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KARACHI: MQM chief concerned over army operation KARACHI, Dec 31: The Chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf Hussain, on Friday slammed the killing of innocent people in Kohlu and Dera Bugti during firing by security forces and...		KARACHI: 15-day deadline for illegal buildings: Nazim threatens action KARACHI, Dec 31: City Nazim Mustafa Kamal vowed on Saturday that the city district government would not tolerate unauthorised constructions in the metropolis at any cost and asked the officers of Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) to take stringent actions....
KARACHI: Madressahs against students’ expulsion KARACHI, Dec 31: The Wifaq-ul-Madaris al Arabia has warned the government that if expulsion of foreign students from religious seminaries was not stopped and the related “illegal” order was not withdrawn, it should prepare itself for countrywide protests against the decision....		KARACHI: Students in the lurch: Reopening of schools KARACHI, Dec 31: Despite the Sindh education department’s notification that the winter vacation would be observed by government and private schools and colleges till Jan 7, a number of private institutions are set to reopen on January 2, said educational circles....
KARACHI: Beach park inaugurated KARACHI, Dec 31: City Nazim Mustafa Kamal on Saturday inaugurated the Clifton Beach Park, which will be open for families from Sunday (Jan 1). Mr Kamal, who entered the park by...		KARACHI: NED awards degrees to 891 graduates KARACHI, Dec 31: As many as 891 graduates were conferred undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the 14th convocation of the NED University of Engineering and Technology on Saturday....
KARACHI: Sino-Pakistan bonds to grow stronger: writers KARACHI, Dec 31: The visiting five-member delegation of Chinese writers group hoped that close brotherly ties between Pakistan and China would further be cemented in the future and paid rich tributes to Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah....		KARACHI: More anti-dam rallies planned KARACHI, Dec 31: The Anti-Kalabagh Dam and Greater Thal Canal Action Committee on Saturday vowed to resist the military regime’s plan to construct these projects....
KARACHI: CS calls for achieving targets KARACHI, Dec 31: Sindh Chief Secretary, Fazal-ur-Rehman has directed all concerned departments to expedite population welfare programme in the province and strengthen interdepartmental contacts to help achieve set targets of quality life for all....		KARACHI: PML-N alleges repression by rulers KARACHI, Dec 31: Rejecting the government’s plan to go ahead with Kalabagh dam and other projects without evolving a consensus of all provinces, and continuing a military operation in Balochistan, Pakistan...
KARACHI: Women councillors urged to unite KARACHI, Dec 31: Speakers at a conference on Saturday urged women councillors to rise above their political affiliations join hands with the forces taking up the issues relating to womenfolk....		KARACHI: Man shot dead by robbers KARACHI, Dec 31: A man was shot dead in Samanabad here on Saturday when he put up resistance to bandits. Rizwan, 22, was intercepted by armed bandits near a marriage hall in Samanabad near Ancholi bus stop....
LARKANA: More prisons to be set up in Sindh LARKANA, Dec 31: Three more jails will be established in Ghotki, Naushahro Feroze and Mirpurkhas to ease the problem of overcrowding in jails in the province....		HYDERABAD: Farmers to get disease-free banana plants HYDERABAD, Dec 31: About 500,000 disease-free tissue culture plants of the banana crop will be provided to farmers to boost production of banana....
HYDERABAD: Caretaker for Dialdas Club appointed HYDERABAD, Dec 31: Dist-rict Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil on Saturday appointed EDO (revenue) Abdul Sattar Jatto as caretaker of the Seth Dialdas Molchand club....		MIRPURKHAS: Order in Manu Bheel’s case reserved MIRPURKHAS, Dec 31: The district and sessions judge on Saturday reserved order on a plea for cancelling a pre-arrest bail application of landlord Abdul Rehman Mari in the kidnapping case of...