September 9, 2005	Friday	Sha’aban 4, 1426

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KARACHI: Academics, govt, media to help boost literacy rate KARACHI, Sept 8: Various organizations and educational institutions held seminars and workshops, meetings, walks and demonstrations in the city to celebrate the World Literacy Day on Thursday....		KARACHI: 40pc of children suffer from malnourishment: Seminar told... KARACHI, Sept 8: Malnourishment is registered to be generally prevalent in 40 per cent of all young children across the country. This was stated by the speakers at a two-day training...
KARACHI: Constable held in connection with judge’s death KARACHI, Sept 8: Police have arrested a constable in connection with the death of a judicial magistrate, who was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her house in Bahadurabad on Saturday....		KARACHI: Tankers make 15,000 trips daily to supply water KARACHI, Sept 8: The number of trips made by water tankers supplying water from Rangers-manned hydrants has swelled to 15,000 per day. When the Rangers took over supply of water through...
KARACHI: Key suspect in hotel blast case arrested KARACHI, Sept 8: Police arrested on Thursday Mufti Mohammed Sabir alias Jamalpuri, another most wanted character allegedly involved in the Sheraton Hotel bomb blast....		KARACHI: Strike call widely supported, says MMA KARACHI, Sept 8: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s Karachi chapter has appealed to Karachiites to fully participate in Friday’s strike. MMA leaders Hafiz Mohammad Taqi, Shaikh Rafique Ahmed, Allama Hasan Turabi, Maulana Khan...
KARACHI: Transporters, traders assure CS of normal working today KARACHI, Sept 8: Representatives of various business, commercial and transport organizations and shopkeepers have assured Chief Secretary Fazlur Rehman of continuing their normal business activities on Friday....		KARACHI: 75pc work on K-III project completed KARACHI, Sept 8: The managing director of the KWSB, Brig Iftekhar Hyder, has said that the 100-mgd K-III Additional Bulk Water Supply Project will be completed in June 2006, and consultants...
KARACHI: ISO, IJT condemn ties with Israel KARACHI, Sept 8: Activists of the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) and the Imamia Students Organization (ISO) on Thursday jointly took out a rally at the University of Karachi against Foreign Minister...		KARACHI: Work on inter-city bus termini to be expedited KARACHI, Sept 8: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Local Government Waseem Akhtar on Thursday ordered the officials concerned to expedite the construction work of the inter-city bus termini....
KARACHI: PR employees waiting for possession of plots KARACHI, Sept 8: The Pakistan Railway Workers Federation on Thursday demanded of the government and Pakistan Railway authorities to give possession of plots to allottees in the railway housing society....		KARACHI: Newly constructed hospitals KARACHI, Sept 8: The Sindh Minister for Planning and Development, Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari, on Thursday held a meeting to discuss the start of medical facilities in two newly constructed 50-bed hospitals;...
KARACHI: Ibad calls for steps to eliminate polio KARACHI, Sept 8: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan has directed that in order to make the province free from polio and ensure that anti-polio immunization has been carried out, the same should be entered in the birth certificate for authentication....		KARACHI: TI workshop KARACHI, Sept 8: The Transparency International – Pakistan with the collaboration of the European Union is holding a three-day workshop for trainers on capacity building and training from Sept 19....
KARACHI: Plea against hiring of six DSPs disposed of KARACHI, Sept 8: The Sindh High Court disposed of as withdrawn on Thursday a petition against the direct recruitment of six deputy superintendents of police. The petitioner, a DSP, submitted through...		KARACHI: Victim’s father deposes in murder case KARACHI, Sept 8: An anti-terrorism court put off on Thursday the hearing of a murder and kidnapping for ransom case of a six-year-old boy after recording the statement of the victim’s father....
KARACHI: Old man killed in family feud KARACHI, Sept 8: An elderly man died and another was wounded when distant relatives opened fire in Shershah here on Thursday, police said. According to initial reports, two families had reportedly...		KARACHI: EC told to issue nomination paper KARACHI, Sept 8: The Sindh High Court on Thursday ordered the Election Commission to issue nomination form to the son of a former federal minister for contesting polls of district council, Umerkot....
KARACHI: IG prisons issued notice on Afaq’s plea KARACHI, Sept 8: The Sindh High Court issued the inspector-general of prisons a notice for in a petition against MQM (H) leader Afaq Ahmad’s apprehended transfer from the Central Prison, Karachi, to any other jail in the province....		KARACHI: CCPO warns KARACHI, Sept 8: Karachi police would provide full protection to traders and transporters not taking part in the Friday strike called by opposition parties, CCPO Tariq Jamil told reporters on Thursday....
HYDERABAD: Environment-friendly clearance needed for marketing pesticides HYDERABAD, Sept 8: The Sindh Agriculture Department has decided that in future no pesticides product will be registered until it was certified environmentally safe with zero hazardous effect on human and wildlife....		HYDERABAD: Restoration of SSC to improve seed quality: official HYDERABAD, Sept 8: The director of agricultural research, Dr Haji Khan Keerio, has said that the Sindh Seed Corporation has been made functional under directives of the Sindh chief minister to increase agriculture products by utilizing improved seeds of different varieties....
HYDERABAD: Admission HYDERABAD, Sept 8: The University of Sindh has notified list of candidates selected for admission to in BHP. Ed and MHP. Ed in the Centre for Health and Physical Education (CHP....		NAWABSHAH: PPP allegations refuted NAWABSHAH, Sept 8: The special assistant to the Sindh chief minister, Mr Abdul Rauf Khan, has refuted allegations of harassment levelled by People’s Party Parliamentarians’ MPA Tariq Masood Arain against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement....