District & City Governments

Islamabad: Officials of Islamabad police hosted farewell in the honour outgoing IGP Islamabad Wajid Ali Khan Durrani who has been assigned the responsibilities as IGP Sindh, a police spokesman said here Friday. The farewell was attended by Chief Commissioner Islamabad Tariq Mehmood Pirzada, Deputy Commissioner Aamir Ahmed Ali, Session Judge Azam Akhtar Chughtai, DIG (Operations) Bani Amin Khan, DIG (Security) Dr. Mujeeb ur Rehman, DIG Headquarters Ahmed Mukarram, SSP Islamabad Tahir Alam Khan, SSP Headquarters Zubair Ahmed Hashmi, SSP Abbas [...]

Islamabad: Islamabad police have nabbed 16 proclaimed offenders involved in crime of heinous nature during the last four days in its special crackdown against outlaws, a police spokesman said here Friday. Acting Inspector General of Police Islamabad Bani Amin Khan assigned the task to all police officials to ensure arrest of proclaimed offenders and inform his office on the daily basis about success in this special crackdown. He also directed all SDPOs and SHOs to launch massive crackdown against proclaimed [...]

Karachi: Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Dr. Farooq Sattar said under a scientific method garbage will be sent and dispose off at landfill site during the 15 day clean and green Karachi campaign that has already begun in the metropolis. Cleanliness drive was aimed at mobilizing various organizations and this would continue throughout the year on these lines and with same spirit. MQM has started making Pakistan clean and green in Karachi. With the involvement of all political parties and [...]

Karachi: A cleanliness drive is being carried out in Karachi from 16th to 30th June with the view to eliminate environmental pollution, improve sanitation condition and to formulate a comprehensive policy for future in this regard, The campaign which will be jointly conducted by the city government, town and union administration, KW and SB and other civic agencies would also have full coordination from the provincial environment ministry. This was stated by Minister for Environment Sindh, Sheikh Muhammad Afzal (Khalid [...]

Karachi: Minister for Local Government Agha Siraj Khan Durrani said storm water drainage a big problem in Karachi which is due to the presence of lot of encroachments on the old natural drains system that dates back to colonial era. Blockage in the flow of water resulted in overflow of drains and ultimately creating problems for surrounding localities. Government is now mulling over the plan to clear these drains from encroachments by providing alternate residence to people residing there. He [...]

Karachi: Meanwhile Administrator Karachi Muhammad Hussain Syed also inspected cleaning of storm water drains in different areas of city. On this occasion he said that action will be taken against the concerned town administrator if complaints were received about dumping of garbage in storm water drains. He also said to administrators to check and inspect the drains which have been cleaned by city government on daily basis and clean them if needed so that the citizens could be saved from [...]

Karachi: Administrator Karachi Muhammad Hussain Syed has said that city government has set up more than 28 makeshift relief camps in 11 towns as a preventive measure ahead of expected cyclone. More than 70 thousand people could accommodate in these camps with availability of food and medicines. During a visit of these camps on Friday with officers of revenue and other departments he said that 4 camps have been set up in Keamari Town including one each at Mubarak Primary [...]