June 9, 2005	Thursday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 1, 1426

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KARACHI: Rs43m fine imposed for violating traffic rules KARACHI, June 8: The traffic police imposed a fine of Rs43.68 million during the past five months and realized Rs38.4 million. According to police statistics,...		KARACHI: Electrocution: KESC to pay Rs4.453m KARACHI, June 8: The Sindh High Court has decreed a suit against the KESC to the tune of Rs4.453 million. Justice Rehmat Hussain Jafri passed the order in a suit filed by Ms Farzana Parveen through her counsel Nasir Maqsood...
KARACHI: JAP’s protest day tomorrow KARACHI, June 8: The Jafria Alliance Pakistan will observe a country-wide protest day on Friday to register their protest against the statement of President Musharraf describing the suicide bombing of Madinatul...		KARACHI: Flurry of junk SMS irritates subscribers KARACHI, June 8: Subscribers of a cellphone company on Wednesday complained of receiving a number of unwanted SMS text messages. The cellphone company, Mobilink, faces a hearing on Thursday at the...
KARACHI: Jam Saqi’s wife granted bail KARACHI, June 8: The Sindh High Court granted bail to Ms Akhtar Sultana, wife of Jam Saqi, and issued notices to the advocate-general and respondent home and police departments in the couple’s petition for June 13. Advocates Syed Iqbal Haider and Rasheed A. Razvi...		KARACHI: Forestation plan for city ready, says nazim KARACHI, June 8: The city nazim, Niamatullah Khan, has said the city government is mulling over to grow forests in Malir and other areas, adding that a comprehensive forestation plan for...
KARACHI : All About Lifestyles opens tomorrow KARACHI, June 8: A summer All About Lifestyles exhibition organized by the Dawn Group of Newspapers begins at the Expo Centre tomorrow (Friday) and will end on Sunday. This is the seventh All About Lifestyles Exhibition organized by the group....		KARACHI: 23 Sindh districts to get Rs4bn more: Divisible pool KARACHI, June 8: The 23 districts of Sindh will get Rs4 billion more in their 55 per cent share of net divisible pool of the province during the fiscal year 2005-06....
KARACHI: Preservation of marine resources stressed: World Ocean Day observed KARACHI, June 8: The World Wide Fund for Nature in Pakistan organized two programmes to celebrate the World Ocean Day on Wednesday. The World Ocean Day is celebrated every year on...		KARACHI: PA employee reinstated by tribunal KARACHI, June 8: The Sindh Service Tribunal has reinstated a provincial assembly librarian compulsorily retired in 2001 for producing a bogus matriculation certificate at the time of her appointment in 1973....
KARACHI: Token strike by teachers KARACHI, June 8: Teachers of Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology, Baba-i-Urdu Campus, started a two-hour strike on Wednesday against the ‘biased’ attitude of the university administration towards them....		KARACHI: Govt taking care of disabled: minister KARACHI, June 8: The Sindh Minister for Culture, Social Welfare and Tourism, Shabbir Ahmed Qaimkhani, has said the present government has taken long-term revolutionary steps to provide basic...
KARACHI: MoU signed for uplift of new districts KARACHI, June 8: The adviser to chief minister for local government, Wasim Akhtar, has said that the size of Hyderabad Development Package announced by the President would be got increased from...		KARACHI: 36kg heroin seized KARACHI, June 8: The Customs Preventive recovered 36 kg of brown coloured heroin worth $3.6 million from an export consignment of wooden articles at the Karachi Port. The consignment was destined...
KARACHI: Hot weather KARACHI, June 8: The Met department has forecast hot and humid weather for the city over the next 24 hours. The maximum temperature would range between 35 and 37 degrees Centigrade....		KARACHI: Interaction of scientists with media stressed KARACHI, June 8: Media experts at a workshop on “Science in mass media” urged Pakistani scientists to pay special attention to their interaction with mass media for valuable and accurate communication...
KARACHI: PTCL workers threaten strike KARACHI, June 8: Pakistan Telecommunication Company staff and law-enforcement agencies were on a collision course on Wednesday when union leaders said they would go on strike from Karachi to Khyber if...		KARACHI: Free parking KARACHI, June 8: The city government on Wednesday clarified that charged parking had not been imposed at the Sports Complex ground; therefore no parking fees would be charged there. In a...
HYDERABAD: Notices issued to ACE officials HYDERABAD, June 8: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad bench, on Wednesday issued notices to the director of the Anti-Corruption Establishment, Karachi, deputy director of the ACE, Hyderabad, EDO, revenue, superintendent of...		HYDERABAD: Protests against grant of citizenship in Sindh to illegal immigrants HYDERABAD, June 8: Activists of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party held demonstrations and observed token hunger strikes in many districts of the interior of Sindh on Wednesday. They were protesting...
HYDERABAD: Hospital denied its share of drugs HYDERABAD, June 8: Medicines worth Rs15 million have not been provided to the Hyderabad Civil Hospital by the import and inspection depot, Karachi. This is the share allocated to the hospital...		HYDERABAD: Water officers’ training begins HYDERABAD, June 8: Training of 260 newly-appointed officers of the on-farm water management department has started at the Sindh Agriculture University in Tandojam....
HYDERABAD: ‘No relief for common man in budget’ HYDERABAD, June 8: Sindh National Labour Federation president Rana Mehmood Ali Khan has said the government has provided no relief to the common man in the budget and protected interests only...		MITHI: Hunger strikers demand salary MITHI, June 8: Employees of the district council, Tharparkar, continued their hunger strike here on Wednesday for the 21st consecutive day outside the local press club. They were...