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August 20, 2002 Tuesday Jamadi-us-Saani 10, 1423 KARACHI: 168 illegal bus stands on encroached land in city KARACHI, Aug 19: Transporters have established 168 illegal bus stands in the city by encroaching upon plots, parks and road reservations meant for local buses’ operations.... KARACHI: Party certificate rule irks politicians KARACHI, Aug 19: Political parties have urged the government and the election commission to take urgent measures to remove “a very big lacuna” in the election law created by the requirement... KARACHI: Cable operators go on strike KARACHI, Aug 19: Cable operators in the city begun their three-day strike on Monday.... KARACHI: 127 explosions claimed 140 lives since 1990 KARACHI, Aug 19: At least 127 bomb blasts in the city have caused as many as 914 casualties since 1990.... KARACHI: Suspect dies, man commits suicide KARACHI, Aug 19: A man committed suicide in Quaidabad on Monday.... KARACHI: People asked to collect CNICs KARACHI, Aug 19: The Pakistan Post Office could not deliver hundreds of computerized national identity cards due to certain reasons and these were returned to local registration offices.... KARACHI: City govt to spend Rs20m on Orangi road KARACHI, Aug 19: The city Nazim, Naimatullah Khan, on Monday announced that the city government would provide Rs 20 million to Orangi Town for completing the construction of Shahrah-i-Orangi and the... KARACHI: Steps urged to improve quality of potable water KARACHI, Aug 19: Speakers at a workshop on Monday stressed the need for a political commitment to bring improvement in the quality of water for potable use.... KARACHI: Rs5.9m for repair of Wazir Mansion KARACHI, Aug 19: The federal government has sanctioned Rs 5.9 million for maintenance and repair of Wazir Mansion.... KARACHI: Laws urged to regulate alternative medicines KARACHI, Aug 19: Experts here on Monday underlined the need for effective laws to evaluate alternative medicines and to check misleading claims by quacks who offer their magic remedies.... KARACHI: DMC bags all three positions in MBBS KARACHI, Aug 19: The students of Dow Medical College clinched all the three positions in the first professional (part-A and B) MBBS annual examinations 2002.... KARACHI: Medical admissions KARACHI, Aug 19: The process of admissions in the two public sector medical colleges in the city is going ahead in a smooth manner, chairman of the admission committee for Dow... KARACHI: Miniatures at Chawkandi KARACHI, Aug 19: A group exhibitions of miniature paintings will open on Tuesday at Chawkandi Art.... KARACHI: Nasreen at Momart KARACHI, Aug 19: An exhibition of paintings by Nasreen Aurangzeb will open on Tuesday at Momart.... KARACHI: Reproductive health KARACHI, Aug. 19: The Marie Stopes Society spent Rs6,80,535 on restoration of reproductive health of deserving people during the last financial year 2001-02. The MSS performed family planning operations on 1,400... KARACHI: HSC exam KARACHI, Aug 19: The Board of Intermediate Education has informed the candidates of HSC part II (pre-medical) group annual examination 2002 that the scrutiny of scripts will start from August 20.... KARACHI: Dictionary of Bhittai’s work KARACHI, Aug 19: The dictionary of the language used by Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai in his poetry is being launched at the Avari Towers on Tuesday afternoon at 5 pm.... KARACHI: Last accused in Mir case granted bail KARACHI, Aug 19: The last arrested accused in the Mir Murtaza Bhutto murder case, a head constable, was granted bail on Monday by the trial court.... KARACHI: ATC declares six Harkat workers absconders KARACHI, Aug 19: An anti-terrorism court has declared six workers of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Aalmi, allegedly involved in the June 14 car bomb attack at the US consulate and attempt... KARACHI: SNF reiterates call for confederal system KARACHI, Aug 19: The Sindh National Front has reiterated its call for replacing the “highly centralized federal system” by a confederal system, saying that the “dictatorship of Islamabad, civilian or military,... KARACHI: Stamp duty being rationalized KARACHI, Aug 19: The Registration, Stamp and Evacuee Property Wing of the Board of Revenue, Sindh, has nullified an impression that the Sindh government has raised stamp duty on finance and... KARACHI: Muttahida starts interviewing candidates KARACHI, Aug 19: An eight-member election board of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Monday started interviews with candidates aspiring to contest the coming general elections from its platform at its... KARACHI: Linkages urged between industry and S&T KARACHI, Aug 19: Suparco chairman Raza Hussain said on Monday that country’s only space agency has been endeavouring to promote peaceful use of space science and space technology in Pakistan for... KARACHI: Candidates begin obtaining nomination forms KARACHI, Aug 19: The intending candidates of various political parties on Monday obtained nomination forms at the designated offices of the returning and assistant returning officers here on Monday.... KARACHI: Oil firm told to follow procedure in Khirthar KARACHI, Aug 19: The Sindh wildlife department has directed an oil company carrying out exploration