Earlier, only prime minister, chief ministers and ministers were now allowed from visiting constituency ahead of the polls.
The ECP amended its code on complaint of candidate Saifullah Khan in connection to NA-108 by-election in Mandi Bahauddin on June 8.
He alleged a female minister of Punjab, Hameeda Wahiduddin, recently announced development package for the constituency, which was an attempt to influence by-polls.
The ECP issued notice to Ms Wahiduddin and sought her reply within a week.
The KSE 100-share index closed 0.63 percent or 212.58 points down at 33,530.30.
Pakistan Petroleum Ltd fell 4.89 rupees to 180.10 rupees, while market heavyweight Oil and Gas Development Co Ltd was down 4.42 rupees to 190.01 rupees.
The rupee ended slightly stronger at 101.68/101.74 against the dollar, compared with Thursday’s close of 101.72/101.77.
Overnight rates in the money market fell to 7.00 percent from Thursday’s close of to 8.00 percent.
JI organized a program on Islamic Educational System in Shikhupura. JI chief Siraj-ul-Haq was the chief guest of the program.
But the organizers of the program faced strong criticism after the banner placed at the back of the stage had the wrong map of Pakistan on it, in which Kashmir was omitted from country’s map.
Participants described printing of India’s preferred map of Pakistan wasa weird thing as JI always played an active role in the struggle of freedom of Kashmiris.
It is pertinent to mention that Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan but both claim the whole of the region and have gone to war twice over its control since partition in 1947.
After being pointed out by ARY News, JI Seikhupura Chief Rana Tauhfa Dastagir accepted the mistake of placing wrong map of Pakistan and vowed to take organizers to task for the negligence.
At least seven people including two foreign ambassadors were killed when a Pakistan Army helicopter attempted a crash landing here in Gilgit. The deceased include the ambassadors of Norway and Philippines and the wives of Indonesian and Malaysian envoys.
The COAS said the Pakistan Army was standing by victims in this difficult time. He also vowed to provide all-possible assistance to victims.
Written off as a political insider lacking charisma just a few months ago, the 45-year-old had won plaudits for his tough campaign style and some observers saw leadership material despite his awkward image.
Centre-left Labour was neck-and-neck with the centre-right Conservatives in opinion poll after opinion poll, helping bolster Miliband against Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron — long seen as the slicker operator.
But results revealed the chasm between himself and Cameron, who won an overall majority.
“Britain needs a strong Labour Party. It’s time for someone else to take leadership of this party,” Miliband told supporters in his resignation speech on Friday.
“I am truly sorry I did not succeed, I have done my best for five years,” he said, adding: “I take absolute and total responsibility for the result”.
‘Moses moment’
Miliband’s gaffe-prone image was summed up in a photograph of him unattractively eating a bacon sandwich — an image much reproduced in Britain’s right-wing press during the campaign.
He stumbled following a televised debate and then unveiled a giant slab of stone etched with his key pledges in what was mocked as his “Moses moment”.
A father of two, married to environmental lawyer Justine Thornton, Miliband put living standards at the heart of his election campaign, insisting that an economic upturn under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has not reached ordinary people.
But he was accused by opponents of leading a party with little economic credibility, and one that was held partly responsible for the pain of austerity inflicted on Britons following the global financial crisis of 2008.
By the early hours of Friday, there was growing pressure from Labour supporters for him to stand down.
“Ed Miliband has to go after general election humiliation — the only question is when,” the Daily Mirror tabloid, which endorsed Miliband in the campaign, said in an editorial.
Brother vs brother
Born to Jewish immigrant parents, a Marxist academic father and a campaigning activist mother, Miliband grew up in a London household where left-wing intellectuals from around the world came to dinner.
He became active in student politics while at Oxford University and after a stint as a journalist quickly rose through the ranks of the Labour party.
Miliband later served as energy minister and Treasury advisor in successive Labour governments.
In 2010 he alarmed many in the ranks of the party by standing against his own brother, David Miliband, in the party’s leadership contest. David, a protege of former prime minister Tony Blair, was seen as less left-wing than Ed.
David left politics and moved to the United States after his surprise defeat to his younger brother, who cast his victory as a break from the market-friendly “New Labour” of Blair and a return to the party’s left-wing roots.
Miliband has since said their relationship is “healing”.
But the challenge, seen by some as “an almost biblical act of fratricide” according to Miliband’s biographers, has not been forgotten.
In an interview during the campaign, Miliband was relentlessly questioned about his character and his ability to withstand the challenges ahead.
“I’ve been underestimated at every turn. People said I wouldn’t become leader and I did. People said four years ago he can’t become prime minister,” he said.
On Friday, the naysayers proved right after all. – AFP
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in the press release issued on Thursday informed the depositors of KASB Bank Limited that in terms of the amalgamation scheme, KASB Bank Limited has been merged with and into BankIslami Pakistan Limited.
