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KARACHI: City council condemns division of Hyderabad KARACHI, April 5: The City Council members in a roaring session on Tuesday opposed the bifurcation of Hyderabad district saying that the decision has been taken on political, ethnic grounds and...		KARACHI: SSC exams begin at 400 centres KARACHI, April 5: The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Annual examinations, 2005, got underway at various examination centres in private and public sector schools peacefully on Tuesday. The controller of examination of...
KARACHI: PTA warns cellphone company of Rs350m fine KARACHI, April 5: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has warned Mobilink that it will slap a Rs350 million fine on it and terminate its licence if the mobile phone company does not...		KARACHI: Power breakdowns cause water shortage in city KARACHI, April 5: Water supply system of different blocks of Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Gulistan-i-Jauhar and parts of PIB Colony was affected badly on Tuesday owing to...
KARACHI: Catholic schools KARACHI, April 5: The Catholic Board of Education has announced that all education institutions under it will remain closed on April 8 to pay tribute to the Pope John Paul II....		KARACHI: Cable fire hits phones KARACHI, April 5: Thousands of telephone connections went dead on Tuesday when cables of the Pak Capital Exchange were burnt by some unknown people setting fire to garbage. A spokesman for...
KARACHI: System for testing of vehicles may be privatized KARACHI, April 5: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Tuesday said that it was decided in principle to hand over the vehicle testing and fitness to private sector, besides system of...		KARACHI: Excise dept to take up MVT proposal with federal govt KARACHI, April 5: The Sindh Excise and Taxation Department has taken up afresh with federal authorities the proposal of collecting Motor Vehicle Tax through petrol pumps. The proposal was submitted first...
KARACHI: PPP plans protests against bifurcation KARACHI, April 5: The Pakistan People’s Party would on Wednesday hold province-wise protest against the government decision to fragment Hyderabad district into four separate entities, allegedly to the advantage of a...		KARACHI: ATC acquits two Harkat men in blast cases KARACHI, April 5: An anti-terrorism court acquitted on Tuesday two workers of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Aalmi in two petrol pump blast cases. Judge Aley Maqbool of the ATC-1 exonerated accused...
KARACHI: Kashmiris want role in peace process KARACHI, April 5: Kashmiris want peaceful resolution of Kashmir issue and desire their induction in the ongoing peace process between Pakistan and India as basic stakeholders. This was stated by AJK...		KARACHI: Two UTPs die in civil hospital KARACHI, April 5: Two under-trial prisoners died in Civil Hospital on Tuesday due to ailment, the police said. Ismail, 60, was admitted to Civil Hospital where he breathed his last in...
KARACHI: Salma, NAB ordered to submit accounts KARACHI, April 5: A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Tuesday asked former MNA Begum Salma Ahmed and the National Accountability Bureau to respectively submit details of expenditure (by...		KARACHI: Importance of home economics highlighted KARACHI, April 5: Speakers at a symposium and workshop discussed the potentials of home economics as a discipline of education and held that it was a combination of physical and social...
KARACHI: I.I. Chundrigar Road to be beautified KARACHI, April 5: A meeting of the steering committee formed by the governor, State Bank of Pakistan Governor, for beautification of the I.I. Chundrigar Road was held on Tuesday. The meeting,...		KARACHI: Separate dental council soon KARACHI, April 5: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has agreed in principle to have a full-fledged Pakistan Dental Council in the country. Necessary formalities in this regard are in...
KARACHI: IT department interviews KARACHI, April 5: The interviews for the contract posts of various projects of the Sindh information technology department will commence from April 14. This was announced in a statement of the...		KARACHI: Moot on chest diseases KARACHI, April 5: The Pakistan Chest Society (PCS) is organizing a regional conference on ‘Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis’ from April 9 to 10, Dr Shakil A Siddiqui, Clinical Secretary of the...
KARACHI: Lyari peace conference today KARACHI, April 5: The Sindh National Council will be organizing a peace conference on Lyari on April 6. The conference will discuss various issues pertaining to the old city area,...		KARACHI: Cultural village to be set up in a week KARACHI, April 5: The Sindh Governor, Dr Ishratul Ibad, has doubled the grant-in-aid of the Arts Council after a meeting with...
KARACHI: Suspected gangster shot dead KARACHI, April 5: The police on Tuesday shot dead a close aid of the notorious Rehman Dakait after a brief shootout in Lyari. The police raided Afshani Gali on a tip...		HYDERABAD: Officials urged to expedite work on watercourses HYDERABAD, April 5: The country project director of the National Programme for Improvement of Watercourses’ monitoring unit....
HYDERABAD: Notices issued to nazim, DCO HYDERABAD, April 5: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, has issued notices to the Hyderabad DCO, city taluka nazim and M/S Jamiluddin, on a constitutional petition filed by a bus...		HYDERABAD: PML-N criticizes govt’s economic policy HYDERABAD, April 5: The central information secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Mr Siddiqul Farooq, has said that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has not invested his his own Rs5 billion in...
HYDERABAD: Progress of work on projects discussed HYDERABAD, April 5: The status of 794 development schemes to be completed at a cost of Rs1471 million under different development portfolios was discussed at a meeting here on Monday. DCO...		HYDERABAD: Distribution of funds; new formula needed HYDERABAD, April 5: The formula for distribution of funds under the Hyderabad Development Package needs to be modified following division of Hyderabad into four districts, inquiries from district government officials revealed...
HYDERABAD: Threat to launch protest movement: Division of Hyderabad HYDERABAD, April 5: Condemning the division of Hyderabad into four districts, federalist as well as nationalist parties have threatened to launch a protest movement against the decision....		SHIKARPUR: Imtiaz’s aide released on bail SHIKARPUR, April 5: Sacked minister Imtiaz Shaikh’s close aide Mir Babal Khan Bhayo, who is also district coordinator of Pakistan Muslim League, Shikarpur, was released after securing bails from the courts...