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ECP issues final list of minority candidates

ISLAMABAD  - ECP Saturday issued final list of minority candidates.According to the list, 71 candidates would be contesting for 10 minority seats reserved in the National Assembly. These candidates include: Lal Chand PTI, Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani PML-N, Ramesh Lal PPPP, Tariq Christopher ...

ECP rejects papers of 112 minority candidates

ISLAMABAD  - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has rejected the nomination papers of 112 minority candidates of National and Provincial Assemblies for failing to provide any affiliation with any political party.According to spokesman of the ECP, the nomination papers of 70 minority ...

Minority shareholders resist Unilever delisting

LAHORE - The Arisaig Asia Consumer Fund, another minority shareholder of Unilever Pakistan, has written a letter to the Managing Director Karachi Stock Exchange, opposing the de-listing of the company.ACACIA Partners, minority shareholder in Unilever Pakistan has already sent its objection to ...

minority seats increased gill
November 18, 2012

Minority seats in NA to be Increased: Gill

LAHORE – PML-Q leader and federal minister, Akram Masih Gill has said on Saturday that minority seats quota in National and Provincial Assemblies will be increased before the next general elections. Talking to PML-Q minority wing leaders at party office on Saturday, he claimed that Muslim ...

minority money muslim haj
October 26, 2012

Minority money, Muslim Haj

Not only has the misuse of funds at the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), allocated for the specific use of the minorities, been reported - but it has also been found that these stolen funds were ironically used to pay for Umra and Haj! This was disclosed by National Harmony Minister of ...

minority wing takes rally
September 26, 2012

N Minority Wing takes out rally

LAHORE – PML-N Minority Wing on Tuesday held a protest rally against the anti-Islam movie and demanded exemplary punishment for the producers of the same.The rally held at Egerton Road was led by Political Assistant to Punjab Chief Minster on Minorities Affairs Tariq Masih Gill, MPA Ashgar ...

minority mpa atta shot dead
September 23, 2012

Minority ex-MPA Atta shot dead

KARACHI - Six people including a former minority MPA were killed in separate incidents of violence in different parts of the City on Saturday.Police said former MPA Malik Atta, 50, son of Malik Ismail, a resident of Mehmoodabad No 3, was sitting outside his home when two armed men riding a ...

Fake degree case: Minority KP MPA Kishor Kumar sentenced one year imprisonment

The police arrested the minority MPA Kishore Kumar after a local court declared his bachelor degree as fake.According to details, the Court on Monday sentenced Khyber Patkhtunkhawa Assembly MPA from Dera Ismail Khan, Kishor Kumar one year in jail and Rs 15,000 fine, for holding fake degree.Mr Kumar ...

pmmp flays minority parties
January 23, 2012

PMMP flays other minority parties

SADIQABAD - The Pakistan Muttahida Minorities Party district president has pledged to address the minorities issues in the country while criticising other minorities’ parties in Bhelnagar Nasrat Colony.Addressing a meeting of the party, Qamar Iqbal Advocated termed the establishment of PMMP a ...

NCSW submits four draft bills on women, minority rights

ISLAMABAD – The NCSW has taken a leap recently by submitting four drafts of the bill concerning women’s issues and personal laws of the minorities living in Pakistan to the ministry of human rights to be presented before the parliament for approval.Earlier, the commission arranged a ...

Minority Mpas Stage Walkout Ba
June 10, 2010

Minority MPAs stage walkout from BA

QUETTA-All three minority members of Balochistan Assembly staged a walk-out from the session of the Assembly in protest against the killing of a Hindu trader and abduction of his son from Quetta the other day. Some members of the House also blamed Sindh for provision of less water to province, ...

Canada's Conservatives win stronger second minority

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada has re-elected a minority Conservative government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in the first polls in a major economy since the eruption of the worst global financial crisis in decades. Results from Tuesday's vote showed 143 Conservatives elected, a stronger showing ...

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