The moratorium placed on former KASB Bank Limited has been lifted with immediate effect, said SBP.
It further stated that depositors of the former KASB Bank Limited are now depositors of Bank Islami Pakistan Limited and are free to operate their accounts maintained at the respective branches of the former KASB Bank Limited as per their convenience.
Lifting of Moratorium on KASB Bank Limited, State Bank of Pakistan acknowledges the patience shown by the depositors of the former KASB Bank Limited as well as their confidence on the regulator during moratorium period.
State Bank of Pakistan reiterates its commitment to safeguard the interests of depositors and to ensure safety and soundness of the banking system of the country.
Theron said she was outraged when leaked Sony emails showed a gap in what male and female actors were paid for the film “American Hustle” and she insisted on being paid on par with co-star Chris Hemsworth for the Snow White sequel “The Huntsman”.
“I have to give them credit, because once I asked, they said yes,” Theron said in an interview with British magazine Elle UK.
“They did not fight it. And maybe that’s the message: that we just need to put our foot down.”
Her call for equal pay echoes Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, who has also lamented the pay gap between men and women.
A report by the United Nations’ International Labour Organization (ILO) this year warned that the income of women workers globally will lag behind men for another 70 years if the gender pay gap continues to narrow at the present rate.
Women globally earn 77 percent of the amount paid to men, a figure that has improved by only three percentage points in the past 20 years, the ILO said.
South African-born Theron, 39, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of a serial killer in the 2003 film “Monster”, said women needed to stand up for equality and be proud to be feminists.
“This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing,” said Theron, who will be on the big screen in this month’s action movie “Mad Max: Fury Road”.
“It doesn’t mean that you hate men. It means equal rights.” -Reuters
PM Nawaz also cancelled his to visit Gilgit after the incident in which six people including two foreign ambassadors were killed.
READ: Two Ambassadors among six killed in Pakistan Army helicopter crash
The Prime Minister has expressed his grief over the losses of life in Pakistan Army’s MI-17 helicopter crash in Naltar Valley.
Ministry of Defence has annonced support and sponsership for the family of martyred Shaheed Major Altamash and Shaheed Major Faisal.
Futhermore, Norway has expressed ‘great sadness’ over the death on Friday of its ambassador to Pakistan in a helicopter crash claimed by the Taliban.
Leif Larsen, 61, was “one of our best and most experienced diplomats” who was “very respected by his colleagues,” Foreign Minister Borge Brende told reporters, adding that his Pakistani counterpart had told him the causes of the crash were not fully known yet.
He said initial investigation reports suggested that the incident occurred due to technical fault.
Six people including two foreign ambassadors were killed when a Pakistan Army helicopter attempted a crash landing here in Gilgit.
The Ambassadors of Norway and Philippines and the wives of Indonesian and Malaysian envoys were killed in the deadly incident along with the two pilots of the helicopter.
Mourning call
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has declared one-day mourning over the Naltar helicopter crash.
On his directions, aircraft and helicopters have been placed to evacuate injured diplomats.
Mohammad Choudhry, 62, will spend the rest of his life behind bars for conspiring in two deaths carried out nearly 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) away from his Brooklyn home in 2013, US prosecutors said.
Choudhry was convicted by an American jury of conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country, making threats and immigration fraud following a nine-day trial last summer.
US prosecutors say Choudhry’s American daughter, Amina Ajmal, was sent to Pakistan and held against her will for more than three years on her father’s orders and forced into an arranged marriage.
When she escaped and fled home to the United States — with help from the State Department — with the man she loved, Shujat Abbas, her father was furious.
Choudhry and his relatives in Pakistan subjected the Abbas family — who lived in Gujrat, Punjab province — to repeated threats.
On January 26, 2013 Choudhry’s brother and other relatives fired gunshots repeatedly at the Abbas parents’ car.
Choudhry then telephoned Abbas’s father, threatening to kill his entire family unless his daughter returned home.
“If our daughter will not come back to the home, we will kill all five of you. Otherwise, we will find your son and we’ll kill him,” US prosecutors quoted him as saying.
“This time we shoot on your car. It was threatening, but next time we will shoot in the chest of all five of you.”
Just days after Choudhry made similar threats to his daughter, Abbas’s father and 21-year-old sister were shot dead.
Witnesses said Choudhry’s brother and other relatives had stood over the victims, holding guns and desecrating the bodies.
The remaining members of the Abbas family then fled to America.
Choudhry was sentenced by Judge William Kuntz in the US federal court in Brooklyn.
“There is absolutely no honor in killing innocent victims whose only fault was helping a young woman find freedom in the United States,” said Raymond Parmer of Homeland Security Investigations. -AFP