Pak-India urged to relax visa policy for enhanced people-to-people contact on March 24, 2018KARACHI: “Pakistan and India need to do serious introspection to develop an understanding of each other’s limitations and compulsions so that a sustainable dialogue can be started,” said Om Parkash Shah, a peace activist based in India. He was speaking at a seminar titled “Challenges to Indo-Pak Relations and Secularism” arranged jointly by the Awami […]
Paigham-e-Pakistan reaches Sindh on March 21, 2018KARACHI: The federal government has launched an initiative to promote a new national narrative that rejects terrorism, extremism, sectarian hatred and use of force to impose Shariah, Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair said on Tuesday. He was addressing the launch event of Paighan-e-Pakistan. “The narrative is meant for a peaceful Pakistan,” he said, adding that the […]
PTI workers displeased with TV anchor’s joining on March 20, 2018KARACHI: TV-anchor-turned-politician Aamir Liaqat Hussain, who ran a smear campaign against five bloggers who remained in enforced disappearance last year, also inciting violence against them, has joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Liaquat made the announcement during a press conference in Karachi. PTI chairman Imran Khan, and party leader Imran Ismail were also present. While talking to […]
CJP wants Karachi clean within a week on March 18, 2018KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nasir expressed his anger on Saturday over heaps of garbage and unhygienic situation in Karachi and ordered that the metropolis must be cleaned within a week. A three-member apex court bench, headed by the CJP, was hearing a case on the report of Sindh’s Supply and Drainage Commission […]
Black day postponed on CM’s assurance on March 14, 2018KARACHI: A black day announced by associations of college and university teachers was postponed after a meeting between a delegation of protesting teachers and CM Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday. Dr Moiz Khan, the secretary of Karachi University Teachers Society, told Daily Times that the CM had assured the delegation that the controversial Universities Act […]
Black day announced against ‘controversial universities law’ today on March 13, 2018KARACHI: All major associations of college and university teachers in Sindh have unanimously rejected the Universities Amendment Act of 2018, announcing a black day to be observed across campuses on Tuesday. “Nowhere in the world or in other provinces of Pakistan, the government controls the admissions policies,” said Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff […]
Aurat March to smash patriarchy held in the city on March 9, 2018KARACHI: Dozens of women and men marched from Frere Hall to Quaid-e-Azam Museum on Thursday raising slogans in support of their demands for an end to gender discrimination and segregation and in opposition of patriarchal social attitudes. The march, titled ‘Aurat March’, featured women carrying placards with slogans against patriarchy and seeking action for establishment […]
Imran admits ‘horse-trading’ by PTI MPAs in Senate polls on March 6, 2018KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan admitted on Monday that some of the party lawmakers have been involved in horse-trading in the recent Senate elections. Talking to journalists in Karachi, the PTI chief, however, said that he was not sure who exactly took money to change loyalties during the Senate polls and demanded an […]
Sattar’s aide behind MQM-P’s infighting visits Bahadurabad on February 27, 2018KARACHI: In yet another attempt at reconciliation, PIB group leader, Kamran Tessori, met the Bahadurabad-based rabita committee leaders on Monday. Incidentally, Tessori was the person whose name for Senate polls because the point of contention between the two groups. Talking to the media after meeting Amir Khan, Faisal Sabzwari and Ameen-ul-Haq, Tessori said he was […]
Handful of MQM-P members led by Khwaja Izhar boycott SA session on February 24, 2018KARACHI: Only four provincial assembly members of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan, including Bahadurabad group leader Khwaja Izharul Hassan, attended the Friday session of the Sindh Assembly. Speaking to the media, Hasan said that many MPAs and workers in both groups wanted the ongoing tussle to end, but the leaders on both sides were the cause […]