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Briefs
- KARACHI (PPI) - The data of Anti-violent Crime Cell (AVCC) and Central Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) shows that the incidents of kidnapping of ransom have increased in Karachi in January 2010 as compared to the same month last year. As per the available data in January 2009 seven cases of kidnapping for ransom were reported from Karachi, including three cases of kidnapping of schoolchildren. However, in January 2010, 14 cases of kidnapping for ransom were reported in the city, showing hundred percent rise as compared to the cases reported in January last year. (more...) #
- ISLAMABAD: The MQM on Tuesday staged a token walkout from the National Assembly in protest against the ongoing spate of kidnappings for ransom in Sindh. Interestingly, the MQM is part and parcel of the Sindh government. Raising the issue of ongoing wave of kidnappings for ransom in Sindh on a point of order, MQM Deputy Parliamentary Leader Haider Abbas Rizvi said the kidnappings for ransom were increasing in Sindh as in year 2008, there were 97 cases while 103 cases were in 2009 and 20 such cases had taken place during the last 15 days. (more...) #
- KARACHI: Sindh Home Department has convened a meeting for Thursday in the wake of increasing number of kidnappings in Karachi in the current month. Thirteen kidnappings have been reported in the city in a short span from January 3 to January 22, according to sources. (more...) #
- ISLAMABAD: Statements of account filed with the Election Commission by the country’s mainstream political parties – whose members spend millions of rupees on election campaigns – show they apparently lack the financial capacity to organise even a party convention. The statements of account filed by registered parties under Article 13 of the Political Parties Order 2002 for the last financial year – copies of which are available with Daily Times – show that several of the mainstream parties have an accumulated worth of less than Rs 1 million. A total of 56 registered political parties have submitted their assets and account statements, which have been certified by recognised chartered accountancy firms. (more...) #
- KARACHI - City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal handed over keys of 9 restored and renovated shops to the owners of the arson-hit buildings at Light House on Tuesday. He said that restoration work at remaining 20 markets would also begin as soon as the buildings are handed over to City Government after the assessment of amount of damage. He also laid the foundation stone for the reconstruction of damaged Quetta Market. (more...) #
- KARACHI: Tension and fear prevailed in different parts of Gulistan-e-Jauhar and its surrounding areas over kidnapping of a Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) activist allegedly by the Pukhtoon Students Federation (PkSF). As per details, unidentified culprits had kidnapped a JSQM activist in the wee hours of Tuesday from the Rabia City area in Shahrah-e-Faisal police station limits. The tortured activist was later abandoned behind Rabia City. (more...) #
- ISLAMABAD, Jan 20 (APP): Pakistani cricketers, who were ignored by the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises in Tuesday’s auction, have reacted angrily to the snub.“The way I see it, the IPL and India have made fun of us and our country by treating us this way,” said Shahid Khan Afridi, who was billed as one of the major attractions of the auction.He said Pakistan were Twenty20 world champions and the attitude of the franchises was disappointing. (more...) #
- HOBART: Pakistan’s drama-charged cricket Test series against Australia is ending in political blood-letting. Test great Javed Miandad has called for the heads of controversial brothers Kamran and Umar Akmal, saying they should be sacked immediately for ruining the image of Pakistan cricket. The former Test captain is also seeking a more hands-on role in the running of Pakistan cricket amid claims from former stars that coach Intikhab Alam has failed the squad during its shambolic tour of Australia. (more...) #
- ISLAMABAD: The government has cancelled a planned parliamentary delegation’s visit to India, National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza told the house on Wednesday. She gave no reason for the cancellation about which she said she had been informed by the government. But the announcement came immediately after opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced the withdrawal of a lawmaker of his PML-N party, Ayaz Amir, from the delegation to protest against what he called humiliation of Pakistani cricketers by their exclusion from the third edition of the Indian Premier League this year. (more...) #
- ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: The government hinted in the National Assembly on Wednesday it could file another review petition after studying the Supreme Court’s detailed ruling against the controversial Musharraf-era National Reconciliation Ordinance, but dismissed opposition fears of a clash with the superior judiciary. The first review petition on behalf of the government was filed on Saturday, challenging some portions of a short order made on Dec 16 last year by a 17-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry that nullified the NRO from the date of its enforcement on Oct 5, 2007, while the detailed judgment came on Tuesday. Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan, responding to a speech by opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, told the lower house “the government is examining this judgment” and had “up to 30 days” to file a review petition. He did not say if it would be done, but in what appeared to be strong indication of the government’s desire to use the option, said “an aggrieved party can go court for a review under the Constitution’s article 188” which empowers the Supreme Court to “review any judgment pronounced or any order made by it”. (more...) #
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