MIANWALI, April 8: The manhandling of former federal minister Dr Sher Afgan Niazi by lawyers in Lahore shocked almost everyone here. Dr Niazi hails from Mianwali and runs his private clinic here. He belongs to the Wattakhel sub-tribe of the Niazis living in various parts of the district. The Lahore incident sparked the sentiments of […]
LAHORE, April 8: Lawyers beat up the former minister for law and parliamentary affairs, Dr Sher Afgan Niazi, at the Fane Road here on Tuesday, ignoring bar leaders’ warnings that their action would jeopardise the drive for the revival of the pre-emergency judiciary. As soon as word spread that Dr Niazi was on a visit […]
Additional District and Sessions Judge, Abdur Rahman Bhatti, has directed the Station House Officer (SHO) of Mobina Town police station to record the statement of Prof Dr Riaz Ahmed of the University of Karachi (KU) under Cr PC 154. Dr Riaz, Professor of Applied Chemistry, KU, submitted an application in the court stating that the […]
There were different views about the identification of the accused that attacked former Sindh chief minister, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, in the Sindh Assembly and threw his shoe at him but he escaped unhurt. It was also a mystery as to how the person managed to get the entry pass for the Governor’s Gallery. But […]
KARACHI, April 7: Amid a walkout by the opposition members, the City Council on Monday passed a resolution seeking magisterial powers for town municipal officers (TMOs) to control and monitor milk prices and enforce city government directives. The resolution, which was later amended, expressed the city council’s deep concern over the sudden rise in milk […]
QUETTA, April 7: Aslam Bhootani and Syed Matiullah Agha were elected unopposed as speaker and deputy speaker of the Balochistan assembly on Monday. They were joint candidates of a coalition which is likely to form the provincial government. Aslam Bhootani of the PML ‘like-minded group’ and Shafiq Ahmed Khan of the PPP had filed their […]
KARACHI, April 7: Despite strong police protection provided to him by the caretaker administration, the former chief minister of Sindh, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, was on Monday physically attacked by some enraged political activists as he left the Assembly after taking the oath as a newly-elected MPA. The incident was vociferously condemned although it was […]
At least seven latest flat screen computers along with computer tables, chairs, UPS and other accessories have been provided at the newly renovated media room at the Sindh Assembly building by the USAID. During a visit to the assembly’s media room, it was found that the computers did not have Internet connection on the first […]
KARACHI: Nisar Ahmad Khuhro and Shehla Raza of the Pakistan People’s Party have been elected unopposed on Sunday as speaker and deputy speaker of the Sindh Assembly. Speaker Sindh Assembly Syed Muzaffar Husain Shah announced that no other candidate, except the PPP candidates Nisar Ahmad Khuhro and Shehla Raza, filed nomination papers. He said their […]
Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Syed Munawar Hassan has demanded that the issue of blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) should be debated in the National and provincial assemblies, and strong resolution should be passed to severe diplomatic ties with the countries involved in these blasphemous acts. Addressing a big Shaan-e-Mustafa (PBUH) rally […]
KARACHI, April 6: Pakistan People’s Party candidates Nisar Ahmad Khuhro and Shehla Raza were elected unopposed as speaker and deputy speaker of the Sindh assembly on Sunday. No other candidate had filed nomination papers for the posts. Outgoing Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah scrutinised the candidates’ papers and declared them valid. For the office of […]
QUETTA, April 6: Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi has said that reconciliation efforts have begun in the province and the new government will take steps to make them successful. Talking to newsmen here after a lunch hosted by Mir Asim Kurd for newly elected legislators, he said that stopping military operation and restoring peace […]
An ill-planned lake, the absence of life guards and security guards, and poor administrative measures at the Quaid-e-Azam Park in Steel Town were blamed for the deaths of two children on Saturday. Pakistan Steel (PS) is “only concerned about making money and does not bothered about the ‘death well’ lying at the centre of the […]
KARACHI, April 6: Thousands of people turned up at the Mazar-i-Quaid to take part in the “Shan-i-Mustafa March” organised by the Jamaat-i-Islami on Sunday. Activists and supporters of other parties also participated in the march. Carrying party flags and banners inscribed with slogans against blasphemers, they raised slogans against the Netherlands government for not taking […]
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