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July 4, 2002 Thursday Rabi-us-Sani 22,1423 KARACHI: KWSB told to check water contamination KARACHI, July 3: The Nazim Karachi, Naimatullah Khan, has expressed concern over KWSB’s failure to check water contamination.... KARACHI: Five cars, six bikes hijacked KARACHI, July 3: As many as 11 vehicles — five cars and six motorcycles — were taken away on Wednesday.... KARACHI: Flaws hinder working of new local govt system KARACHI, July 3: The devolution plan launched amid much fanfare to provide services to people at the doorstep, in its 10- month record, if any indicator, has failed to deliver the... KARACHI: Man commits suicide KARACHI, July 3: A man hanged himself in his Soldier Bazaar home on Wednesday.... KARACHI: Regular inspection of flyovers, bridges ordered KARACHI, July 3: All concerned officers of the City Government have been directed to regularly and continuously inspect all the flyovers and bridges in the city and in case garbage dumps... KARACHI: KDA’s arguments in land case dismissed KARACHI, July 3: A division bench of the Sindh High Court has dismissed KDA’s contention in a land allotment case while allowing that of Makhdoom Bilawal Cooperative Housing Society.... KARACHI: SBTE not to give short course exams KARACHI, July 3: The Sindh Board of Technical Education (SBTE) has decided to discontinue conducting some short course examinations and to allow the affiliated institutions to conduct such examinations in future,... KARACHI: Hepatitis E major threat to mothers KARACHI, July 3: The absence of treatment and inaccessibility of local women to expensive diagnostic facilities is feared to have fast turned Hepatitis E into the major factors contributory to maternal... KARACHI: Low-cost housing for expressway displaced KARACHI, July 3: The Overseas Pakistanis Group of Saudi Arabia has decided to construct low-cost houses on plots of 80 sq yards in sectors 9 and 10 of Hawkesbay Scheme-42, at... KARACHI: Chances of drizzle KARACHI, July 3: The Met office has forecast a partly cloudy or cloudy day with chances of drizzle in the city on Thursday.... KARACHI: Schools in interior lack facilities KARACHI, July 3: More than half of the government-run schools in the province lack drinking water facilities, toilets for their faculty members and students, whereas a vast majority of school buildings... KARACHI: KU unearths ghost employees KARACHI, July 3: A spokesman for the Karachi University has said that an organized group of ghost employees among the teachers and non-teaching staff had been unearthed. After proper enquiry some... KARACHI: Teachers’ body criticizes KU measures KARACHI, July 3: Referring to certain recent actions, which the university administration says are overhauling measures, the Karachi University Teachers’ Society (KUTS) on Wednesday said the steps were unjust and causing... KARACHI: Transporters stay on in Lyari areas KARACHI, July 3: Elsewhere in the city, goods transporters in Saddar, Lyari, Keamari and SITE towns are continuing their business as usual in residential areas of these towns, flouting all administrative... KARACHI: Gang-rape incident condemned KARACHI, July 3: The Joint Action Committee for Peace has expressed shock and grief over the shameful incident of gang-rape in Meerwala on June 22.... KARACHI: Cabinet to be further expanded: Soomro KARACHI, July 3: Sindh Governor Mohammedmian Soomro said on Wednesday more ministers will be inducted into the provincial cabinet shortly.... KARACHI: Lahori, others produced in court KARACHI, July 3: Ajmal alias Akram Lahori of Lashkar Jhangvi and his two co-accused were produced before different judicial magistrates of Karachi division where statements of prosecution witnesses under section 164... KARACHI: Corruption main cause of poverty, say speakers KARACHI, July 3: Speakers at a two-day seminar on Poverty- Alleviation emphasized that effect of economic growth could only be realized if the poor people are empowered and corruption is brought... KARACHI: Promotion of book culture discussed KARACHI: At a symposium on promotion of book culture, Ismail Saad, vice-chancellor of Hamdard University, advised the parents to give more attention to children and create in them interest and love... KARACHI: Detention material KARACHI, July 3: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, on Wednesday, directed the government to place on record the material for detention of the Fattanis on or before July... KARACHI: PPP criticizes inclusion of SDA men in cabinet KARACHI, July 3: The Pakistan People’s Party on Wednesday criticized the inclusion of three new ministers into the provincial cabinet having political affiliation with the Sindh Democratic Alliance and termed it... KARACHI: New ministers belong to interior of Sindh KARACHI, July 3: All the five new ministers inducted into the Sindh Cabinet belong to the interior of Sindh.... KARACHI: ARD meeting KARACHI, July 3: The Sindh chapter