ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmakers staged a walk out from the National Assembly on Wednesday against killing of party workers in Karachi, Geo News reported.

MQM MNA Iqbal Muhammad Ali said his party activists were being killed and they had protested against it. He demanded to set up a committee over the Karachi issue.

Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Riaz Pirzada said speaker lower house had written a letter to the interior minister over reservations of MQM. He added that law and order was provincial matter and MQM was part of Sindh government.

MANCHESTER: Manchester United unearthed a potential star of the future and perhaps had one last glimpse of a great of its recent past in a 3-1 win over Hull on Tuesday that kept alive the team´s chances of European football next season.

Highly rated striker James Wilson, 18, marked his senior debut for United with predatory strikes in either half, setting the deposed champions on their way to a victory in their final home game of a forgettable Premier League campaign.

Ryan Giggs — at the other end of the age spectrum at 40 — came on for his 963rd, and possibly final, appearance for United in the second half and set up fellow substitute Robin van Persie for the clinching third goal in the 86th.Giggs, taking charge of his third game as United´s interim manager following the firing of David Moyes last month, has not decided whether to take his distinguished playing career into a 24th year next season.

And his future as a coach at United is uncertain while the club searches for Moyes´ replacement, which is likely to be current Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal.An emotional Old Trafford also bade farewell to defender Nemanja Vidic, who is joining Inter Milan in the summer after more than eight years at United, on a night that had an end-of-era feel to it.Wilson, though, offered positive signs for the future as part of a youthful lineup that included another debutant in 20-year-old forward Tom Lawrence.

United last failed to qualify for Europe in 1990.Vidic began on the bench after accepting a memento from United great Bobby Charlton before kickoff but was a 22nd-minute substitute for Phil Jones, who came off with a shoulder injury sustained in an aerial collision.

Wilson has played for England Under-16s and Under-19s and has scored 19 goals for United´s Under-21 team this season. And he showed his striker´s instincts just in the 31st, reacting quickly to Marouane Fellaini´s nod-down from a free kick to slam a left-foot shot low into the net from the edge of the six-yard box.

When he slotted in a rebound from a similar distance after Fellaini´s shot was parried out by goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic in the 61st, Wilson was on course to emulate Wayne Rooney´s feat from 2004 of scoring a hat trick on his debut.

He was substituted three minutes later, however, but the Old Trafford crowd will surely be seeing more of him.Giggs entered to rousing applause in the 70th and showed flashes of the brilliance that has illuminated Old Trafford since 1991.

With the home fans chanting "Keeper, let it in," Giggs had a long-range free kick tipped over by Jakupovic in injury time — perhaps bringing to an end his run of scoring in every Premier League season since its inception in 1992.Hull, which is safe from relegation, halved the deficit in the 63rd minute through Matty Fryatt but the match ended on a sour note with David Meyler appearing to stamp on United winger Adnan Januzaj.

The incident was not seen by the referee and any retrospective punishment could lead to Meyler missing the FA Cup final against Arsenal on May 17. (AP)

LAHORE: The situation turned ugly at the Lahore High Court (LHC) when Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) workers accompanying party chairman Imran Khan stormed into a courtroom breaking the door and flowerpots.

PTI chairman Imran Khan had arrived at the LHC to provide his stance in a case pertaining to checking of the election record in NA-122. National Assembly speaker and PML-N leader Ayaz Sadiq had been declared the winner in this constituency. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on a petition by the PTI had ordered recounting of votes in this constituency which was challenged by Sadiq in LHC.

The PTI workers started chanting slogans outside the courtroom and tried to force their way into the courtroom which led to the door and flowerpots being broken.

Additional police were summoned to control the situation. The LHC Chief Justice Umar Bandial expressing his strong annoyance over the ugly incident in his observations said that such an environment was contrary to the dignity of the court, which would not be tolerated and thereafter in utter disgust left the courtroom.

Imran Khan on his return from the court when approached by Geo correspondent refused to talk, saying his party has already declared a boycott of Geo News.

BANGKOK: Thailand´s Constitutional Court on Wednesday dismissed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office, ruling that she abused her power, deepening the kingdom´s political uncertainty.

"The judges unanimously rule that Yingluck abused her prime minister status and interfered in transferring (Thawil Pliensri) for her own benefit," president of the nine-member court, Charoon Intachan, said in a televised ruling.

"Therefore her prime minister status has ended... Yingluck can no longer stay in her position acting as caretaker prime minister. "Several cabinet ministers who endorsed the decision to transfer the security chief will also be stripped of their status.

It was not immediately clear whether the ruling would create a political vacuum or if one of Yingluck´s ministers nominated after Thawil´s transfer would be able to step into her shoes, pending a future election.

Bangkok has been rocked by six months of sometimes violent demonstrations to unseat Yingluck, whose family draws widespread support from the northern portion of the country but is reviled by the establishment in the capital and royalist southerners.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will set up mandatory polio immunisation points at its international airports in response to recommendations by the World Health Organisation, the health ministry said Tuesday.

The WHO warned Monday that the crippling disease has re-emerged as a public health emergency, with the virus currently affecting 10 countries worldwide and endemic in three including Pakistan.

"Special measures will include establishing mandatory immunisation counters on all airports, border crossings and seaports for all travellers," said ministry spokesman Sajid Ali Shah.

The WHO had called on Pakistan, Cameroon and Syria, seen as posing the greatest risk of exporting wild poliovirus, to ensure all residents and long-term visitors receive a polio vaccine between four weeks and a year before travelling abroad. For urgent travel, at least one vaccine dose should be given before departure, according to the emergency committee, which also called for all travellers to be given certificates proving they have been immunised.

Shah could not confirm whether long-term non-Pakistani residents would also be subject to immunisation under the new initiative. "That will be decided in a meeting scheduled soon," he said.

According to the WHO, Pakistan recorded 91 cases of polio last year, up from 58 in 2012. It has also recorded 59 of the world´s 74 cases this year.

The disease has re-emerged in Pakistan because the Taliban and other militants violently oppose inoculation campaigns and because of public fears that the vaccine leads to infertility.

Militants see the polio campaign as a cover for foreign spying and regularly attack immunisation teams, killing some 56 people since December 2012.Their opposition has increased since a Pakistani doctor helped track down terror chief Osama bin Laden in 2011 using a fake vaccine project.

Last month officials announced they would begin administering polio drops to children at security checkpoints in the country´s lawless tribal belt.

India, which recently celebrated the eradication of the disease, announced in December it would require Pakistanis to obtain vaccination certificates six weeks before cross-border travel.

KARACHI: The business community has suggested a cut down in sales tax from 17 to 5 percent, which according to them would result in the increase of tax revenue.

Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) president Zakaria Usman said that according to FBR officials the government gets only 3.5 percent on account of 17 percent sales tax, as the remaining amount goes in refund, adjustment and corruption.

In this backdrop, FPCCI has advised the government to slash the sales tax from 17 percent to 5 percent, which would not only enhance the purchasing power of the people by 10 percent, but would also increase the sales tax receipts to over Rs1300 billion from Rs1000 billion besides it would help meet the IMF condition also.

He said that according to FBR 1.5 million retailers are paying sales tax amounting to Rs1000 billion annually, while if on average Rs3000 fixed tax was recovered from each of the retailers every month, the tax revenue would go up significantly, he asserted.