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KARACHI: Rangers to be deployed at pumping stations
KARACHI, May 14: Rangers will be deployed at as many as 71 pumping stations and major valves chambers in the next 24 hours to provide security to the officials of the... 
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KARACHI: Notices issued to police officials in rape case
KARACHI, May 14: Justice M. Ashraf Laghari of the Sindh High Court issued notices for May 19 in a petition seeking prosecution of a police official for raping a girl after...
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KARACHI: Passenger dies as minibuses collide
KARACHI, May 14: Reckless driving claimed life of a man near Shafiq More in F. B. Industrial Area police limits on Thursday....
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KARACHI: Power failures wreak havoc with blood quality
KARACHI, May 14: The failure of KESC to supply electricity round the clock and lack of alternative sources of power in all probability are wreaking havoc with the quality of blood...
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KARACHI: Eid Milad today
 KARACHI, May 14: Eid Miladun Nabi (Peace Be Upon Him) will be celebrated with religious fervour and enthusiasm on Thursday....
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KARACHI: Electricity breakdowns persist
KARACHI, May 14: Power breakdowns continued to occur on Wednesday as the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation remained powerless to check power pilferage carried out in the name of religious festivities....
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KARACHI: Two men fall to death
KARACHI, May 14: Two men died when they fell down from a height while decorating streets in connection with the Eid Miladun Nabi in different parts of the city....
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KARACHI: Construction of three KU depts begins today
KARACHI, May 14: Construction of three new buildings meant for three science departments at the University of Karachi is to be started on Thursday (May 15)....
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KARACHI: Obesity-induced ailments on the rise
KARACHI, May 14: Health experts have stressed the need for adoption of a motto “Eat Less, Walk More” to defeat obesity....
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KARACHI: Traffic routes for today
KARACHI, May 14: The DIG (Traffic) has announced traffic arrangements for Thursday to ensure a smooth flow of traffic amid public meetings to be held and processions to be taken out...
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KARACHI: Special camps for phone connections
KARACHI, May 14: The STR-II general manager, Nafees Ahmed Siddiqui, with Abdul Naeem, director customer zone I, STR II, visited the special camps on Friday, says a press release....
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KARACHI: Refresher course on pulmonary medicine
KARACHI, May 14: The Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution announced on Wednesday that the Department of Chest Medicine at the Social Security Hospital, Site, is organizing a refresher course in pulmonary...
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KARACHI: Day against child labour
KARACHI, May 14: The second World Day against Child Labour will be observed on June 12, and the focus this year would be on trafficking in children....
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KARACHI: Group show at Momart
KARACHI, May 14: An exhibition of paintings by 23 painters will open at the Momart gallery on Friday....
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KARACHI: Highway blocked
KARACHI, May 14: Scores of truck drivers blocked the National Highway for about three hours on Tuesday....
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KARACHI: Road washed in Landhi as part of cleanliness drive
KARACHI, May 14: The process of washing roads began in Landhi Town on Wednesday as a part of the ongoing cleanliness campaign, reminding Karachiites of the good old days when the...
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KARACHI: Lawyers to discuss LFO on 17th
KARACHI, May 14: A lawyers’ convention is scheduled to be held here on May 17 to discuss the Legal Framework Order and the independence of judiciary....
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KARACHI: Police put on high alert to maintain peace
KARACHI, May 14: Police have been put on a high alert to ensure peace in the metropolis on Eid Milad-un-Nabi on Thursday. The rangers would also be deployed to assist the...
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KARACHI: TPO, SHO told to appear in court
KARACHI, May 14: Justice Zawwar Hussain Jaffery of the Sindh High Court ordered a town police officer and a SHO on Wednesday to appear in person on May 19 to explain...
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KARACHI: Mosharraf laid to rest
KARACHI, May 14: Known fiction writer and a literary journalist Dr Mosharraf Ahmad, who died on Tuesday, was buried in Sakhi Hasan graveyard on Wednesday. He leaves a widow, three daughters...
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KARACHI: MQM slams PBC for discrimination
KARACHI, May 14: Deputy Convener of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Nasreen Jalil has criticized the management of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation for what she termed discriminatory attitude in payment of 20...
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KARACHI: Regularization of plot rates
KARACHI, May 14: Karachi Building Control Authority will take steps, including a drastic cut in land regularization rates, to encourage industrialization....
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HYDERABAD: Govt giving priority to education, says minister
HYDERABAD, May 14: Federal Minister for Industry and Production Liaquat Ali Jatoi has said that education is essential to get rid of many problems....
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HYDERABAD: SAU workers hold demo against VC
HYDERABAD, May 14: The employees of the Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam on the call of the Employees Action Committee continued their protest for the third consecutive day here on Wednesday...
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HYDERABAD: Police fail to book killers of trader
HYDERABAD, May 14: No case was registered with the Pinyari police against the killers of a vegetable seller....
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HYDERABAD: Conviction of accused set aside
HYDERABAD, May 14: Justice Shabbir Ahmad of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, on Wednesday set aside the conviction of an accused in a Karo-kari case....
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HYDERABAD: Poisoning of humans
HYDERABAD: , May 14: Toxicology expert Dr Aftab Turabi here the other day gave a presentation on human poisoning due to the use of pesticides, its symptoms and treatment....
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PESHAWAR: Committee reviews transfers, postings
PESHAWAR, May 14: The Deputy Speaker of the NWFP Assembly, Mr. Ikramullah Shahid, has asked the education and health departments to consider the appeals filed by the doctors and teachers against...
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PESHAWAR: Cancer hospitals in Peshawar, Karachi planned
PESHAWAR, May 14: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said on Wednesday that he planned to build cancer hospitals in Karachi and Peshawar....
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PESHAWAR: Efforts for healthy lifestyle stressed
PESHAWAR, May 14: The government would make efforts to promote habits that could guide the people to adopt a healthy lifestyle in collaboration with the non-governmental organizations....
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PESHAWAR: Workshops for rural women to be held
PESHAWAR, May 14: Women division of the Outreach Directorate, Agricultural University has planned to arrange training workshops for the social workers, rural women working in different governmental and non-governmental organizations....
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PESHAWAR: Vehicle fitted with time-bomb seized
PESHAWAR, May 14: Police have seized a van fitted with a time-bomb in a congested area of Bannu shortly after a home-made device exploded harmlessly outside a Christian school, officials said...
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