Fatima Jinnah sent notice to pay water bill!

KARACHI: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has sent a bill on account of provision of water and services charges for sewerage to the sister of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and a great leader of Pakistan Movement, the late Fatima Jinnah, 47 years after her death.

The bill amounts to Rs263,774 and she has been directed to pay the amount within 10 days of receipt of the notice, or the connection of water and sewerage can be disconnected. According to the Land Revenue Act, the property could be confiscated, auctioned and a fine can be imposed. Moreover, she can also be arrested. The notice has been sent by the KW&SB according to which the last date for payment of the amount was May 28.

The consumer number of Fatima Jinnah is A0600390000, and her address has been written as RA 241, Cantt.It merits mentioning here that the Flag Staff House located in the Karachi Cantt was the property of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

It is being used as a museum, where the items of personal use of the Quaid and Fatima Jinnah are kept.In the notice sent to Fatima Jinnah, it has been said that the excuse of non-receipt of the bill will not be accepted. A copy of the bill can be received from the nearby consumer centre of the organisation. It has also been said in the notice that if the connection is disconnected, the fees for restoring the connection will also be applicable. Talking to The News, commissioner of Karachi said that he had directed the managing director of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board to take back the notice sent in the name of Fatima Jinnah. He hoped that he would soon receive in writing the information for annulling the notice.

Bhakkar cannibals sent on 7-day physical remand

SARGODHA: Two brothers accused of cannibalism were produced before an anti-terrorism court and sent on seven day physical remand.

Earlier on Tuesday, police arrested Farman Ali a day after his brother was detained following the discovery of a child’s head at their residence.

The pair had been arrested for eating human corpses in the same village in 2011 and served two years in prison in a case that shocked Pakistan.
Arif has told police that Ali stole the body of the two-day-old child from a graveyard in Darya Khan village, around 300 kilometres (180 miles) south of Islamabad, before they cooked and ate it.

Ameer Abdullah, police chief of Bhakkar district where the village is located, told AFP that Ali was detained on Tuesday and the brothers had been brought to court for a remand hearing.

There is no specific offence of cannibalism in Pakistani law, so Abdullah said they had been charged under anti-terrorism laws and for desecrating a human body.

In the 2011 case police found the body of a 24-year-old woman at the men´s house -- minus a leg, which they had eaten. The suspects will undergo psychiatric tests, Abdullah said.

Police said that the men´s wives and family members had left them some years ago and both were living in the house in isolation.

Operation supporters should be sent to battle Taliban: Sami

 

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami chief and head of the Taliban negotiating team Maulana Samiul Haq has said that the entire nation is fed up with war and wanted peace, respite and harmony to prevail.
Addressing a ‘Dastarbandi’ ceremony in Abbottabad on Monday, Maulana Sami berated the so-called religious factions, liberal and secular lobbies, defence and political observers, analysts, and columnists on ‘Wwestern payroll’, urging an imminent military operation within Pakistan.

“All these fantasy weavers should be made a brigade and sent to fight a war against the Taliban so that they should be able to satisfy their ‘lust for war’; instead of bothering the brave Army soldiers being ruthlessly sacrificed in the line of duty,” he said.

Maulana Sami lauded the nation and rulers for understanding the sensitive nature of the situation, opting for the prudent path of dialogue. He also called on all “to also pray fervently for saving the Federation from all kinds of conspiracies and odds”.