of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy held a meeting on Wednesday with provincial president of the alliance Nisar Ahmed Khuhro in the chair to... KARACHI: Officer’s absence questioned KARACHI, July 3: The provincial education secretary has been asked to explain why the court’s order regarding attendance of a responsible officer before the court was not complied with.... KARACHI: Elected KARACHI, July 3: In the annual elections of the Civil Services Academy Alumni Sindh, DIG Police Muhammad Yamin Khan was elected chairman while director commercial audits Ghufran Memon as general secretary.... HYDERABAD: World media indifferent on Kashmir, says JI HYDERABAD, July 3: The general secretary, Jamaat-i-Islami, Sindh, Rashid Naseem, has accused the world media of ignoring human rights violations in the occupied Kashmir and Palestinian territory.... HYDERABAD: ‘ADBP loan recovery date be extended’ HYDERABAD, July 3: A senior member of the Board of Revenue, Sindh, has recommended to the ADBP to extend the last date for payment of bank loans from June 30 to... LARKANA: SAB plans protest rally LARKANA, June 3: The Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB), Shahdadkot, has given a call for a protest rally on Thursday to draw the government’s attention towards the acute shortage of water.... DADU: Growers disrupt rail, road traffic 0 DADU, July 2: A large number of growers of Dadu Taluka staged a demonstration, blocked the Dadu-Larkana railway tracks, and Dadu-Piaro Goth road for six hours in... HYDERABAD: People should not be harassed: Nazim: Anti-encroachment drive HYDERABAD, July 3: Hyderabad city taluka Nazim Moinuddin Shaikh has directed the anti-encroachment committee and staff not to harass anyone while removing encroachments.... HYDERABAD: AT rejects proposed changes in constitution HYDERABAD, July 3: Awami Tehrik (AT) chief Rasool Bukhsh Palijo has appealed to the Supreme Court to take suo motu notice of the proposed constitutional amendments.... SUKKUR: Demo against unjust water distribution SUKKUR, July 3: Hundreds of growers from Ahmedpur and Adam Khan Khoso villages, Jacobabad district, staged a demonstration against the area irrigation officials outside the Jacobabad Press Club on Tuesday.... HYDERABAD: FIRs to be lodged for power theft: Hesco chief HYDERABAD, July 3: The Chief Executive of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco), Brig Tariq Arshad, has tipped tough new measures to check power-theft and said that joint teams with businessman... THATTA: Drug pushers injure three policemen THATTA, July 3: Drug traffickers started pelting stones on the Mirpur Sakro police to get two of their accomplices released as a result of which three of the latter were injured... NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: 3 nephews kidnapped NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 3: Three men kidnapped their three nephews from the Suhno Siyal village, near Mithiani, on Monday.... HYDERABAD: Food dept urged to protect wheat stock HYDERABAD, July 3: The provincial Minister for Food and Agriculture, Hassan Ali Chanhio, paid a surprise visit to the Bulhari wheat godowns here on Wednesday and ordered immediate measures to prevent... SHIKARPUR: PPP leader’s arrest resented SHIKARPUR, July 3: The activists of the Pakistan People’s Party staged a demonstration and blocked the National Highway near Sultankot against the arrest of the party leader Agha Tariq.... PESHAWAR: Innocent man languishing in jail PESHAWAR, July 3: An innocent person has been languishing here in the central prison for more than a year due to the negligence of the local police.... PESHAWAR: Rs1.87bn city govt budget presented PESHAWAR, July 3: The Peshawar city district government on Wednesday presented a surplus budget for the financial year 2002-03 with its receipts projected at over Rs1.87 billion and expenditure at Rs1.85... PESHAWAR: UTP dies for lack of treatment PESHAWAR, July 3: An under-trial prisoner in the central prison died early Tuesday for “lack of proper treatment”.... PESHAWAR: Nadra drive in Fata PESHAWAR, July 3: The National Database Registration Authority has decided to launch a special ID card delivery campaign in the Federally Adminis-tered Tribal Area.... PESHAWAR: Iftikhar for powers to autonomous bodies PESHAWAR, July 3: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah on Wednesday stressed the need for empowering the autonomous bodies to the maximum extent to enable them to speed up their work,... PESHAWAR: Police station set up on widow’s land PESHAWAR, July 3: The city police have yet not paid the price of a piece of land to a widow, which they had occupied 16 years back and established Gulbahar Police Station over... PESHAWAR: Youth sent to detention centre PESHAWAR, July 3: A juvenile offender was sent to the borstal institution inside the Haripur prison after a court convicted him in a narcotics case here on Wednesday....

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