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January 6, 2003 Monday Ziqa’ad 2, 1423 KARACHI: Most workers cheated in name of compensation KARACHI, Jan 5: In 2002, 31 workers in 3,500 registered factories suffered fatal accidents, and 39 suffered accidents (including eight major accidents).... KARACHI: Heritage building being tampered with KARACHI, Jan 5: Repair and renovation work is being carried out in the head office of the now defunct Karachi Metropolitan Corporation without permission of relevant authorities, it is learnt. The... KARACHI: Reckless driving claims five lives KARACHI, Jan 5: Reckless driving claimed five lives in the city on Sunday.... KARACHI: Elderly man shot dead KARACHI, Jan 5: An elderly was shot dead in FC Area, Liaquatabad, in the early hours of Sunday.... KARACHI: Nine cars, 22 bikes hijacked in two days KARACHI, Jan 5: Thirty-one vehicles — nine cars and 22 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city in the past 48 hours, police said on Sunday.... KARACHI: Birth anniversary KARACHI, Jan 5: The 75th birth anniversary of founder-chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was celebrated on Sunday.... KARACHI: Stray dogs KARACHI, Jan 5: The Gulshan-i-Iqbal town municipal administration, in collaboration with the union councils, will launch a campaign to kill stray dogs on Thursday night.—APP... KARACHI: Household survey at district level soon KARACHI, Jan 5: The Sindh Government, through the financial and technical assistance of the UNICEF, is initiating the Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) in all the 16 districts to establish a... KARACHI: 1.849m acre land to be distributed among farmers KARACHI, Jan 5: Sindh government will distribute 1.849 million acres of katcha land among the people of the respective areas.... KARACHI: Role of community in health care stressed: KARACHI, Jan 5: Former minister of the interior Lt-Gen Moinuddin Haider (retd) has underscored the need to increase community’s role in the health sector.... KARACHI: Regularization of buildings picks up pace KARACHI, Jan 5: A hectic activity has been witnessed in the building industry with the regularization of buildings at an accelerated pace, said Chief Controller of Buildings, Brig A.S. Nasir (retired).... KARACHI: City govt to organize car rally KARACHI, Jan 5: City Government will organize a car rally from Karachi to Gadani to promote development activities in coastal areas of Sindh and Balochistan and highlight the beauty of this... KARACHI: Campaign against quacks planned KARACHI, Jan 5: The government will launch a country-wide campaign against sale of fake medicines and practice of quackery so as to nab and punish the culprits, Federal Minister for Health... KARACHI: More uplift schemes in next phase of KPP KARACHI, Jan 5: The Khushhal Pakistan Programme has turned out to be effective not only in bridging the gap between facilities available in urban and rural areas but has also been... KARACHI: Muttahida celebrates Yaum-i-Azm KARACHI, Jan 5: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement organized Yaum-i-Azm on Saturday night and as part of the programme arranged a music show in Jinnah Ground at Azizabad near the party headquarters,... KARACHI: Water and sewerage dept’s posts renamed KARACHI, Jan 5: Following the merger of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board into the city district government as one of the latter’s departments, the KWSB has been renamed the Water... KARACHI: Dawn staffer grieved KARACHI, Jan 5: Syed Ahsan Haider, an uncle of Khurshid Haider, in charge of Dawn’s Images section, died here on Sunday night. He leaves behind four daughters and two sons —... KARACHI: PPP seeks probe into corruption KARACHI, Jan 5: Pakistan People’s Party said on Sunday that Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali “can’t take action” against chief executives of Pakistan Steel Mills, railways, the KESC, Wapda and... KARACHI: Need for IT centres stressed KARACHI, Jan 5: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Economic Affairs, Shaukat Aziz, has asked experts and investors to develop software and set up information technology service centres to... KARACHI: Kashmiris’ struggle KARACHI, Jan 5: Azad Kashmir Anjuman Naujawanan-i-Islam (ANI) Secretary-General Malik Shabbir Ahmed Kashmiri said on Sunday that the time had come to give the Kashmiri people their right to self-determination.... KARACHI: Internet for schools KARACHI, Jan 5: District officer (education), secondary and higher secondary, City District Government Karachi, has asked heads of all government boys secondary and higher secondary schools to obtain telephone connections for... HYDERABAD: Growers demand exemption from water charges HYDERABAD, Jan 5: The Sindh Abadgar Board on Saturday demanded of the government to exempt the growers from payment of water charges, agricultural loans and other taxes.... HYDERABAD: Interference Destroys irrigation system: SIDA HYDERABAD, Jan 5: The chairman, Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority (SIDA), Abdul Haq, has said that the “parchi” system and political interference was responsible for destroying the irrigation system of the... HYDERABAD: Call to improve law, order situation HYDERABAD, Jan 5: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has said fist priority of the Sindh government should be restoration of law and order to attract foreign investment.... KHAIRPUR: Man kills fiancee KHAIRPUR, Jan 5: A man shot his fiancee dead in Ghulam Solangi village near Pir-jo-Goth on Saturday night on the pretext of Karo-kari.... LARKANA: PPP-MMA dialogue underway: Khalid: Joint opposition leader LARKANA, Jan 5: Negotiations between the People’s Party Parliamentarians and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal to nominate joint opposition leader in the National Assembly and the Sindh Assembly are underway.... SUKKUR: Rice mills observe strike SUKKUR, Jan 5: At least 50 rice mills of Kandhkot, Karampur, Ghauspur, Tangwani, and other parts of Jacobabad district observed complete strike on Sunday in protest against an armed attack by... SHIKARPUR: Three men kidnapped SHIKARPUR, Jan 5: Six dacoits kidnapped three men — Shaukat Ali Sanghro, Wazir Ali Junejo, and Ghulam Mustafa Sanghro — from the Habib Sanghro village on Saturday.... BADIN: One killed BADIN, Jan 5: Tension prevailed in Dhaphri deh, Badin taluka, following the murder of a man, Sobho Jamali, allegedly by Anwar Mallah and Ramzan Khaskheli, on Saturday.... PESHAWAR: Over 3,000 weapons seized in Peshawar last year PESHAWAR, Jan 5: The Peshawar police have seized 3,390 weapons during the year 2002, almost three times less than the previous year, in which 12,571 arms and 500kgs of explosive materials... PESHAWAR: PPP not to strike deal with rulers: Rabbani PESHAWAR, Jan 5: The secretary-general of the Pakistan People’s Party, Raza Rabbani, has said that the PPP will neither change its political line nor strike a deal with the rulers for... PESHAWAR: Infant’s Body exhumed PESHAWAR, Jan 5: The body of a three-day infant was exhumed by the doctors of Forensic Science Department here on Saturday on the order of a judicial magistrate conducting inquiry into... PESHAWAR: Pleas against death verdict sent to FSC PESHAWAR, Jan 5: The Federal Shariat Court will take up for hearing here on Jan 8 criminal appeals of a man and woman sentenced to death by a trial court for... PESHAWAR: Release of funds to MNAs opposed PESHAWAR, Jan 5: The chairman of the Qaumi Jamhoori Party (QJP), Mohammed Asghar Khan, has opposed the provision of funds to parliamentarians for developmental schemes.... PESHAWAR: Girl killed PESHAWAR, Jan 5: A minor girl was burnt to death and nine of her family members were injured when fire erupted at the house of an Afghan refugee on the outskirts of the city.... NOWSHERA: Checkpoint set up at Khairabad bridge NOWSHERA, Jan 5: The Attock police have again set up a checkpoint and started checking vehicles entering Punjab from the NWFP through the Khairabad bridge on Grand Trunk Road after the provincial...

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