KOHAT, April 5: A billiard club was blown up in Togh Bala on the Rawalpindi road on Friday night. The billiard club-cum-tea stall, owned by Shaukat, was closed when the explosion occurred, destroying the structure. The Saddar police registered a case against unknown people. Source: Dawn Date:4/6/2008
Secretary, Election Commission of Pakistan, has said that the ECP would announce the schedule for the by-elections on 30 vacant national and provincial assembly seats as well as five Senate seats following the inaugural sessions of all four provincial assemblies. Kanwar Dilshad assured that lacunas and shortcomings in the computerised electoral rolls would be removed […]
KARACHI, April 5: Amid the raucous and incessant sloganeering of party activists, the newly-elected members of the Sindh Assembly took the oath in the inaugural session of the provincial assembly held here on Saturday. Originally scheduled to begin at 11am, the business of the house did not get under way till at least 12.30pm, when […]
ISLAMABAD, April 3: A draft constitutional package envisages subjecting all judges of the superior judiciary to scrutiny by a parliamentary committee after reinstatement of the judges sent home upon proclamation of the emergency on Nov 3. According to a reliable source, the government had “almost finalised” the “omnibus” constitutional amendment package. “The constitutional package, being […]
SUKKUR, April 3: The Supreme Court Bar Association President Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan warned on Thursday that the lawyers would stage a long-march if the government failed to reinstate deposed judges in 30 days. Talking to journalists at Sukkur Airport, Aitzaz said that all the deposed judges would also take part in the march and expressed […]
KARACHI, April 3: The legal fraternity on Thursday expressed concern over the emerging political scenario and said that the President’s House and some political elements were hatching conspiracies to sabotage the lawyers’ ongoing struggle for the restoration of the pre-PCO judiciary. Speaking at the general body meeting of the Karachi Bar Association held in the […]
ISLAMABAD: The legislators of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) will oppose any bid for merger with the NWFP and prefer the status of a separate province instead. Sources close to independent Fata lawmakers, both in the Senate as well as in the National Assembly, told The News here on Thursday that they would not […]
PESHAWAR, April 2: The 21-member cabinet of the NWFP was sworn in by Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani on Wednesday at a ceremony at the Governor’s House. Twelve of the ministers are from the Awami National Party and nine from the Pakistan People’s Party. Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti, federal Minister for Local Government Ghulam […]
KARACHI – Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shehrbano, popularly known as Sherry Rehman, was born on 21st December 1960 in Karachi (Sindh province). Spelled ‘Sherbano’ on the Pakistan Election Commission website and ‘Sheherbano’ elsewhere, she is a senior Pakistani politician, journalist, parliamentarian and the member of the Pakistan Peoples Party. She has studied art […]
GUJRANWALA, April 2: The Wazirabad Tehsil Bar Association (TBA) has announced a complete strike on Thursday (today) to protest the alleged humiliation of a bar member at the hands of Alipur Chattha police after implicating him in what they called a false case. The lawyers stripped some policemen when they reached Wazirabad on Wednesday to […]
ISLAMABAD, April 1: The law ministry on Tuesday submitted summaries to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat for the formation of parliamentary committees for repealing the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) and reinstating deposed judges. The federal cabinet in its maiden meeting on Monday had decided to form the committees. Each committee would include four members, from the […]
KARACHI, April 1: An accountability court acquitted a former chief of the National Development Finance Corporation (NDFC) on Tuesday in a corruption case under the National Reconciliation Ordinance 2007. The accused, M.B. Abbasi, the former NDFC chairman, had moved an application through his counsel for his acquittal under the NRO. The defence counsel submitted that […]
LANDIKOTAL: Speakers at a daylong seminar on Frontier Crimes Regulation Tuesday opposed amendments to the ‘Black Law’ and demanded its total abolition. Addressing the seminar titled ‘FIR against FCR’ organised by the Landikotal Press Club here, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) political and religious leaders suggested that the existing FCR should be repealed and […]
HYDERABAD: The activists of the Sunni Tehreek (ST) here on Tuesday took out a protest rally from the Hyder Chowk to the Hyderabad Press Club against the release of a blasphemous film in Holland and the republication of sacrilegious sketches in Danish newspapers. The protestors were holding banners and placards and chanted slogans against the […]
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