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KARACHI: MMA calls for debate on national issues KARACHI, April 20: The central leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Syed Munawwar Hasan, on Tuesday demanded that all matters pertaining to General Pervez Musharraf’s visit to India should be placed before...		KARACHI: 5 political activists shot dead, 3 wounded KARACHI, April 20: Five activists of different political parties were shot dead at various places in the city on Wednesday. Two Muttahida Qaumi Movement activists were killed in New Karachi; a...
KARACHI: Electronic market protesters freed KARACHI, April 20: The top leadership of the Karachi Electronic Dealers Association (KEDA) taken into custody following violence on Tuesday, was set free on Wednesday morning. At least 30 people were...		KARACHI: Setting up of call centres ordered KARACHI, April 20: Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad has called for taking priority steps to establish call centres in the province. He was presiding over a high-level meeting at Governor’s House on...
KARACHI: Present regime’s days numbered: Benazir KARACHI, April 20: Chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party Ms Benazir Bhutto has claimed that the mass mobilization of the party cadre for receiving Asif Ali Zardari on April 16 was...		KARACHI: SHC allows ex-naval officer to travel abroad KARACHI, April 20: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday, allowing a petition by Commodore (retd) Mirza Ashfaq Baig against ban on his travel abroad, ordered deletion of petitioner’s name from the...
KARACHI: Order reversed on plea against IT minister KARACHI, April 20: Election Tribunal Sindh, headed by Justice Mushir Alam of Sindh High Court, on Wednesday reserved judgment on an election petition filed by Ghulam Abbas Panjwani of the Muttahida...		KARACHI: Campaign against polio to begin on 26th KARACHI, April 20: On suggestion of the WHO and the Unicef, City Nazim Niamatullah Khan has asked officials to form a committee at town level, which will meet every month regularly...
KARACHI: CM okays health policy KARACHI, April 20: Sindh Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim through a communication despatched to Sindh Health Secretary Prof Naushad Shaikh has formally approved the first full fledged health policy for the...		KARACHI: Beach uplift not to affect picnic facilities KARACHI, April 20: The Defence Housing Authority administrator, Brig Maqsood Hussain, said on Wednesday that beach development would not result in denial of facilities currently available to picnickers. Speaking at a...
KARACHI: Leghari and Arbab discuss situation in Sindh KARACHI, April 20: Former president and a PML leader Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari had a meeting with Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim here on Wednesday. According to CM...		KARACHI: PIA chief urged to restore accords KARACHI, April 20: PIA Cabin-Crew Solidarity Front has demanded of the newly-appointed PIA chief to restore and honour all previous agreements signed between the management and unions. At a press conference...
KARACHI: Illumination on Milad ordered KARACHI, April 20: The City Naib Nazim, Tariq Hasan, has directed officials of the city government to profusely illuminate government buildings, particularly city government ones and the City Council so that...		KARACHI: Inquiry ordered KARACHI, April 20: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has ordered an immediate inquiry into the death of Razia Matri, widow of the owner of a newspaper group, Fakhar Matri. The governor...
KARACHI: Speakers stress free sharing of knowledge: Software moot KARACHI, April 20: Speakers at a symposium have termed open source software (OSS) as one of the key pillars in rapid propagation of knowledge and cost-effective advancement of technologies in today’s...		KARACHI: Interaction between Muslims, West urged KARACHI, April 20: Speakers at a seminar on Wednesday stressed the need for closer interaction between academic circles of Muslim countries and the West in order to remove misperceptions regarding Islam....
KARACHI: Rs2.56m paid to workers KARACHI, April 20: The Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution (Sessi) paid benefits of Rs2.56 million to workers last month, the Commissioner Sindh Social Security, Asif Mergoob Siddiqui, told a meeting on...		KARACHI: DCOs asked to forward uplift plans by 30th KARACHI, April 20: The Sindh government has asked all the DCOs to forward the new development schemes for their respective districts to the provincial planning and development department for the year...
KARACHI: 156 released fishermen arrive KARACHI, April 20: A batch of 156 Pakistani fishermen, released from Indian jails and handed over to Pakistani authorities at Wahga on Tuesday, arrived here on Wednesday. According to an official...		KARACHI: Kidnapping case KARACHI, April 20: The defence concluded its side before an anti-terrorism court in Karachi on Wednesday, conducting trial against two men in a kidnapping for ransom case, after a statement on...
HYDERABAD: 45,000 party activists arrested, claims PPP HYDERABAD, April 20: People’s Party Parliamentarians’ Sindh Council member Mohammad Usman Kennedy has alleged that 45,000 party workers and leaders have been arrested in Lahore and adjoining area. He was speaking...		HYDERABAD: Court quashes no-confidence proceedings against nazim HYDERABAD, April 20: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad bench, on Wednesday quashed no-confidence proceedings against the taluka nazim of Kot Ghulam Mohammad, Mirpurkhas, and allowed his petition, holding that he would...
HYDERABAD: Warrant issued to SITE secretary HYDERABAD, April 20: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, here on Wednesday, issued a non-bailable warrant against and show- cause notice to the secretary of the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate,...		DADU: Protests against registration of case DADU, April 20: On the call of Citizen Action Committee, a complete strike was observed in Manjhand, Sann, Lakha and Khanote towns on Tuesday to protest against registration of a case...
HYDERABAD: Protest against delay in drain work HYDERABAD, April 20: Residents of Pathan Colony and Gharibabad blocked the National Highway here on Wednesday to protest against delay in completion of work on a drain along the highway. The...		HYDERABAD: Introduction of microbiology in colleges urged HYDERABAD, April 20: Speakers at a symposium on microbiology have stressed the need for introducing microbiology in colleges and providing increased research facilities in universities. The department of microbiology of the...
SUKKUR: Psychiatric patients get free treatment SUKKUR, April 20: More than 850 psychiatric patients were provided free consultation and medicines during a free neuropsychiatry camp held here on Tuesday. Eight consultant psychiatrists from Karachi...		LARKANA: PML-N leader criticizes army rule LARKANA, April 19: The president of the Sindh chapter of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, Mr Zain Ansari, has alleged Gen Pervez Musharraf ousted Nawaz Sharif at a time when...
HYDERABAD: Progressive parties plan joint platform HYDERABAD, April 20: Leaders of different political parties and organizations and intellectuals at a meeting held in Karachi on Monday formed a five-member committee to work out modalities for forming a...		SANGHAR: Taxi hijacked SANGHAR, April 20: A taxi driver was deprived of his car by three armed men near Khipro on Monday. Driver Jan Mohammad Baladi told police that two persons came to him...