July 4, 2021
KARACHI: The MQM-P on Saturday demanded the formation of a South Sindh province in a rally organised against the PPP-led provincial government.
MQM-P Convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, addressing the Huqooq-e-Karachi rally, said a judicial commission should launch a probe into the Rs6,575 billion funds that the Sindh government has received in the last 10 years.
The rally kicked off from Hassan Square and reached Karachi Press Club via Karsaz Road and Shahrah-e-Faisal.
MQM-P presented a charge sheet against PPP on the “objectionable census in Karachi, fake domiciles, and unemployment”. The party hinted at widening protests to other cities of Sindh.
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Rs250m placed at disposal of KMC for cleaning Karachi’s drains, SHC told
July 2, 2021
The provincial government has allowed execution of cleaning work on 41 major drains and 514 other drains of Karachi through the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC). The information to this effect was provided by the Sindh local government secretary to the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday.
Filing comments on a petition seeking a judicial inquiry into the losses the people of the city suffered during the last year’s monsoon rains and compensation for the affected people, the local government secretary submitted that an amount of Rs250 million had been placed at the disposal of the KMC for cleaning the drains in the city.
Not many people read books in Pakistan. How then are the bookshops coping with the pandemic?
Paradoxically, however, the small market for books may actually have been growing before the virus struck. Liberty Books, Lahore.
I hoard books like old desi aunties hoard bobby pins. A visit to any of Pakistan’s top bookstores – whether it is Reading’s, Liberty, The Last Word, Vanguard or Variety – ends with me walking to the check-out counter with a heap of books, heavier than a boulder and more expensive than a week’s groceries.
My daughter, on the other hand, is all about minimalism. Her stock usually comes from Reading’s online store and then she only buys what she’s sure to read. She stares at my receipt at the bookstore check-out counter and rolls her eyes at me. “Liberty Books is 30% off for the World Book Day sale online.” She says.
SHC tells police to explain their efforts for preventing mugging incidents in city
Karachi
February 27, 2021
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday directed the Sharifabad police to submit a report as to what efforts were being made to prevent mobile snatching incidents during the traffic jams and how the traffic was managed during the Pakistan Super League matches in the city.
The direction came on a contempt-of-court application of Aziz Fatima who submitted that despite the undertaking before the court that University Road from the central prison to Nipa and Sir Shah Suleman Road from New Town to Dalmia shall not be closed during the PSL matches, the same roads had been again blocked by the alleged contemnors by putting containers.