Today’s outlook: Jamaat-e-Islami holds rally in Karachi
via SAMAA
Here are some of the stories we will be following today (Sunday):
- Fourteen people were killed and seven others were injured as a passenger van caught fire after it overturned on Super Highway Saturday night, according to rescue workers. According to the police, three illegal gas cylinders had been installed in the van.
- Members of Jamaat-e-Islami will gather on Karachi’s Sharae Quaideen today. They have arranged a rally to “save Karachi and its residents”.
- The PML-N has formed a three-member committee to investigate the Talal Chaudhry incident that took place on Saturday. The former state minister was attacked in Faisalabad outside a female MNA’s house.
- The group of men who had opened fire at the police in Gulistan-e-Jauhar two days ago have not been arrested yet. The police have gotten their sketches made and formed special teams to catch them. During the shootout an officer was killed.
- Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan has claimed that PML-N’s Talal Chaudhry had been harassing one of his fellow party members. “I will reveal everything today with proper evidence,” he said.
- ICYMI: The National Accountability Bureau has asked for PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s bank account, property and vehicle records from the Lahore Development Authority and the excise and taxation department in the Toshakhana reference.