The Government of Sindh is planning to establish a History Museum & Cultural Centre in Karachi in collaboration with The Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP).Chief Secretary Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah presided over a meeting regarding the project on Thursday. Shah said that most Pakistanis are well aware of the events that led to the birth of the country, adding that the province of Sindh played a significant role in the creation of Pakistan.The chief...
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Sindh’s young doctors give Centre a week to revise PMC Ordinance
A large number of doctors belonging to Sindh’s Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Thursday held protest demonstrations across the province, including in Karachi, against the dissolution of the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC) and vowed to mobilise doctors and the civil society until their regulatory body is restored.They also condemned the creation of the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) through an ordinance by the present government...
NAB’s Karachi chief orders verifying public complaints, initiating prompt action
In compliance with the initiative taken by the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to show zero tolerance towards corruption, the director general of the anti-graft watchdog in Karachi along with his team conducted a Khuli Katchehry (a public meeting) at the bureau’s office on Thursday and received complaints from members of public.A large number of complainants submitted their applications regarding land frauds committed by government...
Footpaths cleared of encroachments in three districts
The anti-encroachment department of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) on Thursday removed illegal constructions and seized cabins, stalls and furniture items from footpaths in its action against encroachments in District Central, District East and District Korangi.According to a statement issued by the corporation, KMC Anti-Encroachment Senior Director Bashir Siddiqui supervised the anti-encroachment operations that were carried out with...
CITY PULSE: Daira
The ArtChowk Gallery is hosting Amna Khan, Ehsan Usman, Gina Gul, Rabia Khan and Saliha Naz’s art exhibition titled ‘Daira’ until November 7. Call 021-35300482 for more information.I Love You...The AAN Gandhara Art Space is hosting an art exhibition titled ‘I Love You & Other Works From The AAN Collection’ until January 5. The show features works by Bani Abidi, Khadim Ali, Aisha Khalid, Imran Qureshi and Anushka Rustomji. Call 021-35821462 for...
Whose job is it anyway?
Minister Fawad Chaudhry was right – it is not the government's job to provide jobs to people. Though it is the government's job to provide people with an opportunity for employment. In fact, that is the reason we choose governments in the first place, why we replace them and why we overthrow them.We spend most of our time in the work we do throughout our life, which is what we call a ‘job’. We start preparing for the work from when we are as little...
Maulana of new Pakistan
Quite a few seculars, liberals and democrats must be simmering over the shrinking of what used to be only their space for expressing themselves in contradistinction to the religious right in Pakistan. Resistance to restore what is termed by the JUI-F leadership as ’the sanctity of parliament’ and ‘true democracy’ in Pakistan marks the beginning of a new politics of fight amongst the religious right for political space.The left-leaning pro-democracy...
State of due process
Jurisprudence of the period when the Constitution is abrogated or put in abeyance needs to be ignored as a precedent for the reason that during that time basic constitutional norms and fundamental rights stand denied. Whenever the constitution is restored, the validity and legality of those decisions can be questioned. The constitutional protection to those decisions by the people through a constitutional amendment only makes them valid subject to...
Lost territory
The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis and the self-declared caliph of Islamic State, will be a serious, though not terminal, blow to the ferocious jihadi movement he has headed since 2010.The place where he was finally located – in the Barisha area north of Idlib city in northwest Syria, close to the Turkish border – came as a surprise. It was assumed that he was hiding somewhere in the desert in the Syrian-Iraq border region where...
A free media
Exactly eight years ago, a huge number of PTI workers were gathered at Minar-e-Pakistan Lahore on October 30, 2011 to participate in the historical jalsa. Besides this, people were also sitting in front of their television sets to eagerly listen to thjeir beloved leader Imran Khan.The impressive coverage by Pakistani media helped PTI transform itself into a prominent political party. Every TV channel was broadcasting live transmission and various...
Palestine’s Christians
Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel.Christian leaders from Palestine and South Africa sounded the alarm at a conference in Johannesburg on October 15. Their gathering was titled: “The Holy Land: A Palestinian Christian Perspective”.One major issue that highlighted itself at the meetings is the rapidly declining number...
CM orders removal of Nowshera Medical College BoG chairman
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan finally took notice of the alleged irregularities and illegal appointments in the Nowshera Medical College (NMC) and its teaching hospital, Qazi Hussain Ahmad Medical Complex, and removed Gulrez Hakim Khan from his position as chairman of the Board of Governors (BoG).Sources at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat told The News that Mahmood Khan signed the summary on Wednesday to remove Gulrez Hakim from his position....
