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KARACHI: CMs pledge to extirpate criminals KARACHI, May 19: The chief ministers of Sindh and Balochistan, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim and Jam Mohammed Yusuf on Thursday held a high-level meeting at chief minister house here regarding the...		KARACHI: Electricity hide & seek makes life miserable: Students suffer most KARACHI, May 19: Power breakdowns in various areas of the city continued on Thursday forcing people to pass sleepless night and exposing the ‘efficiency’ of the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation. The...
KARACHI: Local train extended to Wazir Mansion KARACHI, May 19: Pakistan Railways has extended the local train service to Circular Railway loop. It will now run up to Wazir Mansion railway station. The local train service from the...		KARACHI: Mall may replace Mideast hospital KARACHI, May 19: The Mideast Medical Centre in Clifton, which was set up in a five-storey building on two residential plots in Block 9, KDA Scheme-5, also known as Kehkashan, has...
KARACHI: Officials told to complete cottage industry plan KARACHI, May 19: The outskirts of Karachi will be arranged in residential, commercial and trade zones, with their own green belts. This was decided in a high-level meeting held at the...		KARACHI: Unregistered blood banks to be sealed KARACHI, May 19: The Health Adviser to Chief Minister, Faisal Malik, on Thursday said unregistered, illegal and substandard blood banks would be sealed after the promulgation of the Blood Bank Ordinance....
KARACHI: Better conditions in women’s jails urged KARACHI, May 19: Speakers at a function on Thursday urged philanthropists and NGOs to come forward and join hands to ensure provision of due facilities to women prisoners in the province....		KARACHI: Maltreatment of HR activists in Lahore condemned KARACHI, May 19: Speakers at a demonstration on Tuesday condemning the police action against the human rights activists in Lahore demanded that the Punjab government should extend a public apology and...
KARACHI: Doctor’s transfer opposed KARACHI, May 19: The staff members of the Qatar Hospital, expressing concern over the transfer of a senior gynaecologist, said area residents, junior doctors and paramedics would suffer from his absence,...		KARACHI: Trader allowed to go abroad KARACHI, May 19: The Sindh High Court allowed an industrialist on Thursday to go abroad after depositing Rs 2.5 million as security with its nazir. Petitioner Masood Baghpatee, director of the...
KARACHI: ATC puts off hearing of murder case KARACHI, May 19: An anti-terrorism court put off on Thursday the hearing of a kidnapping-cum-murder case after recording the statement of two accused. Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the ATC-3 fixed...		KARACHI: 3 die in accidents KARACHI, May 19: Three persons died in separate road accidents in different parts of the city Thursday. A pedestrian died in a road accident at Gurumandir. Police said Moosa, 45, a...
KARACHI: Explosives banned KARACHI, May 19: The city government has declared as illegal all kinds of business related to explosive materials within its limits, particularly in residential areas, with immediate effect and until further...		KARACHI: Use of unfair means reported in inter exams KARACHI, May 19: Two of the HSC annual examination candidates, including one girl student, did not return their written answer scripts to examiners at two different centres on Thursday....
KARACHI: PA meets on 31st KARACHI, May 19: Sindh Assembly Speaker Syed Muzzafar Hussain Shah has summoned the provincial assembly to meet on Tuesday (May 31) at 9:30am in the assembly building.—PPI...		KARACHI: Hamida wants action against cheating KARACHI, May 19: Sindh Education Minister Dr Hamida Khuhro on Thursday directed all the concerned departments specially EDOs and colleges’...
KARACHI: BLIS results KARACHI, May 19: The examination department, University of Karachi announced the results of Bachelor of Library and Information Science annual examinations-2004 here on Thursday....		KARACHI: Shifting of school delayed KARACHI, May 19: In view of resentments from parents’ side, the management of Foundation Public School (Junior-II), PECHS, has decided not to shift the students of classes IV and V...
KARACHI: FTC flyover renamed KARACHI, May 19: The City District Government Karachi has named the FTC Flyover after Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani. City Nazim Karachi Naimatullah Khan unveiled the plaque of Abdul Qadir Jilani....		KARACHI:Improving people-police relations lauded KARACHI, May 19: The Sindh Governor, Dr Ishratul Ibad, has exhorted government functionaries to make capability, commitment to duty and sense...
KARACHI: Weather KARACHI, May 19: The Met office has forecast hot and humid weather for Karachi on Friday with maximum temperature expected to range between 35°C and 37°C. The highest maximum temperature...		HYDERABAD: Soil, plant testing facilities for farmers urged HYDERABAD, May 19: Agriculture Research director-general Haji Khan Keerio has urged agriculture-oriented organizations to provide soil and plant testing...
HYDERABAD: Fishermen’s leaders granted bail HYDERABAD, May 19: The judicial magistrate-II, Hyderabad, Mr Ali Ahmed Wagan, on Thursday granted bail to office-bearers of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum for Rs50,000 each....		NAWABSHAH: Case registered NAWABSHAH, May 19: A 62-year-old man, Loung Khan Zardari, died of heart attack after an exchange of fire between two groups in the Doongar Zardari Village on Wednesday...