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June 13, 2002 Thursday Rabi-us-Sani 1, 1423 KARACHI: No letup in power failure complaints KARACHI, June 12: Many areas faced intermittent power breakdowns on Wednesday as the temperature stood at 36 degrees centigrade.... KARACHI: Vehicle registration in a day ordered: Anti-car lifting steps reviewed KARACHI, June 12: The Excise and Taxation Department has been directed to complete the registration and issuance of standardized registration plates for vehicles in a single day to facilitate the people,... KARACHI: Truck driver shot dead KARACHI, June 12: Unidentified motorcyclists shot a truck driver to death in Landhi on late Tuesday night.... KARACHI: SHC orders test of bulletproof jackets KARACHI, June 12: Justice Wahid Bux Brohi directed on Wednesday the official assignee of the Sindh High Court to undertake separate tests of bulletproof jackets, imported from South Africa on the... KARACHI: Severing of illegal water supplies ordered KARACHI, June 12: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has directed that illegal water connections be immediately severed, if they are not regularized with due payments.... KARACHI: BSc results announced KARACHI, June 12: The University of Karachi on Wednesday announced the results of BSc (pass) first-year annual examinations 2001.... KARACHI: Man found dead KARACHI, June 12: An unidentified man was found dead in Surjani Town on Wednesday. The police said that the body of a man, who was in his mid-30s, was found near the terminus of Niaz Coach in Surjani Town. The body was sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital...... KARACHI: Medical graduates to serve public sector for 5 years: Rs1.845m cash awards to students KARACHI, June 12: Merit cash awards of Rs1.845 million were given away to 123 meritorious students who passed their HSC examinations-2001 under the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, here at a... KARACHI: Dist govts face difficulty in budget making: Incomplete devolution KARACHI, June 12: District governments in Sindh, including the city government Karachi, are faced with a severe difficulty in formulation of budget 2002-2003, due to the persisting confusion over non-devolution of... KARACHI: Woman allotted police station’s phone number KARACHI, June 12: A woman customer of Pakistan Telecommunication Company received over a hundred calls from different people in a couple of days, as the telephone number allotted to her by... KARACHI: Tribute paid to Ra’ana Liaquat KARACHI, June 12: Begum Tazeen Faridi, president of the All Pakistan Women’s Association, said Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan would be remembered as the first Pakistani woman to organize and launch... KARACHI: KUTS rejects task force proposals KARACHI, June 12: The Karachi University Teachers’ Society (KUTS), in a meeting on Wednesday, unanimously rejected recommendations of the task force on higher education.... KARACHI: Transporters reign supreme in Lyari KARACHI, June 12: Transport mafia still reigns supreme in Lyari Town as it continues to occupy the main road, according to officials.... KARACHI: Omar Farid at V.M. Art KARACHI, June 12: An exhibition of paintings by Omar Farid will open at the V.M. Art Gallery on Thursday.... KARACHI: Groundbreaking KARACHI, June 12: The federal communication minister, Lt-Gen Javed Ashraf Kazi, will perform the groundbreaking ceremony of “Reconstruction of Napier Mole Wharf” project at Karachi port on June 14. The project... KARACHI: PAF fully prepared to face threat: Mushaf KARACHI, June 12: The Pakistan Air Force is fully geared and determined to take on the enemy and inflict significant damages despite numerical disparity, said, the Chief of Air Staff, Air... KARACHI: Govt decides to dispose of central prison premises KARACHI, June 12: The Sindh Privatization Commission (SPC) has finally got the approval to go ahead with a plan to dispose of the premises of Central Prison Karachi in consultation with... KARACHI: PPP comes under middle-class pressure KARACHI, June 12: Secretary information PPP, Taj Haider, said on Wednesday that a high-level meeting of the PPP, chaired by its leader Ms Benazir Bhutto, was being held in Dubai, and... KARACHI: 1,400 agitational activities took place in 5 months KARACHI, June 12: With an average of 10 a day, as many as 1,457 agitational activities took place in the past five months in the province, a report compiled by the... KARACHI: Five cars, 11 bikes hijacked KARACHI, June 12: Sixteen vehicles — five cars and 11 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Wednesday, the police said.... KARACHI: Urdu software developed KARACHI, June 12: A local Internet and software company has developed an Urdu Messenger software for Internet users to chat in Urdu language.... KARACHI: Pearl case SHC tells govt to clarify position about detentions KARACHI, June 12: After denial by police that they had raided the house of Mehmood Fattani or had picked him up along with three others, in connection with the Daniel Pearl... KARACHI: Provincial Finance Award today: minister KARACHI, June 12: Sindh is expected to have its first-ever Provincial Finance Award on Thursday.... KARACHI: JI to contest polls from MMA platform KARACHI, June 12: The Jammat-i-Islami (JI) on Wednesday announced that it