May 25, 2021
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday took up a petition seeking lifetime disqualification of Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah as member of the Sindh Assembly.
As a two-judge bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) resumed hearing the case, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) furnished its reply to the petition in pursuance of a court notice.
The commission said in its reply that a similar case is pending in the Supreme Court (SC), suggesting that the high court should wait for the top court’s decision.
Adjourning the matter until June 22, the bench directed the petitioner to file a rejoinder to the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) response.
Ban on parking of oil tanker in Shireen Jinnah Colony
KMC directed to allot shops, repair roads around Zulfiqarabad Terminal
PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI:
A meeting of stakeholders decided that from Tuesday onwards not a single oil tanker would be parked in Shireen Jinnah Colony and the tanker trucks will go to the purpose built Zulfiqarabad oil Terminal. Police will take action against violators, who park the oil tankers anywhere else except the designated terminal, said Sindh Chief Secretary Sindh Syed Mumtaz Ali said chairing the meeting on Tuesday, which was attended by the representatives of oil marketing companies, oil tankers owners association, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and other relevant senior officers.
Diocese of Karachi representatives accuse advocate general of influencing election for bishop
Karachi
May 7, 2021
Leaders of Dioceses of Karachi, including Father Sarwar Eric and Father Shafique Kanwal have alleged that the Advocate General (AG) of Sindh, Salman Talibuddin, has been trying to influence the election of Bishop for ulterior motives.
Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, they said the land mafia in collusion of the Sindh government wanted to occupy property worth trillions of rupees belonging to the Church of Pakistan and for that they wanted a Bishop of their own choice.
They said that after the retirement of Bishop Sadiq Daniel in 2020, some ministers and other influential people in the Sindh government had been hatching up conspiracies against the Church of Pakistan and Diocese of Karachi through the AG.
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KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday came down hard on the provincial and local authorities over unauthorised allotment of land and lack of town planning in the metropolis.
A three-judge SC bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed slammed the Karachi commissioner, director general of the Sindh Building Control Authority and a senior member of the Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) as they failed to offer any explanation about the incorporation of land reserved for a road into a plot in the Sindhi Muslim Housing Society.
The visibly irked chief justice wondered under what law a mukhtiarkar could operate on the land of a housing society after a report of the mukhtiarkar was placed before the bench about leasing out the plot in question and a 15-storey building known as Nasla Tower built on it.