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November 11, 2003 Tuesday Ramazan 15, 1424 KARACHI: Sugar mills to reopen on 15th or risk action: Sindh Assembly informed KARACHI, Nov 10: Action would be taken under the Sugarcane Act against the sugar mill owners who did not... KARACHI: Protesting KDA workers resort to violence KARACHI, Nov 10: Employees of the defunct Karachi Development Authority on Monday resorted to violence at the City Nazim’s secretariat, Civic Centre, while protesting against delay in payment of their salaries,... KARACHI: Four die in accidents KARACHI, Nov 10: Four persons died in separate accidents in different parts of the city on Monday.... KARACHI: Striking meat merchants to lose shops, warns Nazim KARACHI, Nov 10: Heartened by the satisfactory progress in normalizing sales and supplies of meat in the metropolis, City Nazim Naimatullah Khan on Monday exhorted the striking meat merchants to call... KARACHI: SIUT set to carry out liver transplant KARACHI, Nov 10: Surgeons of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) are gearing up to carry out the first liver transplant operation in the country.... KARACHI: Judgment reserved in kidnapping for ransom case KARACHI, Nov 10: An anti-terrorism court reserved, on Monday, the judgment in a kidnapping for ransom case.... KARACHI: Legislation on honour killings discussed KARACHI, Nov 10: Women legislators of the Sindh Assembly, as well as lawyers, politicians and human right activists discussed the draft legislative bills, on Monday, prepared by the Aurat Foundation regarding... KARACHI: Inquiry into fixing higher prices urged KARACHI, Nov 10: The All-Pakistan Small Shopkeepers’ Federation has demanded of Sindh chief minister and the city Nazim to order an inquiry against the responsible officials of the enterprise and investment... KARACHI: Stipend for doctors demanded KARACHI, Nov 10: Various organizations of doctors have expressed their concern over delay in payment of stipend to about 300 FCPS trainee doctors of Sindh despite orders by the governor and... KARACHI: Illegal construction KARACHI, Nov 10: Residents of Orangi Town’s sectors 14-B and 14-C (Bilal Colony, UC-8) have demanded of the city Nazim to direct the concerned department to stop the illegal construction on... KARACHI: Degree exam forms, fee submission KARACHI, Nov 10: The University of Karachi notified on Monday that registration and examination forms and fees for external candidates of BA, BCom, Bachelor of Oriental Languages (BOL), BSc, improvement of... KARACHI: Ramazan dates KARACHI, Nov 10: Mufti Munibur Rahman, chairman of the Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee, has announced that since of Ramazan began in Pakistan on Oct 28, Aitikaf begins on Nov 16, before sunset.... KARACHI: MPhil in pharmacy KARACHI, Nov 10: The MPhil programme is being initiated in all the four departments of the Karachi University’s Pharmacy Faculty.... KARACHI: Police told to check robberies KARACHI, Nov 10: Sindh chief minister’s advisor on Home and Co-ordination, Aftab Ahmed Shaikh, on Monday expressed concern over surge in robberies outside banks.... KARACHI: Availability of low-cost meat after Eid likely KARACHI, Nov 10: While consumers have been making a beeline to get mutton at Rs150 per kg from the city government’s outlets, it appeared talk of the town whether the whole... KARACHI: Release of all political detainees demanded KARACHI, Nov 10: Opposition leaders on Monday demanded that all political prisoners, including Makhdoom Javed Hashmi and Asif Ali Zardari, be released immediately and that the former premiers, Benazir Bhutto and... KARACHI: $51,222 decreed against US firm KARACHI, Nov 10: Justice Zia Pervez of the Sindh High Court on Monday decreed against US corporation ABCO Apparel a sum of $51,222.95 in a suit filed by the United Bank’s... KARACHI: KBCA lacks means to demolish buildings KARACHI, Nov 10: The Karachi Building Control Authority is neither fully equipped nor adequately staffed to carry out complicated demolition operations wherein an illegal structure is to be partially and selectively... KARACHI: