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August 6, 2002 Tuesday Jamadi-ul-Awwal 26,1423 KARACHI: City govt wants police to vacate plots : Illegal police stations KARACHI, Aug 5: The land department of the city government has asked the Sindh Ombudsman to direct the police department to vacate all illegally occupied plots and buildings, presently being used... KARACHI: Shifting of jail to take time: home secy KARACHI, Aug 5: Sindh Home Secretary Brig Mukhtar Ahmed (retd) said here on Monday that Karachi Central Prison would not be shifted in the immediate future.... KARACHI: SWD hires amateurs to dissect whale KARACHI, Aug 5: The Sindh Wildlife department staff, with the assistance of some amateurs, is dissecting the huge body of the whale.... KARACHI: Presence of FBI challenged KARACHI, Aug 5: A lawyer filed on Monday a constitutional petition in the Sindh High Court questioning the presence of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) personnel in Pakistan and... KARACHI: Police put on high alert KARACHI, Aug 5: The Sindh police has been placed on a high alert in view of the independence day celebrations on Aug 14, and snap checking of vehicles has been launched... KARACHI: Submission of challan KARACHI, Aug 5: Justice Shabbir Ahmed of the High Court of Sindh, who is also the administrative judge (AJ) of the anti-terrorism courts for Karachi, extended on Monday the date for... KARACHI: Private educational institutes have highest profitability KARACHI, Aug 5: Around 36,096 private educational institutions in Pakistan earn around Rs 22 billion every year, with one of the highest profitability ratios of around 50 per cent.... KARACHI: Law urged to remove physical barriers for disabled KARACHI, Aug 5: A law for the “removal of environmental barriers,” is needed for the disabled so that they can fully participate in daily activities in society, say leading representatives of... KARACHI: Private sector’s role in TB control stressed KARACHI, Aug 5: Sindh health minister Ahsan Ahmed has said the danger posed by tuberculosis is of a massive dimension and there will be no success until the private health sector... KARACHI: Water chamber in PECHS uncovered KARACHI, Aug 5: At least four-foot long and three-foot wide water chamber, situated in the middle of PECHS’s Mehmood Ghaznavi Road, near Tariq Road’s commercial area, has been lying uncovered... KARACHI: Admissions to Inter from next week KARACHI, Aug 5: After an inordinate delay, the committee established for admissions to Class XI in Intermediate colleges of the city has managed to prepare a schedule of admissions.... KARACHI: KU employees association protest today KARACHI, Aug 5: The Karachi University Employees Welfare Association has expressed dissatisfaction over the working of the varsity administration, and has decided to join a protest walk being arranged by teachers... KARACHI: MBBS 2nd Professional results KARACHI, Aug 5: The KU examinations department on Monday announced the results of the 2nd Professional MBBS Annual Examinations 2002.... KARACHI: Pollution of Keenjhar lake a major concern KARACHI, Aug 5: Environmentalists have expressed their deep concern regarding the pollution of the Keenjhar (Kalri) Lake, a prominent sanctuary for a wide variety of water fowl and important for the... KARACHI: Development projects demanded for Surjani KARACHI, Aug 5: The Surjani Councillor Ittehad has demanded the launching of development projects in Union Council Maymarabad No-6, Surjani Town and Gadap Town with the consultation of area councillors.... KARACHI: Case study document KARACHI, Aug 5: The Pakistan Voluntary Health and Nutrition Association will hold a launching ceremony of its case study document “Courage to Challenge and Change” here on Tuesday.... KARACHI: Poetry collection launched KARACHI, Aug 5: Harf-i-Zer-i-Lub, a poetry collection from Nikhat Barelvi, was formally launched on Sunday at the Irteqa Literary Forum. Senior poets Hemayat Ali Shaer and Khalid Ali, both Nikhat’s close... KARACHI: Need for low-cost housing stressed;: Saarc workshop begins KARACHI, Aug 5: Speakers at a workshop said on Monday that unless low-cost construction material is used, provision of inexpensive housing would remain a dream in developing countries.... KARACHI: Carjackers shoot man to death: Worker commits suicide KARACHI, Aug 5: Car hijackers shot a young man to death in SITE on Monday.... KARACHI: State appeal in Pearl case being prepared KARACHI, Aug 5: The Advocate-General Sindh, Raja