World Bank chief impressed by Tarbela
PESHAWAR: World Bank President David R Malpass on Thursday visited Tarbela Dam and had a round of the main dam and the power house of Tarbela 4th Extension Hydropower Project.According to a handout, Federal Minister for Water Resources Muhammad Faisal Vawda, Federal Secretary Muhammad Ashraf, WAPDA Chairman Lt Gen (Retd) Muzammil Hussain and World Bank senior officials accompanied him during the visit.The World Bank president expressed his pleasure...
Oghi TMA directed to cope with fire emergencies
MANSEHRA: Assistant Commissioner Mohammad Shojeen Wistro on Thursday directed the Oghi tehsil municipal administration to keep fire tenders in working condition so that they could be utilised during the blaze and other incidents happening in the tehsil. “I want fire brigades standby to cope with any situation any time as we would also hold mock exercise to enhance working skills of fire tenders,” Wistro told a meeting held to review the situation...
Deworming campaign receives discouraging response in Haripur
HARIPUR: A school-based deworming campaign of the provincial government received a discouraging response from parents in the district on Thursday as many forced children to stay at home while teams visited schools to administer anti-worm pills to kids.The provincial government has launched the deworming campaign in 19 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In Haripur, the teachers of government schools were to administer pills to all the students aged...
Khanzada Khan insists can’t even think of leaving PPP
MARDAN: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)’s former senator Khanzada Khan said on Thursday that it was his moral obligation to resign from the Senate after his son joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).Talking to The News, he said he had spent most part of his life in the PPP and would like to remain in it. “I can’t even think of leaving the party,” he insisted.Khanzada Khan said he was elected senator on the PPP ticket and when his son joined PTI...
Dassu hydropower project: Official says 9,000-acre land acquisition in progress
MANSEHRA: Upper Kohistan Deputy Commissioner Arif Khan Yousafzai has said that the district administration is acquiring over 9000 acres of land for 4300 megawatts Dassu hydropower project.“We have been facing some issues in the acquisition of land as Upper Kohistan, where this dam is being built, an unsettled area as for as land is concerned but even then we have successfully acquired 730 acres of land and the construction work is well underway,”...
Opposition parties’ workers proceed to Islamabad for Azadi March
PESHAWAR: Several big processions under the banner of different opposition parties, mainly Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Awami National Party (ANP) Thursday left for Islamabad to join the Azadi March.The main procession from Peshawar started from the Ring Road where the main office of JUI-F is located. It was led by the provincial leaders of the JUI-F.The ANP procession had left for the federal capital before that of the JUI-F.The ANP activists...
Breast cancer kills 40,000 women in Pakistan every year
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Medical University (KMU)’s Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (IBMS) in collaboration with Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital and Research Centre Peshawar marked the Breast Cancer Awareness Month by organising a one-day seminar here at multi-purposes hall of the university.Prof Dr Arshad Javaid, Vice-Chancellor, KMU, as chief guest and Director IRNUM, Peshawar Dr Akifullah Khan, renowned Oncologists Dr Safoora Shahid, Dr Nabila...
Research conference concludes at SBBWU
PESHAWAR: The three-day 5th International Multidisciplinary Research Conference (IMRC) on Global Prosperity through Research and Sustainable Development concluded at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University.The event was jointly organised with Sarhad University of Science & Technology (SUIT), Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (Awkum) and the University of Malakand under a series of conferences aimed to provide a multidisciplinary platform...
Quest for justice
This refers to the article 'The quest for justice' (Oct 23) by Kamila Hyat. The writer says: "Indeed the lowest rate of crime exists in countries such as Scandinavian nations which run prisons little different to hotels". That may be true, but each country has its own character and environment dictated by its socio-economic conditions; Pakistan cannot be like a Scandinavian country. If we transform our jails to provide comfort like hotels, our teeming...
Save hockey
It has been said that hockey is the national game of Pakistan. Pakistan won three Olympics in hockey in 1960, 1968, and 1984. Today, Pakistan's team is on the 17th number in the world hockey ranking. The national game has been neglected terribly. The concerned authorities are not serious about hockey and end up investing much more on cricket.It is very good that they invest on cricket, but they should also be focused on hockey. Therefore, I humbly...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
KP ‘Action in aid of’ Ordinance: Assistant registrar’s orders challenged in SC
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was Wednesday requested to entertain a petition, challenging the KP's 'Action in aid of' Ordinance that allows the military to set up internment centers throughout the province.Farhatullah Babar, former senator Afrasiab Khattak, ex-MNA Bushra Gohar and educationist Rubina Saigol filed an appeal with the apex court against the non-maintainability order of the assistant registrar in their petition.They prayed that the order...
