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Daily Archives: April 29, 2014

SHC seeks comments on plea for Pearl case transfer

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KARACHI: The Sindh High Court issued on Monday a notice to the provincial prosecutor general to file comments on an application seeking transfer of the murder case of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl from an anti-terrorism court in Hyderabad to Karachi. Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar, who headed a single-judge bench, was hearing the application […]


FPCCI urges govt to block illegal SIMs

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KARACHI: Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) on Monday urged the government to devise a mechanism for blocking illegal mobile SIMs. In a statement, FPCCI President Zakaria Usman said that illegal arms and SIM cards were the weapons used for creating a law and order situation in the country. “The government should […]


IHC issues notices on Urdu language plea

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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday issued notices to the federation, establishment secretary and law and justice secretary on a plea calling for declaring Urdu as the official language of the country. A single-member bench of the IHC, of Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi, resumed hearing of a plea filed by Akram Chaudhry for […]