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KARACHI: SHO among four killed in Hub shootout: Rehman Dakait’s house raided KARACHI, May 17: A police officer, a civilian, and two suspected members of the Rehman Dakait gang were killed in a four-hour-long shootout between police and gangsters in a shanty town of Hub early on Tuesday morning....		KARACHI: Policeman commits suicide KARACHI, May 17: A policeman committed suicide in New Karachi on Tuesday. A duty officer of the New Karachi Industrial Area police station said that Head Constable Muhammad Ashraf, 45, ended his life by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in his house in Khemeso Goth. His body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for postmortem examination. The head constable,....
KARACHI: Two major hydrants to be shut KARACHI, May 17: The KWSB will close two major hydrants – Muslimabad and LSR (Low Supply Reservoir) – shortly after taking over them from the Rangers on May 25. In another development, night water tanker service (from 8pm to 6am) has been suspended from Muslimabad,...		KARACHI: SHC restrains ghee firm from reusing containers KARACHI, May 17: The Sindh High Court restrained the oil and ghee manufacturers on Tuesday from using second-hand or substandard tin plates in cans and containers. A petition alleging that used and substandard packing material...
KARACHI: Contempt notices issued to customs officials KARACHI, May 17: A division bench of the Sindh High Court issued contempt notices to former collector and deputy collector of customs for appraisement for not complying with a court order....		KARACHI: Inadequate security on first day of HSC exams KARACHI, May 17: Reports about inadequate security arrangements at some examination centres, including the sensitive ones, were received on the first day of Intermediate annual examinations on Tuesday. However, Board of...
KARACHI: Punjab asked to apologize for police action KARACHI, May 17: The civil society organizations on Tuesday condemning the police action against the human rights activists in Lahore on May 14 have demanded that the Punjab government and the...		KARACHI: Foundation of model park laid KARACHI, May 17: The City Nazim, Niamatullah Khan, on Monday laid the foundation of Chawla Model Park in Nazimabad — the second model park in Nazimabad UC-10. So far, the city...
KARACHI: Govt criticized for water crisis KARACHI, May 17: Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto) Chairperson Ghinva Bhutto has condemned the non-serious attitude of the government towards water crisis in Hyderabad, Jacobabad and other parts of Sindh where...		KARACHI: PM urged to intervene in PMDC affairs KARACHI, May 17: The Pakistan Medical Association has urged Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to intervene in the affairs of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council and form a high-power committee to investigate...
KARACHI: Shifting of school perturbs parents KARACHI, May 17: An administrative decision regarding change of a private school campus from PECHS to Gulshan-i-Iqbal has upset a number of parents. Reacting over the decision, parents gathered near the...		KARACHI: Ibad lauds efforts of excise police KARACHI, May 17: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad awarded appreciation certificates to 35 officials of the excise police for their extraordinary performance, here on Tuesday. In this connection a ceremony was...
KARACHI: PFF leaders’ arrest condemned KARACHI, May 17: Human rights activists and civil society organizations have condemned the auction of fisheries rights in Sindh and arrest of leaders of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum. Leaders from various...		KARACHI: IJT activists ‘tortured’ KARACHI, May 17: The Islami Jamiat Talaba in a press conference on Tuesday alleged that two IJT activists and students of Jinnah College, who appeared in the HSC annual exams on...
KARACHI: Better performance stressed KARACHI, May 17: Sindh Chief Secretary Fazlur Rehman has urged the officers of Services and General Administration and Coordination Department of Sindh Government (SGACD) to ensure timely disposal of relevant assignments....		KARACHI: JSM wants provinces to collect tax KARACHI, May 17: The Jeay Sindh Mahaz has demanded that all powers to collect revenue and imposition of tax should be transferred to federating units and the rights of Sindhi people...
KARACHI: Man acquitted in rape, murder case KARACHI, May 17: Additional District and Session’s Court South on Tuesday acquitted a man in a rape and murder case for lack of evidence. Mohammad Zahid was prosecuted for killing Aliya...		KARACHI: Man acquitted in fake sureties case KARACHI, May 17: The additional district and sessions judge, South, Syed Inamur Rahman, acquitted on Tuesday a man, of furnishing fake sureties in courts. Qari Ghulam Murtaza was booked by the...
HYDERABAD: ‘DCO cannot use powers of district council’ HYDERABAD, May 17: The DCO cannot use powers of the Hyderabad District Council in view of a notification issued by the additional chief secretary, legal department, on April 16. This was...		HYDERABAD: 30 students suffer as SU delays course for year HYDERABAD, May 17: Around 30 candidates who applied for the telemedicine and e-health course offered by the Sindh University’s Information Technology department have been waiting for the commencement of the course...
HYDERABAD: Final notice issued to power bills defaulters HYDERABAD, May 17: The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company has issued notices to all departments and autonomous bodies of the federal and provincial government to clear outstanding bills by the new deadline...		HYDERABAD: Lining of six channels completed HYDERABAD, May 17: The DCO has said that six watercourses were lined by May 14 and work on 44 watercourses is in progress in the defunct Hyderabad district under the National...