Chaudhry Sugar Mills case: LHC takes up Maryam’s bail plea today
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday heard arguments of PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz’s counsel on her bail petition in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills (CSM) money laundering case and adjourned the hearing till Thursday (today) for counter arguments by the prosecution.Resuming his arguments before a two-judge bench, Maryam’s counsel Amjad Pervez said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has been subjecting the petitioner to double jeopardy...
KP reports two more polio cases
PESHAWAR: Despite hectic efforts by national and international organisations, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday reported two more polio cases, raising the number of the cases to 80 in Pakistan and 59 in KP this year.The National Institute of Health Islamabad (NIH) confirmed the two new polio cases reported from LakkiMarwat and Tank districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Nine-month-old male child from Bakhmal Ahmadzai in Sara-e-Naurang in LakkiMarwat district...
Polio-infected toddler dies in Karachi
KARACHI: A three-year-old child from Sujawal district of Sindh who tested positive for polio died at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) Karachi during treatment, officials said on Wednesday. The tragedy highlights the horrific increase in the number of polio cases across the country to 80.The "Emergency Operation Centre for Polio” in Sindh confirmed the three-year-old as the 9th polio victim of the province, taking the totalnumber of cases...
Senator Khanzada quits PPP after son joined PTI
PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Khanzada Khan submitted his resignation with the Senate chairman on Wednesday and later said he had done so on moral grounds.However, the veteran PPP leader from Mardan did not quit the party. He took the decision after his son ZeeshanKhanzada joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) during a meeting reportedly with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the presence of Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak.Khanzada...
Two killed in Bannu blast
BANNU: Two people were killed in a blast caused by explosives in Janikhel area in Bannu on Wednesday, official sources said. The sources said that two motorcyclists identified as Shabashullah, son of Sabar Khan, and Shermadol, son of Akbar Zaman, were killed in the blast. Later, the security forces launched a search operation in the area.
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Personal enmity not terrorism, says SC
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Wednesday issued a 59-page judgment on the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 decreeing the term ‘terrorism’ ‘too wide’ and recommended Parliament to consider substituting the present definition of terrorism with a more succinct definition, bringing it in line with the international perspective of that offence and focusing on violent activities aimed at achieving political, ideological or religious objectives.Chief Justice of Pakistan...
March a movement for reforms, not sit-in: Fazl
LAHORE: The Azadi March comprising thousands of slogan-chanting and flag-waving JUI-F workers led by Maulana Fazlur Rehman left Lahore for Islamabad on Wednesday evening as he reiterated while addressing the crowd that the march would not end without sending illegal Prime Minister Imran Khan and his cabinet home.Riding a lofty container on a truck amidst the front portion of a long motorcade, he told the charged crowd comprising party workers and...
New battery design can charge an electric car in 10 minutes
WASHINGTON: Ten minutes charging time to add 200 miles of driving range: scientists in the US have claimed a technological breakthrough that could resolve one of the key concerns surrounding all-electric vehicles.Writing in the journal Joule on Wednesday, researchers at The Pennsylvania State University said that such a speedy charge rate required a battery to rapidly take in 400 kilowatts of energy.Current generation vehicles are not capable of...
Marching forward
Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s march passed through Multan, reached Lahore on early Wednesday morning where it was greeted by PPP and PML-N workers and then moved on towards Rawalpindi. The size of the march has been impressive and so far at least any violence has been avoided. We hope this will remain the case. On the sidelines of the march there have however been incidents that leave an unpleasant taste. Former Senator Hamdullah’s nationality was brought...
Out of school
Despite being the most urbanized province in the country, Sindh has an extremely high number of out-of-school children. It is currently estimated that 6.4 million schoolgoing children, or 40 percent of those who should be in school, are not attending classes at any institution. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah gave these figures himself while addressing a visiting delegation that included diplomats from China, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The...
Marching forward
Maulana Fazalur Rehman’s march passed through Multan, reached Lahore on early Wednesday morning where it was greeted by PPP and PML-N workers and then moved on towards Rawalpindi. The size of the march has been impressive and so far at least any violence has been avoided. We hope this will remain the case. On the sidelines of the march there have however been incidents that leave an unpleasant taste. Former Seantor Hamdullah’s nationality was brought...
