30 April 2005	Saturday	20 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1426

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KARACHI: Deployment of Rangers at exam centres demanded: Police not trustworthy: SPLA KARACHI, April 29: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers’ Association (SPLA) has demanded deployment of Rangers at examination centres, claiming that police had failed in extending the required support in holding examination...		KARACHI: Unannounced loadshedding continues KARACHI, April 29: The army-run management of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation will decide on Saturday whether it is about time it announces that load-shedding is being carried out in the...
KARACHI: 250 acres of land retrieved KARACHI, April 29: The City District Government Karachi on the directive of DCO Fazlur Rehman has launched a massive operation against encroachments and land mafia in the city....		KARACHI: Haqiqi man shot dead KARACHI, April 29: An activist of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement was killed by unknown persons in Shah Faisal Colony on Friday. Police said Tanveer alias Kashif, 28, was kidnapped by unknown...
KARACHI: Muttahida unfolds list of uplift projects KARACHI, April 29: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Friday unfolded details of various development works it had undertaken in various parts of the province and alleged that owing to incompetence of...		KARACHI: Khokhrapar-Monabao link KARACHI, April 29: The Pakistan railway has started transporting required material, including sleepers and rails to Khokhrapar to convert the meter gauge line into broad gauge for opening Khokhrapar-Monabao train service...
KARACHI: Two Harkat activists acquitted KARACHI, April 29: An anti-terrorism court acquitted on Friday two workers of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Alami in a petrol pump blast case. Judge Feroze Mehmood Bhatti of the ATC-2 exonerated...		KARACHI: SHC admits insurance firm’s writ against probe: Alleged embezzlement KARACHI, April 29: A division bench of the Sindh High Court admitted on Friday for regular hearing by a full bench next month a writ petition by a private insurance company...
KARACHI: Establishment of reporting centres discussed KARACHI, April 29: Sindh Chief Secretary Mohammad Aslam Sanjarani Friday presided over a high-level meeting on establishment of reporting centres and police posts, and fixing of traffic signals within the limits...		KARACHI: Sedentary lifestyle causing metabolic syndrome KARACHI, April 29: South Asian countries including Pakistan and India have the highest rate of metabolic syndrome (MS) in the world and it is much more prevalent among women, while inactive...
KARACHI: Agha Hashar’s role in drama writing lauded KARACHI, April 29: Speakers at a function on Thursday said a true way to pay tribute to renowned Urdu drama-writer Agha Hashar Kashmiri would be to stage plays authored by him...		KARACHI: Govt’s claim refuted KARACHI, April 29: The Pakistan People’s Party on Friday said that PML chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain’s claim that all PPP workers arrested in Punjab had been released was wrong as several...
KARACHI: Water supply to improve with WB’s programme KARACHI, April 29: The adviser to chief minister on local government, Wasim Akhtar, on Friday said that the system of water supply in the city would be improved with the World...		KARACHI: Forced leave of PMDC’s secretary criticized KARACHI, April 29: The Pakistan Medical Association has condemned the forced leave given to Dr Sohail Karim Hashmi from Pakistan Medical and Dental Council after a resolution passed in the Senate....
KARACHI: Ameena Saiyid gets OBE award KARACHI, April 29: The Managing Director of the Oxford University Press (OUP), Pakistan, Ms. Ameena Saiyid, has been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE)....		KARACHI: Approval to award DLitt, DSc KARACHI, April 29: The Board of Advance Studies and Research, University of Karachi has given approval to award DLitt and DSc in the subjects of Pakistan Studies and Botany respectively, besides...
KARACHI: Gulberg Town budget KARACHI, April 29: The Gulberg Town has prepared its annual budget draft for 2005-6 which will be presented in the council meeting on April 30....		KARACHI: Due facilities to foreign investors pledged KARACHI, April 29: City Nazim Niamatullah Khan has said that all possible facilities would be provided to foreign investors for various development projects in Karachi....
KARACHI: MBBS results KARACHI, April 29: The University of Karachi on Friday announced the results of first professional part-B MBBS annual exams 2005....		KARACHI: Weather KARACHI, April 29: The Met office has forecast warm and humid weather with maximum temperature of 33 to 35 degrees Centigrade for Karachi and hot and dry weather for the rest...
HYDERABAD: ‘Water release needed to avert breach’: No plan yet to ensure supply of clean water HYDERABAD, April 29: The civil and irrigation authorities are yet to finalize a plan to provide clean drinking water to people after the release of polluted water from the Manchhar Lake...		HYDERABAD: ‘Education is people’s right, and also duty’ HYDERABAD, April 29: The Sindh Development Society and the Pakistan Coalition for Education jointly organised a seminar at the Hyderabad Press Club on Friday to mark the “Global Action Week” (Education...
HYDERABAD: Protesters demand release of PPP MPA, activists HYDERABAD, April 29: A large number of PPP activists and People’s Youth leaders, led by MPA Zahid Bhurgari, Aftab Khanzada and Fayaz Shah, staged a token hunger strike outside the local...		HYDERABAD: Action against villages assailed HYDERABAD, April 29: The president of the Sindh Hari Committee, Comrade Azhar Jatoi, has criticized the demolition of Sindhi villages in Karachi and said the action was part of a conspiracy...
THATTA: Fishermen demand abolition of contract system THATTA, April 29: A group of fishermen observed a token hunger strike to press there demand for abolition of the contract system on the Keenjhar Lake and the Indus Delta here...		DADU: Villagers protest against police DADU, April 29: A large number of residents of the Jam Zardari village staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Friday to protest against the Thrari Mohabbat police....