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November 11, 2001 Sunday Shaba’an 24, 1422 KARACHI: Suspect mail centres set up in Sindh hospitals KARACHI, Nov 10: Sindh government has established reporting centres at Civil Hospital, Karachi; Liaquat Medical College Hospital, Hyderabad; People’s Medical College Hospital, Nawabshah and Chandka Medical College Hospital, Larkana, for the... KARACHI: Lawyer shot dead, 13 vehicles hijacked KARACHI, Nov 10: A senior lawyer of the Sindh High Court was shot dead in Clifton on Saturday.... KARACHI: Basic education centre in juvenile jail KARACHI, Nov 10: The City Government’s literacy department has established a literacy centre in the Juvenile Jail in Landhi. All required items related to imparting literacy training to inmates have been... KARACHI: Price list of commodities for Ramazan issued KARACHI, Nov 10: The Enterprise and Investment Promotion (EIP) Department of the city government, after having a series of meetings with different associations of wholesalers and retailers, has issued a final... KARACHI: IBA regrets ‘mistake’ in entry test KARACHI, Nov 10: The Institute of Business Administration has vowed to conduct medical college entrance test and other tests in a more transparent manner in future.... KARACHI: NED entry test held KARACHI, Nov 10: The pre-admission entry test for admission to the first year batch 2001-02 at NED University of Engineering and Technology was held on Saturday in the‘usual smooth manner’.... KARACHI: Two phone cabinets burnt KARACHI, Nov 10: At least 580 telephones will remain out of order in the Marston Road area till Monday as unidentified people burnt down two cabinets on Friday night, said a... KARACHI: Increase in literacy for better mental health stressed KARACHI, Nov 10: Healthcare experts citing Pakistanis to be increasingly exposed to psychological warfare have called for concerted efforts to enhance public perception towards issues not common but directly linked to... KARACHI: Iqbal’s poetry discussed KARACHI, Nov 10: Speakers at a function on Saturday highlighted the various aspects of Iqbal’s poetry and personality.... KARACHI: ATC issues show cause to police: Four acquitted of arson charge KARACHI, Nov 10: An anti-terrorism court acquitted on Saturday four workers of a religious party prosecuted for setting a minibus on fire during violence on the eve of an anti-war strike... KARACHI: District ombudsman system idea opposed KARACHI, Nov 10: Justice Haziqul Khairi, the Ombudsman for Sindh, has suggested to the government to shelve the idea of having a system of district ombudsman in the province.... KARACHI: Fewer buyers in local market KARACHI, Nov 10: Purchasing activities in markets here have plummeted sharply after Sept 11, owing to the ever-increasing graph of unemployment and large scale retrenchments coupled with declining trend of business.... KARACHI: Nazim against privatization of education KARACHI, Nov 10: Nazim Karachi Naimatullah Khan has approached the Sindh government for reviewing its policy of denationalization of educational institutions.... KARACHI: US urged to stop bombing KARACHI, Nov 10: Protesters at a demonstration on Saturday demanded an immediate halt to the US-led allied forces’ bombing on Afghanistan.... KARACHI: MQM worker sentenced KARACHI, Nov 10: An additional district and sessions judge, Central, Ghulam Qadir Leghari, sentenced a worker of the MQM to two years’ imprisonment for possessing an unlicensed pistol.... KARACHI: Govt trying to use PPP: SNF KARACHI, Nov 10: The chairman, Sindh National Front, Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, said in a statement on Saturday that the government’s liaison with the Pakistan People’s Party and prospects of withdrawing cases... PESHAWAR: Confiscated vehicles given to army, LEAs PESHAWAR, Nov 10: Chief executive’s secretariat requisitioned, during the last year, hundreds of vehicles that had been confiscated by various collectorates of Central Board of Revenue (CBR), official sources told Dawn here... PESHAWAR: ‘1kg anthrax spores can kill 5m people’ PESHAWAR, Nov 10: One kilogram of anthrax spores are enough for killing five million people, said Prof Najib-ul-Haq, a renowned physician of Khyber Teaching Hospital here on Saturday.... PESHAWAR: Al Badar wants govt to cut ties with US PESHAWAR, Nov 10: The central chief of Al Badar, Bukht Zameen, has asked the Pakistan government to sever relations with the US.... PESHAWAR: Official released by NAB on plea-bargain PESHAWAR, Nov 10: The technical director of FATA Development Corporation, Taj Mohammad, was released by an Ehtesab court here on Saturday after he had agreed to pay Rs21 million to the... PESHAWAR: ‘Afghans facing foodstuff shortage’ PESHAWAR, Nov 