Karachi was like other booming city of the world where we used to spent our week ends in any busy places till late night but now it looks impossible here for any one to go outside without any emergency as the streets are ruled by law breakers, snatchers and real killers who can shoot you without any reason.
As a father and parent of four college and school going children our lives are not easy and joyful any more.I
have decided to write this blog to share the agony that the common citizens are facing during our routine life in this mega city situated beside the Arabian sea.
It's 6 A.M and the echos of morning prayer callers are resounding in the air whereas a few hours ago the sound of gunfire was also heard and after that sound of ambulances were also noticed.The morning news paper would tell the fate of an innocent by passer who either lost his/her life or may be seriously injured and breathing his last on the bed of a public hospital.
This looks like a scene of an action movie but You believe me this is the part of our routine life.We are
suffering with hypertension,high blood pressure & foremost mental disorders.Me & my wife are taking high dosages of anti-tension pills.
Given bellow are the Headline of few local newspapers:
KARACHI, Oct 21: Four men, including two activists, were gunned down in the city on Sunday.
Police said an activist of the Ahl-i-Sunaat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) was shot dead in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Sunday evening.
They said that Maulana Kamaluddin, 30, was walking home in Zia-ul-Haq Colony within the remit of the Gulshan-i-Iqbal police station when gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire at him and rode away.
“The victim was going home when he was targeted near a CNG Station,” said Gulshan SHO Rana Haseeb.
A senior police officer described the killing as part of the ongoing sectarian strife in the city.
The victim was rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. A large number of ASWJ workers also reached the JPMC.
ASWJ spokesman Maulana Akbar Faroorqui confirmed that the victim was a party worker.
Following the incident, tension gripped Zia-ul-Haq Colony.
Earlier on Friday, three workers of the ASWJ were gunned down at the junction of the Abul Hasan Ispahani Road and University Road within the remit of the Mobina Town police station.
MQM man killed
An activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was gunned down in North Karachi on Sunday.
Police said the incident took place in North Karachi’s Sector 5-J within the remit of the Bilal Colony police station.
Faheem alias Imran, 28, was sitting close to the Masjid-i-Talha when assailants walked up to him, pulled out a pistol, fired at him and escaped.
The police said the assailants must have parked their two-wheeler near the scene of crime to make their escape.

National Assembly approves Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Bill

RECORDER REPORT

ISLAMABAD (October 07 2010): The National Assembly on Wednesday passed "The Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Bill, 2010", to provide relief to the persons who were appointed in corporations or autonomous or semi-autonomous bodies or in government service from November 1, 1993 to November 30, 1996 and were dismissed, removed, terminated from service or forcibly offered golden handshake from November 1, 1996 to October 12, 1999.



The house also passed "The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (Amendment) Bill 2007" to place the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) under the National Command Authority and for various administrative and functional changes in the PAEC organisation. Two bills including The Pakistan Academy of Letters' Bill, 2010 and The Pakistan Coinage (Amendment) Bill, 2010 were also introduced. Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Begum Nasim Chaudhry presented the report of the Standing Committee on the Bill to further amend the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2008.



She also presented report of the Standing Committee on the Bill to implement the International Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between states and Nationals of other states (The Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Bill, 2010.

UBL's sacked workers seek reinstatement

Published: February 16, 2010



ISLAMABAD - The retrenched employees of UBL whose services were terminated in the second regime of Nawaz Sharif while seeking their early reinstatement held a protest demonstration in front of the Parliament House.

The protesters said that in 1997, the political government of Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) unilaterally terminated them without issuing show cause notice as well as any prior intimation in a bid to politically victimise them.

On November 15, 1997 the slain PPP leader Benazir Bhutto while supporting their stance at a rally of thousands of people in Karachi had said that the forced termination of the UBL employees was equal to their economic murder and she would reinstate all those after coming to power.

But, while criticising the incumbent ruling party, they said that in spite of the fact that all the sacked employees during the period 1997 had been reinstated through a Presidential Ordinance yet the UBL employees were unable to benefit from the ordinance. “The government had formed a reinstatement committee including Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower Khurshid Shah, Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Syed Naveed Qamar and Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Shaukat Tarin, but the committee had done nothing except holding meetings,” they added.

