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July 9, 2002 Tuesday Rabi-us-Sani 27,1423 KARACHI: Three persons commit suicide: 8 cars, 16 bikes hijacked KARACHI, July 8: Two women and a man committed suicide in the city on Monday A 14-year-old girl consumed a pesticide in her Mehmoodabad house.... KARACHI: KESC offers new relief package to defaulters KARACHI, July 8: Complying with a set of recommendations put forward by the city government last week, the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation has unveiled a relief package which is a vast... KARACHI: Closure of book bazaar disappoints people KARACHI, July 8: The suspension of the Sunday bazaar of second-hand books at Frere hall has disappointed book-lovers. Frere Hall was closed to the public after the bomb blast on June... KARACHI: Power failures persist KARACHI, July 8: Power breakdowns affected life in many city areas on Monday The worst affected areas included Gulshan-i-Iqbal, North Nazimabad, North Karachi, Muslimabad.... KARACHI: Rangers add to motorists’ problems KARACHI, July 8: Rangers closed on Monday evening Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Road to vehicular traffic from Jinnah Court to PIDC Chowk, the only outlet towards Clifton bridge after the closure of... KARACHI: Tin Hatti bridge to be repaired in a month KARACHI, July 8: The critical scrutiny of Tin Hatti bridge, damaged by a fire in the dumps of garbage and waste material under it recently, is under way.... KARACHI: PR blames Sindh govt for setback to KCR KARACHI, July 8: The Pakistan Railways on Monday blamed the Sindh govt for not cooperating with it in the revival of the Karachi Circular Railway.... KARACHI: City govt fails to organize sport events KARACHI, July 8: The City Government has failed to organize sport competitions and tournaments, including the ones regularly held under the defunct Karachi Metropolitan Corporation.... KARACHI: Five-day KWSB camp at Shanti Nagar KARACHI, July 8: Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has organized a five-day camp at Shah Abdul Latif Grammar School in Sindh Parra, Shanti Nagar, Gulshan Town, to regularize connections and ensure... KARACHI: Contaminated water supply KARACHI, July 8: Several parts of the city were continuously being supplied stinking water for the last couple of weeks, resulting in various gastro-intestinal diseases among residents of the affected localities.... KARACHI: Technical education in secondary schools planned KARACHI, July 8: The government is planning to introduce technical and vocational education, parallel to science and arts, in secondary schools from the next academic session for which a sum of... KARACHI: Cloudy weather KARACHI, July 8: The Met department has forecast cloudy or partly cloudy weather with chances of drizzle in the city on Tuesday.... KARACHI: KU teachers told to submit research details KARACHI, July 8: The vice-chancellor, University of Karachi, has asked all its faculty deans, heads of various teaching departments and directors of research institutions to submit details of their research and... KARACHI: 11 vocational training centres inoperative KARACHI, July 8: Eleven vocational training centres, nine in the interior of Sindh and two in Karachi, established by the Directorate of Manpower and Training, Labour Department, with the financial assistance... KARACHI: Yale fellowship awarded KARACHI, July 8: A local specialist in health education has been awarded a 13-week fellowship by Yale University of Connecticut, USA.... KARACHI: Modern fiction discussed KARACHI: Noted fiction writer Shaukat Siddiqui was chief guest at a literary sitting at Irteqa on Sunday evening while Mustafa Karim, also a known fiction writer, was in the chair.... KARACHI: All three positions go to private schools: SSC exam results announced KARACHI, July 8: The Board of Secondary Education, Karachi, on Monday announced the results of SSC part-II (regular and private) general group annual examinations 2002, with an overall pass percentage of... KARACHI: Urban transport scheme launched KARACHI, July 8: In order to find a long-term solution to Karachi’s transport problem, the Transport and Communication Department (TCD) of the City Government has launched the Urban Transport Scheme (UTS)... KARACHI: MQM demands release of protesters KARACHI, July 8: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s coordination committee has demanded the release of all those arrested for holding a protest rally at Larkana recently.... KARACHI: Court notice to police in custodial death case KARACHI, July 8: The SHO Dhabeji and the in charge CIA Thatta have been put on notice for July 27 in a suit filed by the widow and other heirs of... KARACHI: JSM rejects proposed changes to constitution KARACHI, July 8: The Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM) has said the present government plans to impose a unitary form of presidential system in the country under the guise of new constitutional... KARACHI: Governor hints at further expansion of cabinet KARACHI, July 8: Sindh Governor Mohammedmian Soomro here on Monday hinted at further expansion of the Sindh Cabinet and explained that the objective behind it was to develop closer liaison with... KARACHI: