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April 15, 2002 Monday Safar 1, 1423 KARACHI: Prolonged power failure hits many areas KARACHI, April 14: Despite the fact that the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation announced, on Saturday, that there would be no loadshedding as long as the Water and Power Development Authority continued... KARACHI: Referendum puts city govt in dilemma KARACHI, April 14: The upcoming referendum has put the city district government in a predicament.... KARACHI: Eight cars, 12 bikes hijacked KARACHI, April 14: Twenty vehicles — eight cars and 12 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Sunday, police said.... KARACHI: Referendum aimed at reforms’ continuity KARACHI, April 14: Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider has said there is no plan to make union and district councils as electoral college.... KARACHI: Irrigation system to be streamlined KARACHI, April 14: Steps to rehabilitate the age-old irrigation system in Sindh and to streamline its operation along modern lines came under consideration at a high-level meeting held at the Governor’s... KARACHI: 1,300 graduates given degrees at IBA convocation KARACHI, April 14: About 1,300 graduates of three batches of the Institute of Business Administration were awarded master’s and bachelor’s degrees at the first convocation of the institute here on Saturday.... KARACHI: PTCL knows how to delay phones’ digitalization KARACHI, April 14: There are a large number of bureaucratic obstacles to converting an analogue phone connection (a six-digit number) to a digital phone connection (a seven-digit phone connection).... KARACHI: Need for family planning stressed KARACHI, April 14: Speakers at a function here on Sunday urging the masses to adopt family planning methods said that economic progress in the country was being neutralized by the explosive... KARACHI: Free medical camp KARACHI, April 14: More than 500 patients were provided treatment and medicines at a free medical camp organized on Sunday at Aiwan-i-Tijarat Wa Sanat Trust Hospital of the Karachi Chamber of... KARACHI: Govt quarters’ residents seek President’s help KARACHI, April 14: The president of the Pakistan Quarters Residents Society has drawn the attention of President Pervez Musharraf to a decision taken by the ministry of housing to issue eviction... KARACHI: Education show KARACHI, April 14: Thousands of students visited the 11th International Education Exhibition that opened on Sunday at the Pearl-Continental Hotel, under the auspices of World Learning Bureau.... KARACHI: Promotion of safe blood donation stressed KARACHI, April 14: The need to develop the culture of blood donation is strongly needed in the country where 75 per cent of its blood requirement is met through professional donors,... KARACHI: Kashmir, Palestine seminar on 17th KARACHI, April 14: At a time when the Muslim world is facing Israeli and Indian brutalities in Palestine and the occupied Kashmir and security analysts have urged the European Union to... KARACHI: Muttahida urges President to ensure provincial autonomy KARACHI, April 14: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has once again urged President General Pervez Musharraf to give complete autonomy to Sindh and other small provinces.... KARACHI: Probe into Race Course affairs ordered KARACHI, April 14: The Sindh Governor, Mohammedmian Soomro, has asked the City Nazim, Naimatullah Khan, to inquire into the affairs of the Karachi Race Club, about which a number of irregularities... KARACHI: PPP bars its Nazims from referendum KARACHI, April 14: After the decision by the Jammat-i-Islami backed Al-Khidmat group to remain neutral during the process of referendum, the PPP also announced, on Sunday, to bar the Nazims, Naib... KARACHI: Symposium held on fleet management KARACHI, April 14: Interior minister, Lt-Gen Moinuddin Haider, has lauded the contribution of Trakker and Hinopak in developing a better transport system and promoting safe and efficient fleet management services in... KARACHI: Elections to be on party basis KARACHI, April 14: Federal Information Minister Nisar Memon has said that the scheduled general elections will be held on a party basis in October.... DADU: Two policemen, Lasmo official booked in murder case DADU, April 14: Two policemen and a Lasmo official were booked in Fazal Mari’s murder case at the Naing Sharif police station on Sunday.... SHIKARPUR: PML barred from holding convention SHIKARPUR, April 14: The district Shikarpur convention of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), scheduled to be held at the Sabza-i-Zar lawn, here on Sunday, was not allowed by the local administration... HYDERABAD: Plan to build dams on River Indus opposed: Musharraf’s address in Sindh HYDERABAD, April 14: Expressing dismay over the remarks of President Musharraf at his Sindh public meetings that water shortage in River Indus is natural and nothing can be done about it,... LARKANA: Prison chief, cops accused of torture LARKANA, April 14: A prisoner, Sajjad Ali Bozdar, admitted in the Chandka Medical College Hospital, alleged that the jail superintendent and policemen at the Central Prison Larkana had severely tortured him... HYDERABAD: Body formed to protect journalists’ rights HYDERABAD, April 14: Newsmen of different parts of the province formed the Sindh Journalists’ Organization (SJO) at the first ever journalist’s convention at Sindh level held here on Sunday.... HYDERABAD: Drive launched for surgeon’s recovery HYDERABAD, April 14: A heavy contingent of police launched an operation against dacoits in the katcha area within the jurisdiction of the Hatri police station for the recovery of a professor... HYDERABAD: Killing condemned HYDERABAD, April 14: The Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz has condemned the killing of a protester at Lasmo’s Bhit Jabal camp in Dadu district on Saturday and accused the oil exploration company,... NAWABSHAH: Sindh not to vote in referendum, says PPP NAWABSHAH, April 14: The senior vice chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, has predicted that the people of Sindh would not cast their vote in the referendum.... MIRPURKHAS: 18 armymen injured in accident MIRPURKHAS, April 14: At least 18 army personnel of the Punjab regiment were injured when an army truck, headed for Chhor from Hyderabad, fell into a ditch when its driver tried... SUKKUR: Three killed SUKKUR, April 14: Three people, including a bridegroom, were killed and 17 others injured near Jaferabad on Saturday night.... PESHAWAR: ANP supports govt policies PESHAWAR, April 14: The Awami National Party (ANP) has extended full support to the internal and external policies of the government which, it said, were in consonance with the long-held standpoints... PESHAWAR: MMA to discuss referendum on 20th PESHAWAR, April 14: The leaders of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal here on Sunday extended invitation to the leaders of different political parties and representatives of lawyers community to attend its meeting on... PESHAWAR: Exhibition opens PESHAWAR, April 14: NWFP Minister for Industries, Commerce and Information Technology, Mohsin Aziz, has said that all available resources would be properly utilized for the promotion and development of cottage industry,... PESHAWAR: Kidnapped doctor untraced PESHAWAR, April 14: The city police have failed to recover Dr Inayat Roghani, associate professor of Hayatabad Medical College and brother of provincial health minister Dr Mehr Taj Roghani, who was... PESHAWAR: Minister welcomes NAPP’s stand PESHAWAR, April 14: NWFP Irrigation Minister Shamsul Mulk called on National Awami Party Pakistan President Ajmal Khattak at his residence in Akora Khattak on Sunday and appreciated his unconditional support to the referendum.... PESHAWAR: PPP(S) to work for success of referendum PESHAWAR, April 14: A nine-member delegation of Pakistan People’s Party (Sherpao group) called on NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah at the Governor’s House here on Saturday and apprised him of...

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