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KARACHI - A former employee of the Karachi Public Transport Society (KPTS) has landed the post of the society's administrator, replacing the provincial transport minister's close aide, on recommendation of the Sindh chief minister, it has been reliably learnt.
Earlier, ignoring the Sindh High Court (SHC) order, Sindh Transport Minister Akhtar Jadoon had appointed his close friend Sarwar Khan as the KPTS administrator by replacing the senior-most KPTS employee Shamsuddin Abro.

ISLAMABAD - UK Cabinet Minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, also chairperson of the ruling Conservative Party, called on Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar in the federal capital on Tuesday. "She was accompanied by Damian Green, Minister for Immigration, and the British high commissioner to Pakistan," said a Foreign Office's statement.
The minister of state highlighted the problems relating to the issuance of visa to the Pakistani nationals and also underlined

LAHORE - The PML-N government in Punjab has decided to induct as many as four ministers in the provincial cabinet from the Unification Bloc after seeing off the PPP from the provincial cabinet. Unification Bloc sources claimed on Saturday that the induction was likely to be made on February 24.
They said the PML-N leadership had agreed on conferring four ministries to the bloc against the demand of six portfolios in the provincial cabinet. They said all was set to bring the bloc

LAHORE - A writ petition has been moved in the Lahore High Court to summon former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and PPP information secretary Fouzia Wahab for giving contradictory statements on the issue of diplomatic immunity to double murder accused American national Raymond Davis.
The court has ordered the accused to divulge material before the court to substantiate their respective statements. Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique filed a petition stating Shah Mahmood

KARACHI - Most provincial ministers belonging to the ruling PPP submitted their resignations to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah at a meeting held at the Chief Minister's House late Monday evening. Later, they also attended a farewell dinner hosted by the chief minister, also the PPP's provincial president.
Speaking to journalists, MPA Sharjeel Memon - also the Sindh PPP Media Cell in charge - said that all PPP ministers have submitted their resignations to the chief

BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament approved eight new ministers on Sunday, filling some crucial posts in the premier's new cabinet but still leaving three sensitive security portfolios and the planning ministry vacant. Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who began a second four-year term in December after striking a power-sharing deal with rival Sunni and Kurdish blocs following a March inconclusive election, appeared before parliament with a list of three cabinet ministers and five state

KARACHI - Siddiq Abu Bhai is a lucky man to have Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Qaim Ali Shah as his friend: removed nine days ago from his position of adviser to the government, Abu Bhai was appointed on Wednesday as coordinator to the Sindh government on political affairs.
The Sindh government's Services and General Administration Department formally issued a notification about Abu Bhai's fresh appointment on Wednesday. PPP leader Rashid Rabbani is already working as Advisor to the

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa on Monday said the provincial ministers of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would not stage any protest, adding that there were some misunderstandings and reservations, which would hopefully addressed soon.
It is pertinent to recall that provincial Senior Minister Raja Riaz had announced Saturday to hold a sit-in in front of the Punjab Assembly if the provincial govt failed to reply positively to the 19-point agenda.
Khosa while

LAHORE - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ministers would be ousted from the Punjab cabinet if federal government did not act upon Nawaz Sharif's 10-point agenda. Reiterating the PML-N's stance on Monday after visiting the Punjab Governor's House, he said that the party was working on a public welfare agenda and no delaying tactics would be tolerated in this regard.
Commenting on the deadline given by PPP Senior Minister Raja

LAHORE - PML-N Senator Pervaiz Rasheed has said that PPP ministers should resign and then stage a sit-in as long as they want. "The Punjab government will remain unhurt as it has majority in the House," he told Pakistan Today. He said that the Punjab government was safe and in no danger.
Rasheed said PPP Senior Minister Raja Riaz was a "hilarious man and his 19-point agenda is a joke as well". To a question, he said Nawaz Sharif had not yet received any agenda from PPP ministers.

ISLAMABAD - The in-house consultations with coalition partners of the PPP government for formation of the new federal cabinet continued on Saturday with the short listing of candidates for the first batch of appointments. An insider told Pakistan Today that "who will be who" was the current topic of discussion in the power corridors, adding that the process would be completed by Wednesday.
The source said the government was working on the merger of some of the divisions of

KARACHI - The police on Tuesday arrested two sisters allegedly involved in a robbery at the house of the Sindh Home Minister's friend in Defence. The alleged culprits were arrested in a raid at a makeshift settlement in Azeem Goth, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, within 24 hours when Dr Zulfiqar Mirza took notice of the robbery by two domestic aides at his friend's house in Phase-V, Defence.
The suspects had allegedly taken away cash, jewellery and wrist watches worth Rs 17 million. However,

KARACHI - Members of the Sindh cabinet approved a bill on Saturday drafted by Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza for providing protection to witnesses in cases filed by the prosecution at the courts.
Briefing media persons about the cabinet members' decisions, Chief Minister's Adviser on Information Sharmila Farooqui said that the bill would be presented at the Sindh Assembly for necessary legislation. "Despite the police arresting suspects in several criminal cases, especially

QUETTA - A number of provincial ministers belonging to different political parties in a point of order in the assembly session strongly protested the restoring of anti-smuggling powers of Frontier Corps Balochistan and said that the people living close to the borders had been deprived of their bread and butter.
The session was presided by Speaker Mohammad Aslam Bhootani on Saturday. Parliamentary leader of Balochistan National Party (Awami) and Agriculture Minister Mir Asad

ISLAMABAD - The government continues to sit on the resignations of the JUI-F and the MQM ministers despite the fact that they had stepped down a month ago, expecting that its two estranged allies might rejoin the federal cabinet.
The resignations seem to have gone lost somewhere on the road between the Presidency and the Prime Minister's House. The PM House says that the resignations have been sent to the Presidency while the presidential spokesman denies receiving them.