KARACHI: The Commissionerate System has been restored in the province of Sindh. An official statement on Saturday said that Acting Governor of Sindh, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, promulgated three ordinances on Saturday which will be effective immediately. Accordingly the Commissionerate System, Sindh Local Government Ordinance 1979 and Police Act 1861 have been restored, the statement added. […]
KARACHI: In a surprising move, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional chief Pir Pagara has directed legislators of his party to sit on the treasury benches in the Sindh Assembly. Talking to Dawn on Saturday, PML-F leader Imtiaz Shaikh said Senior Sindh Minister Zulfiqar Mirza had met Pir Pagara and got his support of the PPP-led government. Source: […]
The Commissionerate system has been restored in the province of Sindh. An official statement on Saturday said that Acting Governor of Sindh, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, promulgated three ordinances on Saturday, which will be effective immediately. Accordingly, the Commissionerate System, Sindh Local Government Ordinance 1979 and Police Act 1861 have been restored, the statement added. The […]
LARKANA: A young man was killed and his father injured near Mehar on Sunday on the Karo-Kari issue. Heirs of the deceased later carried the body and staged a sit-in, blocking the main road while chanting slogans against the killers. Two groups of Solangi community clashed in the jurisdiction of Thariri police station, in village […]
By: Mehtab Haider In order to root out corruption, Punjab is utilizing information technology in selected 15 districts of the province to obtain feedback from citizens to close space of extortion of money from working staff of revenues, education and health departments in a bid to improve service delivery. According to the World Bank (WB), […]
By: Arafat Mazhar “If a woman gets raped and she doesn’t have four witnesses, she should stay quiet.” During a recent interview on a television channel, Munawar Hasan, the head of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), uttered these words carefully. Understand that this is not careless rhetoric spat out in the throes of anger, nor negligent musings […]
LAHORE: Pakistan and India need to revisit their visa-related policies besides creating opportunities to provide the maximum interaction among the peoples of both the sides. Over the years, trust deficit has cost both Pakistan and India heavily and its time to focus on trade and commerce opportunities in order to strengthen economies of the two […]
By: Zahid Abdullah IF only good intentions could be translated into concrete actions, the functioning of the Punjab government would be more open and transparent and its bureaucrats and public bodies would be much more accountable to the people of Pakistan. As the cliché goes, the path to hell is paved with good intentions. This […]
“This Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World,” announced James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, on Thursday. Not many people would have imagined that they would be seeing the last ever edition of a 168-year-old tabloid and Britain’s largest selling Sunday newspaper News of the World (NOTW). Former […]
By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: Justice Saqib Nisar of the Supreme Court, who is presiding over a judicial commission set up to investigate the kidnapping and murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad, has expressed concerns over lack of assistance, saying that despite requests through media advertisements no one has stepped forward in aid of the commission. He […]
By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: The Jamaat-i-Islami has submitted a private members’ bill to the Senate Secretariat for protection and welfare of working journalists that seeks too much from the government and absolves media organisations from their responsibilities. The eight-page “Journalists’ Protection and Welfare Bill, 2011”, submitted by Senators Prof Khurshid Ahmad, Prof Mohammad Ibrahim and […]
ISLAMABAD: Senior journalists of the country, on Saturday, recommended to the judicial commission, probing journalist Saleem Shahzad’s murder, to summon spy agencies officers during next hearing of the case. The meeting was held with Supreme Court (SC) judge Justice Saqib Nisar in the chair, while Federal Shariat Court Chief Justice Agha Rafiq, Islamabad Inspector General […]
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