August 17, 2005	Wednesday	Rajab 11, 1426

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KARACHI: 44,000 LEA men to be deployed: Polling day security KARACHI, Aug 16: Forty-four thousand personnel of law-enforcement agencies will be deployed on Thursday at 3,400 polling stations across the city so the local body elections could be held in a peaceful atmosphere....		KARACHI: Ibad says steps taken to ensure law, order KARACHI, Aug 16: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad said here on Tuesday that fool-proof measures have been taken for maintenance of law and order during and after the polling....
KARACHI: SHC to settle poll disputes today KARACHI, Aug 16: The Sindh High Court continued to resolve legal disputes among candidates in the run-up to the first phase of local government elections on Tuesday....		KARACHI: Doctors to perform poll duty KARACHI, Aug 16: The Sindh health department has directed doctors to perform election duties on Aug 18. Sources told Dawn on Tuesday that at least 50 per cent of the doctors...
KARACHI: Gulshan: centre of civic life GULSHAN-i-Iqbal is one of the biggest towns of the city, with 13 union councils (UCs) and a total population estimated at 6,25,230. The town is primarily bordered by the Lyari River and the Malir and Faisal cantonments....		KARACHI: Proclaimed offender held in Pearl murder case KARACHI, Aug 16: The police formally arrested a proclaimed offender in the Danial Pearl murder case on Tuesday and submitted a report to the SHC administrative judge for the Karachi division anti-terrorism courts, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain....
KARACHI: Bus service resumption relieving to passengers KARACHI, Aug 16: Commuters from Gulistan-i-Jauhar, working at offices located on I.I. Chundrigar Road, have hailed the resumption of the urban transport service’s route 19, but have called for proper and prominent display of fare rates....		KARACHI: Japanese students not visiting KU this year KARACHI, Aug 16: Japanese students, who have been coming here for the past 20 years, will not come to Karachi University this year because the university has not informed them about arrangements for their study tour and participation in cultural events....
KARACHI: Shortage of water persists KARACHI, Aug 16: Complaints of acute water shortage continued to pour in from various parts of the city for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday. The hard-hit localities include Landhi, Korangi,...		KARACHI: HEC to sponsor research projects KARACHI, Aug 16: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) under its project, “Presidential Young Innovator Programme” will fund some selected, highly innovative research projects of young faculty members of the public sector varsities and degree awarding institutions....
KARACHI: Baba-i-Urdu’s 44th death anniversary KARACHI, Aug 16: The caretaker of the city government, Fazlur Rehman, announced cash award, enhancing annual financial assistance of the Anjuman Tarraqi Urdu and renovation of the Mazar of Baba-i-Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq....		KARACHI: Class IX (General) results today KARACHI, Aug 16: The Board of Secondary Education, Karachi, will declare the results of SSC part-I (Class IX) General Group (regular and private) annual examination, 2005, on August 17 at 8.45am....
ISLAMABAD: Writers, journalists given awards ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: A large number of writers and journalists have received civilian awards this year in recognition of their services rendered in the fields of letters and journalism....		KARACHI: BDS suppl exam KARACHI, Aug 16: The examination department of the University of Karachi on Tuesday announced the schedule for third professional BDS supplementary examination-2005....
KARACHI: Holidays in educational institutions KARACHI, Aug 16: The Sindh education department has declared Aug 17 and 18 and Aug 24 and 25 as local holidays. A notification of the department issued on Tuesday said that...		KARACHI: Court sets guidelines for law officers: Contempt case KARACHI, Aug 16: Law officers would not be allowed to plead alleged contemners’ case once the accused are indicted, a division bench of the Sindh High Court observed on Tuesday....
KARACHI: Man kills wife in Lyari: Hotel-owner kidnapped KARACHI, Aug 16: A housewife was killed by her husband in Lyari on Tuesday morning. Police said that Mansoor slit throat of his wife Hajra Bibi, 35, while she was asleep...		KARACHI: Regime product of electoral fraud: PPP KARACHI, Aug 16: The Pakistan People’s Party on Tuesday alleged that all major characters of the present regime, including Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and their chief ministers were the...
KARACHI: 2 acquitted in murder case KARACHI, Aug 16: An anti-terrorism court acquitted on Tuesday two accused in the killing case of three policemen. Judge Aley Maqbool Rizvi of the ATC-1 exonerated accused Abul Fayyaz and Mohammed...		KARACHI: Teams to monitor institutions KARACHI, Aug 16: The Sindh government has decided to constitute monitoring teams to ensure right functioning of educational institutions in 121 tehsils and 1,110 UCs of Sindh....
KARACHI: FUUAST announces MA results KARACHI, Aug 16: The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology (FUUAST) on Tuesday announced the results of MA (regular) part-1 annual examination 2004 for Mass Communication and Political Science....		KARACHI: Scouts holding week-long celebrations KARACHI, Aug 16: A group of some 75 boy scouts visited the mausoleum of the Father of the Nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, to pay him tributes under week-long Independence Day celebrations....
KARACHI: Youth commits suicide KARACHI, Aug 16:A young man committed suicide in Mauripur on Tuesday morning. Police said that the body of Abdul Ansar, 18, was found hanging in his house in Machar Colony....		KARACHI: Minister visits LEW project KARACHI, Aug 16: The Federal Communications Minister, Mohammad Shamim Siddiqui, visited Lyari Expressway and also heard the grievances of those affected by the project in SITE Town....
KARACHI: Drizzle likely KARACHI, Aug 16: The Met office has forecast cloudy weather with chances of drizzle at night/morning for Karachi on Wednesday. The maximum temperature in the city is expected to range between 31 and 33 degrees Centigrade....		KARACHI: IJT rejects CCPO’s statement KARACHI, Aug 16: The Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) has rejected the Capital City Police Officer’s statement, alleging members of the IJT of terrorism, and called it “politically motivated”....
KARACHI: Varsities closed on 18th KARACHI, Aug 16: Public sector varsities in the city would remain closed on Aug 18, on the occasion of local body polls. A spokesman for the University of Karachi said that...		KARACHI: Niamat demands security for 9 towns KARACHI, Aug 16: The former city nazim, Niamatullah Khan, has urged the Army and Rangers officials to maintain enhanced security in nine towns of the city on the polling day for the local government elections, being held on Thursday....
HYDERABAD: 450 PPP leaders, workers booked HYDERABAD, Aug 16: Two separate cases have been registered at Tando Mohammad Khan and Bulri Shah Karim police stations against hundreds of PPP leaders and workers for taking out a procession on the Independence Day....		MIRPURKHAS: SSC-I results announced MIRPURKHAS, Aug 16: The chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Mirpurkhas, Prof Anwar Ahmedzai, has announced results of SSC part-I (science group) annual examination 2005....