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12 January 2018 The Daily Urdu News Jeddah on 28 December 2017 on its first page had an item headlined His Lordship Chief Justice of Pakistan saying that there was no concept of strikes in Islam. After Friday prayers, I enquired from the Imam if there was any concept of Court Holidays in...

12 January 2018 The Daily Urdu News Jeddah on 28 December 2017 on its first page had an item headlined His Lordship Chief Justice of Pakistan saying that there was no concept of strikes in Islam. After Friday prayers, I enquired from the Imam if there was any concept of Court Holidays in...

A large size prominent advertisement has appeared on 27 November 2017 titled “Free of Cost Justice” from the Federal Insurance Ombudsman. It reads “in case you are facing any complain in redressal of your grievance, register your complaint”. 2. If the memories of this 70 plus 75% blind...

14 October 2017 The daughter of the disseated Prime Minister said that since her brothers Hassan and Hussain were residents abroad, law of Pakistan doesn’t apply on them. She was short of saying, as is generally believed that both these brothers hold British nationality. This is the same...

27 August 2017 Under title “Improving service delivery through improved advocacy and outreach”, I came across a very heartening piece “A communication strategy for the Federal Ombudsman of Pakistan”. It detailed different steps our so kind Federal Ombudsman intended to take one of which is...

04 August 2017 Mariam Nawaz Sharif and Hassan Nawaz Sharif coming out of JIT, and speaking in the “makeshift awami adalat outside the judicial academy, very “innocently” told the “cameras” that they questioned the JIT “what was the charge against them”. 2. This nation, as usual, got...

23 July 2017 A lot has been talked and commented on the attestation of the famous Qatari Prince’s letter by the Pakistani Ambassador to Qatar. Different comments were heard in the talks shows that attestation was the job of the Consular and not that of the Ambassador, as such, as to why the...

Mid 60s in Karachi, I had a very capable senior officer. If the memories in this age are not bent upon to fail this senior citizen, he was perhaps at the partition the first Pakistani holding two engineering Degrees. Two newspapers officially came to our office but it was his instruction never...

According to a news item an Overseas Pakistanis Convention would be held in December this year where His Excellency Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif would be the guest of hour. 2. Seeing how emotional, practically, the Overseas Pakistanis whether an illiterate labourer in...

The Honourable Supreme Court has issued Notice that as to why an Overseas Pakistani (OPs) pays Rs. 15,000 (or perhaps Rs. 25,000 as I read in a letter to editor from an Overseas Pakistani) for his National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP) while a Pakistani in the country for the...

Rauf Klasra in his talk show March 9, 2017 stated how he being a Reporter attends the Assembly to cover up different proceedings. He was more than all praise worthy for a lady legislator Ms. Naeema Kishwar from the Tribal Areas whose name initially Rauf could not know but only introduced she was...

17 March 2017 A Apex court three-member bench directed to remove all contractual retired employees in the Sindh Law Department. It observed that the persons beyond 60s and 70s had been appointed which would destroy the system if regular appointments were not made. The bench also questioned the...

07 March 2017 According to a news item the Government has prepared Wafaqi Mohtasib Amendment Bill for curtailing the “powers” of Federal Ombudsman and establishing “District Ombudsmen”. Last month while ex-Ambassador and a senior analyst Zafar Hilaly was angry on this news, another...

In the case of torture and burning of 10-years old child housemaid Tayyaba reportedly by her employer Judge’s wife, the Supreme Court of Pakistan exercised its parental jurisdiction after the father “reached a compromise”. On this inhumane child treatment, not just every-evening big mouth...

30 December 2016 Estate tycoon and ex-CEO Bahria Town Malik Riaz recently talking with anchor Saleem Safi claimed the newly established Bahria Hospital in Lahore according to some UK medical experts is better than the UK one’s. The impression, as a layman I got was, that this...

11 December 2016 Three documents are lying on my table. The first one is an envelope a stock exchange company sending me its annual report printed on highly expensive art paper with fine quality laminated cover. My wife has received her’s. This annual report is of no use...

22 October 2016 Knowing that citizens can file complaints with our Honourable Federal Ombudsman against the Banking Court, High Courts/Supreme Courts, Majlis-e-Shoora (is this institution alive?), National Assembly gives, to this senior citizen, a unique type of pride that how...

According to a recent report published on 02 October 2016 from Saad Rasool, in a “landmark” judgment the Honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan striking the judicial accountability declared that some of the appointments made in the Islamabad High Court in violation or in relaxation of the...

کچھ نہ سمجھے خدا کرے کوئی. 10 September 2016. How heartening and of pride it was for this senior citizen reading that the Honourable Federal Ombudsman “on complaint” has taken up the issue of present severe crisis thousands of Overseas Pakistanis (OPs) were in, in Saudi Arabia. The Pakistanis...

July 22, 2016 A news items has appeared and the Federal Ombudsman office, as usual, has placed its prized-press cutting on its web site. The news reads how a meeting was held in the Federal Ombudsman Secretariat as a follow up to see the implementation progress on a recommendatory report...