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February 8, 2003 Saturday Zul Hijjah 6,1423 KARACHI: People suffer unexplained power breakdowns KARACHI, Feb 7: Power breakdowns plagued the lives of the consumers of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation on Friday despite the fact that a fully-fledged summer is still away.... KARACHI: Transporters agree to abandon token system KARACHI, Feb 7: Two major groups of transport operators have reached a consensus on doing away with the notorious ‘time token system’ widely regarded as one of the key factors behind... KARACHI: Reckless driving claims two lives KARACHI, Feb 7: Reckless driving claimed two lives in the city since late Thursday night. An elderly woman died in a road accident in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Friday.... ISLAMABAD: Rs34m for NED’s on-line project ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has approved a project for computerization and network enhancement of the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, and an amount of Rs34... KARACHI: Court notice on SMC students petition KARACHI, Feb 7: The Sindh High Court issued on Friday notices to the respondents for Feb 21 on a writ petition moved by more than 60 students facing expulsion from Sindh... KARACHI: PPP to requisition Sindh PA session again KARACHI, Feb 7: The People’s Party Parliamentarians is expected to file another application on Saturday for requisitioning the Sindh Assembly to discuss various issues including the Thal canal project, which it... KARACHI: KCR revival with Chinese help planned KARACHI, Feb 7: Sindh government has taken an initiative for the revival of Karachi Circular Railway which was shelved in September last year following the federal government’s refusal to grant Rs20... KARACHI: Calligraphists, painters get Sadequain awards KARACHI, Feb 7: Painters and calligraphists received the Sadequain awards at Frere Hall on Friday.... KARACHI: Scientists urged to help promote peace: Nazim opens physics education moot KARACHI, Feb 7: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has said that new system of governance is a changed one whereby basic problems of the people are being solved in their respective areas.... KARACHI: First dahlia show opens KARACHI: The first dahlia exhibition, organized by a newly-formed society, was inaugurated in the city on Thursday at the Jinnah Gardens. On display were five sets each of 35 pots, showing... KARACHI: Engineers’ role in uplift highlighted KARACHI, Feb 7: Engineers should take initiatives and play a proactive role in the development process as this will help our industries expand and would lead us to attainment of self-... KARACHI: Manasarowar to Manora exhibition at Mohatta KARACHI, Feb 7: An exhibition, titled “Images: Manasarowar to Manora (1830-1930)”, opened at the Mohatta Palace Museum on Friday.... KARACHI: DCET exams’ schedule KARACHI, Feb 7: The NED University has announced the fourth year second supplementary examination schedule of various technologies for the Dawood College.... KARACHI: Water complaints KARACHI, Feb 7: The DG rangers will inaugurate a model water complaint centre in Baldia Town today.—PPI... KARACHI: Teachers face life threats, says SPLA KARACHI, Feb 7: Expressing concern over law and order situation in the province, the Sindh Professors and Lecturers’ Association on Friday maintained that threats were also emerging against teachers’ lives.... KARACHI: Lecture KARACHI, Feb 7: The department of bio-chemistry, KU, is organising a lecture on “functional genomics and proteomics: tools in cancer studies” on Saturday at 11am in the department.—PPI... KARACHI: SHC to hear Senate poll pleas on 10th KARACHI, Feb 7: The Sindh High Court on Friday fixed Feb 10 as the date for hearing of writ petitions moved by three Senate candidates against their disqualification.... KARACHI: Statement in bomb blast case recorded KARACHI, Feb 7: Judge Feroze Mehmood Bhatti of the ATC-2 adjourned the hearing of a bomb blast case against a worker of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen Aalmi after recording the statment... KARACHI: Five withdraw from Senate election KARACHI, Feb 7: Five candidates withdrew their nominations for elections to the Senate on Friday, leaving 40 candidates in the field against the 22 seats from Sindh.... KARACHI: SHC moved against charged parking KARACHI, Feb 7: The Sindh High Court admitted more writ petitions challenging charged parking in various parts of the city on Friday and decided to hear them together.... KARACHI: PHL employee grieved KARACHI, Feb 7: Jamila Khatoon, mother of PHL employee Mehboob Ahmed Ansari, died here on Friday. She was 80.... KARACHI: Two robberies committed KARACHI, Feb 7: Armed men barged into Sajjad Naqvi’s house in Gulshan-i-Iqbal early Friday morning, held the occupants of the house hostage at gunpoint and got away with cash and jewellery.... KARACHI: 0.5m sacrificial animals at Sohrab goth KARACHI, Feb 7: Around 0.5 million sacrificial animals, including bulls, goats and camels, have been transported to Sohrab Goth from various parts of the country.... KARACHI: Aerospace medicine KARACHI, Feb 7: The graduation ceremony of the Primary Course in Aerospace Medicine was held here on Friday at the Aero Medical Institute, PAF Base Masroor.... KARACHI: Salary deduction order set aside KARACHI, Feb 7: The Sindh Service Tribunal set aside on Friday a provincial irrigation department order for deduction of Rs1,382 per month from the salary of a grade-6 employee to recover... KARACHI: Anti-US demo held KARACHI, Feb 7: Speakers at a demonstration on Friday urged the authorities not to provide any assistance to the United States and its allied forces in their war against Iraq.... HYDERABAD: Ban on jobs to go within a month, says Mahar HYDERABAD, Feb 7: Sindh Chief Minister Sardar Ali Mohammad Khan Mahar said on Friday that the ban on employment will be lifted within a month.... SHIKARPUR: Sindh being deprived of water share: MMA SHIKARPUR, Feb 7: The Sindh president of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), MNA Asadullah Bhutto, has said that Sindh was being deprived of its due share of water, which had resulted in... DADU: 23 landlords booked for occupying forest land DADU, Feb 7: The forest department has launched a campaign against state land encroachers in 24 forests of Dadu district and lodged seven FIRs against 23 influential landlords on Friday.... SUKKUR: PPP to assume power soon, hopes Qureshi SUKKUR, Feb 7: Deputy Secretary-General of the People’s Party Parliamentarians MNA Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussein Qureshi has termed the present government a puppet regime and predicted its downfall, saying that the... HYDERABAD: US Iraq policy condemned HYDERABAD, Feb 7: The general council of the Awami Tehrik at a meeting held here on Friday deliberated on the social, political and economic situation prevailing in the country with particular... HYDERABAD: Arrests of newsmen deplored HYDERABAD, Feb 7: The members of the Sindh Journalists Organization (SJO) observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Thursday.... MIRPURKHAS: Dist govt fails to buy medicines MIRPURKHAS, Feb 7: The Mirpurkhas district government had failed to purchase medicines for poor patients for which Rs 22,393,900 had been released by the Sindh government, sources said,... HYDERABAD: Lack of uplift funds slated HYDERABAD, Feb 7: The councillors of union council-13, Latifabad, staged a demonstration and observed a hunger strike outside the press club here on Thursday against non-allocation of uplift funds.... HYDERABAD: Schimmel remembered HYDERABAD, Feb 7: Speakers at a condolence meeting, held in Jamshoro on Wednesday, paid tribute to the late scholar Dr Annemarie Schimmel.... MIRPURKHAS: Special package for Mirpurkhas demanded MIRPURKHAS, Feb 7: Growers have demanded of the Sindh government to announce special package for the Mirpurkhas district as it had been the worst affected by persistent shortage of water for...

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