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January 22, 2003 Wednesday Ziqa’ad 18, 1423 KARACHI: CHK patients suffer as sewerage collapses KARACHI, Jan 21: Since 1948, when it was upgraded to its present status from a district-level institution, the Civil Hospital Karachi has seen a ten-fold increase in the number of beds... KARACHI: Allotment of plots begins in Malir scheme KARACHI, Jan 21: The implementation of steps taken for an early completion of the New Malir Housing Scheme was reviewed at a meeting held under the chairmanship of DCO Karachi Shafiqur... KARACHI: Four get 33 years’ RI for blackmail, kidnapping KARACHI, Jan 21: The Anti-terrorism Court-3 on Tuesday sentenced a magazine editor and three dismissed policemen to 33 years in prison for hostage-taking and three other counts.... KARACHI: 10 cars, 15 bikes hijacked KARACHI, Jan 21: Twenty-five vehicles — 10 cars and 15 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Tuesday, police said.... KARACHI: Jobless man commits suicide KARACHI, Jan 21: A jobless young man committed suicide in Defence Housing Authority late Monday night.... KARACHI: PA meets on 27th KARACHI, Jan 21: Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan on Tuesday summoned the Provincial Assembly to meet on Monday (Jan 27) at 10am at Sindh Assembly Building Karachi.—PPI... KARACHI: City Council session KARACHI, Jan 21: An emergency session of Karachi City Council will be held on Jan 23 in the seminar hall of the City Government head office.... KARACHI: SHC refuses police remand in murder case KARACHI, Jan 21: The Sindh High Court administrative judge for anti- terrorism courts refused on Tuesday to remand two alleged killers of as many Muttahida Qaumi Movement activists in police custody... KARACHI: Leprosy patients must not be shunned: World leprosy week begins KARACHI, Jan 21: Doctors of the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC) on Tuesday urged the masses not to hate and avoid fully-cured leprosy patients, and to try to rehabilitate them so... KARACHI: Effective anti-TB strategy urged KARACHI, Jan 21: Dr Syed Karam Shah, manager National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Program (NTP), has underlined the need for resolving all bottlenecks in the process of DOTS implementation in Sindh.... KARACHI: Infrastructure of CHK to see improvements KARACHI, Jan 21: The 2000-bed Civil Hospital Karachi will, at last, see some changes in respect of its infrastructure facilities. For the first time in more than 50 years, when a... KARACHI: Encroachments removed in Eidgah, Saddar KARACHI, Jan 21: The municipal administration of Saddar Town in its on-going anti-encroachment campaign on Tuesday removed encroachments from Eidgah, Jamia Cloth market, Light House Cinema, Boulton Market and Denso Hall.... KARACHI: Rind takes notice of corruption in BoR KARACHI, Jan 21: Sindh Chief Secretary K.B. Rind, taking serious notice of the reports of corruption and maladministration in the Board of Revenue, on Tuesday ordered the senior members to ensure... KARACHI: Funds for repair of roads demanded KARACHI, Jan 21: The government must take the opposition legislators into confidence regarding development works in their respective constituencies.... KARACHI: NED announces results KARACHI, Jan 21: The NED University has declared the results of various batches of second-year Civil, Industrial and Manufacturing engineering annual/supplementary examinations.... KARACHI: Workshop on satellite imaging KARACHI, Jan 21: An international workshop on satellite imaging technology and application will be held here from Jan 22 to 27.... KARACHI: Educational data to be validated KARACHI, Jan 21: The policy committee of the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) has decided to have a third party validation of its educational data.... KARACHI: Kashmir, Palestine challenges to UN KARACHI, Jan 21: Kashmir and Palestine represent failure of the United Nations which is faced with the role of the United States in peacekeeping.... KARACHI: Chicken prices shoot up KARACHI, Jan 21: Although the city weather has improved and apparently the demand for poultry items has reduced, chicken prices have shot up suddenly.... KARACHI: Water shortage persists in city areas KARACHI, Jan 21: The residents of Azizabad No 2 and Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s Block 7 have been without water for the last ten days, while several other parts of the city went dry... KARACHI: Railwaymen stage demo KARACHI, Jan 21: A large number of railway workers staged a demonstration on Tuesday to protest against the forced retirements, sackings, and transfers in the organization.... KARACHI: Poverty reduction KARACHI, Jan 21: Sindh Minister for Planning and Development Syed Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari here on Tuesday presided over a meeting convened to devise a poverty reduction strategy for the province.... HYDERABAD: Order to shift cattle pens challenged HYDERABAD, Jan 21: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit benct, has appointed an additional registrar to visit the site of one of the cattle pens, which are... NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Growers stage rally, block highway: Sugarcane purchase crisis NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Jan 21: Thousands of growers, staged a rally here on Tuesday and blocked the National Highway for three hours to protest against the non-payment of the government-fixed price of... SUKKUR: Excise cops booked for looting foreigner SUKKUR, Jan 21. Five excise employees were booked on Monday for robbing a foreign national in a passenger bus near Kandhkot.... LARKANA: Japanese team to conduct research: Skin disease LARKANA, Jan 21: A three-member team of Japanese specialists of skin diseases arrived here on Monday to conduct a four-year- long research on leishmeniasis at the Chandka Medical College Hospital —... HYDERABAD: Farmers seek support for campaign HYDERABAD, Jan 21: Leaders of the Sindh Hari Committee on Tuesday visited various villages to muster support for the ‘Save Sindh Agriculture Movement,’ which will be launched some time in February.... LARKANA: Shirin Begum’s soyem held LARKANA, Jan 21: The soyem of Shirin Amir Begum, the widow of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was held in Naudero on Tuesday.... MITHI: Investigation into embezzlement urged MITHI, Jan 21: The higher authorities of the education department and the anti-corruption establishment should initiate an inquiry into misappropriation of funds of the School Management Committees (SMCs).... SUKKUR: Two boys killed in accident SUKKUR, Jan 21: Abdul Shakoor Bhutto, 10, and Sobdar Indher, 12, were killed while crossing the railway track near Pano Aqil after being run over by the Karachi-bound Shah Rukan-e-Alam Express...

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