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January 16, 2003 Thursday Ziqa'ad 12, 1423 KARACHI: Nine-year-old claims Rs23m compensation from KESC KARACHI, Jan 15: The Sindh High Court asked the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation on Wednesday to file its reply to an over 23.8-million-rupee damages suit filed by a nine-year-old boy for... KARACHI: Brisk polling amid tension in NA-242: Three MQM men injured in shooting KARACHI, Jan 15: Polling in the byelection for the National Assembly seat, NA-242, remained by and large peaceful on Wednesday. However, three youths sustained bullet injuries in an attack that took... KARACHI: Girl dies, several huts destroyed by fire KARACHI, Jan 15: A seven-year-old girl was burnt alive in a fire which swept through a shanty town in Federal B Area on Wednesday.... KARACHI: Nine cars, 18 bikes hijacked KARACHI, Jan 15: Twenty-seven vehicles — nine cars and 18 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Wednesday, police said.... KARACHI: Another man arrested for May 8 blast KARACHI, Jan 15: Police announced on Wednesday the arrest of another man for his alleged involvement in plotting the Sheraton Hotel bomb explosion.... KARACHI: 11,000 foreigners in Sindh Madaris KARACHI, Jan 15: There are around 264,169 students, including 11,035 foreigners, enrolled in the 1,248 religious seminaries (Madaris) functioning across the province, which employ 7,738 teachers, a report compiled by the... KARACHI: Corruption being curbed: Naimat KARACHI, Jan 15: Karachi Nazim Naimatullah Khan has said that efforts to contain corruption in the city government were bearing fruits as checks on fuel misappropriation alone have led to a... KARACHI: 3-day cardio moot opens tomorrow KARACHI, Jan 15: A three-day international workshop on non-surgical methods to treat heart conditions will open at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases on Friday. Pakistani and foreign cardiologists will be... KARACHI: Baby-care drive launched KARACHI, Jan 15: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Wednesday inaugurated a baby care clinic campaign to provide expert advice to about 0.7 million middle class mothers across the country.... KARACHI: Food streets planned KARACHI, Jan 15: The city district government is considering a proposal to set up food streets in all the 18 towns on the pattern of those in Lahore and Islamabad... KARACHI: Varsity teachers slam MUO KARACHI, Jan 15: While vowing to intensify their ongoing movement against the Model University Ordinance, the representatives of university teachers from all over the country on Wednesday urged the government to... KARACHI: Sports facilities KARACHI, Jan 15: The Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Institute of Technology has adopted Murtaza ground in the Sindhi Muslim Housing Society where it will develop sport facilities in cooperation with the... KARACHI: NED exams schedule KARACHI, Jan 15: Examination department, NED University of Engineering & Technology, on Wednesday announced that first semester, Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Computer Science and Information Technology, supplementary examination-II, 2001-02 batch,... KARACHI: IRO 2002 criticized KARACHI, Jan 15: Employees and employers have unanimously rejected the Industrial Relations Ordinance (IRO) 2002 and have demanded that the ordinance be drafted in accordance with the suggestions of a tripartite... KARACHI: Fair weather KARACHI, Jan 15: The Met department has forecast a fair weather with a cold night in Karachi on Thursday. The minimum temperature will remain between 10 to 12 degrees.—PPI... KARACHI: Naat contest KARACHI, Jan 15: A ‘Naat Khawani’ competition for the students of the Department of Mathematics, University of Karachi, will be held on January 18. The venue of the contest will be... KARACHI: Acquittal plea of former KESC GM rejected KARACHI, Jan 15: An accountability court on Wednesday rejectedthe application for the acquittal of a former general manager of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) in a corruption reference.... KARACHI: Two Africans held with 8kg heroin KARACHI, Jan 15: The Customs’ Drug Enforcement Cell (CDEC) arrested two foreigners at the Karachi airport for allegedly trying to smuggle out 8.25 kilograms of heroin.... KARACHI: More efforts to achieve food autarky stressed KARACHI, Jan 15: Speakers at a meeting on Wednesday stressed that all possible methods be adopted to produce sufficient food so that the country was not dependent on other countries.... KARACHI: Bail granted in drug case KARACHI, Jan 15: A division bench of the High Court of Sindh admitted on Wednesday an applicant, Mohammed Shafi alias Shah Mohammed, accused in a drug case, to bail against a... KARACHI: Public transport responsible for most fatal road accidents KARACHI, Jan 15: Commercial drivers operating buses, minibuses, coaches, trucks and water-tankers kill more than 50 per cent of the victims of traffic accidents on Karachi roads every year, the DIG... KARACHI: Rs1bn to be spent on KPP schemes KARACHI, Jan 15: Chief Minister Sindh Sardar Ali Muhammad Khan Mahar said on Wednesday that Rs1 billion were being spent on the development schemes under the fourth phase of the Khushhal... KARACHI: PWs record statements KARACHI, Jan 15: Two more prosecution witnesses, including an eye-witness, recorded their statements before an anti-terrorism court in the Shaukat Mirza murder case against the chief and two activists of the... KARACHI: Woman kills herself KARACHI, Jan 15: A young housewife committed suicide at her house in Garden area on Wednesday night.... HYDERABAD: Shifting of slaughter houses ordered HYDERABAD, Jan: 15: The district Nazim on Wednesday ordered shifting of cattle farms/dairy houses and slaughter houses from the municipal areas to the newly-established Cattle Colony on the Tando Mohammad Khan... KHAIRPUR: 28 PPP activists booked KHAIRPUR, Jan 15: The Pakistan Muslim League-F candidate for NA-216, Khairpur-II, Syed Javed Ali Shah Jilani, on Tuesday lodged an FIR with the Thari Mirwah police against 28 Pakistan People’s Party... HYDERABAD: MUET students continue protest HYDERABAD, Jan 15: Hundreds of students of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, on Wednesday staged a rally to press for the acceptance of their demands.... HYDERABAD: Three killed in accident HYDERABAD Jan 15: Three people were killed in an accident on the Kotri Bridge on Wednesday night.... HYDERABAD: Judgment reserved in Shahnaz murder case HYDERABAD, Jan 15: The fourth additional district and sessions judge, Hyderabad, on Wednesday reserved the judgment in bail applications of Nasreen Jatoi, Shafqat and Aslam in the Shahnaz Jatoi murder case.... HYDERABAD: Victims’ mothers demand killers arrest HYDERABAD, Jan 15: The mothers of Mohammad Ismail Gaddi and Mohammad Hanif, who were shot dead on Dec 30, 2002, in Latifabad, and Asif Kaimkhani, who was injured in the firing,... LARKANA: Phone subscribers irked LARKANA, Jan 15: The non-delivery of telephone bills in Larkana has become a problem both for subscribers and the department.... PESHAWAR: Many hit hard by action against cinema houses PESHAWAR, Jan 15: The campaign against cinema houses by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government has been depriving many people of their income, people affected by the campaign told Dawn on Wednesday.... PESHAWAR: NGO faces closure due to lack of funds PESHAWAR, Jan 15: Many Afghan youth addicts are destined to suffer immensely in the face of closure of the treatment and rehabilitation centres run by an NGO, an Afghan doctor told... PESHAWAR: Principal accused of fraud gets bail PESHAWAR, Jan 15: A local court on Tuesday granted bail to the principal of a local private school, accused of fraud and cheating his students and Board of Intermediate and Secondary...

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