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July 23, 2003 Wednesday Jumadi-ul-Awwal 22, 1424 KARACHI: Infectious diseases on the rise in city KARACHI, July 22: Gastroenteritis and conjunctivitis have spread in an epidemic form, whereas the incidence of malaria and diarrhoea are also on the rise in the city owing to the prevailing... KARACHI: Meeting to discuss KCR’s revival KARACHI, July 22: A meeting to deliberate on the issue of the revival of the Karachi Circular Railway has been scheduled for Wednesday.... KARACHI: ID cards for Haj pilgrims KARACHI, July 22: The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has asked all intending Haj pilgrims to submit their data at the earliest so that their computerized national identity cards could... KARACHI: FIA seeks time to file comments KARACHI, July 22: A division bench of the Sindh High Court adjourned on Tuesday the hearing of a petition agitating the arrest of businessman Saifullah Paracha to Thursday for submission of... KARACHI: First year admissions begin on 28th KARACHI, July 22: Admissions to first year (class-XI) at 110 intermediate colleges and 32 higher secondary schools in the city, under the Centralised Admission Policy (CAP), will commence from July 28,... KARACHI:Politicians demand halt to Thal project KARACHI, July 22: Eight political parties belonging to the anti-greater Thal canal platform, on Tuesday, termed the project a conspiracy against the foundations of the federation and demanded an immediate halt... KARACHI: MQM man wounded KARACHI, July 22: An activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement Naushad Shaikh was injured by a bullet on Rashid Minhas Road on Tuesday night.... KARACHI: PIA launches courier service KARACHI, July 22: PIA chief Ahmad Saeed on Tuesday launched its premier value-added door-to-door courier service for one window operation to its customer, targeting all segments of society.... KARACHI: Week-long cleanliness drive in Landhi ends KARACHI, July 22: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s week-long cleanliness drive in Landhi area concluded on Tuesday.... KARACHI: An evening with story-writer KARACHI: Story-writer and literary critic Mohammad Hameed Shahid presented his story at the meeting of the Karachi Literary circle the other day.... KARACHI: KU to set up education faculty KARACHI, July 22: The University of Karachi has decided to set up Faculty of Education in the varsity, said the KU spokesman on Tuesday.... KARACHI: PM may attend varsity convocation KARACHI, July 22: Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali is likely to attend as chief guest the 3rd annual convocation of Iqra University, to be held in August, a spokesperson for the... KARACHI: Relief camp KARACHI July 22: The Society for Health and Education arranged a relief camp for the rain victims of Mubarak Village on Tuesday. The organization distributed medicines among 1,000 inhabitants of the... KARACHI: Govt accused of ignoring rain-hit areas KARACHI, July 22: The Pakistan Peoples’s Party leaders from Malir on Tuesday accused the provincial government of ignoring Old Thana and adjacent areas where six people had died of water- borne... KARACHI: SHC restrains CDGK from action against billboards KARACHI, July 22: A division bench of High Court of Sindh, comprising Justice Zahid Kurban Alavi and Justice Zia Pervez, on Tuesday issued stay orders against the City District Government Karachi... KARACHI: Rain relief centres KARACHI, July 22: On the directive of Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan, District Coordination Officer Mir Hussain Ali visited Saddar and Jamshed towns to review arrangements regarding registration of public... KARACHI: Rs1 billion sanctioned for coastal highway: CM attends NHA briefing KARACHI, July 22: Sindh Chief Minister Sardar Ali Mohammad Khan Mahar has said that the federal government has approved a sum of Rs1 billion for the construction of coastal highway which... KARACHI: Sectarian harmony promised KARACHI, July 22: Tehreek Ahl-i-Hadith chief Allama Abdullah Ghazi has said that his party would utilize all its capabilities to create sectarian