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May 3, 2021
KARACHI: The Sindh Education and Labour Minister, Saeed Ghani, has asked the former prime minister and PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to identify a single polling station of NA-249 where rigging took place in the April 29 by-election in Karachi.
Speaking at a press conference here on Sunday, Saeed Ghani said not a single contesting political party had complained about rigging from the start of polling till the counting of votes on the day of by-poll.
He said the PML-N leaders â Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Muhammad Zubair and Miftah Ismail â themselves had reached the office of returning officer by 10 pm on the day of the election.
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Feb power bill will make people cry, says Miftah
National
February 16, 2021
KARACHI: Criticising the federal government for increasing the power tariff, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Sindh’s secretary general and former finance minister Miftah Ismail on Monday said that people will scream when the February’s electricity bill will come. He said the federal government has been robbing the people in the name of fuel adjustment charges.
He was addressing a press conference at the Muslim League House. Ismail said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s incompetent government is not ready to accept responsibility for anything and only blames the previous government of the PML-N for their failure. He said that frequent increases in prices of electricity and petroleum products would multiply miseries of people who were already facing hardships due to high prices of different essential commodities. The PML-N leader said that last month, the government had increased tariff by Rs1.95
ATC convicts Sabri killer in advocate’s muder case
Acquits same man in another murder case
KARACHI:
A special anti-terrorism court (ATC) awarded on Monday the death sentence twice to accused, Ishaq alias Bobby, in the murder case Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz s Sindh Lawyers Wing former vice president Advocate Waqar Shah.
The ATC announced the verdict of the case at the Karachi Central Jail. The court also sentenced Ishaq to 10 years of penal servitude and penalised him for Rs50,000 in the case and directed him to pay Rs200,000 to the deceased s family in compensation money.
According to the police, Ishaq killed Advocate Shah on April 10, 2014, and the weapon confiscated from his possession upon his arrest also matched the weapon used for the crime. Acquitted Separately, Ishaq was acquitted in a separate case, pertaining to the murder of a paan shop owner, due to the lack of evidence against him. The same ATC acquitted him in this case.
Karachi
December 21, 2020
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Sindh chapter has intensified their efforts to ensure a warm welcome for Maryam Nawaz, the party’s central leader, in her first political appearance in rural Sindh after she accepted Pakistan People Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto’s invitation to attend the party’s December 27 rally in Larkana.
The PPP has been working to organise another power show of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) on December 27 on the 13th death anniversary of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and PPP Chairman Bilawal has contacted leaders of the alliance’s component parties and invited them to attend the rally.
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