KARACHI: Lawyers, protesters held in police crackdown
KARACHI, Sept 29: At least three lawyers and a press photographer were wounded and four other lawyers arrested on Saturday when lawyers came out of the City Courts to form a...
KARACHI: Lawyers condemn ‘state terrorism’
KARACHI, Sept 29: On the directives of the Pakistan Bar Council, lawyers boycotted the legal proceedings in the High Court of Sindh, City Courts and Malir District Courts on Saturday to...
HYDERABAD: Notices issued to Wapda, Hesco authorities
HYDERABAD, Sept 29: Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit bench here on Saturday issued notices to Wapda, member (power)/managing director Wapda and chief executive officer Hyderabad Electric Supply Company on a petition filed by a junior engineer/sub-divisional officer, Syed Mohammad Abbas Shah....
HYDERABAD: PPP won’t accept president in uniform: leader
HYDERABAD, Sept 29: Present assemblies whose tenure is about to end have no moral ground to elect a president for next five years, said central leader of the PPP and deputy parliamentary leader in the National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Shah....
KARACHI: Unfair promotions irk CDGK employees
KARACHI, Sept 29: Despite a requirement under the rules, the city district government Karachi’s (CDGK) failure to compile the combined seniority list of an estimated 100,000 officials working in the body’s...
KARACHI: Centre urged to lower prices of drugs
KARACHI, Sept 29: Sindh has urged the federal government to ensure a downward revision of at least 45 essential and life-saving drugs, including those meant for hypertension and diabetes patients, at...
KARACHI: Four more held for overcharging
KARACHI, Sept 29: The city government officials with magisterial powers arrested four more traders and imposed a fine of Rs67,750 on 27 traders for selling wheat flour at exorbitant rates....
KARACHI: Bar plans agitation
KARACHI, Sept 29: Leaders of the Sindh Bar Council and the Karachi Bar Association on Saturday condemned the “police action” against peaceful lawyers and threatened to start an agitation campaign if...
KARACHI: BIEK alters paper pattern
KARACHI, Sept 29: The Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, has decided to change the pattern of the question papers from the next academic year. This was stated by the chairman of the BIEK, Anwar Ahmed Zai, on Saturday....
KARACHI: Trader hurt in brawl dies at JPMC
KARACHI, Sept 29: A trader and member of the Karachi Electronics Dealers’ Association (KEDA), who had been injured on Friday following a dispute that had led to the use of small...
KARACHI: ATC acquits men in kidnap case
KARACHI, Sept 29: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday acquitted the three men accused in the kidnapping for ransom case of Haji Abdul Ghaffar, a poultry dealer who was kidnapped from his...
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Leftist leader’s arrest slammed
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Sept 29: The activists of the Labour Party Pakistan, took out a procession and staged a demonstration in Moro on Saturday to protest against the arrest of party general secretary Farooq Tariq in Lahore....
NAWABSHAH: Arrest of killers sought
NAWABSHAH, Sept 29: Family members and relatives of a slain teacher staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Saturday to protest against police failure to arrest the killers....