August 18, 2005	Thursday	Rajab 12, 1426

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KARACHI: Voting in first phase of LB polls today: 8,464 vying for 2,233 seats in Karachi KARACHI, Aug 17: Stage is set for holding first phase of local body elections 2005 in 11 districts of Sindh...		KARACHI: Keamari Town has 666, Malir 284 contestants KARACHI, Aug 17: The largest number of candidates, 666, are in the run in Keamari Town for union councils’ elections, while the smallest number, 284, in the Malir Town....
KARACHI: LB polls: townwise breakup Number of candidates. Muslim Muslim Peasants/ Peasants/ Minority Nazim/ Total. Union councils General Women workers workers Naib...		KARACHI: Election process in three stages KARACHI, Aug 17: The process of local government elections 2005 will be completed in three phases. The first phase of elections would be completed on Thursday when voters will exercise their...
KARACHI: Korangi: unexpected results? At Korangi Crossing, a large picture of MQM chief Altaf Hussain stands next to a monumental pillar erected in the middle of the main Korangi Road....		KARACHI: Complaint cell at home dept KARACHI, Aug 17: The local government department has established an Election Complaint Cell in the department, at Tughlaq House, to facilitate the administrative machinery in the districts where elections are being held on Thursday....
KARACHI: Complaint centres set up across Karachi KARACHI, Aug 17: The Karachi Administration has set up complaint centres for the facility of the candidates, voters and the general public in the first phase of the local body elections....		KARACHI: PPP contesting elections ‘under protest’ KARACHI, Aug 17: The Pakistan People’s Party, Sindh, will participate in Thursday’s local body elections ‘under protest’ despite pre-poll rigging “so as to expose official manipulations.”...
KARACHI: 30,000 educational bodies to be trained KARACHI, Aug 17: The Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy, Dr Hamida Khuhro, has said the government would provide training costing Rs50 million to around 30,000 School Management Committees (SMCs) of...		KARACHI: Poisonous gas leakage claims worker’s life KARACHI, Aug 17: A factory worker died on Wednesday owing to ammonia gas leakage in an ice factory in Al Falah area of the Malir. Behram, 50, died in the incident...
KARACHI: Holiday in 11 distts today KARACHI, Aug 17: The Sindh government has declared August 18 as closed holiday for workers under Factories Act 1934 in the district of Karachi, Thatta, Tando Allahyar, Ghotki, Naushahro Feroz, Jacobabad, Kashmor, Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, Sanghar and Tharparkar....		KARACHI: TV channel’s petition rejected KARACHI, Aug 17: The Sindh High Court rejected on Wednesday a television channel’s plea for a restraint order against transmission of a talk show by another channel....
KARACHI: Three hurt in explosion KARACHI, Aug 17: Three people suffered minor injures in an explosion in a scrap dump on the premises of the Karachi Port Trust on Wednesday. Keamari TPO Muhib Ali told Dawn...		KARACHI: KWSB likely to get hydrants’ control by Dec KARACHI, Aug 17: All the hydrants which are currently being managed by Rangers are likely to be returned to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) by the year’s end....
KARACHI: Class IX (Gen) results KARACHI, Aug 17: The Board of Secondary Education, Karachi, on Wednesday declared the results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) General group Part-I (Class IX) Annual Examinations 2005....		KARACHI: BA, BSc exam forms KARACHI, Aug 17: The University of Karachi will accept registration forms and fees of BA/BCom/BOL and BSc (Improvement of Division) Annual Examinations 2005, with late fees of Rs1,300 from Aug 22 to 29....
KARACHI: Police told to submit charges in Pearl case KARACHI, Aug 17: An anti-terrorism court directed on Wednesday the police to submit supplementary charge-sheet against Mohammed Hashim alias Arif, one of the five absconding accused in the kidnapping and killing conspiracy case of Daniel Pearl....		KARACHI: WB team meets CS KARACHI, Aug 17: Manuel Contijoch, a senior water resource specialist at the World Bank’s rural development sector for South Asia Region, called on Sindh Chief Secretary Fazalur Rahman here on Wednesday....
KARACHI: Book stores opposed KARACHI, Aug 17: Member of the Sindh Bar Council Aaqil Lodhi has opposed a move to open more book stores on the high court premises. In a statement, he said the premises were already congested....		KARACHI: Reward announced KARACHI, Aug 17: The Sindh Government has announced Rs500,000 as reward money for anyone who provides information leading to the arrest of sectarian terrorist Kashif of Jundullah....
HYDERABAD: 7,468 candidates, 2,530 poll stations in 6 districts HYDERABAD, Aug 17: A total of 7,468 candidates are in the run for six categories of union councils in six districts of defunct Mirpurkhas and Hyderabad divisions....		THATTA: PPP lists ‘violations’ of rules in Thatta THATTA, Aug 17: People’s Party Parliamentarians MPA Sassui Palijo has said that the Awam Dost Panel candidates will sweep the local body elections in 38 of the 41 union councils in...
HYDERABAD: Steps taken for peaceful elections, says Arbab HYDERABAD, Aug 17: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said foolproof arrangements have been made to maintain law and order and conduct the local body elections in a peaceful atmosphere....		KHAIRPUR: 450 suspects arrested KHAIRPUR, Aug 17: During a campaign of one and a half months against absconding criminals and proclaimed offenders, 450 such elements have been arrested in the district....
HYDERABAD: Concern over pace of work on export complex HYDERABAD, Aug 17: Sindh Agriculture Secretary Nazar Hussain Mahar has expressed dissatisfaction over pace and quality of the Agro-Export Processing Zone Complex for export of fruit and vegetables, flowers and allied...		KARACHI: Woman killed KARACHI, Aug 17: A woman was killed allegedly by relatives of her former husband in Jamshed Quarters on Wednesday. Zehra, 35, was stranguled with her headscarf when her husband Tariq Mehmood was away....