Feb 22, 2012 Posted by shazia1

15 wedding participants hurt in Karachi road mishap

KARACHI - At least 15 persons, including women and children, were injured in collision between two vehicles here on Tuesday night. According to police, a bus carrying participants of wedding ceremony collided head-on with a troller coming from opposite direction at National Highway near Saeedabad area. As a result of accident 15 persons, including women and children, were injured. The police and... read more

Feb 22, 2012 Posted by amjad

Three freed from soft drink factory

Three persons, also the employees of a famous soft drink industrial unit, were recovered from the factory who were illegally being detained for seven days only because they were raising issue of regularising jobs. These three persons Rafaqat, Javed, and Zubair were recovered on Tuesday from the factory following a raid conducted by the Judicial Magistrate (JM), West, Ashfaq Ahmed Nizamani, along with the... read more

Feb 22, 2012 Posted by amjad

Man surrenders after killing bandit

A man took out his licensed pistol and simply shot two robbers when they intercepted him in Madina Colony on Tuesday, killing one of them. He later walked into a police station and told the truth. Police said they had received information about an injured man lying in Madina Colony. They shifted the man, with blood oozing out of his wound, to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, wondering who he was and why he... read more

Feb 22, 2012 Posted by amjad

SHC directs ECP to produce voters’ lists for Badin by-election

The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to produce previous and fresh voters’ lists of the provincial assembly’s constituency, PS-57, Badin. The court was hearing the petition of a candidate who questioned the voters’ lists for the PS-57 by-election. Petitioner Syed Ali Bux Shah submitted that the Election Commission announced bye-polls for Sindh Assembly... read more

Feb 22, 2012 Posted by amjad

Those mysterious men in blue chairs

It is nine ‘o clock in the morning, and the area outside the Karachi Press Club has little activity. The usual rush of vehicles and people — both journalists and protesters— is absent as they rise much after the sun. In a few minutes, the paan-wala arrives. He repeats the five-minute routine he has had for the past seven years: remove the cardboard sheets that cover the ‘Khoka’, set the... read more