Pakistan

Multan police on Monday arrested two brothers, Rawal Asad and Anas, under sedition charges for joining a protest on the call of Pashtoon Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chairman Manzoor Pashteen at the city’s Nawan Shaher Chowk. Asad, a student at the Government Emerson College, Multan, and Anas, who studies at a local college, were arrested during a raid at their residence …

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Monday reserved its decision on a plea seeking acquittal of former law minister Dr Babar Awan in the Nandipur power project reference. Dr Awan concluded his arguments and the court will announce its verdict on Feb 20. The former law minister contended before the court that the summaries had been moved to the law ministry …

KHAR: Scores of students and youths on Monday demonstrated against the Bajaur Levies personnel for torturing their colleagues. The protesters blocked the Khar road for vehicular traffic for hours, accusing the Levies officials deployed at banks of beating up a number of their colleagues while they were deposing fees there. The protesters said it was not the first time that …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Domestic Violence against Women (Prevention and Protection) Bill was introduced in the provincial assembly on Monday as members of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal remained apprehensive about the proposed law. “The government should not pass the bill in haste. We (MMA) will bring amendments to the bill and will vet it on the yardstick of the Holy Quran …

ISLAMABAD: Opposi­tion Leader and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shahbaz Sharif has withdrawn himself from three standing committees of the National Assembly as the government intensifies its campaign to seek his resignation as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman. There was no word from the PML-N over the decision of Shahbaz Sharif from the committees, but a “circular” issued by the …

SANA demands justice for the cold-blooded murder of Irshad Ranjhani By: Amir Makhani Austin, TX, 10 February 2019 – The Executive Council (EC) of the largest diaspora organization of Sindhis in the world, Sindhi Association of North America (SANA), in a meeting today, demanded speedy justice for the gruesome and cold-blooded murder of Irshad Ranjhani in Shah Lateef Police Station …

KARACHI: A senior leader of the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) escaped an attempt on his life in the Defence Housing Authority on Saturday night, according to police. They said Mir Atiq Talpur, PSP’s Sindh general secretary, was travelling with his family in a car when armed men opened fire on his vehicle from a car on Khayaban-i-Shahbaz. Mr Talpur and …

ISLAMABAD: The fragile ruling coalition has suffered a blow as one of its partners, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), has decided to boycott the recently-constituted committees of the National Assembly. The urban Sindh-based MQM has directed all its members not to attend the upcoming meetings of the committees for elections of their chairpersons starting from Monday (tomorrow), sources in the …

MIRPURKHAS: Federal Minister for Petroleum Chaudhry Ghulam Sarwar, addressing a big public meeting at Gama Stadium here on Saturday, said that Sindh and its people would now get all their due rights “usurped by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government over the past decade”. He said people of Sindh would witness massive development across the province and a big package …

DERA GHAZI KHAN: Tribal people have killed a wolf of rare species of the Sulaiman Range to protect their animals while rest of five more wolves are being chased by the group of people belonging to different tribes in the Tuman Leghari area to shoot them. According to World Wildlife Foundation representative Attaullah, the incident of wolf shooting took place …