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KARACHI: Legislation urged to ensure free judiciary KARACHI, Dec 17: Participants of a workshop on judicial reforms called for constitutional amendments to ensure the independence of the judiciary....		KARACHI: Pre-curb buildings around mazar valid KARACHI, Dec 17: Height curbs on buildings in the vicinity of the Quaid’s mausoleum took effect on April 4, 2002, and no violative structure raised after that date could be regularized, the Sindh High Court declared on Friday....
KARACHI: KBA polls held amid complaints of rigging KARACHI, Dec 17: The annual elections of the Karachi Bar Association were held on Saturday amid allegations of rigging, mismanagement and altercations between rival candidates....		KARACHI: Special children enjoy visit to All About Lifestyles KARACHI, Dec 17: A large number of people, accompanied by their families, visited the All About Lifestyles Winter 2005 exhibition at the Expo Centre on Saturday....
KARACHI: 411 conferred degrees at IoBM KARACHI, Dec 17: The Sindh Education Minister, Dr Hamida Khuhro, has urged the private sector to dedicate their resources for the betterment of school education as well....		KARACHI: Army’s political role comes under fire KARACHI, Dec 17: The armed forces’ basic duty is to protect, not to rule over, the country. This was the concerted view of speakers at a seminar on the fall of...
KARACHI: Security measures cause traffic jams KARACHI, Dec 17: City witnessed massive traffic congestion on various roads and thoroughfares on Saturday, as the police blocked some arteries for the movement of the prime minister’s motorcade....		KARACHI: FUUAST students boycott exams KARACHI, Dec 17: Students appearing in geology paper of BSc (Hons) 2nd year boycotted the exams at the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Gulshan-i-Iqbal campus while exams being...
KARACHI: New date for BCom exam KARACHI, Dec 17: The examinations department of Karachi University on Saturday announced that the BCom part-I, paper (Introduction to Business) annual exams 2005, postponed on Dec 10 due to bye-election in the city would now be held on Dec 28....		KARACHI: ASH to be made model hospital: nazim KARACHI, Dec 17: City Nazim Mustafa Kamal has announced to make the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital as the city’s “model hospital” within three to six months....
KARACHI: Arts Council’s polls today KARACHI, Dec 17: A month-long hectic electioneering for the much-sought after slots of the Arts Council of Pakistan comes to an end on Sunday with a little over 3,000 voters electing new office-bearers and governing body members for the year 2006....		KARACHI: CM accused of bartering away Sindh’s rights KARACHI, Dec 17: Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Nisar Khuhro on Saturday accused Chief Minister Arbab Rahim of bartering away the rights of Sindh as, he claimed, was evident from certain remarks by Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed....
KARACHI: SHC uphold order KARACHI, Dec 17: The Sindh High Court upheld on Friday an order passed by a judicial magistrate in connection with a newspaper closed down in June....		KARACHI: Man shot dead KARACHI, Dec 17: A man was shot dead by his neighbours in Landhi on Saturday....
PEHSAWAR: ‘Iran skilfully protecting its sovereignty’ PEHSAWAR, Dec 17: Iran is protecting its sovereignty and coping with the situation thrust upon it skilfully, says Vice-Chancellor of the University of Peshawar....		PESHAWAR: 1,500 constables to be recruited PESHAWAR, Dec 17: NWFP IGP Muhammad Raffat Pasha has said that 1,500 police constables would be recruited in the province next month purely on merit. Advertisements would soon be placed in newspapers for the purpose....
PESHAWAR: Four Balakot couples wed PESHAWAR, Dec 17: Wedding ceremony of four couples from Balakot was held here on Saturday by the social welfare department at the Hayatabad relief centre with the financial assistance of local philanthropists....		PESHAWAR: Law, order situation impedes uplift projects PESHAWAR, Dec 17: Law and order situation is affecting pace of development and quality of ongoing projects in South Waziristan agency. Information gathered by Dawn from different sources said that the...
PESHAWAR: Building restoration PESHAWAR, Dec 17: The officials of Archives and Museum, CD&MD, Irrigation and Building and Works department Saturday reviewed applications for consultancy in a project launched for reviving the past glory of...		Polio-free Pakistan KARACHI, Dec 17: Pakistan has arrived at a position where polio eradication is expected by the end of the current year. Prof Iqbal A Memon, Head of Paediatrics Unit III, Civil Hospital, said this at Master Trainer Workshop on Saturday.—APP...