Woman killed, three injured in car accident
KARACHI: A woman was killed and three others were wounded after a speeding car overturned on Karachi’s Superhighway in the wee hours of Monday. According to rescue sources, an over-speeding car was on…
Unpaid doctors protest, boycott OPD at ASH
KARACHI: House Officers of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) on Monday staged a protest demonstration outside the Medical Superintendent’s office and also boycotted OPDs in protest against non-payment of their three-month stipend. The protesters…
SHC acquits murder accused after 9 years
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday dismissed pleas against punishment of two convicted criminals in extortion and murder of a businessman. The high court while hearing the pleas filed by Asghar…
Ranger arrest three criminals
KARACHI: Sindh Rangers on Monday claimed to have arrested three suspected criminals, including a notorious robber involved more than 200 robberies, from different parts of the megacity. According to rangers’ spokesman, the paramilitary…
PPP to file nomination on 20 standing committees: adviser
KARACHI: Adviser to Chief Minister Sindh for Information, Law and Anticorruption Barrister Murtaza Wahab has said that election of standing committees will be held as per schedule and according to rules and Procedures…
Police arrest fake doctor, nurse responsible for school teacher’s death
KARACHI: Police on Monday claimed to have rounded up two fake doctors, who were allegedly responsible for the death of a female school teacher who was suffering labour pain in Ali Akbar Shah…
Lawyers boycott court proceedings
KARACHI: The Karachi Bar Association and Sindh High Court (SHC) Bar Association on Monday boycotted the court proceedings against abolishing of powers of justice of the peace/session to hear writ petition under Sections…
Implementing NAP, zero tolerance for terrorists: Sindh CM
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said on Monday that the provincial government is implementing the National Action Plan and there is zero tolerance policy for terrorists. The CM Sindh was addressing…
Health minister wants timely salary payments to LHWs
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Health and Population Welfare Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho Monday directed all District Health Officers and Project Directors of Vertical Programs to ensure that IDs of Lady Health Workers must…
16 new dengue fever cases reported
KARACHI: Sixteen more dengue fever cases were detected in Karachi in a week, taking the reported cases’ toll to 274 since 1st January 2019. According to the weekly report issued by Prevention and…
Services Hospital’s new block still nonoperational
KARACHI: The newly completed block of Sindh Government Services Hospital Karachi has not been opened for government employees despite the lapse of several months, sources at SHK told PPI on Sunday. The…
4,000 houses in Naseerabad without electricity
NASEERABAD: About 4000 houses out of 5000 have been deprived of electricity in Naseerabad due to SEPCO’s unjustified power disconnection action. The action was taken on the pretext of disconnecting illegal power…
Advisor takes notice of death of medical student
KARACHI: Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Information & Archives, Law, and Anti-Corruption Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Sunday while taking notice of mysterious death of a student of a medical college in…
Two dead, another injured in Bolan trucks collision
BOLAN: At least two people died and another critically injured in a collision between two trucks here on Sunday, police said. The accident took place at National Highway near Machh area of…
SHC CJ orders all benches to wrap up pre-arrest bail pleas
KARACHI: Chief Justice of Sindh High Court (SHC) Ahmed Ali M Shaikh on Saturday ordered all circuit benches of the SHC to wrap up pending pleas of pre-arrest bails within two weeks…
PTI stages rally in Karachi against Christchurch massacre
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh chapter here Saturday staged a protest demo and rally against recent terror attacks on mosques in New Zealand and demanded of the United Nations (UN) and Organization…
Protest sit-in in Kunri for arrest of influential murder accused
UMARKOT: The relatives of a murdered farmer have staged protest sit-in in Nabisar town of Umarkot district, for the arrest of the influential accused involved in the killing, on Saturday. The family…