Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has ordered the province s commissioners to set up temporary shelter homes for homeless people this winter. The homeless will be provided blankets as well. Deputy commissioners across the province will have to ensure that people are facilitated well. In October, the federal government announced that five shelters will be built in Karachi and one in Islamabad. The Islamabad shelter is being built in collaboration with Turkey in Tarnol. It will be spread over four kanals and will accommodate 100 people. It will have a mosque and a separate prayer section for women as well. According to The Borgen Project, over 20 million Pakistanis are home.
Safdar s arrest, leave applications and an army probe
While cases against opposition politicians have riled up their leadership, it was the arrest of PML-N leader retired Captain Mohammad Safdar, who is also the husband of Maryam Nawaz, in Karachi that became a tipping point.
In October, Safdar was arrested for by police from the hotel he was staying in a day after a massive PDM public gathering was held in Karachi, which was addressed by PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz among other leaders.
Hours before the gathering, Safdar and Maryam along with their supporters visited Jinnah s mausoleum where the former raised political slogans. The act was criticised by PTI supporters as well as some government officials, who deemed it as disrespectful. It was because of this that a case was registered against Safdar which later resulted in his arrest from the hotel a day later.
MQM-P, PPP join hands to oppose 2017 census results
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The PPP and MQM-P demanded on Wednesday that a census be conducted in Sindh again as the province’s population in the 2017 exercise was not documented correctly.
The federation is depriving Karachi and Sindh of its rights because the provinces are given resources and representation in the assemblies based on their population, MQM-P leader Faisal Sabzwari told reporters in Karachi. He was flanked by PPP leader Taj Haider.
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December 29, 2020
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed Monday said that Pakistan s armed forces had never been into politics in the past, neither are or will be into it in future
Talking to media persons after chairing a meeting at Islamabad Chief Commissioner Office, he said the armed forces had backed democracy in the past and would do so in future. He said former President Asif Zardari had a PhD in criminology and knew tactics to avoid hardships of jail because he spent his most imprisonment period in hospitals rather than in jail. Asif Zardari talked about filling jails in the Sunday s gathering at Larkana, but he has spent most of his sentence in hospitals instead of prison.