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March 22, 2002 Friday Muharram 7, 1423 KARACHI: PR, Sindh fight at expense of KCR KARACHI, March 21: The operation of the Karachi Circular Railway is likely to be delayed as the dispute between the Pakistan Railways and the Sindh government over the handing over of... KARACHI: Expressway design to be made public KARACHI, March 21: The city government has decided to make the design of the Lyari Expressway project public so that the recommendations of the experts and the representatives of the people... KARACHI: Video shopowner shot dead KARACHI, March 21: A young man was shot dead and two others were wounded when unidentified assailants opened fire at a shop in Akhtar Colony on Thursday night.... KARACHI: Inquiry ordered into road accident KARACHI, March 21: The Deputy Superintendent of the Traffic Police, Liaquatabad, and the section officer concerned were placed under suspension and an inquiry was ordered on Thursday into the road accident... KARACHI: 10 cars, 11 bikes hijacked KARACHI, March 21: Twenty-one vehicles — 10 cars and 11 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Thursday, the police said.... KARACHI: Water crisis persists KARACHI, March 21: Various parts of the city either went dry or received scant water supply on the third consecutive day on Thursday in Muharram.... KARACHI: Students assured of necessary actions: Karimabad accident KARACHI, March 21: The Nazim Karachi, Naimatullah Khan, has said he will urge the Sindh government to pay cash compensation to the families of the two college girls and a young... KARACHI: DOTS TB coverage to reach 70pc in Sindh KARACHI, March 21: By June this year, DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment) coverage in Sindh would reach 70 per cent with all the health department facilities providing the service under the Sindh... KARACHI: NED disaffiliates GCT’s degree programmes KARACHI, March 21: The NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, has disaffiliated the Government College of Technology (GCT), Karachi, and the college would now no more be able to conduct... KARACHI: MQM urges compensation to victims KARACHI, March 21: The Coordination Committee of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement has strongly criticized police for their attempt to protect the bus driver who is responsible for the road accident in... KARACHI: Schools hike fee unilaterally KARACHI, March 21: In spite of clear instruction by the Sindh Education Department that the academic institutions should not enhance tuition fees on their own, increases under this head are being... KARACHI: NED exams KARACHI, March 21: The NED University of Engineering and Technology, has announced that 3rd year Civil Engineering Supplementary Examinations of 1998-99 would commence on Thursday (April 4).... KARACHI: Single judge told to decide promotion case KARACHI, March 21: The Sindh High Court has ruled that a malafide order or an order in defiance of the obligations of the respondents could always be questioned by a civil... KARACHI: Boatowners not to visit Balochistan waters: Fishing activity resumes KARACHI, March 21: The Fishermen Action Committee, comprising trawler-owners and fishermen, on Thursday decided to limit their activity within the Sindh coast and not to operate in Balochistan.... KARACHI: Security measures for Muharram planned KARACHI, March 21: A high-level meeting held here on Thursday discussed the plan for ensuring effective security measures all over the province and decided to deploy eight wings of Pakistan rangers... KARACHI: Petitioner allowed to hold weekly bazaar KARACHI, March 21: The Sindh High Court suspended on Thursday the Karachi City District Government’s impugned order restraining a petitioner from holding Juma bazaar on his own commercial plot. A division... KARACHI: Foundation laying of K-III project in April KARACHI, March 21: President Pervez Musharraf will lay the foundation stone of the Rs 6.104 billion Greater Karachi Water Supply Scheme (Phase-V, Stage-II), in April. Although the foundation stone ceremony of... KARACHI: Laws urged to curb human smuggling KARACHI, March 21: The Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid on Thursday demanded that specific laws to handle the cross-border human trafficking be enacted so that the growing menace could... KARACHI: PPP opposes proposed referendum KARACHI, March 21: Pakistan Peoples Party is not opposed to election of any person as president of the country if the procedure as laid down in the 1973 Constitution is followed.... HYDERABAD: Call to stop work on Thal canal project HYDERABAD, March 21: The activists of Sindh National Party (Dodo Mehri group) staged a token hunger strike outside the Hyderabad press club here on Thursday against the construction of greater Thal... HYDERABAD: Need for research on Hur Movement stressed HYDERABAD, March 21: Prominent writers, professors, and intellectuals have demanded of both the federal and provincial governments to acknowledge the services of the late Pir Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi, who had waged... HYDERABAD: Customers service centre opened HYDERABAD, March 21: Hyderabad Zila Nazim Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman has said that the setting up of the customers service centre in Qasimabad by the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company will help resolve... HYDERABAD: Plea against voters’ non-registration HYDERABAD, March 21: A division bench of Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, here on Thursday has issued notice to the deputy attorney general to appear in the court on March 26.... HYDERABAD: PMA to observe strike today HYDERABAD, March 21: The Pakistan Medical Association has decided to observe a strike throughout the country on Friday to protest against the killings of doctors.... HYDERABAD: Recommendations for women welfare HYDERABAD, March 21: The Institute of Women Development Studies (IWDS), University of Sindh, here on Thursday released the recommendations of “First National Seminar on Problems of Working Women” held the other... HYDERABAD: SEA hunger strike HYDERABAD, March 21: About 50 college, high school and primary school teachers, and clerical staff, under the aegis of the Sindh Employees Alliance, continued their hunger strike outside the press club... HYDERABAD: Daughters of slain UTP stage protest demo HYDERABAD, March 21: Two daughters of Mehmood Khoso, an under-trial prisoner, who was tortured to death by some officials of the Central Jail, Hyderabad, held a protest demonstration and hunger strike... HYDERABAD: Motherland day observed by STPP HYDERABDAD, March 21: The Sindh Tarraqi Passand Party (STPP), while celebrating Motherland Day at a local hotel on Thursday, strongly protested against and condemned the grant of approval by ECNEC for... HYDERABAD: Protest against kidnapping of journalist held HYDERABAD, March 21: The people of Qasimabad staged a protest demonstration and a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Thursday against the kidnapping of a journalist, Ghulam Hussain... PESHAWAR: Plan to maintain law and order chalked out PESHAWAR, March 21: Keeping in view the current terrorist activities in the country and sensitivity during the month of Muharram, the Capital City Police have chalked out a comprehensive plan to... PESHAWAR: Genuine candidates being denied jobs: Ad hoc appointments in varsity PESHAWAR, March 21: Ad hoc appointments in various academic departments, and to some administrative posts in the University of Peshawar have deprived deserving candidates of applying for jobs in the university.... PESHAWAR: FIA arrests three travel agency men PESHAWAR, March 21: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), passport circle, on Wednesday arrested three travel agency men in Bannu for fleecing innocent people on the pretext of sending them to Middle... SWABI: Work on Ghazi Barotha to resume SWABI, March 21: Work on Ghazi Barotha hydro project will be resumed in the second week of April under an agreement reached between Wapda and the Italian company about four weeks... PESHAWAR: Afghans celebrate Nauroze PESHAWAR, March 21: The Afghan nationals celebrated the festival of Nauroze here on Thursday, which this year fell in the holy month of Muharram.... MANSEHRA: PHC admits petition against dist govt MANSEHRA, March 21: A Peshawar High Court’s divisional bench, Abbottabad, on Thursday admitted for regular hearing a writ petition against the Mansehra district government.... PESHAWAR: PML-QA to hold public meeting on 26th PESHAWAR, March 21: The leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League (QA) will address a convention of the Muslim Students Federation (MSF) here at the Nishtar Hall on March 26....

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