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December 18, 2003 Thursday Shawwal 23, 1424 KARACHI: Sindh govt told to settle KBCA, city govt row KARACHI, Dec 17: The Sindh High Court gave the provincial government three months to try a provisional arrangement worked out by it to ensure coordination between the city district government and... KARACHI: 25,000 lives lost every year for want of cadaver law KARACHI, Dec 17: On an average 25,000 Pakistanis die every year of organs failure. The lives of many of these patients may be saved, provided cadaver donation of organs is legalized... KARACHI: PA session condemns Pindi blast amid uproar KARACHI, Dec 17: Amid uproar, the Sindh Assembly session was prorogued in a haste by Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah on Wednesday, without concluding debate on law and order and without... KARACHI: Angry ministers can resign: CM KARACHI, Dec 17: Chief Minister Ali Mohammed Mahar on Wednesday brushed aside attempts to destabilize his government and said that if any minister was displeased with him, he should resign.... KARACHI: Wreckage removal Insurers of Tasman, KPT reach accord KARACHI, Dec 17: The operation for removal of wreckage of foreign oil tanker Tasman Spirit, lying in two portions near KPT’s main navigation channel, would start early next month.... KARACHI: Italian centre inaugurated KARACHI, Dec 17: The Italian Cultural Centre was officially inaugurated on Wednesday evening with a European music programme.... KARACHI: Prof Afaq Siddiqui honoured KARACHI: In the chain of events held to eulogise the masters at Arts Council, it was the 10th event, in which noted researcher, poet and writer Prof Afaq Siddiqui was the... KARACHI: Anti-Pakistan movies lost appeal in India: Mahesh KARACHI, Dec 17: Well-known Indian film-maker Mahesh Bhatt said on Wednesday that he personally condemned those films which contained excessive anti-Pakistan rhetoric, adding that lately such films had failed at the... KARACHI: Tribute paid to Ashfaq Hussain KARACHI: Ashfaq Hussain, known poet and writer from Canada, also a former student of the University of Karachi, was the guest of the Karachi University’s Senior Students Forum at a hotel... KARACHI: Healthy transplant baby sent home KARACHI, Dec 17: On Wednesday, that is, twenty-two days after he was operated upon, six-month-old Sohaib — the first Pakistani to undergo a liver transplant operation in the country — was... KARACHI: Counter sale of prescribed drugs criticized KARACHI, Dec 17: The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases Director, Prof Azhar Farooqui, has registered serious concern over the counter sale of prescribed drugs and exposing locals to serious health conditions.... KARACHI: Governor inspects road repair work KARACHI, Dec 17: Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad paid surprise visits to various areas on Tuesday night and inspected the ongoing work under different schemes.... KARACHI: Nationalists urged to unite against hegemony: G.M. Sayed remembered KARACHI, Dec 17: Speakers at a seminar here on Wednesday paid rich tributes to late GM Sayed for his services to the cause of nationalism, secularism and democracy.... KARACHI: Policeman murdered; man kills father KARACHI, Dec 17: Unidentified suspects killed a policeman in Mobina Town early Wednesday morning.... KARACHI: Writ against Pemra admitted KARACHI, Dec 17: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday converted an appeal preferred by a channel distributor against a decision rendered by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority into a writ... KARACHI: UK lawmakers respect Musharraf: MP Karachi, Dec 17: The leader of the visiting Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK Branch) delegation, Tom Cox MP, said he was “proud to say that in the British Parliament there is respect... KARACHI: Mistreatment of Saddam flayed KARACHI, Dec 17: Senior politician Mairaj Muhammad Khan has said the humiliating treatment meted out to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussain by the US authorities in Iraq and release of the... KARACHI: Awareness of diabetes prevention stressed KARACHI, Dec 17: Several well-known doctors took part in a seminar held on Wednesday in the Khalikdina Hall in connection with the World Diabetes Day. They sought to create awareness of... KARACHI: Nadra urged to streamline functioning KARACHI, Dec 17: Advisor to Sindh chief minister on home and coordination, Aftab Ahmed Shaikh, expressing concern over Nadra’s deadline of Dec 31, has called for extension in the date for... KARACHI: Building plans withdrawn KARACHI, Dec 17: The KBCA has withdrawn the building plans of See Breeze Mid-Town Apartments project, situated on plots No MC-4 and MC-7, Scheme-35, and Lines Area Re-development Project.... KARACHI: Clarification KARACHI, Dec 17: This refers to a newsitem published in Dawn on Dec 12 captioned “Complaint to PTCL”. In this regard, the PTCL would like to clarify that the delay in... HYDERABAD: Thatta declared calamity hit HYDERABAD, Dec 17: The provincial government has declared the entire Thatta district as a calamity affected area which was lashed by heavy monsoon rains.... HYDERABAD: EPA seeks analysis of water samples: Pollution in KB Feeder HYDERABAD, Dec 17: The Environmental Protection Agency has taken serious notice of pollution in KB Feeder water and asked the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology and Sindh University to conduct... HYDERABAD: Health care for women stressed HYDERABAD, Dec 17: Speakers at a workshop on “Women’s Health, a Basic Right” held at a hotel here on Wednesday deplored the apathy of authorities and the civil society towards women.... THATTA: Dr Manjhi’s name proposed for award THATTA, Dec 17: The district government has recommended Dr Mohammad Ali Manjhi for the Pride of Performance award.... HYDERABAD: Landlord accused of kidnapping two Haris HYDERABAD, Dec 17: The Sindh Azad Hari Union has warned that if two peasants, taken hostage by a Sanghar landlord, were not recovered in three days, its activists would besiege the... PESHAWAR: Funds on poverty basis demanded: NWFP PA rejects population criteria PESHAWAR, Dec 17: The NWFP Assembly on Wednesday rejected the population being the sole criteria for distribution of development funds among the provinces. Instead, it underlined the need for making poverty... PESHAWAR: Asma links democracy to free judiciary PESHAWAR, Dec 17: A true democracy cannot be established in Pakistan unless the judiciary is independent and due rights are given to common men.... PESHAWAR: Three killed in blast PESHAWAR, Dec 17: Three persons were killed and four wounded critically on Wednesday when an unexploded ordnance went off in a scrap dump in Parachinar, Kurram Agency.... PESHAWAR: Plea against admission dismissed PESHAWAR, Dec 17: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday dismissed a writ petition challenging admission to medical colleges of the province on seats reserved for backward areas.... PESHAWAR: Student union’s restoration stressed PESHAWAR, Dec 17: The Islami Jamiat Talaba has claimed that 88 per cent of the students favoured the restoration of students’ union activities in the educational institutes in what they termed... PESHAWAR: Function held in Yousafi’s honour PESHAWAR, Dec 17: Humorist Mushtaq Yousafi enthralled people on Tuesday at a function arranged in his honour at the press club by the provincial culture department as part of the Fatima Jinnah year celebrations....

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