Qureshi, said on Monday that “at the appellate stage we have a good case to defend against conviction of Ahmed Omar Shaikh and in... KARACHI: Condemned prisoner to be hanged today KARACHI, Aug 5: At least 50 people, including family members, met a condemned prisoner, who is to be hanged on Tuesday morning in Central Prison, Karachi, on the eve of his... KARACHI: Man sentenced to death for double murder KARACHI, Aug 5: An additional district and sessions judge, Malir, Abdul Malick, sentenced on Monday a man to death for murdering two brothers at the behest of their brother-in-law.... KARACHI: FCS board reconstituted KARACHI, Aug 5: The Sindh government has restructured the Board of Directors of Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) by nominating eight new directors for a period of three years.... KARACHI: Bail granted KARACHI, Aug 5: Justice Ataur Rahman of the High Court of Sindh admitted on Monday Ashique Ali to bail against a solvent surety of Rs10 million in five cases of alleged corruption.... LAHORE: Expressway taking human toll: HRCP LAHORE, Aug 5: The decision taken recently at a high-level meeting in Karachi, which concluded that the demolition of houses and mass eviction of people to make way for the Lyari... HYDERABAD: Amendments package to be finalized in a week: Memon HYDERABAD, Aug 5: Federal information, broadcasting and media development minister Nisar Memon has said that the draft of the constitutional amendments would be finalized in a week and then it would... HYDERABAD: Excesses of Tando Jam police decried HYDERABAD, Aug 5: Hundreds of villagers of Tando Jam staged a protest demonstration and blocked the Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas road for four hours to protest against the excesses of the Tando Jam police.... HYDERABAD: Palijo re-elected AT president HYDERABAD, Aug 5: The incumbent president of the Awami Tehrik, Rasool Bux Palijo, has been re-elected as its president at the party’s central elections at the Awami House, Prince Town, Qasimabad,... HYDERABAD: Rehabilitation of Kalabagh dam affectees in Sindh opposed HYDERABAD, Aug 5: The central executive of the Sindh Hari Committee at a meeting held on Sunday condemned the proposed rehabilitation of the Kalabagh dam project-affected people in Sindh and demanded... HYDERABAD: Last date for submission of exam forms HYDERABAD, Aug 5: The controller of examinations (annual), University of Sindh, announced here on Saturday that the last date for the submission of forms for the annual examination, 2002, of external... HYDERABAD: Chaos mars dist council session HYDERABAD, Aug 5: A member of the Hyderabad District Council, Jeeyando Soomro, on Monday injured himself with a piece of glass during the proceedings of the council’s session while protesting against... HYDERABAD: Arrest of villagers in fake case resented HYDERABAD, Aug 5: Several activists of the Awami Tehrik, Sobuo Rind Goth, Chambar, Tando Allahyar Taluka, staged a token hunger strike outside the press club on Monday to protest against the... HYDERABAD: IIF holds medical camp HYDERABAD, Aug 5: The Isra Islamic Foundation (IIF) organized its eleventh free medical camp at the Isra University Welfare Hospital on Sunday.... PESHAWAR: Two officials, six contractors held for corruption PESHAWAR, Aug 5: NWFP National Accountability Bureau has arrested two former education officials and six contractors for the alleged embezzlement of Rs14 million allocated during 1994-95, for the purchase of furniture... PESHAWAR: DCOs asked to extend expertise to dist govts PESHAWAR, Aug 5: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has asked the DCOs to provide technical assistance to the district administration, provide guidance to Nazimeen and coordinate diversified activities in the... PESHAWAR: ‘Art-on-wheels’ business thriving in city PESHAWAR, Aug 5: For school drop-out Ilyas Khan, business is literally looking good. In a junkyard here Ilyas and his brother Hayat turn trucks into works of art-on-wheels.... PESHAWAR: Demolition of Kutcha Abadi condemned PESHAWAR, Aug 5: Awami National Party (ANP) Information Secretary Haji Mohammed Adeel has resented railways move to demolish Kutcha Abadis here.... PESHAWAR: Governor reviews mega projects PESHAWAR, Aug 5: The NWFP governor, Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah, has said 17 mega uplift projects are at different stages of implementation in various parts of Peshawar, and urged the executing...

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