10: The patron-in-chief of Markaz-i-Uloom-i-Islamia, Rahatabad, Maulana Rahat Gul, said on Saturday that the Afghan population had been facing a severe shortage of foodstuff and other essential items.... PESHAWAR: Ex-minister’s action criticized PESHAWAR, Nov 10: Criticizing the former federal minister, J. Salik, for his recent act of encaging himself, the Christian Youth Welfare Organizations said on Friday that the former should not stage... PESHAWAR: Journalist freed by Taliban PESHAWAR, Nov 10: One of the two journalists detained by the Taliban authorities was released on Saturday on the request of Maulana Hassan Jan and Maulana Samiul Haq of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam.... RAWALPINDI: No wages for 100 staffers of four govt colleges RAWALPINDI, Nov 10: About 100 contractual employees of the Punjab education department, performing their duties in four women colleges of Rawalpindi, have neither been paid salaries nor relieved of their duties... RAWALPINDI: Girls’ college holds annual fair RAWALPINDI, Nov 10: The start of the new teaching session of the Government Postgraduate College for Women was marked by a colourful function in Satellite Town here on Saturday.... ISLAMABAD: Rs37m allocated for website portal ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: The federal government has allocated Rs 37 million for Citizen Online Project under which websites for 35 Divisions and 3 special sites besides a website portal for the... ISLAMABAD: Osama urged to appear before court of justice in Hague ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: Tehrik-i-Istiqlal (TI) president Air Marshal (Rtd) Asghar Khan on Saturday asked Osama bin Laden to appear before the International Court of Justice at Hague.... ISLAMABAD: Contracts to be awarded on merit: NHA ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: Chair-man of the National Highway Authority Maj. Gen. Farrukh Javed has said that strict adherence to existing law will be observed while awarding contracts.... ISLAMABAD: IIU students hijack buses to get colleague released ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: Some students of the International Islamic University (IIU) on Saturday hijacked three mini-buses and forced the district administration to release one of the 14 colleagues arrested during Friday’s... ISLAMABAD: ‘JI to file murder case against interior minister’ ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: The deputy chief of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and secretary general Afghanistan Defence Council Liaquat Baloch, has claimed that over 1,000 leaders and workers have been arrested during the... ISLAMABAD: WB to hold moot on Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: The World Bank has arranged a three-day conference, starting November 27 in Islamabad, to firm up proposals for reconstruction, employment generation and stimulation of agriculture in the post-war... HUNZA: Shimshal Valley to be linked to KKH HUNZA, Nov 10: The chief secretary Northern Areas, Fazal Durrani had instructed the concerned departments to expedite the work on Shimshal link road from the KKH and sanctioned around Rs1,20,000 for... LAHORE: Contempt notice LAHORE, Nov 10: Civil judge Mahboob Ahmad Khan on Saturday issued a notice to the Pakistan Mobilink Communi-cations president for Nov 22 on a contempt application for violation of a restraint... LAHORE: Beg doubts Osama’s claim on nukes LAHORE, Nov 10: Former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg has cast serious doubts on Osama bin Laden’s claims that he has got nuclear and chemical weapons and may use them... LAHORE: Parameters for audit approved LAHORE, Nov 10: The methodologies, approaches, and parameters for certification of the federal, provincial, and district government accounts were finalized at a meeting on Saturday.... HYDERABAD: Solution to Afghan crisis be evolved soon, says Moin HYDERABAD, Nov 10: Federal Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider has categorically denied that the airports facilities provided to the Americans were being used for combatant action and said that the facilities had... HYDERABAD: Police officials asked to establish prisoner’s identity HYDERABAD, Nov 10: The Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit bench has directed all relevant jail and police officials of Balochistan and Sindh to establish the identity of a prisoner, who, was... HYDERABAD: Prison chief seeks help to restore order in jail HYDERABAD, Nov 10: The superintendent of central prison Hyderabad, in a letter to the IG prison of the province, has described the prevailing law and order situation in the prison as...

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