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KARACHI: KWSB’s chief engineer, others face action KARACHI, Feb 23: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Thursday placed the chief engineer of KWSB, Asoodo Mal, under suspension for his failure to shift the water and sewerage lines under...		KARACHI: Chapter on dental care in textbooks pledged: Ibad opens international moot KARACHI, Feb 23: The government will make sure that the primary school books contained some lessons on dental care and health care so that children of different age groups could benefit from expert opinion in this respect....
KARACHI: Utilities told not to provide connections to illegal building KARACHI, Feb 23: The Sindh High Court restrained public utilities from providing connections to an unauthorized building in Bohri Bazaar, Saddar, Karachi....		KARACHI: Protests held against Iraq bombing, cartoons KARACHI, Feb 23: Heavy deployment of police was made to maintain law and order on Thursday as several processions were taken out in protest against the publication of blasphemous cartoons in...
KARACHI: Govt pledges protection to people’s life, property KARACHI, Feb 23: Matters of the prevailing law and order situation in the province and others came under review at a high-level meeting held under the chairmanship of the Governor, Dr Ishratul Ibad, on Thursday....		KARACHI: Joint strategy stressed to fight renal diseases KARACHI, Feb 23: As the kidney transplant has always been a high cost bearing affair, there is need for initiatives which can either slow down the process or subside the factors...
KARACHI: Complete chaos hits city roads once again KARACHI, Feb 23: City witnessed worst traffic chaos on Thursday on various roads and thoroughfares in the downtown forcing motorists, motorcyclists, and commuters in public transport to remain trapped in the deluge of vehicles for hours....		KARACHI: Reshuffles in cabinet a routine matter: CM KARACHI, Feb 23: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has hinted at some change in the provincial cabinet, saying: “there is always a room for changes in the cabinet.”...
KARACHI: Council elects presiding officers KARACHI, Feb 23: The City Council in its meeting held on Thursday with Naib Nazim, Ms Nasreen Jalil, in the chair, elected a 3-member panel of its presiding officers....		KARACHI: Probe team delaying burial: Body in plane’s gear KARACHI, Feb 23: The identity of the corpse found from the landing gear of a PIA flight on Feb 10, still remains a mystery. The unidentified man had apparently managed to...
KARACHI:PA session today KARACHI, Feb 23: The requisitioned session of the Sindh Assembly will resume its business on Friday after a break of 21 days....		KARACHI: Govt to mark landfill sites soon, says adviser KARACHI, Feb 23: The Sindh Adviser on Environment, Alternate Energy and Information Technology, Mohammad Noman Saigal, has emphasized to focus on priorities and go ahead with practical agenda in a systematic way to effectively address environment concerns....
KARACHI: Pollution on the rise at Lea Market KARACHI, Feb 23: People living in Lea Market and its adjoining areas are living under miserable conditions due to congestion of heavy traffic and roadside illegal structures built by shopkeepers and transporters, a survey of the area shows....		KARACHI: Kidney stone cases higher in South Asia KARACHI, Feb 23: Kidney stone disease in the South Asia had affected people, particularly children, by twenty to thirty per cent higher than the developed countries due to various factors including...
KARACHI: Qatar Hospital gets laser machine KARACHI, Feb 23: Sindh Health Minister Shabbir Ahmed Qaimkhani on Thursday inaugurated the installation of a modern laser machine for eye operations at the Sindh Government Qatar Hospital....		KARACHI: Coordination urged to improve educution KARACHI, Feb 23: Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy Dr Hamida Khuhro has emphasized the need for close coordination between the government and the donor agencies working in Sindh to act...
KARACHI: DHA awards Rs503m contract KARACHI, Feb 23: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has awarded a contract worth Rs503 million for cable transmission line. An announcement to this effect was made in a DHA statement on Thursday....		KARACHI: Action against incompetent SHOs ordered KARACHI, Feb 23: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has directed the Capital City Police Officer to take action against all those station house officers of Karachi having high crime rates in their respective jurisdictions....
KARACHI: Two acquitted of fratricide KARACHI, Feb 23: An additional district and sessions court of South acquitted on Thursday two men of fratricide. The court also acquitted five other co-accused in the case....		KARACHI: Decision on dangerous building today KARACHI, Feb 23: The fate of a ground-plus-six apartment block, — Rabia View — of which two or three RCC columns sank on Wednesday, will be decided on Friday at a...
KARACHI: Steps urged to overcome poverty KARACHI, Feb 23: Despite continuous pumping of large chunks of funds by the government and donors, the poverty was on the rise, because the ‘trickling effect’ was not reaching the masses,...		KARACHI: Woman dies in road accident KARACHI, Feb 23: A woman died in a road accident in Garden area following which the minibus bus involved in the accident was set on fire by the enraged people of the area on Thursday....
KARACHI: Special children entertained KARACHI, Feb 23: Approximately 300 special children had fun for over four hours at a function organized at a local hotel on Thursday. Children belonging to 13 institutions, including Darul Sakun,...		KARACHI: Hon consul KARACHI, Feb 23: Capt Waris-un-Nabi Awan has been appointed as honorary consul in Karachi of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor), says a press release....
HYDERABAD: SHC issues notices to LG officials HYDERABAD, Feb 23: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, on Thursday issued notice to the Sindh local government department and UC Jinhan Soomro through its nazim on a constitutional petition, challenging the shifting of the UC office to Otaq....		HYDERABAD: Two books on English launched HYDERABAD, Feb 23: Sindh University Vice-Chancellor Maz-harul Haq Siddiqui said on Thu-rsday that English is the language of trade and commerce and most research work in science is available only in this language....