would contest the general elections to be held in October from the platform of the Muttahida Mujlish-i-Aml (MMA), in Sindh.... KARACHI: MQM not to boycott polls KARACHI, June 12: Supreme leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf Hussain, has said his party has no plan to boycott the forthcoming general elections. He was responding to the queries... KARACHI: Hot and humid KARACHI, June 12: The city’s weather would remain hot and humid on Thursday, the Met office said. The people experienced another hot and humid day with the maximum temperature recorded at... HYDERABAD: PTI rejects Thal canal, Kalabagh projects HYDERABAD, June 12: The workers’ convention of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI), Sindh, held here on Tuesday passed several resolutions rejecting the greater Thal canal and the Kalabagh dam projects till a... HYDERABAD: Uproar over auction of college plot: Taluka Council threatens resignation HYDERABAD, June 12: The members of the City Taluka Council here on Wednesday threatened to resign en bloc if the auction of the Old Bakra Mandi plot, meant for a girls... HYDERABAD: Jirga should ensure norms of justice: AI HYDERABAD, June 12: The secretary general, Amnesty International (AI), Pakistan, Iqbal Detho, in a policy statement on Jirga system faxed to Dawn on Tuesday, said that any community-based system for justice... HYDERABAD: Public School to start O-level classes soon HYDERABAD, June 12: District Nazim Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman has directed the officials concerned to immediately start “O” level classes in the Hyderabad Public School.... HYDERABAD: SU set to enforce reforms HYDERABAD, June 12: The Vice Chancellor of the University of Sindh, Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, has constituted a 16-member committee for the implementation of educational reforms/recommendations for the task force in the... HYDERABAD: Legislation against child labour demanded HYDERABAD, June 12: The leaders of the All Pakistan Federation of Trade Unions have urged the government to legislate laws against child labour and implement the same effectively.... SUKKUR: Nazim inspects uplift projects SUKKUR, June 12: District Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah visited Salehpat taluka here on Wednesday and inspected ongoing development schemes.... PESHAWAR: 71 POs arrested in Peshawar PESHAWAR, June 12: The city police, in a six-hour grand operation in the jurisdiction of six rural and two urban police stations, arrested 71 proclaimed offenders (POs) and 56 others for... PESHAWAR: New body to prepare report on police dept modernization PESHAWAR, June 12: NWFP Governor Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that the establishment of public safety commissions is at the final stage and will be announced shortly.... PESHAWAR: Court allows girl to dissolve Nikah: Childhood marriage PESHAWAR, June 12: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday, accepting a writ petition, allowed dissolution of marriage of a girl who had fallen prey to the tribal... PESHAWAR: Projects for human uplift PESHAWAR, June 12: The Chairman of the National Commission on Human Development (NCHD), Dr Nasim Ashraf, has said that the commission will undertake several projects in social sector in four districts... ISLAMABAD: Improper disposal of hospital waste lead to fatal diseases: expert ISLAMABAD, June 12: Eighty per cent of the total prevalent Hepatitis B cases are caused by the improper disposal of hospital waste.... RAWALPINDI: Contractors asked to complete work on time: Nullah Leh project RAWALPINDI, June 12: The district government has asked the contractors of Leh extension project to complete the work within the stipulated timeframe.... ISLAMABAD: CDA imposes sewerage tax in Capital ISLAMABAD, June 12: Sewerage tax will be imposed for the first time in the jurisdiction of Islamabad by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) from the beginning of next fiscal year (July... RAWALPINDI: Lawyers plan anti-govt drive RAWALPINDI, June 12: Lawyers are planning to launch a countrywide movement against the government which, they say, has been taking steps violative of the constitution.... RAWALPINDI: Deeply-installed tubewells may deplete water table: experts RAWALPINDI, June 12: The district government’s plan to deeply install 14 new tubewells in the city may cause depletion of the water table, experts said.... ISLAMABAD: 20kg bag of wheat flour price goes up by Rs2 ISLAMABAD, June 12: Before the announcement of federal budget 2002-2003 on June 15, the price of 20kg bag of wheat flour has gone up by Rs2 in the country due to... ISLAMABAD: Ali Imam was a genius, say speakers ISLAMABAD, June 12: Paying tribute to Ali Imam is not merely paying respects to an artist but, as Professor Khawja Masood rightly said, paying homage to “a many splendoured, genius”.... ISLAMABAD: 140 govt flats at G-8/1 to be renovated ISLAMABAD, June 12: The planning wing of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) will renovate some 140 government flats at sub-sector G-8/1.... RAWALPINDI: Teachers being trained in new syllabi RAWALPINDI, June 12: Special training is being given to about 400 lecturers of local colleges to acquaint them with the new syllabi....

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