Karachi
March 8, 2021
Qasim Jan, a veteran politician and Awami National Party Karachi chapter’s former president, passed away on Sunday at a hospital where he was being treated for cancer.
Jan also remained Sindh president of the Pashtun Students Federation and a founding member of the United Students Federation during his student life in the 1980s.
He had closely worked with Bacha Khan, Wali Khan and Sardar Sherbaz Mazari on the platform of the PkSF, the ANP and the National Democratic Party, and played an active role against the dictatorship of Ziaul Haq.
In the ANP, he had served in the positions of Karachi president and provincial labour secretary. After developing differences with the ANP leadership, he had formed the Pashtun Thinkers Forum, a Karachi-based literary and political forum, and organised several events at the Arts Council of Pakistan.
Karachi March 3, 2021
The second largest adult vaccination centre (AVC) of Karachi for Covid-19 vaccination has started functioning at Liaquat National Hospital (LNH), where frontline healthcare workers are being inoculated, but in the coming days, the public would also be vaccinated against the infectious disease, Sindh health department and LNH officials said on Tuesday.
“The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) had approached us to ascertain if we are willing to establish an adult vaccination centre at Liaquat National Hospital.
We said it is a national cause and we are more than happy to offer our services. So, today, an adult vaccination centre at the LNH has started functioning, for which the Covid-19 vaccine is being provided by the government,” Dr Salman Faridi, medical director of the LNH, told The News.
JI announces long march on March 14 as part of movement for Karachi’s rights
Karachi
March 2, 2021
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Monday announced that the party would hold a massive march on March 14 that would start in Quaidabad and end at the Governor House.
He said the JI’s movement for the rights of Karachi aimed at resolving the issues of every citizen of Karachi, a city called mini-Pakistan where people speaking all languages of the country lived.
If Karachi developed, the whole country would develop, the JI city chief said, adding that for the development and prosperity of Karachi, the party would hold the march on March 14 and announce its future course of action at the Governor House.
JI to stage more protests as part of drive for Karachi’s rights
Karachi
February 25, 2021
As part of the next phase of its campaign for the rights of Karachi and its people, the Jamaat-e-Islami has planned to organise a rally from Quaidabad to the Governor House on March 14.
This was announced by JI Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman at a press conference at Idara Noor-e-Haq, the party headquarters, on Tuesday. where he also announced a demonstration would be staged on February 28 on New MA Jinnah Road. He said that the JI’s campaign for the rights of Karachi was in full swing and it would continue till the realisation of the just rights of the residents.