October 3, 2005	Monday	Sha’aban 28, 1426

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Helmet sales drop amid waning drive KARACHI, Oct 2: The campaign launched by traffic police in Karachi on September 1 to discipline bike riders, particularly to force them to comply with the rules relating to helmet-wearing, seems to have waned....		Awareness of mental disorders stressed KARACHI, Oct 2: The first ever mental health awareness walk was held from Quaid-i-Azam’s mausoleum to the Pakistan Association for Mental Health (PAMH) on the Mental Health Day on Sunday....
Office timings in Ramazan KARACHI, Oct 2: The Sindh government has announced the following timings during the month of Ramazan for the offices functioning six days in a week:...		Software for judicial sector launched KARACHI, Oct 2: The Chief Justice of Sindh High Court, Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed, on Sunday launched the software “AGEHI”, calling it the first step in improving the efficiency of the judicial sector through the automation process....
Traffic plan for Ramazan KARACHI, Oct 2: The traffic police have worked out a comprehensive plan for a smooth flow of vehicular traffic during the holy month of Ramazan. The plan focuses on traffic regulation instead of imposition of fine on errant drivers....		Shifting of warehouses from old city areas sought KARACHI, Oct 2: Community leaders have expressed concern over the mushroom growth of industrial units and warehouses in residential areas of the old city areas of Karachi, saying these have become a public nuisance....
Security plan for LB polls finalized KARACHI, Oct 2: Sindh police have finalized a comprehensive security plan to ensure peaceful holding of the third phase of local body election being held on October 6....		Man drowns in lake KARACHI, Oct 2: A picnicker drowned in Keenjhar Lake on Sunday. Edhi sources said that Khalid, 40, resident of Orangi Town, had gone for a picnic to Keenjhar Lake in Thatta district....
UTS buses for Shah Faisal Colony likely KARACHI, Oct 2: An Urban Transport Service bus route is likely to be introduced in Shah Faisal Colony shortly as the transport department is in touch with at least two UTS...		Body to supervise courier firms KARACHI, Oct 2: The ministry of communications is in talks with stakeholders about the establishment of a regulatory body mandated to supervise the working of courier companies....
Strict vigil on peddlers stressed KARACHI, Oct 2: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has exhorted the people to keep a vigil on those selling narcotics in their localities, or else the menace of narcotics addition will spread in every nook and corner of the city....		Poor families get ration KARACHI, Oct 2: More than 1,200 families living in the slum areas of Ajmer Nagri and Bilal Colony on Sunday collected ration packs for the month of Ramazan....
Sindhi as compulsory subject demanded KARACHI, Oct 2: Speakers at a conference criticized the discriminatory attitude of the Aga Khan University Education Board towards Sindhi language and demanded that the subject of Sindhi be made compulsory in its educational system....		Arbab calls for proper facilities in high-rises KARACHI, Oct 2: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has called for strict compliance of building rules by builders of high-rises in Karachi, and said that proper NOC and necessary...
Tolerance to contain polarization stressed KARACHI, Oct 2: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Senator Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli has stressed the need for a change in attitudes so that polarization in society can be contained....		Niamat happy over opening of underpass KARACHI, Oct 2: Former city nazim Niamatullah Khan on Saturday felicitated Karachiites on the completion and inauguration of the city’s first underpass at Clifton, and said that the project was part of the Tameer-i-Karachi Programme initiated by him....
Judgment on Asif’s plea KARACHI, Oct 2: District and Session Judge East Zafar Ahmed Khan Sherwani on Saturday deferred an order on an acquittal application of Asif Ali Zardari in Murtaza Bhutto murder case....		World Bank funding for more dams opposed HYDERABAD, Oct 2: On the call of Sindh Water Committee, activists of the Awami Tehrik took out processions across Sindh on Sunday in protest against World Bank for supporting construction of big dams in Pakistan....
Kalabagh dam rejected HYDERABAD, Oct 2: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz (Junejo group) held a demonstration here on Sunday in protest against construction of Kalabagh dam....		4,400 appear in MUET test HYDERABAD, Oct 2: About 4,400 students appeared in pre-entry test of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday. Students, including 300 girls, competed for 16 departments of the university at the Public School, Hyderabad, in two shifts....
Only one student gets A-1 grade in HSC exam LARKANA, Oct 2: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Larkana, announced result of the higher secondary certificate Part-II (commerce group) on Friday wherein only one candidate could clinch A-1 grade....		Two killed, 22 injured in road accident BADIN, Oct 2: Two people were killed and 22 others were injured when a dumper crashed into a bus on the Badin – Karachi highway near Pehalwan village, around four kilometres away from here on Sunday evening....
Two drown THATTA, Oct 2: Two people drowned in Thatta district on Sunday. Ahmed Ali, head master, Makli High School Gharo, fell in the KDA Canal and drowned....		Twenty faint DADU, Oct 2: Twenty people of Brohi Muhallo, Radhan town, fell unconscious on Sunday after eating poisonous biscuits. The victims, Sadaf, Murk, Dua, Imamzadi, Fehmida, Rafiq, Shafiq, Sajid, Nadeem, Waseem and others were admited to the Radhan hospital....