September 13, 2005	Tuesday	Sha’aban 8, 1426

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KARACHI: Security at KESC installations beefed up KARACHI, Sept 12: The Karachi Electric Supply has beefed up security at all its installations in the city after the blowing up of one of its towers at the Port Qasim Mor on Sunday....		KARACHI: Mustafa Kamal files papers for nazim’s slot KARACHI, Sept 12: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has nominated Syed Mustafa Kamal as its candidate for the post of Karachi nazim, it is learnt. The Sindh Minister for Information Technology filed...
KARACHI: Weather in city turns sultry, more rain likely KARACHI, Sept 12: After the two-day rainy spell, which partly began on Friday evening and continued through Saturday and Sunday, no rain was reported from any part of the city on...		KARACHI: Rain, dug-up roads cause traffic jams KARACHI, Sept 12: A number of major roads dug up for repairs as well as accumulated rainwater caused massive traffic jams on Monday in various localities of the city....
KARACHI: Police fail to arrest suspects: Sohrab Goth violence KARACHI, Sept 12: Police on Monday failed to arrest any of the suspects responsible for the death of two persons, including a Rangers official, during violence that broke out when the...		KARACHI: Experts seek end to bonded labour KARACHI, Sept 12: Speakers at a seminar on “Bonded labour: law, policy and challenges” said on Monday that though there were a number of laws to check bonded labour, these were...
KARACHI:: SSC-I (Science) results today KARACHI, Sept 12: The Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) will notify the results of SSC part I (Science group) annual examinations 2005 on Sept 13....		KARACHI: ENT deptt of JPMC acquires new gadgets KARACHI, Sept 12: The ENT department of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre attending 600 to 700 patients daily at its OPD has procured the much needed impedance audiometer and pure tone audiometer....
KARACHI: BCom results announced KARACHI, Sept 12: The Examinations Department, University of Karachi on Monday announced the results of BCom part-I and part-II/both parts supplementary examinations 2004, taken by both the regular and external candidates....		KARACHI: Government’s request in suit for damages turned down KARACHI, Sept 12: The Sindh High Court declined on Monday to omit the provincial government as a defendant in a suit for damages instituted by the parents of two college girls and a young man run over by a bus....
KARACHI: Ojha institute to be turned into general hospital Capacity to be expanded to 500 beds KARACHI, Sept 12: The Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases’ capacity will be expanded from 350-bed to 500-bed and converted into a general hospital, housing all departments, including surgery and gynaecology, to serve people of the surrounding areas....		KARACHI: Altaf condemns Sohrab Goth incident KARACHI, Sept 12: The chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Altaf Hussain, on Monday condemned the killing of a Ranger by terrorists after an attempt on the life of a pesh imam in Sohrab Goth area Sunday night....
KARACHI: Order on contractor’s plea reserved KARACHI, Sept 12: An accountability court reserved on Monday order on the acquittal plea of a contractor of the Thatta Cement Factory, who is facing charges of causing losses to the national exchequer....		KARACHI: DIG asked to probe murder case KARACHI, Sept 12: A division bench of High Court of Sindh, comprising Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Azizullah M Memon, on Monday directed the DIG, Operations, Thatta to get murder of Qasim Samoon investigated through an honest police officer....
KARACHI: Opposition parties to field joint candidates KARACHI, Sept 12: The returning officers on Monday began receiving nomination papers for the third phase of Local Government Elections. Opposition parties have accelerated their efforts to form an alliance against...		KARACHI:: Vigilance at installations of KWSB during rains ordered KARACHI, Sept 12: The Managing Director of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, Brig Iftikhar Haider, has directed that all open manholes be immediately covered. He also asked the engineers of...
KARACHI:: Three drown in Hub River KARACHI, Sept 12: Three persons drowned in the Hub River in Manghopir on Monday. Police said that all the three men were taking bath in the river when they were swept away by strong water currents....		KARACHI:: Seminar on women KARACHI, Sept 12: Sindh Local Government Adviser Waseem Akhtar said on Monday that various factors including high cost of litigation and the behaviour of police discourage women from seeking justice against excesses....
KARACHI:: Post-rain measures KARACHI, Sept 12: After eight-hour-long efforts, Town Municipal Administration Gulshan-i-Iqbal succeeded in maintaining the level of rising water in culverts that could have inundated four slum localities....		KARACHI:: TMOs asked to ensure draining of rainwater KARACHI, Sept 12: Sindh Local Government Adviser Waseem Akhtar has given two days to all town municipal officers to get the filth and rainwater cleaned. He issued these directives at an...
KARACHI:: Five more overhead bridges planned KARACHI, Sept 12: The city government will construct five overhead bridges on Sharea Faisal to facilitate pedestrians crossing the busy thoroughfare in a safe way. The city government has signed agreements...		KARACHI:: New security system at airport KARACHI, Sept 12: The Under Vehicle Checking System (UVIS) has started functioning at the Karachi International Airport, said a news release issued here on Monday....
HYDERABAD: No let-up in struggle to dislodge Musharraf: Qazi HYDERABAD, Sept 12: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leader and Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said that there will be no let-up in the opposition’s struggle till Gen Pervez Musharraf is removed from power....		HYDERABAD: No differences with coalition partners, says Arbab: Third round of local body elections HYDERABAD, Sept 12: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has claimed that the third phase of the local body elections would not affect Muslim League’s relations with its partners....
HYDERABAD: PPP dissidents back Magsi Ittehad in Tando Allahyar HYDERABAD, Sept 12: People’s Party Parliamentarians-backed Awam Dost Panel suffered a setback in Tando Allahyar district when three nazims switched sides and joined the Azad Umaid Ali Shah group headed by a brother of PPP MPA Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi....		HYDERABAD: Kanwar Naveed of Muttahida is nazim’s candidate HYDERABAD, Sept 12: Parliamentary leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Sindh Assembly Kanwar Naveed Jameel is being tipped as candidate for the district nazim post....