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July 20, 2002 Saturday Jamadi-ul-Awwal 9, 1423 KARACHI: Reckless driving claims two lives: 6 cars, 15 bikes hijacked KARACHI, July 19: Twenty-one vehicles — six cars and 15 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Friday, police sources said.... KARACHI: Panic grips Malir after trader’s killing KARACHI, July 19: Malir was in the grip of panic on Friday as shops and markets stayed shut amid protest against overnight raids and arrests by police in connection with the... KARACHI: City Council sets up committee KARACHI, July 19: Convener of the city council and Naib Nazim Karachi, Tariq Hasan, has formed a committee comprising the house members and the UC Nazims belonging to the towns through... KARACHI: Action to be taken against extortionists KARACHI, July 19: Governor Sindh Muhammedmian Soomro has directed the authorities concerned to take effective and coordinated steps for elimination of extortion of money.... KARACHI: Rickshaws should have silencers by 25th KARACHI, July 19: Rickshaws without environment-friendly silencers will not be issued fitness certificate from July 25.... KARACHI: Localized power failures continue KARACHI, July 19: Localized power faults continued to cause power shutdowns on Friday as residents calling from Gulistan-i- Jauher, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Federal B Area and PECHS told Dawn their localities had been... KARACHI: Notice to govt on KWSB bills KARACHI, July 19: A division bench of the Sindh High Court has put the provincial and the city governments on notice in a constitutional petition challenging vires of the water, fire... KARACHI: KUTS’ meeting with VC next week KARACHI, July 19: The executive council of Karachi University Teachers Society (KUTS) was informed on Friday at an emergency meeting by its office-bearers that dialogue could not be initiated with the... KARACHI: Repair of ICI, Mochko, Shershah bridges begins KARACHI, July 19: Work on repair of ICI, Mochko and Shershah bridges has started and will be completed soon.... KARACHI: Early completion of Malir bridge project ordered KARACHI, July 19: Work continues on construction of footpaths with strong walls on both sides of the Malir river bridge at the National Highway is continuing.... KARACHI: More charged-parking lots KARACHI, July 19: Charged parking system has space for further improvement and it will be done to facilitate the masses, says EDO Finance and Planning Shoaib Siddique, while talking to newsmen... KARACHI: CPSP changes results KARACHI, July 19: The doctors who appeared in the post-graduate examination of the College of Physician & Surgeons of Pakistan (CPSP) are faced with an unprecedented situation after the results have... KARACHI: Regular eye checkup for children advised KARACHI, July 19: Lack of information and absence of adequate facilities for early diagnosis and timely intervention is noticed to enhance chances of poor vision in one eye or “amblyopia” among... KARACHI: Higher education reforms backed KARACHI, July 19: President General Pervez Musharraf has expressed his commitment to introducing the recommendations of the Task Force on Higher Education.... KARACHI: Partly cloudy weather KARACHI, July 19: City’s weather will continue to be partly cloudy/cloudy on Saturday, a weather forecast said.... KARACHI: Condolence meeting KARACHI, July 19: The Labour Party Pakistan will hold a meeting on July 21 at the Jedojehad Centre Nursery, PECHS W-51, at 6 pm, to condole the death of comrade Sain... KARACHI: DIT admissions KARACHI, July 19: Admission forms for Diploma in Information Technology (DIT) at Aligarh Institute of Technology can be submitted till Aug 5.... KARACHI: PTI, NAP begin intra-party elections KARACHI, July 19: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the National Awami Party (NAP) have set in motion the process of democratization of the party structures by holding intra-party elections to meet... KARACHI: SHC admits plea against delimitation of constituencies KARACHI, July 19: While admitting a constitutional petition of Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, who has challenged delimitation of constituencies in the province, for hearing on July 26, a division bench of... KARACHI: SHC asks for PS diary in detention case KARACHI, July 19: A division bench of the Sindh High Court summoned on Friday the station diary of Malir Cantt police station.... KARACHI: Nepra slammed for power tariff increase KARACHI, July 19: Former Haq Parast legislators have condemned Nepra for allowing Wapda to further increase its power tariff and urged President Pervez Musharraf to take notice of this.... KARACHI: Restoration of political activities demanded KARACHI, July 19: Leaders of political and religious parties at an all-party conference here on Friday urged the government to lift the ban on political activities immediately to create a conducive... KARACHI: Fishermen offer prayers KARACHI, July 19: A large number of fishermen gathered at the Karachi Fish Harbour after Friday prayers to seek the blessings of Allah for a prosperous new fishing season.... KARACHI: Lahori involved in 25 killing cases KARACHI, July 19: The investigation branch of Karachi police claimed on Friday that