The committee had held its last meeting on January 11, this year but the minutes of the meeting were not publicly announced keeping their fate hanging in balance, they regretted. They warned that Khurshid Shah in a personal meeting with the UBL Retrenched Officers Association had promised on January 9 to re-employ them in the National Bank of Pakistan as according to him UBL had been privatised but nothing was done in that connection. The protesters said that they had been facing severe economic problems since the last 12 years and were compelled to live in severe abysmal conditions as the government had paid them a meagre amount of money at the time of termination. The protesters vowed to continue protests till their reinstatement or re-employment.

UBL sacked employees stage demo for reinstatement

By PPI12 October 2009 Monday | 10:44:00



Islamabad, The sacked employees of United Bank Limited (UBL) observing 12th Black Day on Monday staged protest demonstration against their retrenchment and urged the government to reinstate their services like other departments.Dozens of sacked employees assembled here in front of National Press Club (NPC) and chanted slogans against the then President UBL Zubair Soomro.

They were holding placards inscribed with anti-Sooro slogans and appealing incumbent PPP-led government to reinstate their services. Mohammad Anwar Usmani, Chairman UBL Sacked Employees Action Committees, speaking at the occasion said that as many as 5416 employees of UBL were sacked by Nawaz Shairf government on October 12 in 1997 and could not be reinstated yet as promised by PPP slain leader Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed.



He said afetr several protests demonstrations, rallies PPP Co-Chairman and President Asif Ali Zardari took notice and formed a five members Employees Reinstatement Committee, during a meeting held on October 23 recently, and the members incldes Mian Raza Rabbani, Navid Qamar, Shaukat Tareen, Khurheed Ahmed Shah, and Mohammad Afzal Sindhu, headded. But unfortunately the committee did not follow the orders of PPP Co-Chairman and refused to meet with sacked employees, accused Usmani. He appealed the PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zaradri, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani to direct the committee for the early reinstatement of UBL sacked employees on their services as thousands of sacked employees of other departments have been reinstated.

Sacked UBL employees assured of reinstatement

ISLAMABAD, June 9: Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower Syed Khursheed Ahmad Shah has assured the sacked workers of the United Bank Limited that they would be reinstated after removing the complications in the Reinstatement Ordinance.



The minister, also head of the committee formed to tackle issue of the sacked employees, extended this assurance during a meeting with a delegation representing these employees of the UBL at the minister’s chamber in the Parliament House here on Tuesday. Mr Shah told the delegation that their case did not come under 27-B Section of the ordinance due to which there were some legal complications in their reinstatement.



Chairman Central Action Committee for Sacked Employees, Muhammad Anwar Usmani, however assured the delegation that the government would look into their case soon after the budget.



A seven member delegation of sacked employees of the UBL headed by the committee chairman met with the federal minister. Senator Raza Rabani was also present on the occasion.



During the meeting, the delegation demanded the minister to reinstate the 5,416 UBL employees, who were sacked from their services on 12 October, 1997. —Staff Reporter

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Sacked employees remind PPP of pre-poll pledge

BAHAWALPUR, May 27: The association for the restoration of United Bank Limited retrenched employees has appealed to PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to reinstate them in accordance with the commitment of the party’s assassinated chairperson Benazir Bhutto.At a press conference here on Tuesday, the association chairman Muhammed Arif Khan, president Rao Ijaz and other office-bearers said that 85 employees of all grades were among the 5,416 employees sacked without issuing any charge sheet or notice by the UBL management on Oct 11, 1997, due to which thousands of families were facing huge financial problems.They said that though the Supreme Court of Pakistan gave its verdict in favour of the sacked petitioners on Dec 1, 2000, it left the issue of reinstatement on the discretion of the bank management.They claimed that Benazir Bhutto assured their colleagues before her assassination that the PPP would reinstate them after coming into power.Present at the press conference, PPP district president Riaz Dahar said that as his party opposed the downsizing of the institutions and he would approach the party’s high command and the prime minister to redress the sacked bankers’ grievances.