Street crime should not only be controlled, but eliminated: CM Murad on August 20, 2018KARACHI: The newly elected Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah who was sworn in yesterday conducted two separate high level meetings on Sunday regarding maintenance of law and order and water shortage in the province. CM Murad Ali Shah conducted the first meeting at CM House on Sunday morning. He directed the Inspector […]
Edhi to revive urban forests through ‘Edhi Plantation Campaign’ on August 19, 2018KARACHI: Edhi Foundation, country’s biggest charity, has announced to revive urban forests in Karachi through ‘Edhi Plantation Campaign’ and plant 10,000 tree in its first phase to reduce the future threats of extreme weather events such as heatwave. Faisal Edhi, the head of the Edhi Foundation announced that he would plant 10,000 local and indigenous […]
Newly elected members of Sindh Assembly take oath on August 13, 2018KARACHI: The newly elected members in the Sindh Assembly took oath on the first day of the session of on Monday. Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani administered the oath from the members and the oath was administered in Urdu, Sindhi and English languages. The election for the posts of speaker and deputy Speaker of Sindh Assembly […]
Minority lawmakers heap praise on PPP for Hindu marriage law on August 10, 2018Karachi: Newly-elected MNAs and MPAs of Pakistan People’s Party have extended deep gratitude to party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for ensuring passage of the Sindh Hindu Marriage Bill from the previous Sindh Assembly, which got assent from the governor to become a law last week. In a statement, Dr Mahesh Malani, who was elected a […]
Forest Dept ‘refuses’ to provide saplings to Edhi Foundation for mass plantation on August 7, 2018KARACHI: The Social Forestry Karachi, a subsidiary of the Sindh Forest Department, has refused to provide saplings to the Edhi Foundation for mass tree plantation campaign, said foundation’s head Faisal Edhi on Monday. “Karachi is vulnerable to heatwaves and being the biggest charity organisation in Pakistan, we want to cope with extreme weather emergencies, besides […]
Sindhabad — climate refugees waiting for a miracle 8 years on on August 6, 2018KARACHI: It has been around eight years now since Amina Khoso and her family started living in a huge slum that runs parallel along Super Highway that connects country’s port city of Karachi with the upcountry. Before that Khoso and her family were living in a small hamlet in Jacobabad district in northern Sindh, where […]
Three Hindu candidates elected from Muslim majority areas on general seats in Sindh on July 31, 2018Three Hindu candidates were elected on the general seats for the first time ever in the history of Pakistan. Mahesh Malani was declared as a winner on National Assembly seat from NA-222 Tharparkar, while Hari Ram Kishwari Lal won provincial assembly seat from PS-147 Mirpurkhas. Jamshoro’s Giyanoo Mal alias Giyan Chand Essrani also bagged a […]
Rabbani fears reduction in financial autonomy of provinces on July 28, 2018KARACHI: “The new Parliament may bring changes in the 18th Amendment of the constitution particularly the financial autonomy of provinces as the federation does not want to give all financial resources under the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award,” said Mian Raza Rabbani on Friday. The former Senate chairman was speaking at a meeting of the […]
PML-N loyalists tack posters on murals of women activists on July 22, 2018Supporters of Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) have defaced the murals of Karachi’s women activists by tacking party posters on them. The murals, featured on the walls of Karachi Press Club, were painted in October 2016 by Phool Patti Pakistan’s Truck Art Team as a part of ‘I Am Karachi’ movement, to honor activists and Karachi’s […]
WWF-Pakistan encourages citizens to vote for ‘environmental sustainability’ on July 21, 2018KARACHI: World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) in collaboration with Pakistan Votes (PV), a non-partisan voter platform operating since January 2012, on Saturday released a short video of WWF’s project community members demanding citizens vote responsibly in the upcoming general elections scheduled to be held on 25 July 2018 across Pakistan. WWF released video demanding […]