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.
http://www.geo.tv/GeoDetail.aspx?ID=80066
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.
http://www.geo.tv/GeoDetail.aspx?ID=80092
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.
http://samaa.tv/newsdetail.aspx?ID=58740&CID=1
