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MPA wants Lyari’s women to lead societal change

KARACHI - Sindh Katchi Abadis and Spatial Development Minister Rafique Engineer has urged upon the girls of Lyari that they should discharge their skills professionally to bring honour and recognition to the area, as higher educational institutions for providing modern education have been provided by the present government.
He said this while addressing as the chief guest at a 'Qirat and Naat Competition' organised during the students' week celebrations at Ronaqul Islam Degree

ECP restrained from disqualifying minority MPA with ‘fake degree’

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court has restrained the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from disqualifying minority Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Pitambar Sehwani of the Pakistan People's Party. The court also ordered the ECP to give the MPA a chance to argue the case filed against him, alleging him of possessing a fake academic degree.
An SHC division bench, comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Azhar Rizvi, set aside the ECP notice whereby Sehwani's membership was

KP MPA held over fake degree

PESHAWAR - Police on Saturday arrested a lawmaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly on charges of providing a fake graduation degree to the Election Commission of Pakistan. The arrest is the first of an elected representative in the country in recent months.
Sardar Ali Khan, an elected member of Provincial Assembly, appeared before the Chhota Lahore, Swabi District Additional Session Judge Jehangir Khan to get his bail before arrest confirmed. But the court canceled

Court orders police to register FIR against PML-N MPA

LAHORE - An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday directed the police to register a case against PMLN MPA Saif-u-Malook Khokhar on giving a bogus cheque for Rs 20.5 million. The court issued the order on an application filed by a woman, Salamat.
She said that she sold 94.18 kanals of land to Malook who delivered her a cheque for Rs 20.5 million in payment, which was dishonored. She requested the court to pass an order for registration of an FIR against the MPA.

PML-F MPA, bureaucracy get ministers’ goat

KARACHI - It was either a female legislator from the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) or the bureaucracy who managed to rile Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ministers during the Sindh Assembly session on Monday.
Sindh Law Minister Ayaz Soomro was visibly aggravated when PML-F's Nusrat Saher Abbasi criticized the government on what she claimed was negligence in monitoring the process of rehabilitation of flood affected people in some parts of the province. Referring to