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February 19, 2003 Wednesday Zul Hijjah 17, 1423 KARACHI: Rise in Hub water level to improve city supply KARACHI, Feb 18: Water level in Hub Dam reservoir went up by five feet on Tuesday in the wake of widespread rains across the dam’s catchment area on Monday.... KARACHI: Speeding minibuses kill two women KARACHI, Feb 18: Two women died in separate road accidents in different parts of Korangi on Tuesday.... KARACHI: Compensation for rain victims announced KARACHI, Feb 18: Sindh Chief Minister Sardar Ali Mohammed Mahar on Tuesday visited Dawood Zangiani and Khaskheli villages in Gadap Union Council and reviewed the damages caused by thunderstorm and rains.... KARACHI: Non-appointment of AC judges delays cases KARACHI, Feb 18: An inordinate delay is being caused in the disposal of corruption cases as the federal government has not yet appointed judges for the five accountability courts in Karachi.... KARACHI: Report in 30 days Committee fromed to help rivals run IBS KARACHI, Feb 18: Justice Zahid Kurban Alavi asked Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, Dr S. Haroon Ahmed and the Pakistan Association for Mental Health (PMAH) on Tuesday to look after the affairs... KARACHI: Korangi road submerged KARACHI, Feb 18: The Monday’s torrential rains have caused extensive damage to main Korangi Road which has been closed to traffic after rainwater inundated the road.... KARACHI: Body recovered KARACHI, Feb 18: The body of a minor girl was recovered from a water tank in Funland Clifton on Tuesday.... KARACHI: Universities urged to help solve civic problems KARACHI, Feb 18: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has urged universities, educational institutes and technical experts to assist the city government in collecting data and conducting surveys and research to overcome the... KARACHI: Korean doctors operate upon poor patients KARACHI, Feb 18: A team of Korean surgeons and paramedical staff is in Pakistan these days to perform surgical operations on poor patients. On Monday and Tuesday the ten-member team performed,... KARACHI: KU issues list of BSSE candidates KARACHI, Feb 18: Director, Evening Programme, University of Karachi, Prof Dr Fahimuddin, has announced that the list of the students who had appeared in admission test of the BSSE programme has... KARACHI: NWFP govt policy defended KARACHI, Feb 18: The positive implications of Islamization process, currently under way in the NWFP, would certainly be felt in Punjab and Sindh and would be irresistible.... KARACHI: Tributes paid to A Q Khan KARACHI, Feb 18: What is happening on the international scene with regard to Iraq should be viewed as a paradigm which may be replicated in other parts of the world, once... KARACHI: Committees start civic work in Hawkesbay KARACHI, Feb 18: The committees, consisting of shiftees of Lyari Expressway Project, have started working for the solution of different issues of their “Basti” which is fast coming up on Hawkesbay... KARACHI: SPLA demands KARACHI, Feb 18: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) has appealed to the Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad, Chief Minister, Sardar Ali Mohammad Khan Mahar, and provincial Education Minister, Irfanullah... KARACHI: Computer science exam KARACHI, Feb 18: The MSc Computer Science examination, 2003, of batch 2000-01 will commence from March 1.... KARACHI: Weather KARACHI, Feb 18: City weather will remain windy and dusty on Wednesday, the weather forecast said. The city received dusty winds after heavy rains on Monday.—APP... KARACHI: Family medicine moot KARACHI, Feb 18: The Department of Family Medicine, Aga Khan University, in collaboration with the World Organization of Family Doctors, Royal College of General Practitioners and the College of Family Medicine,... KARACHI: Engineer’s congress KARACHI, Feb 18: The 3rd International Civil Engineering Congress will be held from Feb 21 to 22 at the Institution of Engineers Pakistan (IEP).... KARACHI: High Court issues notice to AG in judges case KARACHI, Feb 18: A division bench of the Sindh High Court issued notice to the attorney-general in a writ petition by seven senior civil judges-cum-additional sessions judges against direct appointment of... KARACHI: Text of interim order in IBS case KARACHI, Feb 18: The following is the text of Justice Zahid Kurban Alavi’s order on Dr A.Q.Khan’s application in the IBS case:... KARACHI: Govt urged to provide protection to citizens KARACHI, Feb 18: The Central Executive Committee of Sindh Democratic Alliance (SDA) has demanded of the government to take appropriate measures to contain lawlessness and ensure protection to the life and... KARACHI: Clarification KARACHI, Feb 18: A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has clarified that the Federal Service Tribunal has decided to rely on the recommendations of a high-powered committee with regard... SUKKUR: Hailstorm, heavy rains play havoc: Man killed, wheat crop damaged SUKKUR, Feb 18: A severe hailstorm coupled with heavy rains lashed out at different districts of upper Sindh on Tuesday while rains were also reported from Dadu and Tharparkar districts.... KARACHI: Transporters threaten strike on Feb 27 KARACHI, Feb 18: The Karachi Transport Ittehad and National Transport Ittehad have urged the government to reduce diesel prices otherwise they would resort to strikes.... HYDERABAD: Sewerage system collapses in Hyderabad HYDERABAD, Feb 18: The sewerage system of Hyderabad collapsed due to heavy rainfall and low-lying areas in the district are submerged by water, causing damages to buildings.... SUKKUR: Revenue officials accused of killing farmer SUKKUR, Feb 18: Hundreds of Golo tribesmen blocked the Indus Highway, near Kandhkot, for several hours in protest against two revenue officials on Tuesday.... LARKANA: PML-Q activist encroaches on park LARKANA, Feb 18: A dispute over ownership of a plot in Zulfikarbagh has cropped up between the local municipal authorities and an activist of Pakistan Muslim League-Q.... SANGHAR: Hydel power project lauded SANGHAR, Feb 18: Federal minister for water and power Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao has expressed the hope that electricity tariff will be reduced after the completion of the Ghazi Barotha Hydel... MITHI: Rs2bn relief package demanded: Seminar on Thar drought MITHI, Feb 18: Speakers at a seminar on Monday demanded that at least a relief package of Rs2 billion be provided to the people of Tharparkar who were experiencing one of... SUKKUR: Minister’s two servants shot dead SUKKUR, Feb 18: A group of armed men kidnapped four bulldozer operators of the engineering workshop, Khairpur, from the fields of the provincial minister of water and electricity, Pir Sadaruddin Shah... HYDERABAD: Taluka bodies blamed for not helping affected people HYDERABAD, Feb 18: The financial adviser to the Sindh government and senior deputy convener, MQM, Aftab Ahmed Sheikh, and the Sindh minister for local bodies, Mohammad Hussain, have lashed out at... MIRPURKHAS: Secretary’s directives ignored MIRPURKHAS, Feb 18: The transfer orders of the assistant district officer (ADO), elementary education, Digri, Mujahida Parveen, have not been cancelled despite directives of the Sindh secretary for education....

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