Trade unions, farmers’ organizations, Sindhi nationalist parties and local affectees staged a protest this week against the alleged demolition of local settlements (‘goths’) by Bahria Town Karachi. In the course of these protests, some cars have been set on fire. Karachi police have reportedly arrested more than 80 people on charges of protesting and rioting […]
39SharesOpposition senators Mustafa Nawaz Khokar from the PPP and Musadik Malik from the PML-N have informed the Senate Secretariat security chief that he will be responsible if anything happens to the CCTV footage of the upper house of Parliament. After multiple cameras and spying devices were found by these two senators in the voting booth […]
Islamabad-based American blogger Cynthia Dawn Ritchie recently accused former interior minister Rehman Malik of raping her, and ex-prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and federal minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin of physically manhandling her in 2011. Following the allegations, senior PPP leaders not only denied the serious charges but also sued the US blogger for ‘bogus’ accusations, seeking […]