January 4, 2006	Wednesday	Zilhaj 3, 1426

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KARACHI: 4 policemen arrested for snatching cellphones KARACHI, Jan 3: Four policemen have been arrested for cellphone snatchings in two different cases from Landhi and Gulberg early Tuesday morning....		KARACHI: City to face 40mgd water shortage: Pipeline bursts KARACHI, Jan 3: Karachi will face 40-MGD water shortage as a 72-inch diameter rising main, out of seven rising mains supplying water to the city, burst due to sudden failure of power supply to Dhabeji Pumping House....
KARACHI: Nine officials suspended KARACHI, Jan 3: The City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, on Tuesday ordered immediate suspension, lodging of FIR and initiating an inquiry against nine officials of the city government’s Land and Revenue Department for alleged corruption and slackness....		KARACHI: Nasreen sworn in as naib nazim KARACHI, Jan 3: Nasreen Jalil who was sworn in as Karachi’s naib nazim on Tuesday vowed to take the development process forward....
HYDERABAD: Sugar millowners slammed for creating zones HYDERABAD, Jan 3: Sindh Abadgar Board president Abdul Majeed Nizamani has taken strong exception to the introduction of what he called illegal zoning system by sugar mills of the province....		KARACHI: Family falls victim to poisonous water KARACHI, Jan 3: Senior doctors said on Monday that serious health problems were being faced by people in Sukkur owing to consumption of water carrying arsenic content....
KARACHI: Govt fails to enforce its directive on vacations KARACHI, Jan 3: Many of the students and parents as well as managements of private schools are confused over the “inactiveness” of the Sindh education department in regard to a uniform implementation of its decision about winter vacations....		KARACHI: Power supply arrangements for Eidul Azha reviewed KARACHI, Jan 3: A meeting of KESC City Coordination Committee presided over by In charge Distribution Jamil Gul Shaikh was held at the KESC head office on Tuesday to review the...
KARACHI: Cold threat to people in quake-hit areas: Niamat KARACHI, Jan 3: Former city nazim and the Central Relief Coordinator of the Al-Khidmat Welfare Society Niamatullah Khan on Tuesday said survivors of the October 2005 earthquake were on the verge...		KARACHI: Trade ties with India demanded KARACHI, Jan 3: Speakers at a conference on “Synergizing India and Pakistan economies” on Tuesday underlined the need to resolve ‘core issues’ with opening of trade to normalize relations between the two countries....
KARACHI: Minister seeks performance reports KARACHI, Jan 3: The Sindh Minister for Labour, Mohammad Adil Siddiqi, on Tuesday directed the department working under the Labour Ministry to present assessment reports of their performances in 2005....		KARACHI: Kalabagh dam opposed KARACHI, Jan 3: The need to look at options other than building mega projects and to have a logical technical approach to the Kalabagh dam issue was stressed by speakers at a seminar organized by the students of Bahria University....
KARACHI: Work on projects reviewed KARACHI, Jan 3: The Nazim of Saddar Town, Muhammad Dilawer, on Tuesday reviewed the progress of on-going development projects being carried out in different areas of the town....		KARACHI: Police patronizing crime KARACHI, Jan 3: The Nazim of Liaquatabad Town, Osama Qadri, on Tuesday alleged that the police was openly patronizing criminals and drug traders and that police stations in his town had turned into safe havens for criminals....
KARACHI: Govt urged not to enlist new fishing vessels KARACHI, Jan 3: The boat-owners registered at Karachi Fish Harbour have threatened to stop fishing because they could not operate their diesel–powered vessels because of high fuel prices....		KARACHI: US varsity to sign MoU for faculty linkage KARACHI, Jan 3: The University of Karachi and South Carolina Centre for Biotechnology, Clafin University USA will soon sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to start faculty-linkage programme between the two varsities....
KARACHI: Scholarships KARACHI, Jan 3: The Board of Secondary Education Karachi on Tuesday notified the list of first hundred position holders of science group and fifty position holders of general group, SSC...		KARACHI: Revised IRO pending with cabinet for approval KARACHI, Jan 3: The Federal Ministry of Labour and Manpower has finalized the draft of revised industrial relations ordinance and submitted to the cabinet for approval....
KARACHI: SHC issues notice in detention case KARACHI, Jan 3: The state was put on notice for Jan 6 by a division bench of Sindh High Court (SHC), comprising Acting Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Nadeem Azhar Siddiqui, while hearing a detention matter....		KARACHI: 4 suspects of bank robbery arrested KARACHI, Jan 3: The police on Tuesday claimed to have solved the Soneri Bank robbery case committed last month in the limits of New Town police station....
KARACHI: PPP plans multi-party meeting on Kalabagh KARACHI, Jan 3: The Sindh chapter of the People’s Party Parliamentarians has planned to convene a meeting of heads of all the political parties holding identical views against the Kalabagh dam....		KARACHI: KBCA team threatened KARACHI, Jan 3: The demolition squad of the Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) has deferred demolition activity in the Al-Hilal Cooperative Housing Society after armed persons issued threats to it....
KARACHI: Oil spill jams traffic KARACHI, Jan 3: An oil tanker carrying thousands of litres of motor oil overturned on the main National Highway near the Cattle Colony here on Tuesday due to over-speeding, causing a...		KARACHI: Oath taken KARACHI, Jan 3: Shoaib Akhter took oath of the office of naib nazim Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town. Judge Kosar Sultana Hussain administered the oath, said a statement issued on Tuesday....
HYDERABAD: PONM terms centre’s policies aggressive HYDERABAD, Jan 3: The Sindh Unity Council of PONM at a meeting held here on Tuesday criticized the federal government for what it called its aggressive policies towards oppressed nations....		HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Naib Nazim takes oath HYDERABAD, Jan 3: District Council Convenor Zafar Ali Rajput has said that he will serve people of the entire district without any discrimination in cooperation with the district nazim....
HYDERABAD: Probe into custodial death begins today HYDERABAD, Jan 3: The district and sessions judge, Zaheeruddin S. Leghari, will begin judicial inquiry on Wednesday in custodial death of Ms Kanwal, an Indian national woman, who died in the Darul Aman Qasimabad on August 14, 2005 under mysterious circumstances....		HYDERABAD: Departments’ tussle block land compensation HYDERABAD, Jan 3: Hundreds of Khatedars are facing financial crisis due to non-payment of compensation as land acquisition charges by the Sindh government which has to ensure release of around Rs200...
HYDERABAD: 145 police officials await promotions HYDERABAD, Jan 3: Around 145 sub-inspectors of Sindh police are awaiting promotions despite the fact that their promotions have been endorsed by the departmental promotion committee in October last year after a delay of seven years....		SHIKARPUR: Villager gunned down SHIKARPUR, Jan 3: One villager was gunned down by outlaws in the Qaimuddin Tunio village on Monday night. Dilawar Tunio was shot dead by outlaws when the inmates of the house offered resistance....