Home department

that of the home department, or of the observatory?"

Fang was at that moment perusing a leading article in a newspaper of the morning, adverting to some recent decision of his, and commending him, for the three hundred and fiftieth time, to the special and particular notice of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. He was out of temper; and he looked up with an angry scowl.

I will divide the county into districts, over which I will place my deputies; and I will have one for the village, which I will call my home department. Let me see—ho!

Veneering, M.P., wishes to be informed (with something of a second-hand air of seeing the Right Honourable Gentleman at the head of the Home Department in his place) whether it is intended to be conveyed that the vanished person has been spirited away or otherwise harmed?

Then, giving the Home Department and the leadership of the House of Commons to Joodle, the Exchequer to Koodle, the Colonies to Loodle, and the Foreign Office to Moodle, what are you to do with Noodle?

'Then,' said Mr Gregsbury, 'it would be necessary for him to make himself acquainted, from day to day, with newspaper paragraphs on passing events; such as "Mysterious disappearance, and supposed suicide of a potboy," or anything of that sort, upon which I might found a question to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Then, he would have to copy the question, and as much as I remembered of the answer (including a little compliment about independence and good sense); and to send the manuscript in a frank to the local paper, with perhaps half-a-dozen lines of leader, to the effect, that I was always to be found in my place in parliament, and never shrunk from the responsible and arduous duties, and so forth.

The Punjab Home Department has banned motorcycle pillion riding in the province for two days in a bid to avoid any unpleasant incident during Muharram proceedings and gathering.

RAWALPINDI -- Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) provincial lawmaker Faryal Talpur, who is incarcerated in Rawalpindi, could not be sent to Karachi to attend the ongoing Sindh Assembly session as jail authorities still await a reply from Punjab Home Department.

Presiding over a meeting at Sindh Home Department regarding the issue, he said that he was sure if hearing impaired persons were given driving license they would be good drivers and would definitely follow the traffic rules.

The guidelines, issued by the provincial home department, said that different political, religious and welfare organisations and religious seminaries collected hides during Eid.

KARACHI -- Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday directed the authorities relevant to provide protection to newly converted woman and her daughter and issued notices to home department and Station House Officer (SHO) Gulbahar Police Station in this connection.

ISLAMABAD -- The Human Rights Commission has issued an arrest warrant against Deputy Secretary Home Department for failing to appear in the case of continued illegal detention of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik.