KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has asked workers and office-bearers of the party to recommend one person from their respective sectors to join the coordination committee. All recommendations should be made entirely on merit and the recommended person should fit a certain criteria, he said, per a statement [...]
LAHORE: Pakistan’s new leadership expects first results of its planned steps to shore up its finances and ease a power crisis in two or three months and only then should decide whether and on what terms to seek an IMF bailout, senior policy adviser and former federal finance minister Sartaj Aziz said on [...]
LONDON: British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering the aircraft, though authorities said it was not a terror related incident. Passengers were offloaded and no one was hurt in [...]
PESHAWAR: Three people were killed and two others sustained injuries in a suicide attack on a madrassah in the Saeedabad area, Peshawar, reported Express News on Friday. According to Rescue 1122 officials, manager of the madrassah Haji Inayatullah was the target of the attacker. Inayatullah remained unhurt as he was not [...]
LONDON: If my party workers fail to reform themselves, they will lose me as their leader forever, Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said on Friday. Altaf was speaking to members of the interim Rabita Committee and other party workers. “I never taught MQM workers to take bribes, be corrupt [...]
KARACHI: Unidentified miscreants threw a hand grenade at a government school in the Orangi Town area, Karachi, injuring a teacher and few students, reported Express News on Friday. There were no causalities as a result of this attack. Eyewitnesses said the unidentified men fled the scene soon after the attack. Other [...]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has formally invited the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to renew their alliance in Sindh and offered to address its ex-ally’s main sticking point: local government. A party panel comprising Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Khursheed Shah and Qaim Ali Shah will flesh out a power sharing agreement. [...]
PESHAWAR: Expressing hopes for the creation of a separate Hazara province, two independent MPA-elects from the region joined the ranks of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday. The party has announced it will convene a provincial assembly meeting on May 29. Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani and Qalandar Khan Lodhi, MPA-elects from [...]
KARACHI: As per the new schedule, schools across Sindh will remain closed from June 14 to August 13 on account of summer vacations, Express News reported on Thursday. The announcement was made by Sindh’s secretary education. Last year, summer holidays for the province were scheduled from July 1 to August 31. [...]
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Rabita Committee in Pakistan and London have been dissolved, reported Express News on Thursday. A new Rabita Committee will formed and announced on Saturday at a meeting scheduled by chief Altaf Hussain. For overseeing matters temporarily, a seven member committee has been formed which include senior representatives [...]
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