LAHORE: A litigant seeking recovery of a person from the illegal custody of police or a private person has to pay Rs 800 as the Court Bailiff Fee which is contrary to the law of land.
ARTICLE: A report appearing in this paper on Friday mentioned the expected arrival of a 290-meter-long container ship with a 13-meter draft to dock at the newly constructed berth of Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT). The expected arrival in Pakistan territorial waters is around April 30 for the ship, that has a capacity to carry […]
ONLINE: The United States, beginning with President George W. Bush himself, has this past two weeks trained its crosshairs on Pakistan, warning that another Sept. 11, if it were to happen, would most likely not be plotted out of Iraq, Afghanistan or even Iran, but Pakistan.
Author: Ashfaq Hussain Shah
“We must remember that while the masses are on one side, there is also an entrenched vested interest that has been created through years of dictatorship or subjugation and these people are waiting to hit out at every single opportunity … through several different ways … with intrigue and conspiracy … [and] […]
For the second time in the new Sindh Assembly, outgoing chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim was pelted with shoes, stones and abuses and had to be escorted by security guards even while seated in the house pending his oath as a new MPA. As soon as he took the oath amid intense slogans, he was […]
L K Advani feels that more Hindu-majority districts in the Sindh region would have remained with India at the time of partition had there been an `assertive leadership’ in India.
In 1991, when London-based business tycoon, Gulu Lalvani sailed to Amanpuri on the west coast of Phuket in Thailand, it was just a holiday with family. It didn’t occur to him that this trip would become a defining moment of his life, bringing much-needed relaxation and even business opportunities. “The destination offered everything a sailor […]
The torture of Sindhi human rights activist Dr Safdar Sarki is emblematic of President Musharraf’s tyranny
As he continues to cling to power, Pervez Musharraf presides over a regime in Pakistan that routinely engages in kidnapping, detention without trial, torture and extra-judicial killings, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
Symptomatic of Musharraf’s regime is […]