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February 27, 2003 Thursday Zul Hijjah 25, 1423 KARACHI: MPs blast Centre and Punjab on Thal project KARACHI, Feb 26: The emerging inter-provincial dispute over water-sharing dominated proceedings of the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday during the debate on an adjournment motion against the construction of greater Thal canal... KARACHI: SMC staff confess involvement: Fake admissions KARACHI, Feb 26: An altercation between administrative staff of the Sindh Medical College and the students, who are alleged to have taken illegal or fake admissions to the institution, led to... KARACHI: Man shot dead by robbers KARACHI, Feb 26: A young man was shot dead and another was injured by robbers in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Wednesday night.... KARACHI: Falcon with Tracker captured KARACHI, Feb 26: A man captured a falcon on Wednesday and handed it over to the police, who suspected that the falcon was on a spying mission as it was carrying... KARACHI: Wreckage of Cessna aircraft found KARACHI, Feb 26: The wreckage of the Cessna aircraft which crashed on Monday in the Arabian Sea some 56 kilometres west from here, was located 30 meters down the open sea... KARACHI: Family robbed of cash, jewellery KARACHI, Feb 28: Unknown bandits robbed a house of cash and valuables worth Rs8 million in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Tuesday night.... KARACHI: SHC allows holding of weekly bazaar KARACHI, Feb 26: A division bench of the Sindh High Court allowed a petitioner on Wednesday to continue organising a fair-price bazaar pending decision on his plea against the city government.... KARACHI: 65 nursing posts in JPMC vacant KARACHI, Feb 26: As many as 58 positions lie vacant in the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre’s school of nursing. Another seven are vacant in its college of nursing which has only... KARACHI: PTCL plans to block 104 adult websites KARACHI, Feb 26: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has sought to put a ban on 104 pornographic websites, apparently unaware of the fact there are millions of such websites on the Internet.... KARACHI: Ministers hindering uplift work: Nazim KARACHI, Feb 26: Criticizing the involvement of MPAs and provincial ministers in the affairs of the city government, city Nazim Naimatullah Khan has said this will only make uplift projects suffer.... KARACHI: NGOs’ help to control population growth sought KARACHI, Feb 26: It is impossible to control the population growth without cooperation of non-governmental organizations, said provincial minister for population welfare and women development, Dr Saeeda Malik on Wednesday.... KARACHI: KU suppl exams from March 17 KARACHI, Feb 26: The semester examination section of the University of Karachi announced on Wednesday that supplementary examination 2002 would begin on March 17.... KARACHI: Prof Adib honoured KARACHI, Feb 26: Prof Adibul Hasan Rizvi has been honoured by the Royal College of Surgeons with a Hunterian Professorship on a lecture which he delivered at the college in mid-February.... KARACHI: Govt College for Women wins contest KARACHI, Feb 26: The Government College for Women, Korangi No 4, won a Bait Bazi contest organized in connection with the students week of the St Joseph’s Government College for Women... KARACHI: HIV cases in Sindh on the rise KARACHI, Feb 26: The reported cases of HIV in Sindh have consistently been showing an increase since January of 1996, according to a paper published in a well-known scientific journal.... KARACHI: Over 1,800 schools lying shut KARACHI, Feb 26: The provincial Education Minister, Irfanullah Marwat, told the Sindh Assembly during question hour on Wednesday that there were 1,834 schools lying closed in the province and that the... KARACHI: Religious harmony urged KARACHI, Feb 26: The president of the Islami Tehrik, Sindh, Allama Hasan Turabi, has demanded of the government to arrest those involved in the killing of nine innocent people in Al-Falah... KARACHI: Order reserved on bail plea KARACHI, Feb 26: Justice Syed Zawwar Hussain Jaffery of the Sindh High Court reserved order on Wednesday on a bail petition moved by a Pakistani facing extradition proceedings for allegedly molesting... KARACHI: International bodies praise LEW project KARACHI, Feb 26: The Programme Coordinator of Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Teodoro Anana, and Indonesian Women’s Coalition for Justice and Democracy, with a delegation of Urban Resource Centre met the... KARACHI: Newsman dies KARACHI, Feb 26: A senior journalist and member of Karachi Press Club, Mehdi Shirazi, died from heart failure here on Wednesday. He was about 60.... KARACHI: Charges framed against Nazim KARACHI, Feb 26: The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Ghulam Qadir Leghari, framed charge against Faizanullah, Nazim UC-9, Gulberg town, an accused in the murder case of two activists of the... KARACHI: New assembly enacts first law KARACHI, Feb 26: The provincial assembly on Wednesday accomplished its first legislative task by passing a bill into law that provided for the appointments, powers, functions, salaries, allowances and privileges of... KARACHI: Peace march KARACHI, Feb 26: The Citizens Committee Against War on Wednesday finalized its arrangements to bring out and ‘Anti- imperialist’ procession at 3pm on Friday from the Karachi Press Club to Merewether... HYDERABAD: Distribution of free textbooks begins HYDERABAD, Feb 26: Sindh Textbook Board chairman Mushtaq Ahmad H. Qureshi has said that the distribution of free textbooks among students of class I to V has been started on Feb... HYDERABAD: ‘Irrigation system of Sindh in a shambles’ HYDERABAD, Feb 26: The federal government will establish six agriculture training institutes throughout Pakistan, including one at the agricultural complex, Hyderabad, for training the youth in the agricultural sector as there... HYDERABAD: ‘Education can reduce poverty’ HYDERABAD, Feb 26: Research scholar Prof Marhab Qasimi gave presentation on “An Analytical Study of Female Education in Rural Sindh and its Impact on Socio-Economic Environment”, for her Ph.D degree at... NAUDERO: PPP not to accept powerless govt, says Zardari NAUDERO, Feb 26: PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of the PPP accepting a government without power, saying: “They are giving us the prime minister’s house... NAWABSHAH: Doctor blamed for woman’s death NAWABSHAH, Feb 26: A pregnant woman, Fehmida Jutt, died due to the alleged carelessness of a lady doctor in the gynaecology ward of the Peoples Medical College Hospital on Tuesday.... SANGHAR: Only four constables clear written test SANGHAR, Feb 26: The district police officer, Dr Ameer Ahmed Shaikh, has made it mandatory for the head constables to pass a written test if they wanted to be posted at... SUKKUR: SHC has three arrested SUKKUR, Feb 26: On the directives of the Sindh High Court, Sukkur bench, the Gudhpur police arrested Maulvi Mohammed Usman, who solemnized the Nikah of a nine-year-old girl, Hasina, along with... KHAIRPUR: Dog bites 8 members of a family KHAIRPUR, Feb 26: Eight members of a family were bitten by a pye dog in the Mureed Haji village, Sobhodero Taluka, on Tuesday.... KHAIRPUR: PPP workers stage demo KHAIRPUR, Feb 26: Hundreds of supporters of the People’s Party Parliamentarians staged a protest demonstration on the National Highway near Kumb here on Wednesday evening....

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