Assessment of oil slick impact to begin soon: CM KARACHI, Nov 10: The Sindh Assembly was on Monday informed that work on a systematic assessment the environmental damage and ecological disaster resulting from the oil spillage in the wake of... KARACHI: Over 4,000 candidates for KU admissions KARACHI, Nov 10: As many as 4,062 students have applied for admissions to academic programmes in MA, MSc, MLIS, MCom in the University of Karachi, said official sources.... KARACHI: Diabetes KARACHI, Nov 10: A delayed diagnosis and inadequate provision for proper management of diabetes type one among children contributes to an estimated 40 per cent to 50 per cent death rate... KARACHI: Legal education programme launched KARACHI, Nov 10: Sindh High Court Chief Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad launched on Monday the Sindh High Court Bar Association’s “continuing legal education (CLE) programme” aimed at enhancing the lawyers’ knowledge... KARACHI: Cool night KARACHI, Nov 10: The Met department has forecast fair weather with cool night for Karachi on Monday. The maximum temperature in the city is expected from 33 to 35°C.—PPI... KARACHI: No change in govt likely: Jatoi KARACHI, Nov 10: National Alliance chief Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi on Monday rejected the rumours regarding any change in Sindh government.... HYDERABAD: Food dept supplying rotten wheat, say millers HYDERABAD, Nov 10: The Atta Chakki Owners Association on Monday rejected the food department deputy director’s claim that the small scale flour millers were being supplied quality wheat for grinding.... HYDERABAD: Award of contracts through tenders proposed: Hyderabad development package HYDERABAD, Nov 10: The implementation of the Hyderabad Development Package, announced by the president and the prime minister, was discussed at a meeting held at the DCO office here on Monday.... HYDERABAD: Moves to impose decisions on dams opposed HYDERABAD, Nov 10: The central executive committee of the Awami Tehrik at a meeting held here on Sunday reiterated that there was no water in the Indus river system to store... LARKANA: Larkana uplift plan approved LARKANA, Nov 10: The district development working party (DDWP), Larkana, encompassing different sectors, approved a three-year development plan to the tune of Rs535.30 million.... HYDERABAD: Inquiry officer appointed HYDERABAD, Nov 10: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, on Monday appointed a sessions judge as an inquiry officer to ascertain facts of a constitutional petition, seeking registration of a... HYDERABAD: 2 motorcyclists killed HYDERABAD, Nov 10: Two persons were killed on the Super Highway near Nooriabad in the jurisdiction of the Nooriabad police station on Monday.... SHIKARPUR: Loadshedding gos on SHIKARPUR, Nov 10: Contrary to the Hesco authorities’ claim of no load-shedding during Ramazan, the city residents continue to face unannounced load-shedding for long hours.... MIRPURKHAS: Plea to recover abducted woman MIRPURKHAS, Nov 10: A villager, A. Bux Areesar, resident of Saddar, Umerkot Taluka, has appealed to the Sindh governor, chief justice of the Sindh High Court, IG police (Sindh), district and... PESHAWAR: Net hydel profit share mitigates govt’s woes PESHAWAR, Nov 10: The Rs1bn released to the NWFP recently on account of its annual share under the net hydel profit brought the much-needed relief to the cash-strapped provincial government, according... PESHAWAR: Governor calls for national cohesion PESHAWAR, Nov 10: The present regional geo-political situation, specially challenges confronting Pakistan, calls for national cohesion and collective efforts to put the country on the path of progress and prosperity besides... GHANGCHE: Anniversary celebrated GHANGCHE, Nov 10: Poet-philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s birth anniversary was celebrated with great zeal and enthusiasm in Baltistan.... PESHAWAR: Boy granted bail PESHAWAR, Nov 10: The Peshawar High Court on Monday granted bail to a juvenile offender accused of drug pushing....

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