November 4th, 2008 by The Online Reporter
The lawyer community observed countrywide black day on November 3rd in which advocates and attorneys fully participated. Large number of lawyers can been seen in the above picture.
Activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Tehrik-e-Insaf, Insaaf Students Federation, Jamiat Talaba Islam, Jamiat Ulema Islam, Tehrik-e-Khaksaar, Pakhtoon Khawa Milli Awami Party, Students Action Committee, Shabab-e-Milli, Muslim Students Federation and the citizens of Pakistan also joined lawyers at the GPO Chowk and later marched towards the Governor’s House.
November 3rd, 2008 by The Online Reporter
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani addressed Turkish daily that his government will not take any action against former president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf as long as he stays away of politics. Gillani said that the government “wanted a general reconciliation in the country and should focus on important issues such as terrorism, poverty, hunger, disease, health and education”.
“Now, he [Musharraf] keeps a low profile. If he is not politically active, then we would not want to open too many fronts,” he said.
He also said that “We are not talking to people who are militants. We are only talking to the people who have denounced terrorism,”
November 2nd, 2008 by The Online Reporter
The load shedding has come to halt in urban areas of country but not in rural areas. According to PEPCO sources currently there is a shortage of 1000 megawatts.
Director General PEPCO said that shortage of 1,000MW electricity would be handled under the load management programme. There was a shortage of about 5,000 MW electricity for which Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf had formed a Power System Operation Committee, which consisted of five experts to handle the issue. He observed that with sufficient gas supply to almost all thermal power generating stations, improved level of water in reservoirs and re-functioning of the closed units, which remained closed for annual maintenance work, have enabled PEPCO to stop power outages from urban areas.
November 1st, 2008 by The Online Reporter
PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is reported to have held a meeting with former president Pervez Musharraf here on Friday.
The meeting, according to sources, came against the background of a discussion held on Thursday by a group of senior leaders of the PML-Q headed by Hamid Nasir Chattha on the issue of party leadership with Chaudhry Shujaat and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.
Sources said a proposal to change the party leadership before the completion of the incumbent leaders’ tenure was discussed.
October 30th, 2008 by The Online Reporter
A powerful earthquake hit Balochistan and according to newspapers more then 210 people have been died and thousands are injured.
According to officials there were two tremors and three aftershocks which destroyed every thing, lots of villages have been completely destroyed and many homes were buried in a landslide triggered by the quake.
“There were two tremors, the second one was serious and people rushed out of their houses,” said resident Amjad Hussain. Quetta suffered almost complete destruction in an earthquake in 1935, with the death of about 30,000 people. More than 73,000 people were killed in an earthquake in north-west Pakistan in October 2005 and almost an equal number were seriously injured.
