Islamabad: Crickter-turned-politician Imran Khan on Sunday said his party would act as a "solid Opposition" even as he alleged that the general elections in Pakistan were marred by rigging in some provinces. "The greatest strength of democracy is a solid opposition, which was not there in Pakistan for the past 10 years. Till now there was friendly Opposition. We will tell the people the benefit of a good Opposition," Khan, 60, said in a video released from the hospital in Lahore, where he is recuperating from a fall that fractured his spine.
Khan, the chief of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) party, did not acknowledge the PML-N's victory or congratulate Nawaz Sharif as most other Pakistani politicians have done. The video was Khan's first reaction to trends which showed that the PML-N was set to bag more than 125 of the 272 parliamentary seats that went to the polls on Saturday. PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has already claimed victory and said his party will form the next government.
Khan often claimed during the campaign that his party would sweep the election but trends showed that it would bag just over 30 seats. Analysts pointed out that its actual total could be lower as several leaders like Khan had won in more than one seat and would be allowed to retain only one. Despite the poor showing, Khan alleged that his party had been affected by rigging in Punjab and Sindh provinces. The PTI will produce a "white paper" on the
08:55 PM, May 12, 2013
A bomb blast ripped through a gathering at a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's southern Sindh province on Monday, killing four persons and injuring 12 others, police said. The explosion occurred at the Hajan Shah Mauri Dargah near Shikarpur when a large number of people were visiting the shrine. ...
10:49 PM, Feb 25, 2013
A mob broke into a Pakistani police station and burnt a man accused of desecrating the Quran alive, police said Saturday, in the latest violence focusing attention on the country's blasphemy laws. The man was a traveller and had spent Thursday night at the mosque, said Maulvi Memon, the imam in the southern village of Seeta in Sindh province. ...
02:49 PM, Dec 22, 2012
A six-year-old Hindu girl, who was allegedly raped in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, has been admitted to a hospital in Karachi about 10 days after she was molested, according to reports on Saturday. The girl, a student of Class 1, was playing near her home in Ghulam Nabi Shah area of Umerkot district when Hashim Magiro, the owner of a gambling den, allegedly kidnapped and raped her on December 3....
10:00 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Karachi: Pakistan's Sindh province government has established contact with a well-known welfare foundation to obtain details of a hearing impaired Indian girl, who had inadvertently strayed into the country some 13 years ago, as efforts were being made to send her back to India. An official of the Edhi trust foundation, which has taken care of Geeta for the last few years and has housed her in Karachi for the...
10:16 AM, Aug 14, 2012
Islamabad: With no let up in crimes against Hindus in Mirpurkhas area of Pakistan's Sindh province from where nearly 20 families have left the country, the minority community leaders from the region have approached the Indian and US missions for help. The Hindu community in Mirpurkhas and its surrounding areas is being targeted by criminals day in and day out and police were paying no heed to their plight, Hindu...
03:20 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Islamabad: A 14-year-old Hindu girl in Pakistan, who was kidnapped two days ago, has converted to Islam and married a Muslim, a media report said on Saturday. Her distraught father, however, says that she "can never give up on her religion, she has been coerced into doing it". Manisha Kumari, 14, is now Mahvish and herself called up her parents from an unknown location and broke the news of her...
01:41 PM, Aug 11, 2012
A 14-year-old Hindu girl was kidnapped in the Sindh province of Pakistan on Thursday. ...
09:17 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Islamabad: A 14-year-old Hindu girl has been kidnapped in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, causing widespread concern in the minority community amidst reports of their apparent exodus. The teenage girl, Manisha Kumari, was kidnapped from Jacobabad, which has a sizeable Hindu community, on August 7, said Pakistan Hindu Council president Jethanand Doonger Mal Kohistani. "Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has taken notice of the matter and asked provincial Minority Affairs...
11:10 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Islamabad: In a shocking incident, a man and a woman arrested on charges of "intent to commit adultery" were paraded naked by police through a town in Sindh province of southern Pakistan, promoting authorities to arrest four policemen involved in the case. Mumtaz Mirbahar, a trader, and a woman were arrested by police in Gambat town in Sindh on July 27. They were forced to walk naked through the town...
10:22 PM, Aug 05, 2012
Islamabad: There are 338 dead employees on the rolls in Pakistan's Sindh province, leading a daily to wonder: "Governance? A troupe of performing parrots would do a better job". An editorial in the News International on Wednesday said that a month ago there was the national scandal of thousands of ghost schools spread across the country; and today "we have yet another example of the Sindh government being unable to...
03:17 AM, Aug 03, 2012
Islamabad: Three prominent Hindu businessmen were kidnapped along with their driver by unidentified armed men in Sindh province of southern Pakistan on Saturday. The businessmen, Ramesh Lal, Ashok Kumar and Hari Ram, were abducted with their driver in Ranipur area of Sindh, Pakistan Hindu Council patron Ramesh Kumar Vankwani said. In addition to being a prominent trader, Lal is the president of the Hindu panchayat of Thul sub-division of Jacobabad...
09:45 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Islamabad: At least 19 low-intensity bomb blasts targeted ATM machines of state-run banks and railway tracks in Sindh province of southern Pakistan on Wednesday, injuring six persons, including two policemen. The explosions occurred in cities and towns across Sindh, including the capital city of Karachi, early on Wednesday morning. A private security guard was injured in a blast at a bank in Kotri town while two policemen were wounded in...
04:43 PM, May 02, 2012
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has sought a report on the killing of three Hindu brothers, who were doctors, in Pakistan's Sindh province. Ajit Kumar and his two brothers, Ashok and Naresh, were gunned down in Shikarpur district. Zardari has taken a serious note of the attack and sought an immediate report, reported Associated Press of Pakistan. The president's spokesperson Farhatullah Babar said Zardari had asked for immediate arrest of...
11:20 AM, Nov 08, 2011
Islamabad: Armed men have attacked PML-N offices across Sindh province and burnt alive a party leader two days after the main opposition party staged a major rally against the Pakistan People's Party-led government. PML-N offices were ransacked and set on fire in different cities and towns of southern Sindh province, a stronghold of the PPP, late Saturday night, police said. The armed attackers fired gun sorts in the air, witnesses...
01:00 PM, Oct 30, 2011
Islamabad: Unidentified gunmen in southern Pakistan torched four tankers carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Thursday though there were no casualties, police and witnesses said. The gunmen, who were riding motorcycles, first fired at vehicles in a convoy in Shakarpur district of Sindh province and then torched three tankers, witnesses said. The incident occurred on the main highway linking Karachi with the country's northwest. This is the main...
12:21 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Karachi: Over 2 lakh people have been affected and displaced by a fresh wave of floods that has hit parts of Pakistan's southern Sindh province, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Monday. The heavy floods that swept away hundreds of villages and damaged rice crops have stirred memories of the flood disaster that hit Sindh last year. The NDMA said that over 2 lalh people have been affected...
08:04 PM, Aug 15, 2011
