March 23, 2006	Thursday	Safar 22, 1427

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KARACHI: Cabinet defers composite exam KARACHI, March 22: The Sindh Cabinet on Wednesday unanimously decided to defer the composite examination system in view of its unsuitability. It also decided to hold examinations of 9th and 10th...		KARACHI: Class 9th exam be held in June: academics KARACHI, March 22: Educationists and school managers have suggested the month of June for holding Class IX (SSC Part-I) annual examinations in the province, as the Sindh Cabinet on Wednesday found...
KARACHI: Land allotted to three foreign investors KARACHI, March 22: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said that a coordinated programme has been chalked out for economic progress of Sindh whereby foreign investors will come and set up units here....		PESHAWAR: ‘Security along tribal belt to be tightened’ PESHAWAR, March 22: The federal government has decided to enhance security along the borders of tribal agencies and the settled areas of the NWFP to curb unwanted activities in the province....
KARACHI: CDGK to set up two more treatment plants KARACHI, March 22: The city government plans installation of two more treatment plants, having a capacity to treat 400mgd. Talking to a delegation of senior officers of the 84th National Management...		KARACHI: Milk-sellers continue to fleece consumers KARACHI, March 22: With a final decision on any raise in milk prices yet to be taken, many retailers continue to fleece consumers by charging Rs2 per litre extra on milk and Rs4 per kg on curd....
KARACHI: Pakistan Day programmes KARACHI, March 22: The Pakistan Day will be celebrated in Karachi in a befitting manner on Thursday. The day will dawn with special prayers for progress and prosperity of the country....		KARACHI: Three die in accidents KARACHI, March 22: Three persons died in two separate road accidents in different parts of the city late on Tuesday night. Police said that a woman and a rickshaw driver died...
KARACHI: Women sports complex awaits opening for seven months KARACHI, March 22: The city government has failed to open Karachi’s only women sports complex even seven months after its completion. The construction work of the women sports complex was completed by the former city government at a cost of Rs54.9...		KARACHI: KU holiday KARACHI, March 22: The University of Karachi and its affiliated colleges will remain closed on March 23 on account of Pakistan Day, said a varsity notification on Wednesday.—APP...
KARACHI: Power supply to Liaquatabad restored KARACHI, March 22: Power supply to Liaquatabad and adjoining areas of Nazimabad and Federal B‘ Area was restored with alternate supply source on Tuesday night, a KESC spokesman said on Wednesday....		KARACHI: IT Mela opens in Nazimabad KARACHI, March 22: The Adviser to Chief Minister on Information Technology, Noman Saigol, on Wednesday said the Sindh Information Technology Department’s priority was to bridge the digital gap between the poor and the rich....
KARACHI: Reinstatement of workers sought KARACHI, March 22: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Labour Division, convention demanded immediate reinstatement of 2,300 sacked workers of Habib Bank Limited....		KARACHI: 12,000 street children living in Karachi, say experts KARACHI, March 22: A strong focus on initiating targeted intervention to facilitate behavioural change among vulnerable children, with particular reference to street children and scavengers, was stressed at a seminar organized...
KARACHI: Imam Ahmed Raza moot on 25th KARACHI, Mar 22: On the life of Imam Ahmad Raza and his services in the field of learning, 18 doctorates and 17 M Phil degrees have so far been awarded to...		KARACHI: C’wealth team briefed on city projects KARACHI, March 22: The visiting Deputy Head of the South Asia Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, John Yapp, met the City Naib Nazim, Nasreen Jalil, at her office on Wednesday....
KARACHI: Seminar on Rashdi brothers KARACHI, March 22: A seminar ‘Rashdi brothers’ contribution to history and literature’ to mark the death anniversary of Pir Ali Muhammad Rashdi and Pir Hussamuddin Rashdi will be held at a hotel here on March 25....		KARACHI: DCET exams KARACHI, March 22: The Dawood College of Engineering and Technology announced the dates of supplementary exams for batches 1997 and 1999. According to a DCET press release on Wednesday, the supplementary...
KARACHI: Commemorative stamps on SC KARACHI, March 22: The Pakistan Post Office has issued new commemorative postage stamps to mark the golden jubilee of Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Supreme Court is successor to the Federal Court, established soon after the inception of Pakistan....		KARACHI: BRC slates demolition move KARACHI, March 22: The Baloch Rights Council, Karachi, has condemned the authorities’ attempts to demolish centuries-old Baloch Goth in the Old Golimar area. According to a BRC statement, the Baloch Goth...
KARACHI: Sunni Tehrik conference on Saturday KARACHI, March 22: The Sunni Tehreek has announced that it will hold Tahaffuz-i-Namoos-i-Risalat conference on Saturday in Gulshan-i-Hadeed where future strategy of the party would also be made public by the ST chief Mohammad Abbas Qadri....		KARACHI: Federal attorney told to submit ISI denial in detention case KARACHI, March 22: A Sindh High Court division bench asked a federal attorney to submit a statement in writing containing the Inter-Services Intelligence denial that an alleged detainee was not in its custody....
KARACHI: APC condemns police for killing siblings KARACHI, March 22: An All-Parties Conference (APC) on Wednesday, expressing concern over deteriorating law and order situation in Karachi, unanimously held the government responsible and said that the provincial administration had...		KARACHI: JSQM holds rally against leader’s ‘abduction’ KARACHI, March 22: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) staged a protest demonstration in front of the Governor’s House here on Wednesday against the ‘abduction’ of its General Secretary Dr Safdar Sarki allegedly by security agencies....
KARACHI: Final order deferred in demolition case KARACHI, March 22: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday deferred its final order on the demolition of a commercial building built on a residential plot in Bahadarabad....		KARACHI: Dawn staffer grieved KARACHI, March 22: Syed Anwar Ali, father of Dawn’s assistant librarian Syed Azhar Ali, died here on Tuesday. He was 70. Soyem will be held on Thursday after Zuhr prayers at Jamia Masjid Farooq-i-Azam near Kala School, New Karachi....
HYDERABAD: Baitul Maal help for deserving people ordered HYDERABAD, March 22: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has directed the management of the Baitul Maal to start disbursing the unspent fund of Rs5.856 million among 4,880 deserving people from March 31....		HYDERABAD: University lecture on China miracle HYDERABAD, March 22: Noted scholar and former ambassador Najmul Saqib Khan delivered a talk on “China as an emerging economic superpower” at the Area Study Centre for Far East and Southeast Asia of the University of Sindh, on Tuesday....
KHAIRPUR: Karo-kari ‘killer’ surrenders KHAIRPUR, March 22: Soomar Chachar, the father of Zameer, who was killed on the pretext of karo-kari, registered a case on Wednesday against Anwar, the alleged killer, who surrendered to police on Tuesday night....		PESHAWAR: NWFP nurses go on complete strike PESHAWAR, March 22: The NWFP Nurses Association has started a province-wide strike campaign from Wednesday against non-acceptance of their demands by the government. “We have been staging token strikes throughout the province....
PESHAWAR: Counterfeit currency seized PESHAWAR, March 22: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) seized a large number of counterfeit US dollars and arrested one person, a senior official told Dawn here on Tuesday....		PESHAWAR: Demand for referendum PESHAWAR, March 22: The People’s Labour Bureau, the labour wing of the Pakistan People’s Party, has condemned what it calls ‘discriminatory policies pursued by PIA in promoting its employees in absence of a collective bargaining agent....