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KARACHI: Repair work completed Full supply from Hub resumes today
KARACHI, Oct 23: The water and sanitation department of the city government is all set to draw a maximum of 100 million gallons of water a day from the Hub Dam.... 
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KARACHI: Govt, opposition demand new NFC
KARACHI, Oct 23: For a change, the leader of opposition in Sindh Assembly Nisar Khurho and Senior Minister of Finance Syed Sardar Ahmad made a unanimous plea for provincialization of accounts...
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KARACHI: City govt signs deal for 1,000 CNG buses
KARACHI, Oct 23: A Saudi company has agreed to import 1,000 CNG buses for Karachi and help the city government complete its five projects....
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KARACHI: SC rejects plea for demolition
KARACHI, Oct 23: The Supreme Court has declined to order demolition of Saima Trade Tower or restrain the Karachi Building Control Authority from issuing it occupancy certificate....
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KARACHI: Five held, 20 stolen paintings recovered
KARACHI, Oct 23: Police, on late Wednesday night, arrested five suspects in defence area and recovered about 20 stolen works of art, including some of the master pieces by famous artists...
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KARACHI: Kidnapped trader got freed
KARACHI, Oct 23: A joint team of Citizens Police Liaison Committee and Anti-violent Crime Cell managed to secure safe release of Mr Rajesh Kumar, who was kidnapped on July 21 from...
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KARACHI: Marwat sees no improvement in education dept’s working
KARACHI, Oct 23: Sindh Education Minister Irfanullah Marwat on Thursday at a high-level meeting deplored that despite government efforts, there was no visible change in the attitude of the education department...
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KARACHI: Foundation of boys college laid in SITE
KARACHI, Oct 23: The City District Government Karachi has started work on the construction of a boys degree college in Metroville SITE town at a cost of Rs47 million....
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KARACHI: Award ceremony at DJ college today
KARACHI, Oct 23: The Sindh education and literacy department is holding awards distribution ceremony for students at D.J. Science College on Friday....
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KARACHI: KFHA to launch uplift projects
KARACHI, Oct 23: The Karachi Fisheries Harbour Authority (KFHA) has initiated work on several development schemes....
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KARACHI: HEJ, APCTT sign accord
KARACHI, Oct. 23: The Hussain Ebrahim Jamal (HEJ) Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, and the Asian-Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT) have singed an MoU to facilitate joint...
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KARACHI: High court sends back murder case for retrial
KARACHI, Oct 23: A division bench of the Sindh High Court comprising Justice Ghulam Nabi Soomro and Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany on Thursday adjourned the hearing of the appeal of the...
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KARACHI: KESC offers Ramazan package
KARACHI, Oct 23: The Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) has designed “Ramzan Package” to facilitate the citizens, interested in extra lighting for religious congregations, Eid-shopping venues, social occasions and night cricket...
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KARACHI: LJ activist given in police custody
KARACHI, Oct 23: Justice Shabbir Ahmed of Sindh High Court, who is also the administrative judge for anti-terrorism courts in Karachi division, on Thursday remanded the accused in Suparco carnage case...
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KARACHI: Lawyers seek refund of amount: Post office scam
KARACHI, Oct 23: Lawyers representatives warned the federal government of a relentless protest campaign if the cheated depositors of the city court’s post office savings bank, including the Sindh Bar Council...
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KARACHI: City Council opposes supervisory committee
KARACHI, Oct 23: The City Council session on Thursday rejected the notification of the district government regarding formation of a committee to supervise the development work in different union councils....
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KARACHI: Shadman town pipeline damaged
KARACHI, Oct 23: The main, supplying water to Shadman Town, Sector 14-A, has ruptured under a culvert near the Chinniot graveyard, resulting in the provision of sewage-mixed water to the residents...
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KARACHI: Prisoner commits suicide
KARACHI, Oct 23: An under-trial female prisoner, who had allegedly killed her parents, committed suicide in the Karachi Central Jail on Thursday morning....
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HYDERABAD: Partisan role of police in LG by-elections denied
HYDERABAD, Oct 23: Dadu DPO Ali Akbar Bhangwar has denied reports about the kidnappings of councillors and the alleged partisan role of district police in the by-elections for the post of...
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HYDERABAD: Release of man from illegal detention urged
HYDERABAD, Oct 23: Residents of Ahmed Khan Chandio village, Tando Bago taluka, Badin district have appealed to the president and prime minister, Sindh governor and chief minister to order the recovery...
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HYDERABAD: 31 ACE officers transferred
HYDERABAD, Oct 23: The Anti-Corruption Establishment has transferred 31 officers throughout Sindh to improve efficiency of the department....
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HYDERABAD: Teachers demand Nazim’s removal
HYDERABAD, Oct 23: The Government Secondary Teachers Association, Hyderabad district, at an urgent meeting held at the Government High School on Thursday demanded the dismissal of the Nazim, union council No9,...
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HYDERABAD: Slain man’s kin hold demo
HYDERABAD, Oct 23: Relatives of slain peasant Ram Chand, who was murdered in the jurisdiction of the Saeedabad police station one month back, held a demonstration outside the press club here...
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LARKANA: Action to be taken against ghost employees
LARKANA, Oct 23: The adviser to Sindh chief minister on health, Noman Saigal, has said there are thousands of ghost employees in the department and executive district officers (health) and the...
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PESHAWAR: Centre asked to seek consensus: Construction of Kalabagh dam
PESHAWAR, Oct 23: The NWFP government wants the federal government to take the provinces into confidence to evolve a consensus before taking a decision regarding the Kalabagh dam project, provincial Irrigation Minister Hafiz Akhtar Ali said...
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PESHAWAR: PHC suspends appointment
PESHAWAR, Oct 23: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Thursday suspended an official notification replacing a director with a university teacher at the directorate of social welfare....
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PESHAWAR: Obscene videos, CDs destroyed
 PESHAWAR, Oct 23: More than 100 pornographic CDs and cassettes, and a few bottles of aphrodisiacs were set on fire at the Karkhano bazaar here on Thursday....
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PESHAWAR: PUTA rejects varsity ord
PESHAWAR, Oct 23: A general body meeting of the Peshawar University Teachers Association (Puta) rejected the Model University Ordinance in its present shape, saying that the protest would be extended to...
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