A view of the deserted Pakistan Steel Mills. File photo
KARACHI: A labour court has asked the counsel for a labour union representing employees of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) to argue on the maintainability of an application filed by the mill management seeking court’s permission to sack more than 50 per cent employees due to a financial crunch.
Last month, the PSM management had moved the application through its acting deputy general manager Riaz Hussain Mangi, asking the court to grant it permission to sack more than half of the mill’s workers.
When the matter came up for hearing, Labour Court-IV Judge Faheem Ahmed asked Advocate Ameeruddin, counsel representing Insaf Labour Union, to argue on the maintainability and facts of the application of the management on the next date and fixed the matter on Jan 20.
National Accountability Bureau authorized a probe against Atif Zaman on looting billions of rupees
Islamabad, January 07, 2021 (PPI-OT): NAB had authorized a probe against Atif Zaman on looting billions of rupees from large numbers of people including Mureed Abbas late anchor of a private TV Channel on false promise of giving inflated profits in the name of tyre business. Police has also referred case to NAB. NAB had authorized a probe by clubbing the applications of both cases.
NAB had authorized a probe against Nusrat Manghan, former IG prison. NAB had also authorized a probe against China Cutting in the surroundings of Quaid-e-Azam’s mausoleum and illegal construction and infringement of building bye laws by Cosmopolitan Housing Authority. All concerned will be provided an opportunity to record their plea as per law.
Police told to reissue ad against DHA double murder case absconder
Karachi
December 20, 2020
A sessions court on Saturday ordered the investigating officer of the DHA double murder case to reissue the advertisement against absconder Adil Zaman keeping in view the objections raised by the complainantâs counsel.
The additional district & sessions judge (South), who is conducting the hearing of the case inside the Central Jail Karachi, also sought a forensic report on the CCTV camera footage held as electronic evidences.
Adil and his brother Atif Zaman, who is in jail custody, have been booked for the murders of anchorperson Mureed Abbas and his friend Khizar Hayat, who were killed minutes apart in the upmarket DHA neighbourhood on July 9 last year.
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