May 26, 2005	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 17, 1426

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KARACHI: SHC issues notice to US consulate in kidnapping case KARACHI, May 25: The Sindh High Court issued notice to the US consulate-general on Wednesday in a petition alleging kidnapping, confinement and beating up of a citizen by its personnel and...		KARACHI: Rangers & KWSB fail to resolve differences: Row over hydrants KARACHI, May 25: The tug of war between Rangers and KWSB on Wednesday further intensified as the later refused to take over two hydrants –- Muslimabad and LSR (Low Supply Reservoir...
KARACHI: Ibad briefed on Clifton underpass, drainage KARACHI, May 25: The drainage and irrigation schemes under the Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD) and Chotiari Reservoir projects were reviewed at a high- level meeting held at the Governor’s House...		KARACHI: Govt fails to curb dropout rate KARACHI, May 25: Despite spending a major chunk of the educational budget on school education, the government in Sindh has badly failed to see any significant reduction in the average dropout...
KARACHI: Students to raise funds for SIUT KARACHI, May 25: Students and teachers from 50 different schools from across Karachi attended a ceremony aimed at creating awareness and raising funds for the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation...		KARACHI: PTCL workers on strike against privatization KARACHI, May 25: Workers of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company on Wednesday stayed away from work in protest against what now seems to be imminent privatization of the phone utility. Bidding for...
KARACHI: Estranged PPP cadre asked to return KARACHI, May 25: The Pakistan People’s Party on Wednesday asked its old guards and estranged cadre to return to the party fold at this critical juncture of its struggle against dictatorship,...		KARACHI: Claim of 10.5m cellphone subscribers misleading KARACHI, May 25: The number of mobile phone subscribers in Pakistan is much lesser than 10.5 million as being claimed by cell phone companies and relevant quarters. The figure, in fact,...
KARACHI: Prerequisites for good governance discussed KARACHI, May 25: At the concluding session of the Ombudsman Sindh Seminar held on Tuesday, speakers representing the civil administration, NGOs and intellectuals defined the imperatives of good governance and legal...		KARACHI: Health adviser denies outbreak of gastroenteritis KARACHI, May 25: Sindh Health Adviser Faisal Malik has dispelled the reported outbreak of gastroenteritis and diarrhoea consequently causing high rate of mortality in any part of the province. Addressing a...
KARACHI: MQM shows concern over gastro-related deaths KARACHI, May 25: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement coordination committee has expressed concern over the deaths caused by gastroenteritis in the interior of Sindh, shortage of water in Karachi and Hyderabad, and...		KARACHI: Warrants for arrest of Imtiaz, others KARACHI, May 25: The provincial anti-corruption court issued on Wednesday non-bailable warrants for the arrest of sacked provincial minister Imtiaz Shaikh and his brother Maqbool Shaikh in a land corruption case....
KARACHI: Educational strategies for DHA discussed KARACHI, May 25: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Education Committee’s annual meeting was held on Wednesday. Administrator of DHA Brig Maqsood Hussain chaired the meeting. Addressing the meeting, Brig Maqsood underlined...		KARACHI: Towns told to clean beaches in two weeks KARACHI, May 25: All the town administrations in Karachi district have been asked to ensure complete cleaning of beaches within the next two weeks and come out with a plan to...
KARACHI: Two more model parks planned KARACHI, May 25: The City Nazim, Niamatullah Khan, laid the foundation stone of two more model parks, one in Keamari and the other in North Nazimabad Town – named as Fateh...		KARACHI: Illegal liquor shops to be sealed KARACHI, May 25: The Secretary Excise and Taxation on Wednesday called upon the department officers to seal illegal liquor business and root out the illegal trade of narcotics from the province....
KARACHI: Clarification on closure of roads KARACHI, May 25: Traffic police on Tuesday clarified news items about traffic jams caused by the closure of roads for the prime minister’s movement in the city. In a communication to...		KARACHI: Days allotted for questions, answers in PA KARACHI, May 25: The Speaker Sindh Assembly, Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah, under Rule 47 of the rules procedure of the Sindh Assembly has allocated May 31 to education department, June 1...
KARACHI: Permission for religious gatherings must: Rauf KARACHI, May 25: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has said that though there is no ban on religious gatherings, but obtaining a prior permission for the same was a must. Talking...		KARACHI: 2 young men shot dead KARACHI, May 25: Two young men were shot dead after being kidnapped by unknown persons in separate incidents on Wednesday. In Lyari, unknown persons kidnapped a young man and shot him...
KARACHI: US asked to apologize for desecration of Quran KARACHI, May 25: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leader Senator Prof Ghafoor Ahmed has asked the United States to seek apology from the Ummah for sacrilege of Holy Quran by its soldiers in Guantanamo...		KARACHI: Scholars meet governor KARACHI, May 25: Noted scholars Dr Nabi Bux Baloch and Dr Jamil Jalbi, accompanied by Iftikhar Arif, chairman of the Academy of Letters, Pakistan, called on Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad...
KARACHI: Hot weather KARACHI, May 25: Hot and humid weather has been forecast for Karachi on Thursday, with temperatures ranging between 35 and 37 degrees Centigrade. According to the weather report of meteorological department...		HYDERABAD: Inflation makes claims of economic progress meaningless: MMA HYDERABAD, May 25: Senior Vice-President of the Jamiat-i-Ulema Pakistan and leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair has said that economic development was meaningless keeping in view...
HYDERABAD: Tail-end growers threaten self-immolation HYDERABAD, May 25: The tail-end growers of Chang Shaikh, Chhachh Shakh, Pir Shakhi-I and Tando Ghulam Ali Shakh of Naseer Canal, Chang sub-division, have warned that if they don’t get enough...		SUKKUR: Inmates hold jail staff hostage for 10 hours SUKKUR, May 25: Prisoners of the Sukkur Jail-II restored to violence on Wednesday and took the jail staff hostage for about 10 hours. However, no casualty was reported. At about 8am...
SUKKUR: Punjab team surveys Sukkur Barrage water flow SUKKUR, May 25: An 11-member technical team from the Taunsa Barrage arrived in Sukkur on Wednesday to conduct a survey regarding the upstream and downstream strength of the water flow of...		MIRPURKHAS: Two axed to death MIRPURKHAS, May 25: A married woman and a man were killed on the pretext of karo-kari in the Mian Khan Bhurgari village, deh 218, Kot Ghulam Mohammad taluka, on Wednesday. Jalal...
KHAIRPUR: Law, order situation worsening, says Qaim KHAIRPUR, May 25: The president of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, has said that law and order situation in the province was deteriorating and vehicle snatching and...		JACOBABAD: Gas supply to Jacobabad suspended JACOBABAD, May 25: Supply of natural gas to Jacobabad was suspended after a fire broke out in the 4-inch diameter pipeline near the Quetta road here on Wednesday. A Sui...