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April 19, 2003 Saturday Safar 16, 1424 KARACHI: Two appeals filed in carbomb case KARACHI, April 18: Mohammed Imran, alleged deputy chief of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Almi, and Zubair, a worker of the organization, have filed appeals in the Sindh High Court against their... KARACHI: Public safety body delayed further KARACHI, April 18: The setting up of a district public safety commission (DPSC) and the provincial police complaint authority, as envisaged under the new police law, has been further delayed.... KARACHI: Notification on fares today KARACHI, April 18: Sindh transport minister Mohammad Adil Siddiqui has issued directives for reduction in the fares of public transport.... KARACHI: Sale of footpaths in Saddar town hits hospital KARACHI, April 18: The dual policy of the Saddar Town administration towards encroachments astonished the citizens when they saw cabins being set up on footpaths near the Sobhraj Maternity Hospital in... KARACHI: Northern Bypass to have 10 flyovers and bridges KARACHI, April 18: Sindh chief secretary K. B. Rind has said there would be marked changes in the transport network, and decrease in traffic congestion on main city roads and roundabouts... KARACHI: Jobless man, housewife commit suicide KARACHI, April 18: A jobless young man and a housewife committed suicide in the city on Friday.... KARACHI: Law college employees protest continues KARACHI, April 18: While about two dozen non-teaching employees of the S M Law College are facing uncertainty regarding their jobs, the college administration maintains that it is ready to plead... KARACHI: NGOs’ help sought for poverty alleviation KARACHI, April 18: Advisor to Prime Minister on women development, Nilofer Bakhtiar, said here on Friday that the women development department had been seeking private sector partnership, specially of NGOs, for... KARACHI: Lyari Expressway affectees get cheques KARACHI, April 18: The rehabilitation project for affectees of Lyari Expressway is going on at a rapid pace and will soon be completed.... KARACHI: Diabetes on rise in children KARACHI, April 18: The rising incidence of the type-two diabetes in children below the age of 12 years is attributed to increasing obesity in this age group.... KARACHI: Vocational education plan KARACHI, April 18: Despite preparation of technical courses and the allocation of over Rs492 million to introduce technical and vocational education at the secondary level from the academic session 2003 in... KARACHI: Journal of CPSP KARACHI, April 18: The Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan has been included for indexing in the Index Medicus and Medline by the US-based National Library of Medicine.... KARACHI: 100,000 students to get scholarships KARACHI, April 18: The Sindh Zakat and Ushr department has announced that a sum of Rs149,944,000 has been released to the educational institutions of the province through the district zakat committee... KARACHI: Council session KARACHI, April 18: The postponed meeting of the city district council of Karachi would now be held on Monday at the city council hall, M. A. Jinnah Road, at 2.30. Muslim... KARACHI: Mushroom growth of factories in Lyari Town: Residents seek removal KARACHI, April 18: Mushroom growth of factories and industrial units in residential areas of the old city areas in Saddar and Lyari Towns has become a public nuisance.... KARACHI: Prosecution ends arguments in murder case KARACHI, April 18: The prosecution in a double-murder case against the chief of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Akram Lahori, and his two alleged associates closed its side with recording the statement of... KARACHI: SHC sends back suit to trial court KARACHI, April 18: A division bench of the Sindh High Court has remanded a suit between two groups of the Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys Association of Pakistan to the trial... KARACHI: 6,342 phones dead in Clifton KARACHI, April 18: Some miscreants, allegedly, set the telephone cables of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) on fire in the Clifton exchange area on Thursday night, affecting some 6,342 telephones.... KARACHI: Life and work of Shah Latif highlighted KARACHI, April 18: Speakers at a seminar titled: Making Bhitai More Accessible In Other Languages deplored the declining reading habits in youth and said that half-hearted efforts by the successive governments... KARACHI: MQM rebuts Noorani’s remarks KARACHI, April 18: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has described as ‘malicious’ the remarks by Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani, chief of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) that “MQM leaders are being helped in Britain... KARACHI: Rally urges occupation forces to quit Iraq KARACHI, April 18: Participants of a rally against the