LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday distributed lease documents of 150 plots among their occupants to launch the first phase of a fresh scheme under the Sindh Katchi Abadis Authority (SKAA). The ceremony in this regard was held in Gharibabad locality of the city which was attended by MNA Khusheed Ahmed Junejo, MPA Sardar Khan Chandio, Special Assistant to the Chief Minister and SKAA chairman Liaquat Ali Askani, Jameel Ahmed Soomro and other PPP leaders and activists, besides recipients of the plot ownership documents. Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Bhutto-Zardari expressed his pleasure over continuation of the…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
ISLAMABAD: While the government is making all possible efforts to inoculate majority of the people, the data of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) shows that over 66 million doses of seven vaccines of Covid-19 are available across the country and over 20m people are yet to receive second jab. Overall 172m doses of vaccines have been administered in Pakistan. As many as 103m people have received at least one dose out of whom over 80m have been fully vaccinated and over 2m have received booster shots. Meanwhile, as many as 6,357 more persons were infected and 17 succumbed…
A policeman allegedly involved in the rape of an 18-year-old girl in Karachi surrendered before the police, it emerged on Wednesday. Saddar police had registered a first information report (FIR) against the cop on Monday on the complaint of the girl’s father, who had approached police claiming that his daughter was raped by the officer at their home inside the residential colony of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC). A spokesperson of Sindh police said the policeman had surrendered himself before SSP Investigation (South) after he was nominated in the FIR. He said the SSP Investigation was personally monitoring the case.…
ISLAMABAD: Rejecting the government’s request to postpone its protest on Pakistan Day, the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) on Tuesday vowed to go ahead with its planned long march against price hike on March 23, but dropped the idea of moving a no-trust motion against the government in the parliament, considering the time inappropriate for such a move. Talking to reporters after presiding over a meeting of the heads of the component parties of the alliance, PDM president Maulana Fazlur Rehman criticised the government over its reported plan to seal the capital city on March 23 due to the military…
Karachi police on Wednesday resorted to tear gas shelling and baton-charge in an effort to disperse Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) protesters staging a sit-in outside the Sindh Chief Minister House against the recently passed local government law, witnesses and officials said. The protesters, including lawmakers, women and children, set out from FTC Roundabout on Sharea Faisal and eventually reached the CM House where they staged a sit-in. A senior police officer, who wished to remain anonymous, told Dawn that police officials held talks with the MQM-P leadership and tried to persuade them to head towards the Karachi Press Club (KPC) as the…
The government wasted no time after Shahzad Akbar resigned as the prime minister’s adviser on accountability and interior, announcing former National Accountability Bureau (NAB) director general Brig (retired) Musaddiq Abbasi as his replacement on Wednesday. A notification by the Cabinet Division, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, stated: “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 93 of the Constitution […], the president, on the advice of the prime minister, has been pleased to appoint Brig (retired) Musaddiq Abbasi as adviser to the prime minister on accountability and interior with immediate effect.” The appointment comes after…
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday scrapped the much-celebrated Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project of the government by declaring several provisions of the Ravi Urban Development Authority (Ruda) Act 2020 unconstitutional. Announcing a reserved judgement on multiple petitions, Justice Shahid Karim also declared the acquisition of agricultural land for the project unconstitutional and in violation of the fundamental rights of citizens. The judge read the operative part of the judgement, which is yet to be released, and ruled that Section 4 of the Ruda Act 2020 was in violation of Article 140-A of the Constitution, which deals with the…
Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid on Wednesday appeared to make his peace with the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) planned long march to Islamabad on March 23, saying that the government will not create any hurdles but also warning that doing so would result in “political humiliation” for the opposition alliance. The interior minister had previously urged the PDM to shift its march to some other day, saying leaders from different countries would be in the capital to attend an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit on March 23 — also the Pakistan Day. PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman disregarded the minister’s remarks on…
A lawyer for one of the accused in the Noor Mukadam murder case on Wednesday urged the judge to make the clarifications issued by Islamabad police regarding an earlier cross-examination of the investigating officer a part of the case record. Additional Sessions Judge Ata Rabbani presided over today’s proceedings. Advocate Asad Jamal, who was representing Asmat Adamjee, mother of the primary accused Zahir Jaffer, questioned whether the clarifications given by the Islamabad police regarding Monday’s hearing should be made part of the case. When the judge asked which clarifications he was referring to, Prosecutor Rana Hassan Abbas interjected and stated…
Michael Jackson allegedly poked fun at sister Janet Jackson due to her weight, confirms Daily Mail. Speaking in her new documentary, the 55-year-old revealed how her mental health was compromised from early days when her elder brother picked out demeaning names to comment on her figure. “There were times when Mike used to tease me and call me names,” she began. “Pig, horse, slaughter hog, cow. He would laugh about it and I’d laugh too, but then there was somewhere down inside that it would hurt,” Janet reportedly confessed. “When you have somebody say you’re too heavy, it affects you.”…
