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12/20/11--11:00: Sindh will take issue to CCI, Assembly told (chan 1418332)




KARACHI - Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Saifullah Dharejo informed the Sindh Assembly that the provincial government will take up the issue of inflow of industrial waste from Punjab, causing damage to fertile lands in at the all appropriate forums including the CCI.
He was replying to a point of order raised by a lawmaker and said that inflow of industrial waste was a lingering issue between Punjab and Sindh which also erupted in the first government of Sheaheed Mohtarma Benazir






12/20/11--11:00: Troubled people turn to exorcism for help (chan 1418332)




KARACHI (Reuters) - A girl in a long black shirt screams incoherently, banging her head against a wall at a Sufi shrine in Karachi. Sania Haneef’s family says she is possessed by a demon.
Doctors could not help, so they brought the college student, kicking and screaming, to be exorcised by the spirit of a saint.
“Sania has been possessed since she was six years old,” her brother, Mohammed, said, describing how an evil spirit, known as a jinn, would speak through her in a






12/23/11--11:00: Toxic liquor finishes off three more (chan 1418332)




KARACHI - At least three people died while ten others fell unconscious after consuming toxic liquor in Gadap Town on Wednesday.
The deceased persons were identified as Allauddin, Essa and Naeem. These three men had been admitted to a private hospital for treatment, but could not survive. The bodies were taken away by the heirs without the completion of any legal formality.
Police officials said that the victims’ families were not cooperating with them. Ayub Goth police post






12/23/11--11:00: Afaq moves SHC against Rangers DG (chan 1418332)




KARACHI (INP) - MQM-H Chief Afaq Ahmed on Thursday filed a petition against the Director General Rangers in the Sindh High Court for contempt of court.
The application was filed after the Rangers failed to provide security to the MQM-H chief on the court’s order.
The application submitted by Iqbal Kazmi on behalf of Afaq stated that the orders of the SHC were being violated and the Rangers were not providing him security.






12/23/11--11:00: Quaid’s alma mater becomes university (chan 1418332)




KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a bill (into law) enhancing the status of the province’s oldest alma mater, Sindh Madrassatul Islam, to university.
Pir Mazharul Haq, who is also the parliamentary leader of the ruling PPP in Sindh, had tabled the bill. Lawmakers hoped that the grant of the status of varsity to the historical educational institution would help make it an iconic learning place for the youth.
Tapping into the history of the






12/23/11--11:00: MPs for ban on CNG in public transport (chan 1418332)




KARACHI - Lawmakers of the Sindh Assembly, on Wednesday, demanded the government to immediately impose a ban on the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) by public transport, following a deadly cylinder explosion in a van in Hingorja area of Khairpur district on Tuesday.
Expressing apprehensions over the mishap, the legislators said that substandard CNG kits had been posing a threat to the lives of those traveling by public transport.
The lawmakers, on a point of order,






12/23/11--11:00: Nafis Siddiqui bids farewell to PPP (chan 1418332)




KARACHI - In a wholly unpredictable political development on Thursday, a PPP stalwart, Nafis Siddiqui, announced to part ways with the party, saying the leadership was not following the vision of its martyred former chairperson, Benazir Bhutto.
He had served as the party’s central committee member, Sindh general secretary, Foreign Liaison Committee coordinator and MRD member. Former PPP Sindh secretary general Siddiqui, who had joined the Pakistan People’s Party in 1997, made






12/23/11--11:00: Banned outfits behind bank heists: Malik (chan 1418332)




KARACHI - Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Wednesday that terror outfits, including banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, were involved in recent bank heists in the country.
Interacting with mediapersons following his meeting with presidents of commercial banks at the State Guesthouse, Malik confirmed some media reports that members of certain defunct outfits had a hand in recent bank robberies in Karachi.
The minister said that in case a security guard was found involved






12/23/11--11:00: Afaq Ahmed bail hearing postponed for indefinite period (chan 1418332)




The hearing of the case regarding the bail of Mohajir Qaumi Movement – Haqiqi (MQM-H) chief Afaq Ahmed was postponed for an indefinite period.
Afaq Ahmed termed Karachi as the jail and the citizens of Karachi as well as the media had become the hostage.
On Thursday, MQM-H chief Afaq Ahmed filed petition against the DG Rangers in the Sindh High Court for contempt of court.
The application was filed after the Rangers failed to provide security to the MQM-H chief on the






12/23/11--11:00: PTI rally in Karachi: Gates of Quaid mausoleum locked, opened (chan 1418332)




The gates of the Qauid’s mausoleum have been re-opened after the workers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) have been expelled from the ground.
Police also locked the gates of the ground and banned entry of the political workers into the PTI’s venue for the party’s public gathering slated for December 25.
After the City government expelled the workers from the ground, the PTI activists staged protest demonstration. Later on, the gates were unlocked allowing entrance for the






12/23/11--11:00: Afaq Ahmed files petition against DG Rangers (chan 1418332)




Mohajir Qaumi Movement – Haqiqi (MQM-H) chief Afaq Ahmed on Thursday filed petition against the DG Rangers in the Sindh High Court for contempt of court.
The application was filed after the Rangers failed to provide security to the MQM-H chief on the court’s order.
The application submitted by Ahmed’s Attorney General Iqbal Kazmi stated that the orders of the Sindh High Court were being violated and the Rangers were not providing him with security.






12/23/11--11:00: Altaf says no confrontation at this stage (chan 1418332)




KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain, on Friday, expressed serious apprehensions over the strained relations among important institutions of the state.
Talking to President Asif Ali Zardari over telephone, the MQM chief said that during the present delicate situation the country could not afford any confrontation. He told the president that it was his sincere advice that “all stakeholders mutually formulate policies to strengthen national institutions by






12/23/11--11:00: Qaim supports Gilani’s mantra (chan 1418332)




KARACHI - Voicing support for Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s statement that “state within the state” was unacceptable, Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah asserted on Friday that the parliament had the major role in a democratic system and the people fully endorsed it for their representation.
“Conspiracies against democracy and to pack up the elected government would not be accepted,” said Qaim as he called on the people and all forces to unite for strengthening democracy and the






12/23/11--11:00: APML snubs Gilani for ‘diatribe’ against Army (chan 1418332)




KARACHI - All-Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Central Senior Vice-President Dr Ghulam Mujtaba on Friday refuted Prime Minister Gilani’s claim that the army wanted to establish a “state within the state”, saying the was loyal to the country.
Addressing a public meeting, the APML leader regretted the premier’s remarks against the army, and demanded early election to bring the country out of the present crises.
He demanded establishment of a free election commission for






12/23/11--11:00: Two killed, 8 injured in Karachi violence (chan 1418332)




Target killing again intensified in Karachi as two more people were gunned down and several others injured in separate incidents of firing in different localities of the city on Thursday-Friday night.
According to details, unknown armed men opened fire at two people present outside Super Market, near Al-Asif Square in Sohrab Goth. Lal Khan s/o Gul Muhammad and Shamhoon Khan s/o Jannat Gul were killed in the firing incident. Their bodies were shifted to hospital for medico legal