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KARACHI - Shehri-CBE, a Karachi-based non-profit body - organised a demonstration at Mazar-e-Quaid on Saturday to protest what it termed as the "hypocritical" 'Protection and Prohibition of Amenity Plots Bill 2009' that was placed before the Sindh Assembly last week. According to a press release issued by the NGO, the participants of the demonstration included people from all walks of life: students, teachers, lawyers, engineers, architects, town-planners, businessmen, industrialists,

KARACHI - The PPP condemned the remarks of two of its MPAs at a Sindh Assembly session accusing PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif of murdering former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer and also asking for the registration of a murder case against him.

KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari directed the PPP MPAs of Sindh on Wednesday to reach out to people in their respective constituencies and address their problems.
"You may not be able to give a job to every jobless youth, but you can assuage their hurt feelings by reaching out to them, listening to their grievances and addressing them as much as you can," he said while presiding over a meeting of the MPAs held at the Bilawal House.
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah,

PESHAWAR: The women legislators of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly staged a walkout Friday when Deputy Speaker Khushdil Khan snubbed a ruling party female member to avoid cross talk during the proceeding, saying he could exercise his powers to send her out of the house.
The protest was triggered after Khushdil used harsh words while asking Munawar Sultana of Awami National Party (ANP) to follow the rules of the house. "I will kick you out; don't make the house the jock," he remarked

LAHORE - Members of the provincial assembly (MPA) on Monday lambasted Punjab Minorities, Social Welfare and Women Development Minister Kamran Michael who miserably failed to answer questions of lawmakers during the Punjab Assembly (PA) session. Michael, replying to queries of MPAs during the question hour, repeatedly got confused and members expressed their dissatisfaction over poor answers submitted by the department.
Observing confusion of the minister, PA Speaker Rana Iqbal

LAHORE - Members of the provincial assembly (MPA) on Monday condemned police torture of a journalist's son and demanded prompt action over the issue while journalists protesting against the incident staged a walkout from the Punjab Assembly (PA) Press Gallery.
MPAs criticised police for torturing journalists, doctors, teachers and students and termed manhandling of Hassan Iftikhar, son of noted journalist Iftikhar Ahmed, at the Lahore airport as condemnable. They said that the

LAHORE - Women members of the provincial assembly (MPA) from both the treasury and opposition benches staged a walkout from the Punjab Assembly (PA) session over non-allocation of development funds accusing the Punjab government of gender discrimination and humiliating their mandate.
Issue of non-provision of funds to female legislators remained under discussion in the House and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) MPAs also boycotted the House proceedings to register their protest

LAHORE - MPAs' attendance issue in the Punjab Assembly remained hot in the assembly's session on Thursday. Majority of the members, during the full day proceedings, declared it as a 'humiliation' and Sanaullah Masti Khel walked out from the assembly in protest.
Provincial Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah Khan on a point of order informed that the matter was brought into Punjab chief minister's notice and he had allowed the purchase of Bio Matrix System to

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) members of the provincial assembly (MPA) staged a protest in the Punjab Assembly's courtyard against petrol price-hike, corruption, electricity and gas load shedding.
The legislators were wearing black arm bands and chanted slogans including, "Stop corruption, reduce petrol prices and end electricity and gas load shedding".
The protest was lead by PML-N MPA Zaeem Qadri while Chaudhry Shahbaz, Allah Rakha, Yasin Sohal, Chaudhry

LAHORE
PML-N Members of Provincial Assembly (MPAs) are behind the fall of District Coordination Officer and Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Chairman Sajjad Ahmed Bhutta, once among the favourites of CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, who survived all bureaucratic shake-ups ever since PML-N formed government in Punjab.
The parliamentarians had prepared the charge sheet against DCO to be allegedly taking monthly commission from Land Mafia for delaying regularization of 37 Katchi