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KARACHI: APC members to join in anti-dam rally KARACHI, Dec 18: The Karachi chapter of the APC’s action committee, Sindh, has decided to participate in the December 22 rally against the Kalabagh Dam project which will be taken out from the Quaid-i-Azam mausoleum....		KARACHI: 8pc decline in inflation: PM KARACHI, Dec 18: Inflationary expectation in Pakistan is changing as inflation rate has moved below 8 per cent in 11 months. This was stated by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz while talking...
KARACHI: Polling held at Arts Council KARACHI, Dec 18: The annual elections 2006 of the Arts Council of Pakistan got under way amid a festive atmosphere on Sunday afternoon shortly after the conclusion of the general body meeting....		KARACHIL: Chinese firm, Wapda yet to settle tariffs, says Arbab: Thar Coal project KARACHI, Dec 18: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said that the Sindh government was committed to bring the less developed areas of the province at par with the developed urban areas....
KARACHI: 223 awarded degrees in various disciplines: PAF-KIET convocation KARACHI, Dec 18: As many as 223 graduates were conferred degrees of business administration, computer science and information technology at the 3rd convocation of PAF-Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology (PAF-KIET) on Saturday night....		KARACHI: KESC begins analysis of its network KARACHI, Dec 18: The recently-privatized Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) has acquired latest technology and has started an analysis of the city’s power supply network to carry out mega renovation work, said a KESC spokesman on Sunday....
KARACHI: Encroachments removed in Gulshan, Orangi KARACHI, Dec 18: Encroachments about 25-year-old have been removed from a football ground in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town’s Block-2 Union Council-5 of on the directive of Town Nazim Muhammad Wasey Jaleel....		HYDERABAD: Row over sugarcane price intensifies HYDERABAD, Dec 18: A dispute over sugarcane price has worsened after a notification fixing cane rate at Rs60 per 40kgs and mill owners deciding to close their units and growers planning to take over mills from Dec 23....
KARACHI: Fumigation department idle since devolution KARACHI, Dec 18: The fumigation and vector control department has been ineffective since the transformation of defunct KMC into the city district government. The long-neglected department receives attention only in times...		KARACHI: KBA poll results today KARACHI, Dec 18: The results of the Karachi Bar Association annual election will be announced on Monday. The KBA’s election commission, which had stopped the counting of the votes on Saturday, will resume the counting at 2pm on Monday....
KARACHI: All About Lifestyles exhibition concludes KARACHI, Dec 18: Large numbers of people thronged the Expo Centre to visit the All About Life Styles Winter 2005 exhibition on Sunday –- the last day of the three-day family event....		KARACHI: Teenager killed in Saeedabad KARACHI, Dec 18: A teenaged boy died of a stray bullet in Saeedabad on Sunday. Police said 15-year-old Asif was reportedly standing on the rooftop of his house in Saeedabad when a stray bullet hit him....
KARACHI: Water supply to Lyari inadequate KARACHI, Dec 18: The Nazim of Lyari Town, Malik Mohammad Fayyaz, has admitted that there is an acute water shortage in the town and the water supply position is not according to the town’s growing population....		KARACHI: Sindhi convention on 24th KARACHI, Dec 18: The Sindhi Association of North America is holding its first ever convention in Karachi on Dec 24. National languages issue in Pakistan; status of federation: democracy, human rights...
KARACHI: National education census KARACHI, Dec 18: The federal ministry of education in collaboration with the federal bureau of statistics is conducting a national education census 2005-06. The census would cover all educational institutions of...		KARACHI: KU transfers candidates KARACHI, Dec 18: The admission committee of the University of Karachi has transferred 22 candidates selected for admissions in BS (CS) evening programme to BS (CS) provisionally admitted under “K” category to the morning programme on merit basis....
KARACHI: Seminar KARACHI, Dec 18: A seminar on “Combined examinations of matriculation and intermediate: facts and apprehensions” will be held on Monday. The seminar being organized by the Islami Jamait Talaba would be chaired by Senator Prof Ghafoor Ahmed....		KARACHI: Muslims urged to invest in media, research KARACHI, Dec 18: Participants of a seminar called upon the Muslim world to invest in research and upgrade their media to understand and counter the onslaught of the West, which they...
KARACHI: Lectureship exam held KARACHI, Dec 18: The Sindh Education and Literacy Department conducted written tests for the appointment of 150 lecturers of Sindhi language subject, at the DJ Sindh Government Science College, on Sunday....		KARACHI: Baloch people being reduced to minority, says NP leader KARACHI, Dec 18: Secretary-General of the National Party Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo has accused the rulers of working on a plan to convert the Baloch population in Balochistan into a minority by taking ‘extra-legal measures’....
KARACHI: PPP asked to explain policy on KBD issue KARACHI, Dec 18: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s coordination committee has chided the PPP’s alleged double standards, and maintained that “instead of staging the drama of anti-Kalabagh rally, it should explain its...		KARACHI: Muttahida backs Musharraf, dam project: PPP KARACHI, Dec 18: The Pakistan People’s Party has said that its stand on the issue of Kalabagh dam is well-known and firm, and termed the criticism by Muttahida Qaumi Movement in...
KARACHI: 3 killed in separate incidents KARACHI, Dec 18: Three persons were killed in two different incidents of cellphone snatchings in various parts of the city late Saturday night. Police said two persons going to a wedding...		KARACHI:No worker to be sacked: Owais KARACHI, Dec 18: The Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication has reiterated that no daily wager would be laid off from the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited....
HYDERABAD: Sugar mill owners’ monopoly criticized HYDERABAD, Dec 18: National People’s Party chief Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi has criticized what he called monopoly of sugar mill owners in Sindh, causing monetary losses to growers....		LARKANA: Karo-kari Man, woman shot dead LARKANA, Dec 18: A man and a woman were shot dead near Gaibidero in the mountainous area of Qambar-Shahdadkot district on the pretext of karo-kari. The deceased were identified as Makhan Tamani Chandio and Sahib Khatoon Qasimani Chandio....
LARKANA: PPP rejects Kalabagh dam LARKANA, Dec 18: Leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly Nisar Khuhro has said the PPP will never accept construction of the Kalabagh dam. He was talking to Dawn here on Sunday....		KHAIRPUR: Mehdi Saeen’s Urs begins KHAIRPUR, Dec 18: The Urs of Sufi saint Mehdi Shah of Jehania alias Fakir Mehdi Saeen started on Sunday at his residence near Ranipur. Folk singers Fakir Janib Ali, Fakir Azizullah...