By Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI: A sessions court on Monday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife. The court found Qamar Abbas guilty of strangling his wife, Asma Bibi, within the remit of the Baloch Colony police station in Sept 2009 over a domestic dispute. Additional District and Sessions Judge (south) Jangu Khan […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) in co-ordination with Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has launched a mobile SMS service for devising a mechanism to lodge complaints and determine a person’s existence in beneficiaries list for Watan Card Project. The mechanism will not only facilitate the flood affected people in sorting out their requests, […]
KARACHI: Leading national telecom company Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), under its corporate social responsibility provided 500 Free Vfone telephones at the flood relief camps in Sindh and Balochistan. IDPs living in these camps can now make free unlimited local and national calls and stay in touch with the rest of community and their relatives. […]
Babar Ayaz In a country with a bleak future, the black coat’s ‘revolution’ – or should we call it ‘coup’? – might throw away President Zardari’s immunity and push the government to write to the Swiss courts The impatient establishment of Pakistan is once again pushing the country towards a change of government. Various configurations […]
By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: The provincial assembly on Monday unanimously passed into law the Sindh Public Property (removal of encroachment) Bill, 2010. Before the bill was taken up for clause by clause reading, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah highlighted its importance saying that the bill provided measures for removal of encroachment from […]
By Amanullah Kasi QUETTA: Provincial Minister for Agriculture Mir Asad Baloch walked out of the assembly on Monday when Speaker Mohammad Aslam Bhootani did not allow him to pinpoint elements behind the kidnapping of missing people. Mir Asad Baloch of the Balochistan National Party (Awami) said that the issue of missing people had assured serious […]
By Syed Irfan Raza and Ahmed Hassan ISLAMABAD: Having braced itself for fireworks on Monday, the nation was greeted by a quiet and un-dramatic denouement by the afternoon. President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani met at the presidency in the afternoon while […]
By Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has angrily rubbished reports that its assassinated Convenor Dr Imran Farooq was planning to leave the party to join the new party of former President Musharraf – All Pakistan Muslim League (APML). After newspapers claimed that the rows within the MQM may have led to […]
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