WE Pakistanis have an uncanny knack for shooting ourselves in the feet. For that is precisely what we’ve done by packing up the Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001 and burying it alive, without as much as granting it a last wish before death. At least that’s the way this writer – and many other citizens […]
By: Mukhtar Alam KARACHI: Unhappy with the half granted provincial autonomy, the Sindh government labour department has forwarded a summary to the provincial chief executive against the retention of the Employees Old Age Benefit Institution (EOBI) and the Workers Welfare Fund (WWF) by the federal government. Sources in the labour department said that various departments […]
MUZAFARABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party Azad Kashmir on Sunday won six out of eight reserved seats of the AJK Legislative Assembly raising its strength to 29 in a House of 49. Elections to the reserved seats were held here at the Assembly building on Sunday. The PPP AJK got 6 seats (three women and one […]
ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has decided to organise a fact-finding team to look into the causes of violence and to discuss solutions for sustainable peace in Karachi. The HRCP mission would be in Karachi from July 29 to 31. The team, comprising of HRCP council members from all provinces, would meet […]
By: Abrar Mustafa ISLAMABAD: A wave of apprehensions has taken over the telecom sector amid reports that Telecom Act 1996 was being amended, raising doubts that funds of telecom sector organisations will be spent for Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). The Finance Ministry has decided to transfer funds of telecom companies amounting to over Rs45 […]
Abduction of three sisters: Parents warn of committing suicide in Hafizabad HAFIZABAD: A labourer and his wife on Sunday warned of committing suicide if their three abducted daughters were not recovered. Talking to newsmen here, labourer Muhammad Mushtaq said that he, his wife and their children lived in the rented house of Muhammad Azhar at […]
MARDAN: Police here on Sunday arrested the main accused who along with his relatives allegedly stoned and then shot dead his wife in the name of honour in Bairoch village of Rustam city last month. Shah Mumtaz Khan, the SHO of Rustam police station, told Dawn that on a tip-off he along with other officials […]
TAXILA: A man axed his wife to death over domestic dispute in Mohra Maradu area in jurisdiction of Taxila police station on Wednesday. Police sources said that Sahib Khan after killing his wife Fazela Bibi, mother of seven, managed to flee. Police shifted the body to THQ hospital Taxila for autopsy. But postmortem on her […]
HYDERABAD: Leaders of nationalist parties have criticised a private TV channel for airing a talk show on “a Mohajir province” and asked its management to apologise because the programme has hurt Sindhi people’s sentiments. A shutter down strike was observed in Khairpur and demonstrations were held in Hyderabad, Nawabshah and other cities and towns. The […]
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