Ban on rallies lifted for two days in Karachi

Updated at:Saturday, October 29, 2011  KARACHI: The Sindh government has lifted the ban on public rallies and processions in the metropolis for two days, Geo News reported. According to a Home Department notification, the ban will now be effective from October 31. The change comes as the MQM has announced to take out a rally against the PML-N on Sunday. The rally has been called in protest to the use of unparliamentarily language against President Asif Ali Zardari during Shahbaz Sharif’s speech. Religious rites, funerals processions and those who have taken special permission from the Home Department are exempted from this ban. The Home Department had imposed ban on rallies and processions on September 28.

Self-immolated Raja Rind’s funeral coincides with his son’s birth

Updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011  NAUSEHRO FEROZE: The funeral prayer of Raja Rind Wednesday, who severely struck by persisting unemployment and poverty in utter frustration had self-immolated Tuesday in Islamabad, coincided with the birth of his son throwing the family in a queer situation of sorrow mixed with joy. A pal of sorrow and grief had overcast his house when Raja Rind’s self-immolated body had arrived at his house here, while today when preparation for funeral was underway and the funeral prayer was being offered at his native village Haji Sain Dad, a happy coincidence occurred with the birth of a son to his wife Najma at the local hospital. The nature has its own way taking away a life and giving birth to a new life in tandem that sent the citizens of Kandiaro area here into a queer life-time feeling of a milieu of sorrow and joy. His family told that Raja Rind had gone to Islamabad in search of a job for himself to support his two sons, wife and old dependent father and mother, but in utter frustration torched himself to death in front of the Parliament House.

 Begum Nusrat Bhutto passes away

 Updated at:Sunday, October 23, 2011
 DUBAI: Former chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and first lady, Begum Nusrat Bhutto, died at the age of 82 after protracted illness in Dubai on Sunday.

Begum Nusrat Bhutto was born in Isfahan, Iran on 23 March, 1929. She married to founder of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1951. After the death of her husband in 1979, she remained the chairperson of the PPP from 1979 to 1983.

She was allowed to leave Pakistan by the military government of Ziaul Haq in 1982 for London after she was diagnosed with cancer.

She was elected Member of National Assembly (MNA) from Larkana in 1988 and 1993.
Nusrat Bhutto had two sons Mir Murtaza Bhutto and Shahnawaz Bhutto and two daughters Benazir Bhutto and Sanam Bhutto.

The body of Begum Nusrat Bhutto will be brought to Sukkur from Dubai on a chartered flight on Sunday night.

She will be buried in Garhi Khuda Buksh in Larkana beside the grave of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

The Pakistan People’s Party has announced 40-day mourning on the death of its leader.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani announced 10-day national mourning and public holiday on Monday and cancelled all his engagements.

The Federal Cabinet will also not hold its meeting on Tuesday.