occupation of Iraq demanded an immediate withdrawal of all the foreign forces from that country and called for the restoration of Iraqi... KARACHI: Lawyers seek protection KARACHI, April 18: The People’s Lawyers Forum has urged the government to take effective steps to ensure protection to lawyers.... KARACHI: CM in capital KARACHI, April 18: Sindh Chief Minister Sardar Ali Mohammad Mahar left here for Islamabad on Friday. He will participate in the inaugural session of international conference on investment and privatization on... KARACHI: Cable operators warned KARACHI, April 18: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has directed all cable TV operators to get their licences renewed by May 10.... KARACHI: Cash awards KARACHI, April 18: A function will be held at St. Joseph’s Government College for Women on Saturday to disburse cash awards announced by Sindh Governor on March 27.— APP... HYDERABAD: Need for research on Sindh history stressed: Conference on Shah Latif HYDERABAD, April 18: More authentic material about the history of Sindh is available in Europe, including France, Germany and Holland, than has been preserved in the province itself.... HYDERABAD: Minister advocates Panchayat system HYDERABAD, April 18: Sindh Home Minister Syed Sardar Ahmed has termed the Jirga system illegal saying that he did not support it. He, however, stressed the need for evolving a Panchayat... HYDERABAD: Dist council slams rise in bus fare HYDERABAD, April 18: The group leader of the Al-Khidmat Group, District Council Hyderabad, Rana Mehmood Ali Khan and members of the District Council, Saleem Khan, Dr Saifur Rehman, Abdur Rasheed Qureshi,... HYDERABAD: Teachers’ problems to be solved: Irfan HYDERABAD, April 18: The minister for education, Sindh, Irfanullah Marwat, has assured the All Sindh Teachers Association (ASTA) that the problems confronting the teachers of Sindh would be resolved on a... HYDERABAD: BEd exams from May 19 HYDERABAD, April 18: The annual examinations, 2002, of BEd and MEd, off campus programme of the Sindh University will begin on May 19.... HYDERABAD: Efforts being made to promote Malakhra HYDERABAD, April 18: The Sindh minister for Culture, Tourism and Sports, Shabbir Ahmed Qaimi, has said that nations were identified through their culture, and added that Malakhra (wrestling)...... HYDERABAD: Two illegeal detenus freed HYDERABAD, April 18: A civil judge released two illegal detainees from the Baldia police station here on Friday.... MITHI: Two die in accident MITHI, April 18: Two persons were killed and 17 others injured as a pickup overturned near Sainsar village, 12km off here on Thursday.... SUKKUR: Power supply suspended SUKKUR April 18: The transformer supplying power to the Sindhi Housing Society and adjoining areas was burnt three days back but Hesco authorities have not repaired it.... HYDERABAD: Official flayed for withholding marriage fund HYDERABAD, April 18: The provincial president, National Labour Federation, Rana Mehmood Ali Khan, has lashed out at the secretary, Labour, Sindh, for withholding the marriage fund already released by the federal... PESHAWAR: JI activists placed on Zakat committee: Minister issues order PESHAWAR, April 18: The provincial Ushr and Zakat Department has turned the Zakat Fund, a welfare-oriented scheme, into a sort of political bribe by replacing four non-political District Zakat Committee (DZC)... PESHAWAR: Rs1.34bn spent on pension payment PESHAWAR, April 18: The NWFP government spent an amount of Rs1.34 billion in pension payment at the close of the first six months of the current financial year, sources told Dawn.... PESHAWAR: MPAs asked to submit uplift plans PESHAWAR, April 18: The DCO Peshawar has asked MPAs of district Peshawar to submit their development schemes to district development committee (DDC) forthwith to complete necessary procedural requirements.... PESHAWAR: Textbooks in short supply PESHAWAR, April 18: Textbooks prescribed by the Punjab Textbook Board and the NWFP Textbook Board for the public and government schools are not available at the city book markets.... PESHAWAR: Neurology moot begins today PESHAWAR, April 18: The Pakistan Society of Neurology will organize a two-day 10th neurology conference at a local hotel in Peshawar, said a press release issued here on Friday.... PESHAWAR: Concern over law & order PESHAWAR, April 18: The Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba has expressed concern over the firing incidents between various student groups at the Agricultural University campus and has asked the NWFP Governor Iftikhar Hussain Shah... PESHAWAR: Action against careless doctors urged PESHAWAR, April 18: The Peshawar University Teachers Association has demanded of the government to take an action against those surgeons of the Hayatabad Medical Complex who administered excessive anaesthetics to a...

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