work in the Khirthar National Park, not to carry out work at the Kambhu mountain in... KARACHI: Plebiscite only solution to Kashmir KARACHI, Aug 19: Addressing a press conference here at the Idara Noor-i-Haq on Monday, Sardar Ijaz Afzal Khan, the Amir of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Azad Kashmir, said that the Kashmir dispute could... KARACHI: MMA, SDA discuss electoral adjustment KARACHI, Aug 19: The President of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani, on Monday met the President of the Sindh Democratic Alliance, Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh, at the latter’s residence and... KARACHI: PPP (SB) announces candidates KARACHI, Aug 19: The Shaheed Bhutto group of the Pakistan People’s Party on Monday announced the names of its candidates for the nine national assembly seats from Sindh.... KARACHI: Arif Ishaq passes away KARACHI, Aug 19: The chief reporter of Jang, Karachi, Arif Ishaq, died here on Monday. He was 56.... KARACHI: SHC rejects appeal KARACHI, Aug 19: Justice Ali Aslam Jafri of the High Court of Sindh dismissed on Monday an appeal of a convict in a murder case.... HYDERABAD: Position holders demand more funds for education HYDERABAD, Aug 19: The position holders of the Higher Secondary Certificate Part II annual examinations 2002, held by the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE), have demanded massive allocation of... THATTA: Thatta PPP fails to select candidates THATTA, Aug 19: The Thatta PPP session winded up undecided on three seats following chaos on Monday.... SUKKUR: Canal breach floods four villages, crop in Jacobabad SUKKUR, Aug 19: Two hundred feet wide breach occurred in Noor Wah Canal of Jacobabad district on Sunday as a result four village and rice crop on thousands of acres of... DADU: Canal tampering detected DADU, Aug 19: In a move to check water thefts in Dadu District, special teams of the irrigation department on Monday raided several waterways and found at least 30 to have... DADU: Growers protest DADU, Aug 19: The growers of the Dadu Taluka and activists of political parties took out a protest rally on Monday against the water shortage in the lower Noor Wah and... HYDERABAD: Dr Baloch presents antiques to Sindhology HYDERABAD, Aug 19: Eminent educationist and scholar Dr N.A. Baloch has gifted some valuable historical items to the museum of the Institute of Sindhology of the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, for... HYDERABAD: MUET students launch project HYDERABAD, Aug 19: The final year students of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, have launched a project “Computerised control of induction motor”.... KHAIRPUR: Irrigation men fail to plug breach in Khairpur KHAIRPUR, Aug 19: The embankment of the Abul Wah developed a 20-foot breach at RD-24 near Wadda Pagria on Sunday evening, inundating standing crops.... HYDERABAD: Hyderabad board announces inter results HYDERABAD, Aug 19: The controller of examinations, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad, Prof Abdul Hafeez Soomro, on Monday announced the results of HSC-II, annual examination, 2002, of pre-engineering, pre-medical... LARKANA: Changes in venue of polling stations flayed LARKANA, Aug 19: The change of polling stations in PS-37 and NA-207, Larkana District, will create problems for the voters, particularly female voters.... NAWABSHAH: ‘Officials selling water’ NAWABSHAH, Aug 19: More than 20 tail-end, Abadgar, growers of Jado Minor, Malwah Branch, Mirrukun Branch and Jamal Shah Branch of irrigation sub-division, Qazi Ahmed, said they would stage a hunger... HYDERABAD: STPP will boycott polls HYDERABAD, Aug 19: The chairman, Sindh Taraqqi Passand Party (STPP), Dr Qadir Magsi, has announced on Monday that in view of the decision taken by its central committee, which held a... PESHAWAR: NWFP raises flood relief fund to Rs1m PESHAWAR, Aug 19: The NWFP government has enhanced financial allocation under the head of flood relief owing to increasing instances of floods in the different parts of the province, sources told... PESHAWAR: Candidates receive nomination papers PESHAWAR, Aug 19: On the first day of nomination papers filing for the general elections, the  returning officers of four National Assembly and 11 provincial assembly constituencies of the provincial capital... PESHAWAR: UBL employees want incentives restored PESHAWAR, Aug 19: The UBL Officers Association, Peshawar, and the All Pakistan Officers Federation have demanded of the bank management to restore the employees’ incentives.... PESHAWAR: Unclean wards add to patients’ miseries PESHAWAR, Aug 19: Patients in city’s various hospitals are facing a new menace of cockroaches, which are increasing in all wards, visits to the city’s hospitals revealed on Monday.... PESHAWAR: Proposed land law opposed PESHAWAR, Aug 19: The under-privileged people of the largest district of NWFP, Chitral, have unanimously rejected the proposed law of “land settlement” and declared it against the basic human rights.... PESHAWAR: Acute water shortage in Shaheen Town PESHAWAR, Aug 19: The people of Shaheen Town have been facing hardships for many months due to acute shortage of water, dilapidated roads and heaps of garbage in the area....

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