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Daily Archives: April 2, 2011

Zardari signs plea to reopen Bhutto case

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari signed on Friday a reference which seeks to reopen the case of former prime minister and PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who was hanged on April 4, 1979, in Rawalpindi. The execution has been widely termed a ‘judicial murder’. Presidential Spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the reference signed in the presence […]


SC delays operation of its own verdict till 11th

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday delayed the operation of its own verdict till April 11 in which it had overturned the Parliamentary Committee’s (PC) decision to reject one-year extension to six additional judges of the Lahore and Sindh high courts recommended by the Judicial Commission. A four-member bench, headed by Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid […]


Entire Sindh PA will go to jail if any ppp leader convicted: Mirza

ISLAMABAD: Home Minister Sindh Zulfiqar Mirza has said if one or two members of the Sindh Assembly from the PPP are made target and convicted, the entire Sindh Assembly will go to jail voluntarily. He said this while talking to media men here outside the Supreme Court on Friday. The PPP had always respected the […]


Journalist’ bullet-riddled body recovered

QUETTA: A bullet-riddled body of a Baloch journalist was recovered from Quetta on Friday, said police. On a tip-off, the police recovered body from Barech Town within the jurisdiction of Sariab police and moved it to Bolan Medical Complex Hospital for autopsy where he was identified as Rehmatullah Shaheen. Hospital sources said the victim was […]


Sindh CM asked to establish media city for journalists

KARACHI: Journalism is an important and noble profession, and media plays an important role for developing liaison with people besides bringing the public problems to the notice of the government, while the present government of Pakistan People’s Party has always encouraged the positive measures for the development of independent media. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim […]


Folk singer enthralls audience lok virsa

ISLAMABAD: For music lovers, there is hardly a better combination than a good music with a backdrop of raindrops that soothes their inner. The residents of twin cities Friday night had it all in a live musical concert held here at Lok Virsa, Shakarparian, where young folk singer Nadeem Abbas Loonewala- the talented son of […]


Man murders wife

SUKKUR: A young woman and a man were gunned down in Ajab Lohar village, district Jacobababad, on suspicion of having an extra-marital affair. Farmer Israr Lohar returned home for lunch when he found his wife Robina sitting with Dargahi Lohar. Incensed at the sight, Israr immediately took out his pistol and opened fire, killing them […]