Mohammad Ajmal alias Akram Lahori who is ex-chief of banned outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi has confessed his involvement in 25... KARACHI: SHC rejects engineer’s petition KARACHI, July 19: A division bench of the Sindh High Court dismissed on Friday a constitutional petition filed by an assistant executive engineer of the Pakistan Navy as being devoid of... KARACHI: Dawn staffers grieved KARACHI, July 19: Moosa Hasan, father-in-law of Dawn staffers Azizullah Sharif and Humair Ishtiaq died on Friday at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. He was 59.... KARACHI: Urdu instant messenger KARACHI, July 19: The First Urdu Instant Messenger — a project of e-Taleem.Com — was launched at a ceremony held at a local on Friday.... KARACHI: Admission KARACHI, July 19: Admission to second-year classes has started in PECHS Govt College for Women, says a press release.... HYDERABAD: Raids fail to find illegal detainee HYDERABAD, July 19: Two unsuccessful raids were conducted at the Fort police station here on Thursday under the directives of the Sindh High Court and the District and Sessions Judge for... HYDERABAD: SHC allows woman to go with parents HYDERABAD July 19: Justice Ghulam Rabbani of Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, here on Friday allowed a woman to go with her parents when she expressed her willingness to do... HYDERABAD: MMA wants polls under national govt HYDERABAD, July 19: The secretary-general of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, who is also the provincial secretary general of the JUI(F), has demanded that the chief election commissioner should... HYDERABAD: SU on-line service working properly HYDERABAD, July 19: The On-line Information Service (OIS), established last month by the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, has received more than 100 applications from students seeking information about admissions and examinations.... HYDERABAD: SSGS customer service HYDERABAD, July 19: The managing director of Sui Southern Gas Company Limited, has said to provide better facilities to the consumers, the customer service facility will be decentralized.... KHAIRPUR: Villagers protest against power disconnections KHAIRPUR, July 19: The villagers belonging to seven villages held a sit-in on the National Highway at Shah Ladhani and blocked the road for an hour the other day in protest... HYDERABAD: PPP-SB leader freed after 41 days in detention HYDERABAD, July 19: A provincial leader of the PPP-SB, Ali Ahmed Palepoto, was released by the local investigation police on Thursday following his 41-day-long detention at different police stations in and... HYDERABAD: Robbers injure official HYDERABAD, July 19: An official of the District Accounts Office, Saifullah Magsi, was shot and injured by two unidentified armed men when he offered them resistance in Tando Thoro on Friday.... HYDERABAD: Lawyer meets Omer Sheikh HYDERABAD, July 19: Mohsin Imam, the junior defence counsel of a convict in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder case, met his client, Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, inside the central jail... HYDERABAD: Demo against chiefs of Zakat bodies staged HYDERABAD, July 19: The residents of Lalu Lashari Goth, Baldia Colony, Madina Town, Aliabad and adjoining areas staged a demonstration outside the local press club on Friday against the alleged misappropriation... HYDERABAD: Commissioner to meet cane growers HYDERABAD, July 19: Sindh Cane Commissioner Bashir Ahmed Keerio is going to undertake an exhaustive tour of interior Sindh during which he will inspect record of the sugar mills and meet... PESHAWAR: 33pc seats for women in parliament urged PESHAWAR, July 19: The Aurat Foundation has suggested to the major political parties to include some change-oriented points in their manifestos regarding empowering womenfolk in all walks of life.... PESHAWAR: Hydropower project okayed PESHAWAR, July 19: The NWFP government has finally decided to construct Malakand-III Hydropower project near Dargai in Malakand Agency, some 110 kilometres north-east of Peshawar.... PESHAWAR: Three get bail in murder case PESHAWAR, July 19: Three persons facing a murder charge were granted bail by the court of the additional district and sessions judge here.... PESHAWAR: Women councillors’ problems discussed PESHAWAR, July 19: NWFP Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Law, Athar Minnallah, has said the women councillors must play their role in the uplift of the country hand in... PESHAWAR: Undeserving people allotted houses KOHAT, July 19: The government constructed 80 houses for the destitute and widows at a cost of Rs4.6 million in 2000 in the KDA township.... PESHAWAR: IT hits video game trade, say dealers PESHAWAR, July 19: With the growing craze for information technology among the youth, the business of video games and video cassettes has suffered as many of their erstwhile clients now use computers, video game... PESHAWAR: PML-QA meeting on 27th PESHAWAR, July 19: The provincial president of the Pakistan Muslim League (QA), Salim Saifullah Khan, has convened a special meeting of the party’s provincial council in Peshawar on July 27....

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