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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Khan |Zahid Hussain
HYDERABAD: The Jamshoro police on Tuesday baton-charged and lobbed teargas shells to disperse the students who were protesting against Cholistan canal and other water channels being created to irrigation millions of acres of Panjab lands with Indus water. Following the police action, the protesters blocked a section of the Indus Highway.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Khan |Abbas Nasir
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has reiterated his resolve to tackle challenge of climate change by learning to live in harmony with nature. He was speaking as chief guest at the opening session of two-day 28th convocation of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET), Jamshoro, on its main campus on Saturday. “Convocation is not merely a ceremony.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Khan
HYDERABAD: The Sindh government is planning 115 day care centres for the children of women labourers who toil on farmland throughout the day along with their children. This was stated by Sindh Women Development Minister Shahina Sher Ali at the inaugural session of the first-ever two-day conference on the “Women Empowerment in Agricultural Growth: Challenges and Way Forwards” held on Wednesday in Sindh Agriculture University (SAU) Tandojam.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
pubs.acs.org | Mohammad Khan |Paul Rodrigues |Sameer A. Awad |Asha Rajiv
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thedailystar.net | Mohammad Khan |Shaheen Mollah
Despite increased vigilance and special drives, muggers continue to terrorise city streets. Recent crime data shows a rise in mugging incidents. Police officials said they record cases of mugging incidents under the Penal Code and the Speedy Trial Act. Police call these "robbery" (Dasyuta) cases. The crime database of the Police Headquarters (PHQ) shows that a total of 159 such cases were filed across the country in December last year, up from 133 in November.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
thedailystar.net | Shaheen Mollah |Mohammad Khan
A contractor secured the work to demolish a seven-storey building in the Madhubagh area of Dhaka's Moghbazar for Tk 16.5 lakh in November last year. Shortly after finalising the deal, details of the project were allegedly leaked to local gangs, including associates of notorious criminal Subrata Bain. According to the contractor, gangsters arrived at the site and demanded Tk 3 lakh to allow the work to proceed. The contractor initially paid Tk 100,000 to two gangs each to resume the work.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Khan
Eleven cops were injured in clashes as the Hyderabad police resorted to aerial firing and massive teargas shelling on Tuesday to remove encroachments for building a 24-foot wide road and restoring an abandoned irrigation channel of the irrigation department in Qasimabad.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Khan |Sumair Abdullah
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Tuesday discharged 24 leaders and workers of the Altaf Hussain-led Muttahida Qaumi Movement, commonly known as MQM-London, who were arrested in Karachi for allegedly violating a ban imposed under Section 144 of the criminal procedure code (CrPC). A total of 30 MQM-L activists were arrested in Karachi and Hyderabad for holding rallies to mark their party’s ‘Youm-i-Shuhda’ on the call of their London-based leadership.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Khan |Imtiaz Ali |Jawed Naqvi |Niaz Murtaza
KARACHI/HYDERABAD: As many as 30 leaders and workers of the Altaf Hussain-led Muttahida Qaumi Movement, commonly known as MQM-London, were picked up in Karachi and Hyderabad for violating a ban on rallies on Monday, officials said.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Dipan Nandy |Mohammad Khan
Established to combat corruption, the Anti-Corruption Commission has gone on to become a tool for the Awami League government to suppress opposition to the ruling party. Over the past decade or so, the commission has primarily targeted individuals opposing the incumbent government while investigations into ruling party members' corruption rarely progressed despite credible allegations.