harmony in the country.... KARACHI: Dawn staffer grieved KARACHI, July 22: Begum Naheed Ansari, 72, mother of Nadeem Ahmed Ansari, the production manager of the Dawn group of newspapers, died on Tuesday.... KARACHI: Woman murdered, man drowns KARACHI, July 22: A man drowned after falling into a well in Malir. His body was recovered on Monday night.... KARACHI: KFHA budget KARACHI, July 22: The budget proposals for fiscal year 2003-04, of the Karachi Fisheries Harbour Authority (KFHA) were approved at a meeting of its board of directors, which met on Tuesday,... HYDERABAD: Irrigation dept asked to fortify embankments HYDERABAD, July 22: The General Officer Commanding, Hyderabad, Maj Gen Mohammad Tariq Masood, has directed the Sindh irrigation authorities to keep strict vigilance over flood protective embankments of the Indus and... HYDERABAD: Rise in support prices of crops demanded HYDERABAD, July 22: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture has demanded increase in support prices of crops in the wake of damages caused to crops by the recent rain.... HYDERABAD: Increase in Thal canal capacity condemned HYDERABAD, July 22: The Sindh National Party has condemned the announcement that the capacity of the greater Thal canal would be increased by 3,000 cusecs.... MIRPURKHAS: Two booked for selling spurious pesticides MIRPURKHAS, July 22: Cases were registered against a trader and a storekeeper here the other day for selling spurious pesticides but none of them was arrested.... HYDERABAD: Protesters ransack Wasa office HYDERABAD, July 22: The situation took a violent return in Latifabad union council-10 on Tuesday when its residents ransacked the Wasa executive engineer’s office and burnt tyres on Auto Bhan Road.... LARKANA: Withdrawal of cases urged LARKANA, July 22: The members of Asif Zardari Release Committee took out a procession here on Sunday to demand withdrawal of cases against the People’s Party Parliamentarian leaders Benazir Bhutto and... HYDERABAD: Seminar held on public administration HYDERABAD, July 22: Research scholar Siraj Jamal Siddiqui gave a presentation on the “Public Administration in Pakistan: An Ecological Perspective” for his Ph.D degree at a seminar at the University of... HYDERABAD: Sewerage issue to be discussed with HCB HYDERABAD, July 22: The Sindh minister for local bodies and Kutchi Abadis, Mohammad Hussain, has constituted a committee to take up issues of drainage and sewerage systems with authorities of the... PESHAWAR: NWFP police to get more incentives: IG PESHAWAR,  July 22: Inspector-General of Police Mohammad Raffat Pasha said on Tuesday that the government was working out a plan to establish  model reporting police centres at sub-divisional level in the province.... HYDERABAD: Three drown in Indus HYDERABAD, July 22: Three young men, Ghulam Ali Mallah, 16, Aachar Mallah, 16, and Qurban Mallah, 20, residents of Qasimabad, drowned in the River Indus on Tuesday.... KOHAT: Hanged KOHAT, July 22: A condemned prisoner was hanged in the district prison here in the wee hours of Tuesday. Gul Mohammad, was awarded death sentence by the additional district and sessions... PESHAWAR: Sindh tops list of Guantanamo deportees PESHAWAR, July 22: Sindh tops the list of the recent returnees from the US naval base at the Cuban island of Guantanamo Bay followed by Punjab, the NWFP and Balochistan.... PESHAWAR: UN conducts eye tests to keep track of refugees PESHAWAR, July 22: “Come here, sit on the chair,” a woman UN refugee aid worker directs a shabbily-dressed Afghan boy as he enters a small, makeshift office set up inside a... PESHAWAR: 6 Fata MNAs hail talks on LFO PESHAWAR, July 22: Parliamentarians from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) have hailed the scheduled dialogue between the government and opposition on the contentious issues of the Legal Framework Order (LFO),... PEHAWAR: More centres needed for addicts PESHAWAR, July 22: A centre established for the treatment of drug addicts at the cost of a shelter house for destitute women on Charsadda Road has fallen short of serving its...

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