December 21, 2005	Wednesday	Ziqa’ad 18, 1426

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KARACHI: Revival of KCR delayed for two years KARACHI, Dec 20: The plan for a complete revival of the Karachi Circular Railway operation has been shelved for at least two years after a Japanese delegation submitted a feasibility study...		KARACHI: Report handed over to Ibad KARACHI, Dec 20: A team of Japanese technical experts on Tuesday presented the initial feasibility report for the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR)’s revival to the Sindh Governor, Dr Ishratul Ibad, at the Governor’s House....
KARACHI: Teachers oppose composite exams KARACHI, Dec 20: Teaching heads and school teachers on Tuesday announced to resist the newly introduced system of composite exams at the SSC level. They termed the government’s decision as an “arbitrary one”....		KARACHI: 70 per cent prisoners innocent, says Rauf KARACHI, Dec 20: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has said that seventy per cent of the prisoners could be freed by the courts as they were languishing in the jails since years for the crimes they had never committed....
KARACHI: Govt urged to drop dam project: Indus delta conference KARACHI, Dec 20: Speakers at a conference on Tuesday urged the government to drop the Kalabagh Dam project because if the dam was built, it could threaten federation....		KARACHI: Re-polling for new KBA body on Jan 21 KARACHI, Dec 20: The city lawyers would again go to polls for electing a new 21-member body of the Karachi Bar Association after its elections were rigged and a worst kind...
KARACHI: Baloch leaders slam army action KARACHI, Dec 20: Baloch nationalist leaders have urged the UN and donor countries to stop giving military aid to Pakistan if it is used against its own people....		KARACHI: Suspected terrorist arrested KARACHI, Dec 20: An alleged activist of a banned sectarian outfit was picked up on Tuesday by intelligence agencies, official sources said. Osman alias Chhotu, brother of Asif Chhotu, an activist...
KARACHI: IBA student not in police custody, SHC told KARACHI, Dec 20: An official of the Sindh home department told the Sindh High Court on Tuesday that an IBA student, Affan Leghari, was neither arrested nor detained by any agency or department of the Sindh police....		KARACHI: Ibad opens corneal transplant unit KARACHI, Dec 20: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad, who inaugurated a corneal transplant unit set up in his name by the Pakistan Eye Bank Society at North Karachi on Monday evening, announced sponsoring at least two transplants a month....
KARACHI: S. P. Lodhi passes away KARACHI, Dec 20: Veteran trade union leader S.P. Lodhi died here on Tuesday after a protracted illness. He was 80. He was laid to rest in the Mohammad Shah graveyard, North Karachi....		KARACHI: Poet Hanif Asaadi dies KARACHI, Dec 20: Prominent poet Hanif Asaadi, 87, died here on Monday after a protracted illness. He was laid to rest in the Paposh Nagar graveyard....
KARACHI: WB team meets CS KARACHI, Dec 20: A two-member World Bank team comprising senior economist Deepak Mishra and consultant Syed Ashraf Wasti on Tuesday met Sindh Chief Secretary Fazlur Rehman and discussed WB-assisted projects in the province....		KARACHI: 1,556 teachers get promotions KARACHI, Dec 20: The office of the EDO (education) of the city government on Tuesday announced the promotion of 1,556 teachers. A press note issued in this regard said that as...
KARACHI: Revision of vacation schedule urged KARACHI, Dec 20: The owners of private schools have expressed reservations over the schedule of winter vacation announced by education department and demanded revision of the schedule....		KARACHI: Power failures hit Karachi KARACHI, Dec 20: People suffered from power breakdowns in the early hours of Tuesday soon after the first rain of the winter season started. The transmission and distribution system of the...
KARACHI: Joint rally against KBD tomorrow KARACHI, Dec 20: The Anti-Kalabagh dam and Greater Thal Canal Action Committee Karachi will stage a huge rally on Thursday to protest against government’s plan to construct these two “anti-Sindh projects”....		KARACHI: PA session today KARACHI, Dec 20: The Sindh Assembly is meeting on Wednesday at 10am after a break of five days. Although there is a lengthy agenda according to the order of the day...
KARACHI: PMC students clinch top positions KARACHI, Dec 20: The students of Peoples Medical College (PMC), Nawabshah bagged two top positions in the 9th Proficiency Evaluation Test (PET) 2005, organized by the PMA Science and Health Council for senior medical students....		HYDERABAD: SHC admits Ladies Club petition HYDERABAD, Dec 20: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, on Tuesday admitted the petition of the Ladies Club for regular hearing and made the government of Sindh, through the secretary of revenue department, a co-petitioner....
HYDERABAD: Black day observed in colleges HYDERABAD, Dec 20: A black day was observed in colleges of Sindh against transfer of principals of Thatta and Khairpur Nathan Shah government colleges and office-bearers of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association to Karachi....		HYDERABAD: Disadvantages of plastic bags highlighted HYDERABAD, Dec 20: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil on Saturday asked local body representatives, district government, NGOs and media to launch a campaign against use of plastic bags....