Tag: Sindh

KARACHI - The newly appointed governor of Punjab, Latif Khosa called on Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah at the Chief Minister's House on Sunday. According to an official handout, the chief minister congratulated Khosa on his appointment.
He hoped that the new governor would promote politics of reconciliation in Punjab and a new chapter of development and prosperity would begin in the province under his leadership. Provincial Ministers Pir Mazharul Haq, Muhammad Ayaz Soomro and Ali

KARACHI - In its second meeting on Sunday, the committee constituted by the Sindh government for the reinstatement of sacked employees of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) asked the company management to immediately reinstate the sacked employees.
The meeting was held at the Sindh Chief Minister's House with Shazia Marri in the chair. Besides KESC Managing Director Tabish Gohar and other officials, the meeting was attended by committee members Amir Nawab, Rafiq Engineer,

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said the Sindh Rangers and Sindh Police had been vested with powers to take action against law breakers.
"The recent action in Orangi Town in Karachi was a law-enforcement measure in the same context. It was directed against anti-social elements and land grabbers. No operation, as has been claimed in some sections of the press, has been launched in Karachi," Malik said.
According to a press release, the law-enforcement

ISLAMABAD - The Rangers have been empowered to arrest miscreants in Karachi on a request by the Sindh government, Information Minster Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Saturday. "The Rangers have been tasked with taking action against miscreants in Karachi on a request by the Sindh government.
The whole country is worried over the worsening law and order situation in Karachi and the government is taking measures to restore peace there," Kaira said while talking to reporters after an

KARACHI - Police foiled a possible terror attack attempt on the Sindh Assembly building when they arrested three suspects having close links to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
A senior official told Pakistan Today that the police on a tip-off raided a house in Orangi Town No 11 and arrested Qasim Iqbal, Jalaluddin and Moosa Kazim with a huge cache of weapons.
Police claimed that the detained suspects had been planning a suicide attack to blow up the Sindh Assembly

ISLAMABAD - The Establishment Division on Friday submitted to the Supreme Court a list of nine senior law enforcement officers who are employed on a contractual basis. These officers include Sindh Inspector General of Police Sultan Salahuddin Babar Khatak BPS 22; Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Waseem Ahmed BPS 21; Intelligence Bureau Karachi Director Tariq Jamil; Larkana DIG Deen Muhammad Baloch; Sindh DIG Khurram Gulzar; Lahore AIG Railways Akhtar Hayat; Nadir

KARACHI - Police foiled a possible terror attack attempt on the Sindh Assembly building when they arrested three suspects having close links to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. A senior official told Pakistan Today that the police on a tip-off raided a house in Orangi Town No 11 and arrested Qasim Iqbal, Jalaluddin and Moosa Kazim with a huge cache of weapons.
Police claimed that the detained suspects had been planning a suicide attack to blow up the Sindh Assembly building.

KARACHI - All doctors working in public and private hospitals throughout Sindh would observe a strike for two hours today (Friday) to protest against the increasing incidents of murdering doctors.
Only emergency cases would be considered during the strike. However, all wards, the outdoor patients departments, and routine checkups and surgeries would be postponed for two hours.
The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Karachi announced the strike call on Thursday in a meeting

KARACHI - The Sindh government has started various projects to meet the challenges of natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and droughts in the country and the formation of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) is part of these efforts, Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Information Sharmila Farooqui said on Wednesday.
She said that the country, particularly Karachi, faces the risk of natural calamities like earthquakes and cyclones, however, the government is

KARACHI - The Sindh government has started various projects to meet the challenges of natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and droughts in the country and the formation of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) is part of these efforts, Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Information Sharmila Farooqui said on Wednesday. She said that the country, particularly Karachi, faces the risk of natural calamities like earthquakes and cyclones, however, the government is

KARACHI - The Sindh government wants to collect royalty on the production of oil and gas, but a "19th Amendment" would be needed to the Constitution to ensure this "right" of the provinces, said Sindh Finance Minister during the Sindh Assembly session on Tuesday.
Replying to different supplementary questions furnished by National People's Paty's (NPP) Arif Mustafa Jatoi during the question hour, Shah complained that the Federal government passed on incomplete information on

KARACHI - The Sindh government has decided to monitor the hiring process of private security agencies working in the province to ensure that they do not give jobs to terrorists and criminals. It would also take action against security agencies operating without the government's permission.
The decisions were taken in a meeting on Tuesday between a seven-member All Pakistan Security Agencies Association (APSAA) delegation led by its chairman Muzzaffar Ata Malik and Sindh Home

KARACHI - Thirty seven scholars, academicians and students would leave for Islamabad today (Wednesday) to participate in the Pakistan Knowledge Festival that is being held from January 21 to 28.
"This festival is the first of its kind in the country and it is being organised by the Federal Education Ministry in Islamabad with the objective to provide information to public at large on the works and services rendered by the federal educational institutions in all provinces of the

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has offered former Sindh chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim party's top slot in Sindh, Pakistan Today has learnt reliably. "In his recent visit to the United Arab Emirates, Shujaat had an exclusive meeting with Rahim and asked him to come back to the country by ending his self-imposed exile and lead the PML-Q's Sindh chapter in place of Ghous Bux Mehar," a source in the PML-Q said.
The source said Shujaat also asked the former

KARACHI - The Sindh government is openly opposing the idea to ply 2,000 environment-friendly CNG buses in Karachi and leave other districts with a shabby transport system.
The Environment Ministry, in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), had planned to bring in 2,000 environment-friendly CNG buses for the province; however, federal authorities are trying to use them only on Karachi's major arteries, sources in the provincial government told

KARACHI - Thirty-four posts of doctors are lying vacant in Sindh's prisons, where 42 doctors from other departments are working on contract basis.
This was disclosed during a meeting on jail reforms at the Sindh High Court presided over by Justice Amir Muslim Hani, the supervising judge for jail reforms.
Sindh Home Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan, Health Department's representative, Inspector General (IG) Prisons Ghulam Qadir Thebo, the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) medical

KARACHI - The Sindh National Front (SNF) will back the demands of the Hazarewal for a separate province for their people, SNF chief Mumtaz Bhutto said on Saturday after a meeting with a delegation representing the Hazara Qaumi Jirga.
Members of the delegation apprised Bhutto about their movement as well as alleged injustices against the Hazarewal people. Any group with a distinct language, culture and shared history is a 'nation' that deserves a separate province, the SNF chief