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December 27, 2002 Friday Shawwal 22, 1423 KARACHI: New gynae dept at CHK opens on 31st KARACHI, Dec 26: The Civil Hospital has long felt the need for a self-contained and well-equipped centre where childbirth and related cases could be dealt with properly. Its wait is finally... KARACHI: 13 cars, 28 bikes hijacked in 2 days KARACHI, Dec 26: A young man was killed and a policeman was injured in, what police claimed, an encounter in Nazimabad on Thursday.... KARACHI: Pirzada Qasim appointed first VC of Urdu varsity KARACHI, Dec 26: President of Pakistan, who is also the chancellor of federal government-run universities, has appointed Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui as vice chancellor of the Federal Government Urdu University... KARACHI: KESC pays compensation KARACHI, Dec 26: In an unprecedented gesture, the KESC management has acknowledged responsibility for accidental electrocution of a child and paid Rs100,000 as compensation.... KARACHI: LFO not part of Constitution: Said KARACHI, Dec 26: The court which decided the Zafar Ali Shah case in the year 2000 was not the Supreme Court of Pakistan in contemplation of the 1973 Constitution as its... KARACHI: Lifestyles show today KARACHI, Dec 26: After the huge success of Dawn’s Lifestyle exhibition in Islamabad and Lahore, the grand finale will take place on Dec 27—29 at the Karachi Expo Centre. The exhibition... KARACHI: PPP, PML-N workers held KARACHI, Dec 26: Police arrested six workers of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the Pakistan Peoples Party and registered FIRs against the leaders of the two parties for violating the... KARACHI: Homage to Quaid KARACHI, Dec 26: People thronged the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam on Wednesday to pay homage to the Father of the Nation on his 126th birth anniversary.... KARACHI: Inquiry ordered into School Management Committees’ affairs KARACHI, Dec 26: Following reports of misappropriations and malfunctioning of school management committees (SMCs), the Sindh education department has constituted an inquiry committee to investigate the matter.... KARACHI: Police told to act against beggars KARACHI, Dec 26: The Sindh government has decided to rid the metropolis of professional beggars operating under the supervision of a “mafia”.... KARACHI: New journalism award instituted KARACHI, Dec 26: The United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (Unesco) and the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) have instituted the Unesco/ PPF Gender in Journalism Annual Awards for two journalists... KARACHI: Demo held against water shortage KARACHI, Dec 26: Hundreds of people belonging to Union Council No 1 of Liaquatabad town on Thursday staged a demonstration against persisting water shortage in the locality.... KARACHI: Probe into death KARACHI, Dec 26: Sindh government, in pursuance of Sindh High Court orders, has appointed Mr Noman Memeon, Additional District and Session Judge, Karachi Central, as inquiry officer to hold an inquiry... KARACHI: Lawyers to convince legislators against LFO: Convention resolves KARACHI, Dec 26: Bar representatives will meet legislators individually and collectively to apprise them of “the disastrous consequences of accepting the Legal Framework Order as a part of the Constitution” in... KARACHI: List of held fishermen in Muscat KARACHI, Dec 26: The Fishermen Cooperative Society has sought the federal government’s assistance for the release of 106 fishermen detained in Muscat and requested the Oman authorities through the Marine Fishing... KARACHI: Altaf slams ‘propaganda’ against Ibad KARACHI, Dec 26: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has said that agents of the anti-Sindh forces have launched a negative and baseless propaganda against the appointment of Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad as... KARACHI: Leaders reject LFO, NSC KARACHI, Dec 26: Leaders of major political parties and eminent legal and constitutional experts have rejected the establishment of the National Security Council and the Legal Frame Work Order, saying they... KARACHI: Reckless driving claims two lives KARACHI, Dec 26: Reckless driving claimed two lives in the city on Thursday.... HYDERABAD: MMA opposes Ibad’s appointment HYDERABAD, Dec 26: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Allama Shah Ahmed Noorani has criticized the appointment of Dr Ishratul Ibad as the governor of Sindh and urged the political forces to protest against... HYDERABAD: Canals closure to reduce supply to Hyderabad HYDERABAD, Dec 26: The Water and Sanitation Agency announced here on Thursday that due to closure of canals by the Sindh irrigation department, the water supply to Hyderabad would be reduced... HYDERABAD: Muttahida criticizes opposition HYDERABAD, Dec 26: The Sindh Organizing Committee, Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Hyderabad zone, has lashed out against those people who were opposing the appointment of an MQM nominee, Dr Ishratul Ibad, as... HYDERABAD: Registration of case against Nazim flayed HYDERABAD, Dec 26: A large number of activists of the Pakistan People’s Party, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party, Matiari sub-division, staged a protest demonstration outside the press club... HYDERABAD: LMH lab offers discount HYDERABAD, Dec 26: A discount of 70 per cent is being provided to indoor patients and 50 per cent to outdoor patients at the diagnostic research laboratory of the Liaquat Medical... PESHAWAR: Merit to be made criterion: Durrani : Decision making PESHAWAR, Dec 26: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has said that merit would be made the sole criterion in the process of decision-making in all fields which would set the... PESHAWAR: Over 120 juvenile offenders released PESHAWAR, Dec 26: With 412 juvenile offenders languishing in prisons in the province, 124 have been released on probation during the last three months.... PESHAWAR: Widow seeks action against killers PESHAWAR, Dec 26: A woman councillor of the Nowshehra city has appealed to the president and the chief justice of Pakistan to take action against the alleged killers of her husband... HARIPUR: Rural women being helped: NGO official HARIPUR, Dec 26: The Sungi Development Foundation has been helping women artisans in rural areas of the district to set up embroidery centres and market their work in the country.... KHAIRPUR: Man dies in accident KHAIRPUR, Dec 26: A man, Bakhshal Panhiar, 60, died in an accident when he was hit by a bus (GA-9229) on the National Highway bypass, near Koro Goth, on Thursday....

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