18 December 2012

 By Iqbal Hasan Rizvi

Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi has extended the last date of depositing admission and tuition fee by fresh entrants up to 20-12-2012.

Earlier the last date was 17-12-2012.

According to announcement of University, Bank have been advised to accept deposits up to 20-12-2012 without any re-validation by the University.

I am not afraid of anyone but Allah, Altaf Hussain says

KARACHI/HYDERABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, Altaf Hussain, late Monday night said he for his own person was not afraid of anyone on the face of this Earth, no matter how powerful, but Allah the Almighty, Geo News reported.
"I only fear the wrath of my Creator. No mighty mortal of the world out there can intimidate me", said he while talking to the Co-ordination Committee in London/Pakistan, office-bearers of various wings of the MQM and constitutional/legal experts.
Altaf Hussain further said that he was in constant consultation with his legal advisers over the contempt of court issue.
"I and my lawyers are deliberating as to how we should respond to the Supreme Court's contempt notice served upon me," he said.
MQM leader also urged his party workers to have their say on whether his stand on the contempt issue could aggravate the situation at hand.
Hussain said, “I am aware of the emotions of my workers but if someone thinks that circumstances would take a turn for the worse because of my determination, I am ready to relinquish the party leadership and leave politics.”
“I appeal to the MQM workers throughout the country, voters, supporters, and well-wishers to express their views if I should leave party leadership and politics. The MQM workers, voters, and general public can contact at the MQM Head Office, Nine Zero or the International Secretariat in London to send their views."
"They can also send their opinions through fax or email. I would place their views before the Co-ordination Committee and decide about the future course of action in the light of public views.”
Meanwhile, thousands of MQM workers gathered outside the party headquarter Nine Zero here in support of Altaf Hussain.
Moreover, MQM workers in Hyderabad and Mirpur Khas have also come out onto the streets chanting slogans which said, "We need the leader and not the destination."
According to sources among the throngs of MQM workers outside Nine Zero, sentiments were scraping the skies with cohorts going berserk with grief over their leaders statement whether he should quit if his adamance was running counter to what was the desired state of affairs.
"Some devoted workers were crying with tears flowing down their cheeks. They were urging their beloved leader not to leave them as they wanted to follow his lead as ever. Their reverberant entreaties were filling the cold night sky with warm vows of loyalty and commitment", said the sources.
Sources quoted an MQM leader as saying they have come out to register their unwavering faith in the leadership of Altaf Hussain.
"We repose in him our full trust and we want him to continue to be a beacon of light for all of us as he has always been. We are nothing without him", said on the leaders.
Later, MQM leader Wasim Aftab, addressing the workers outside Nine Zero said that Altaf Hussian was inevitable for his followers.
"We will see him through thick and thin till the last drop of our blood. We are here to remind everyone that our pledge to our leader was set in stone", said he.
He added that 'they could leave MQM but not Altaf Hussain' was their answer to their leader's question.
Earlier, given the circumstances, an emergent telephonic address by MQM leader Altaf Hussain was expected as the workers were dying to listen from him, but MQM sources, later, said he might not speak to them tonight.
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Two more gunned down in Karachi

KARACHI: Two persons were shot dead in the past two hours in the metropolis while two others were injured, Geo News reported Tuesday.
According to police, unknown gunmen killed a man in Rerhi Goth area and injured another. A man was also shot dead in Korangi 100 Quarter area by unidentified attackers. The identity of the deceased could not be ascertained yet.
Shehzad Gul, 27 was injured in firing in Gulzar Hjri area.

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Current CNG prices to stay: SC

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) has directed to keep the CNG prices pegged at the current level, SAMAA reported Monday.

The two-judge bench of the apex court comprising Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, called ten-year record consisting of the CNG’s average price and post-subsidy prices and the difference in prices between domestic and industrial consumers.

In today’s proceedings, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) produced the details of proposed prices and the negotiations undertaken with the adamant CNG Association.

It should be mentioned here that the Petroleum Ministry proposed the gas to be hiked to Rs.78 for the region-1 and Rs.70 for region-2. However, the OGRA recommended taking up the gas prices to Rs.74 in region-1 and Rs.65 in region-2.

Justice Khwaja queried if the prices of 74 and 65 rupees is just a proposal or a decision, adding whatever happened in the past, was a mistake of the OGRA and the masses are bearing the brunt of it.

“How can the court find out that the regulator’s prices are up to the mark? A commission could be set up to determine the prices,” he remarked.

The OGRA requested the apex court to set the interim price of the CNG; however, the court turning down the plea, directed the regulating authority to maintain the present prices as it is.

Justice Khwaja said the court will definitely interfere wherever there is violation of human rights; the entire cabinet is sitting back in comfort. He directed the petroleum ministry and the OGRA to take immediate steps to steer the people out of the current crisis. 

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