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KARACHI: PA session prorogued amid PPP’s uproar KARACHI, May 16: The Sindh Assembly session was prorogued on Monday without discharging any business on the order of the day when opposition members from the PPP benches refused to allow...		KARACHI: Police use teargas to disperse students: Protesters block tracks KARACHI, May 16: Police lobbed tear gas shells and baton charged a group of protesting youths, who staged a sit-in on the railway tracks at the cantonment railway station forcing the...
KARACHI: Opposition violating rules of business: speaker KARACHI, May 16: Sindh Assembly Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah has said that the opposition, which had moved a requisition to discuss the issue of maltreatment with their workers, leaders and...		KARACHI: Session to be requisitioned again, says Khuhro KARACHI, May 16: The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians has decided to again requisition the Sindh assembly session which was prorogued on Monday....
KARACHI: SHC orders production of ‘kari’ KARACHI, May 16: The Sindh High Court on Monday ordered the production of a married woman declared ‘kari’ by a tribal jirga in Jacobabad. Petitioner Shahid Mustafa stated in his petition moved through Advocate Zia Ahmed Awan that his wife...		KARACHI: KU pays power charges on commercial rates KARACHI, May 16: The payment of electricity charges to the KESC under a commercial tariff is proving an additional and unjust burden on the University of Karachi exchequers, said sources on...
KARACHI: Police to run their own hospitals KARACHI, May 16: The documents for placing the police hospitals, being run by the health department, under the management of police department were signed at a ceremony held here at the...		KARACHI: Many areas suffer power cuts KARACHI, May 16: Power breakdowns occurred in many areas of the city on Monday as consumers wondered what the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation was doing with an additional 100 megawatts it...
KARACHI: Bail granted to PPP leader in murder case KARACHI, May 16: The district and sessions judge, South, Agha Rafique Ahmed Khan, granted on Monday bail to Khalid Shehansha, a local leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, in a murder...		KARACHI: Three killed in road accidents KARACHI, May 16: At least three persons were killed in accidents on Monday. Police said, a 60-years-old Khan Barjan was hit by a rashly-driven car at New Subzi Mandi about 9am on Monday, as a result he died on the spot. His body was shifted to Abbasi Hospital....
KARACHI: Concerted efforts stressed to control diseases KARACHI, May 16: Sindh Health Secretary Prof Naushad Sheikh has taken strong notice of the fact that Sindh reports the highest number of almost all diseases, including those which are easily...		KARACHI: MQM accuses JI of resorting to terrorism KARACHI, May 16: Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Monday charged Jamaat-i-Islami and its student wing, Islami Jamiat-i-Tulba, of allegedly resorting to acts of terrorism in the city and urged the president and...
KARACHI: Internet cafes told to remove covered cabins KARACHI, May 16: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has warned the internet cafe owners that they are allowed cabin partitions in their cafes up to the height of 4.5 feet only....		KARACHI: Ransom case KARACHI, May 16: Justice Amir Hani Muslim of the Sindh High Court, who is also the administrative judge of the Anti-Terrorism Courts in Karachi, on Monday accepting the charge-sheet against Mahfooz...
KARACHI: Water project inaugurated KARACHI, May 16: A water supply project was inaugurated in Manzoor Colony by Federal Minister for Housing and Works Syed Safwanullah, on Monday. He said that the prime minister had approved...		KARACHI: Air traffic control officers protest against ‘injustices’ KARACHI, May 16: The air traffic control officers have decided to follow the book as a protest against the injustices and discrimination with them as compared to the other supporting branches,...
KARACHI: Workers urged to forge unity KARACHI, May 16: Speakers at a meeting on Monday urged the workers to forge unity and wage a long struggle so that they could get their due rights which were not being given to them by imperialistic forces. They were speaking at a workers meeting, organized by the Labour Education Foundation, in Landhi....		HYDERABAD: Massive protest against contract system: Five leaders of Fisherfolk Forum held HYDERABAD, May 16: Five leaders of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), including its chairman, Mohammad Ali Shah, were arrested by the GOR police after they held a big protest demonstration outside...
HYDERABAD: Arrest of PPP activists condemned HYDERABAD, May 16: Leaders of the Sindh People’s Youth Organisation have condemned the large-scale arrests of their activists in Mirpurkhas and raids on their homes. Speaking at a press conference at...		HYDERABAD: Members of rival unions clash in Hyderabad HYDERABAD, May 16: A clash took place between mebers of the rival unions of the National Bank of Pakistan on Thandi Sarak on Monday. Two employees and office-bearers of the officers’...
HYDERABAD: Most of desilting work completed HYDERABAD, May 16: About 90 per cent work of desilting the Hassan Ali, Sultani and Jhole water channels of the Left Bank Canal Area Water Board has been completed. An amount...		HYDERABAD: Hyderabad to get major budget share HYDERABAD, May 16: The Hyderabad district will get a major amount of development and non-development funds in the forthcoming budget for 2005-06 as officials continued to prepare budgets for four districts....