011 but failed
Zardari-led govt approached British authorities through MLA to probe money laundering charges against Hassan and Hussain Nawaz’s Chaudhry Sugar Mills Investigation was closed by SECP when PML-N won election and formed govt…
Shehbaz is a Sharif man, says China
Acting Ambassador Zhao Lijian says Chinese company in the middle of the scandal, Jiangsu Yabaite Technology Co. Ltd, was not operating in Pakistan and had presented “fake letters to cheat [the] government”.
Senate standing committee on finance takes notice of SECP’s interference in stock market
Senate Standing Committee on Finance has taken notice of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP)’s interference in the stock market. Sources said that Standing Committee on Finance Chairman Senator Saleem Mandviwalla…
Jahangir Tareen had returned Rs73.1 million: SECP
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen was found guilty for owing offshore accounts; however, he returned Rs70 million that he made through illegal means, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP)…
Govt enacts Companies Ordinance, 2016
Ordinance includes special provisions to facilitate small and medium enterprises The government has promulgated the Companies Ordinance, 2016, replacing the Companies Ordinance of 1984. The new law contains provisions for simplifying the…