KARACHI: PM calls for quality health services
KARACHI, Dec 3: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has called upon medical practitioners and facilitators to ensure quality and affordable healthcare services to the masses. He was speaking at the 18th convocation...
KARACHI: No Congo case reported, says govt
KARACHI, Dec 3: No case of Congo Fever has been reported in any of the local or public sector hospitals from any part of the city during the season, however, there...
KARACHI: Rs2.589bn package for city projects
KARACHI, Dec 3: City Nazim Mustafa Kamal on Saturday announced Rs2.589 billion development package for Karachi and construction of roads from Metropole Hotel to Airport, from Nazimabad flyover to Sharea Faisal...
KARACHI: JI opposes dam plan
KARACHI, Dec 3: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Sindh on Saturday rejected all controversial water projects including that of the Kalabagh Dam. The JI Sindh Amir, Dr Mumtaz Memon, talking to various delegations...
KARACHI: Task force on cellphone performs poorly
KARACHI, Dec 3: The task force, established on the orders of the Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, for combating incidents of cellphone snatching and theft, has failed to yield positive results, as 77 people are still deprived of their cellphones everyday....
KARACHI: Traffic mess as premier moves about
KARACHI, Dec 3: Massive traffic mess was witnessed on various roads, as traffic police closed main thoroughfares for giving a safe passage to the prime minister’s motorcade....
KARACHI: 3 brothers die of suffocation
KARACHI, Dec 3: Three brothers died of suffocation in an oil tanker on Saturday. Police said that the brothers identified as Zubair Ali, Zohaib Ali, and Sunny, who dealt in the...
KARACHI: Disabled Persons Day observed
KARACHI, Dec 3: Legislators belonging to the PPP and MMA joined in a walk by a number of disabled people on Saturday to mark the International Day of Disable Persons....
KARACHI: Madressahs agree to audit of accounts
KARACHI, Dec 3: The Ittehad Tanzeemat Madaris Dinya Pakistan has found the insertion of additional section 21 in the Societies Act 1860, pertaining to registration of religious seminaries, in accordance with the agreement reached between religious seminaries’ organizations and the government....
KARACHI: MQM’s man indicted
KARACHI, Dec 3: An anti-terrorism court indicted a sector-in-charge of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement for killing a police constable and injuring another....
PESHAWAR: Paraplegic centre to be upgraded to hospital
PESHAWAR, Dec 3: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has said that the Paraplegic Centre in Peshawar will be upgraded to a well-equipped hospital. “All basic facilities such as specialists/skilled staff...
HYDERABAD: Nazim opens language classes
HYDERABAD, Dec 3: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jameel has stressed the need for learning Sindhi and other languages not only to strengthen love, affection and understanding among the people of Sindh...
NAWABSHAH: Killed over karo-kari
NAWABSHAH, Dec 3: A young person was axed to death on the pretext of karo-kari in the society area here on Saturday. Karim Bux, 25, son of Mohammad Saleh Lakho, was...
MIRPURKHAS: World Disabled Day observed
MIRPURKHAS, Dec 3: A rally was taken out on Saturday from the chowk railway station under the aegis of Mirpurkhas Special Sports and Welfare Association to mark the World Disabled Day....