Karachi—Sindh Governor, Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan,
has said that despite tremendous growth in
electronic media, the print media has its
established significance and plays an important
role in moulding the public opinion.
Talking to a 6-member Nepalese media delegation
at Governor House, he said that electronic media
has made very fast progress in Pakistan and just
within 5 years over 50 channels are operating
today while more were in the pipeline.
Karachi—A division bench of High Court of Sindh
(SHC) comprising senior most judge of SHC,
Justice Azizullah M. Memon and Justice Khalid
Ali Z. Kazi on Wednesday suspended an order
passed by Chief Justice Muhammad Afzal Soomro
who disposed of a judicial miscelaneous
application in Tessori gold case. The bench
suspending the order, fixed May 28 for hearing
of the appeal filed by appellant Hanif Merchant,
a partner of Tessori Private Limited, a company
registered under Companies Act. The appellant
earlier challenged the winding up of the company
and matter was pending adjudication before a
companies judge of SHC (Justice Khalid Ali Z
Kazi). Earlier Anwar Mansoor Khan, counsel for
appellant narrated the events since April 25
concering the judicial miscelaenous including
expression of no-confidence in Chief Justice and
request to fix the matter before a division
bench of SHC except Justice Muhammad Afzal
Soomro.
Karachi—Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Qaim Ali
Shah, Wednesday had a presentation on Home
Department at Chief Minister House. Provincial
Home Secretary, Arif Khan while briefing the
Chief Minister informed that sanctioned strength
of Home Department is 350 personnel while Sindh
Police has 98.148 personnel out of which 87,453
are working with 10,695 vacancies vacant in
various cadres. He said Sindh has a total of 472
police stations, out of which 102 are in
Karachi, 174 in Hyderabad and 196 in Sukkur
Regions. He said 21,806 personnel of Pakistan
Rangers are working in Sindh province. Of them
14,406 are deployed for internal security, 996
for educational institutions, 803 for oil & gas
companies, 801 for foreign
consulates/residences. He said their annual
budget for the year 2007-08 stood at Rs.410.103
million.
Karachi—The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and
Industry has endorsed the strike call given by
Furniture Dealers Association for Friday to
protest against the killing of Shaikh Saleem
Anwar of Manzoor Colony Furniture Market some
days ago. An emergency meeting was called by
KCCI to give re-action on this incident and
chalk out future strategy to ensure security to
the business community.
Karachi—The Chief Justice of High Court of Sindh
Muhammad Afzal Soomro has passed the orders
strictly as per law and the aggrieved party is
giving it an unfair twist. This was stated in an
official denial issued here Wednesday under the
signature of Private Secretary to Chief Justice
with reference to alleged Reference sent by
Hanif Merchant’s lawyer Anwar Mansoor Khan
advocate to Supreme Judicial Council (SJC)
against Chief Justice of SHC.
