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KARACHI: Expatriates offer $10m for trauma centre KARACHI, Oct 22: Brig (r) Mazharul Haq, representing a group of Pakistanis living in the United Arab Emirates, has told Governor Ishratul Ibad that the expatriates planned to set up a 200-bed trauma centre with two satellite units in Karachi....		KARACHI: Five more survivors treated at JPMC KARACHI, Oct 22: Another five patients evacuated from the quake-hit areas were brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Saturday....
PESHAWAR: Free treatment of victims ordered PESHAWAR, Oct 22: Hospitals in Peshawar have been instructed to provide free treatment to all patients who are from quake-hit areas of the province....		KARACHI: Shopping yet to pick up momentum KARACHI, Oct 22: Eid shopping in the city is yet to pick up momentum while shopkeepers in most of the popular shopping areas estimate a 40-50 per cent drop in their...
KARACHI: Precautionary measures urged to avert bird flu KARACHI, Oct 22: As the season for the migratory birds to arrive in the country has begun, wildlife lovers have urged the authorities to take precautionary steps to ensure that the...		KARACHI: Kamal vows to serve people of all towns KARACHI, Oct 22: City Nazim Mustafa Kamal has said that the city government is committed to serve the people of all towns without any discrimination....
KARACHI: Man shot dead over domestic issue KARACHI, Oct 22: Three men allegedly shot dead their brother-in-law at the latter’s home in Sohrab Goth here on Saturday....		KARACHI: Old copies of Quran on display at museum KARACHI, Oct 22: The Iranian cultural centre joined hands with the National Museum of Pakistan on Saturday to mount an impressive exhibition of old copies of the Quran and specimens of calligraphy....
KARACHI: KMDC entry tests on 30th KARACHI, Oct 22: The entry test for admissions to MBBS and BDS programmes at the Karachi Medical and Dental College will be held on Oct 30 at an educational premise in Korangi....		KARACHI: Police salary system to be improved KARACHI, Oct 22: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqi on Saturday called for immediate steps to computerize the salary system of police department so that they could concentrate on their responsibilities without any problem or mental stress....
KARACHI: Security on Yaum-i-Ali KARACHI, Oct 22: The Inspector-General of Police, Sindh, Asad Jehangir, on Saturday directed the CCPO, DIG Operations and Regional Police Officers Sukkur and Hyderabad to take fool-proof measures for the security...		KARACHI: DUHS forms body to cope with natural disasters KARACHI, Oct 22: The vice-chancellor of the Dow University of Health Sciences, Prof Masood Hameed Khan, on Saturday announced the formation of a task force to prepare recommendations to cope with...
KARACHI: Niamat seeks C-130 to airlift relief goods KARACHI, Oct 22: Former city nazim Niamatullah Khan, who is relief coordinator of the Al-Khidmat, has asked the government for the airlifting of relief goods, collected by his organization, by a C-130 aircraft of the air force....		KARACHI: BNP rally condemns attack on Mengal KARACHI, Oct 22: The Balochistan National Party workers on Saturday staged a protest rally to condemn the attack on residence of party leader Sardar Ataullah Mengal in Wadh....
KARACHI: Khalique Juma dies KARACHI, Oct 22: Prominent political and social leader of Lyari Town Abdul Khalique Juma, 65, died here on Saturday after a brief illness. He leaves behind two sons and five daughters...		KARACHI: Salary bills KARACHI, Oct 22: Sindh Accountant-General Zulfiqar Ali Qadri has directed all departments of the provincial government to submit salary bills of their employees at the earliest to his office so that...
PESHAWAR: Teachers reject deduction, threaten to boycott classes PESHAWAR, Oct 22: Peshawar University Teachers Association (Puta) has rejected 30 per cent deduction from the salaries of the evening shift teachers and has decided not to take second shift classes from Nov 1....		HYDERABAD: Call to implement Sindhi language bill HYDERABAD, Oct 22: Political and literary organizations have criticized abolition of Salees Sindhi language teaching in class-XI. They said the Sindh governor’s order in this connection was repugnant to the Sindhi Language Bill 1972....
PESHAWAR: ANP’s concern over delay in relief work PESHAWAR, Oct 22: The Awami National Party has expressed concern over government’s failure to reach remote areas hit by the last week’s earthquake and has asked for speedy relief work and to reach victims still buried under the debris....		PESHAWAR: Afghan national held at airport PESHAWAR, Oct 22: The immigration authorities at Peshawar airport on Saturday arrested an Afghan national who had travelled to Saudi Arabia on Pakistani passport few years ago and returned on Afghani passport, said a senior official....
HYDERABAD: Kashmiri woman being treated in Jamshoro HYDERABAD, Oct 22: Another woman, following an injured Kashmiri girl Shazia, from the Bagh district of Azad Kashmir was admitted to the Liaquat University Hospital, Jamshoro, on Thursday night....		HYDERABAD: Plan under study to give Hyderabad city district government status HYDERABAD, Oct 22: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jameel has said that he has asked the DCO to prepare proposals for submission to the Sindh government for upgradation of the Hyderabad district into a city district government....
THATTA: Man axed to death THATTA, Oct 22: A man was killed and three others were injured over a petty issue in Jhampir town of the district on Saturday. The man, Ibrahim Machhi, had lodged a...		SUKKUR: Five houses torched by miscreants SUKKUR, Oct 22: Five houses of the Hindu Bagri community were put on fire by some unknown people on the Mathelo road, Ghotki district, between the night of Friday and Saturday....