ISLAMABAD: After resisting local elections for four years despite constant pushing, shoving and hammering by the superior courts, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan People’s Party of former president Asif Zardari are finally looking prepared to arrange these polls in December. The two principal political parties have so far repelled each and every suggestion to hold local elections and preferred to run the local councils through bureaucracy with the electorate remaining without representation at the grass roots level.
Logic of playing anthem in cinema
KARACHI: Heads would reflexively bow down as the words “Saaya-e-Khuda-e-Zul Jalaal”, boom over loudspeakers, with most people up on their feet in respect and the ones still sitting feeling a bit guilty, as a dulled out video of Pakistan’s national anthem was played in cinemas, preceding feature films.
Much has changed for the country and the nation. The custom has ceased to be a standard practice anymore. It is still unclear if the practice of not playing the national anthem is punishable under law because the continuously referred Film Ordinance, 1979, has no mention of it.
Islamabad enhances police technology
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Police personnel will be using a mobile verification system to nab stolen vehicles and catch suspects. The policemen on patrol or deployed at pickets have been given access to a database which includes information on vehicle registration, stolen vehicles and criminal records of proclaimed offenders, court absconders, military deserters and convicted persons, according to the police. Police officials are expected to use the database to check particulars of vehicles and people in real-time.
Senior lawyer shot dead in Karachi
Islamabad: A senior lawyer was shot dead in an attack in Nazimabad area in the Pakistani city of Karachi last night. Naimat Ali Randhawa, a former public prosecutor of Anti-Terrorism Court and leader of PML-N Sindh’s lawyer wing, and his son, Tauqeer Ali Randhawa, were going home when two gunmen on a motorcycle attacked them, the Pakistani police said.
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