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KARACHI:City nazim presents Rs42.9bn budget KARACHI, April 30: A record Rs42.9 billion budget of the city government for the fiscal 2005-06 was presented at the City Council on Saturday. The budget is 34.5 per cent higher...		KARACHI:Collapse of city projects feared KARACHI, April 30: City Nazim Niamatullah Khan on Saturday expressed apprehension that a number of development works being undertaken by the city government under the Tameer-i-Karachi Programme (TKP) would come to...
KARACHI: Body formed to receive proposals on budget KARACHI, April 30: The members of the City Council on Saturday demanded of the City Nazim, Niamatullah Khan, to ensure that the remaining funds of the union councils for the current...		KARACHI:JI demands implementation of code of conduct KARACHI, April 30: Prof Ghafoor Ahmad, a central leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and deputy chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, has said if the 19-point code of conduct adopted at a high-level meeting...
KARACHI:Future course of action next week: PPP KARACHI, April 30: The central executive and federal council of the Pakistan People’s Party would next week decide the future course of action against the alleged violation of fundamental human rights...		ISLAMABAD:Benazir for reviewing anti-labour laws ISLAMABAD, April 30: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has expressed solidarity with the working class and called for reviewing anti-labour laws so as to restore workers’ rights....
KARACHI:May Day today KARACHI, April 30: Various programmes are being organized to celebrate the International Labour Day — popularly known as May Day — in the city like elsewhere around the globe on May...		KARACHI:Harkat men acquitted in 3 blast cases KARACHI, April 30: An anti-terrorism court acquitted on Saturday three activists of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Alami in a church bomb blast case....
KARACHI:Experts call for more stress on IT education KARACHI, April 30: Speakers at a conference stressed the need for increasing use of information technology in the promotion of education in the country....		KARACHI:Mandatory posts urged for pharmacists in hospitals KARACHI, April 30: Deputy Director-General, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Ali Akbar Sial, has suggested mandatory posts for pharmacists in all public and private sector hospitals....
KARACHI:Amendments to SLGO discussed KARACHI, April 30: Suggestions pertaining to amendments to the Sindh Local Government Ordinance were discussed at meeting presided over by Sindh Chief Minister Dr. Arbab Ghulam Rahim....		KARACHI:OPD facility ordered KARACHI, April 30: Sindh Health Adviser Health Faisal Malik has directed that out-patient department (OPD) service be started for cancer patients at Sindh Government Hospital, Liaquatabad so that they could get...
KARACHI:BA, BOL results announced KARACHI, April 30: The Examination Department, Karachi University on Saturday announced results of BA part-I regular, external and BOL annual exams 2004....		ISLAMABAD:Varsities’ budgets raised up to 40pc ISLAMABAD, April 30: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman, Dr Attaur Rahman, on Saturday said recurring and development budgets of universities had been increased by 30 to 40 per cent this...
ISLAMABAD:Call to abolish IRO 2002 ISLAMABAD, April 30: The labourers who sacrificed their lives in Chicago for the rights of their community were the founder of the trade union and deserved to be rememberer by their...		ISLAMABAD:Closer ties with India a must for regional peace, prosperity ISLAMABAD, April 30: Pakistan and India being the largest economies in South Asia can bring prosperity to the region by enhancing cooperation in this field....
RAWALPINDI:Three killed in separate incidents RAWALPINDI, April 30: Three people were killed in separate incidents in Rawalpindi, police said on Saturday . In the first incident, a woman and her son were shot dead by their rivals in Kahuta...		RAWALPINDI:PTCL workers’ regularization to start from tomorrow RAWALPINDI, April 30: Regularization of the remaining ad hoc employees of Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) will start from May 2....
LAHORE:Indian CEC visits election office LAHORE, April 30: Indian Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) T.S. Karishna Murthy visited the office of the provincial election commissioner here on Saturday. The budget is 34.5 per cent higher than the estimated budget of the current year, 2004-05. ...		LAHORE:PML for membership targets LAHORE, April 30: Alternative measures will be adopted to achieve membership targets in constituencies where the legislators concerned failed to give the desired results, Punjab PML Secretary-General Chaudhry Zaheeruddin says....
LAHORE:PPP men being mistreated: Naheed Khan LAHORE, April 30: PPP MNA Naheed Khan alleged on Saturday that her party workers from Sindh, who had come to Lahore on April 16 to receive Asif Zardari, were being mistreated...		LAHORE:Phone coys incur $15m loss a month LAHORE, April 30: Telephone operators, including the state-owned PTCL, are incurring a loss of about $15 million a month because of illegal termination of millions of voice communication minutes originating from...