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In this file photo, Senator Maulana Tanveerul Haq Thanvi called on Governor Sindh Imran Ismail at Governor House in Karachi. — Photo courtesy: Sindh governor website KARACHI: Former senator and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Maulana Tanve­er-ul-Haq Thanvi has bid farewell to the ruling PTI and announced that he was joining the Pakistan Peoples Party. He announced his decision in a press conference after a meeting with the PPP’s Sindh president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro here on Tuesday. Maulana ...

Lifting water from Indus, free of cost, or using groundwater to cultivate the land they have encroached upon, these influential land grabbers literally mint money through forest land. —AFP/File MATIARI: A herd of cattle is lazily grazing vegetation on a pasture dotted with small ponds and pools of sparkling greenish blue water and encircled with different trees in a hamlet in the riverine area of Indus in Hala, Matiari district. The picturesque landscape used to be hallmark of every tempora...

Polling for by-election in PS-52 Umerkot-II under way By 12 candidates are taking part in the electoral contest Main competition is between PPPs Ameer Shah and GDAs Arbab Rahim Polling for by-election in PS-52 Umerkot-II is under way. Twelve candidates are contesting. The main competition is expected between Syed Ameer Ali Shah of PPP and Arbab Ghulam Rahim of the Grand Democratic Alliance. The PS-52 seat was vacated after the death of former provincial minister Ali Mardan Shah. The polling pr...

PPP to lock horns with GDA in PS-52 by-polls The seat fell vacant after the death of PPP stalwart Syed Ali Mardan Shah On Monday, Sindh’s Umerkot will turn into a political battleground when the PS-52 by-election will see the PPP locking horns with the PTI-backed Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA). The seat fell vacant after the death of PPP stalwart Syed Ali Mardan Shah, who had been winning the constituency for the past 30 years. With the support of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), the ...