SHC restrains defendant in land case KARACHI, July 8: The Sindh High Court has restrained the Station Commander, Station Headquarters, Karachi Cantt, from dispossessing the plaintiff, Shaikh Masood Abdul Rahman, from the nursery on the land situated... KARACHI: SHC admits plea against AC decision KARACHI, July 8: The Sindh High Court issued on Monday notices for July 11 on the bail application of a former MNA and a former secretary-general of the United Bank Limited... KARACHI: Four bandits arrested KARACHI, July 8: The Anti-Car Lifting Cell, on Monday, arrested four bandits and recovered four pistols and live bullets from their possession.... KARACHI: NWP supports electoral package KARACHI, July 8: The central committee of National Workers Party has supported all the positive steps of the government, including restoration of joint electorate, reducing voting age to 18 years, direct... KARACHI: SC remands three men in judicial custody for tax evasion KARACHI, July 8: The Supreme Court registry at Karachi has dismissed leave to appeal and remanded Ashfaq Ahmed, Khurram Ashfaq and another man in judicial custody till furnishing a bank guarantee... HYDERABAD: ARD demands elections under caretaker set-up HYDERABAD, July 8: The president of Alliance for Restora-tion of Democracy (ARD), Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, has demanded the formation of the interim government, comprising all the political parties, at the... HYDERABAD: SU holds B.Ed, M.Ed exams from 16th HYDERABAD, July 8: The controller of examinations, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, on Monday announced that the B.Ed and M.Ed, off campus programme, annual examination of 2001 would start from July 16... HYDERABAD: No reliable evidence against 3 co-accused, counsel tells court: Daniel Pearl case HYDERABAD, July 8: Rai Basheer Ahmed, the counsel for the co-accused in the Daniel Pearl case, here on Monday started his final arguments which remained inconclusive when the court rose for... LARKANA: Storm-hit villages still without electricity LARKANA, July 8: The Hesco authorities have failed to restore the power supply to at least 60 villages in Ratodero sub-division, which had been cut off after a thunderstorm about ten... HYDERABAD: ‘Canal issue to be made poll agenda’ HYDERABAD, July 8: The Sindh National Council (SNC) and the Sindh National Party (SNP) will ask the people during the election campaign to vote against those candidates who had not openly... HYDERABAD: People urged to vote feudals out HYDERABAD, July 8: The Supporting Democratic Electoral Process (SDEP), an NGO, has called upon the voters to throw the feudal lords, Pirs and Mirs out of political arena in the... MIRPURKHAS: Exemplary punishment to rapists demanded MIRPURKHAS, July 8: A protest demonstration was taken out on Monday by the Citizens Action Committee for Women Rights, Mirpurkhas, with the collaboration of other NGOs against the gang rape of... SUKKUR: Villager killed SUKKUR, July 8: A villager was killed and another was injured in a clash between two groups at RD-151, near Nara Canal, Rohri taluka, here on Monday.... PESHAWAR: Police high-ups reluctant to take action against SHO: Death of boy in fake encounter PESHAWAR, July 8: The station house officer (SHO) of Bhana Mari Police Station, who was accused of killing a 17-year-old boy in a fake encounter, has been transferred to Crime Investigation... PESHAWAR: PPP to resist ban on Benazir PESHAWAR, July 8: The Pakistan People’s Party has termed the constitutional package by the government a mockery with the spirit of democracy, which aimed at blocking the way of democracy in... PESHAWAR: Woman gives birth to dead child in jail PESHAWAR, July 8: A woman prisoner has given birth to a dead child due to lack of proper treatment facilities at the central prison here.... PESHAWAR: Workshop for teachers held PESHAWAR, July 8: A three-day Teacher Training Workshop for the teachers of the Army Public Schools of the NWFP was conducted at the Army Public School and Degree College on Monday.... PESHAWAR: Call to reopen offices in NWFP: Employment exchange PESHAWAR, July 8: The people of NWFP are still deprived of facility of employment exchange service despite the fact that the NWFP governor had approved the summary allowing the establishment of... PESHAWAR: Storm, rain hit power distribution system PESHAWAR, July 8: A storm followed by heavy rain caused damage to power distribution system in many parts of district Swabi, Malakand and the adjacent areas on Sunday night.... NOWSHERA: Bicyclist killed in accident NOWSHERA, July 8: One person was killed and another injured when a speedy bus ran over a bicycle-rider on Rawalpindi-Peshawar Road near here, police said.... PESHAWAR: Dist Nazim off to Bangkok PESHAWAR, July 8: Nazim-i-Aala District Peshawar, Azam Afridi, proceeded on a four-day visit to Bangkok to participate in the forth Asian Mayors Forum and Regional Workshop being held there from July... PESHAWAR: Chemists not following prescriptions PESHAWAR, July 8: In the wake of increasing number of medicines in the country, many times chemists confuse the name of one drug with another and give medicines to patients other...

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