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KARACHI: Land allocated for women industrial park
KARACHI, May 6: The Sindh government has allocated 50 acres for establishing industrial park for the enterprising women in the province.... 
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KARACHI: Demolition of old villages criticized
KARACHI, May 6: Central leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party have castigated the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, as well as the provincial and city governments, for demolishing old villages in Karachi and Hyderabad....
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KARACHI: City nazim clarifies goth issue
KARACHI, May 6: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that the city government is not directly involved in the operation to remove encroachments in some part of Sikandar Goth, raised on the land of Al-Mashriq Cooperative Housing Society....
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KARACHI: Protest at Sohrab Goth
KARACHI, May 6: People lit bonfires and staged a sit-in at Sohrab Goth on Saturday on the occasion of funeral of a boy who was killed in violence on Friday....
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KARACHI: Magistrate summoned in Gichki death probe
KARACHI, May 6: Justice Syed Zawwar Hussain Jaffery of the Sindh High Court, who is holding an inquiry into the custodial death of Balochistan National Party activist, Mohammad Hasan Gichki, on...
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PESHAWAR: Pakistan removed from human trafficking watch list: Sherpao
PESHAWAR, May 6: Federal Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has said that the United States has removed Pakistan from the human trafficking watch list as the FIA immigration has managed...
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PESHAWAR: Peshawar-Jalalabad bus service from 15th
PESHAWAR, May 6: Pakistan is all set to begin Peshawar-Jalalabad bus service by May 15, says Director Transport NWFP, Sajid Khan Jadoon....
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PESHAWAR: 10 foreigners file bail petitions
PESHAWAR, May 6: Ten foreigners, including two Tajik boys and an Egyptian family, have filed bail petitions, seeking their release in cases relating to overstay in Pakistan....
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KARACHI: No clue yet to culprits of toxic waste dumping
KARACHI, May 6: Police and the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) have remained clueless in the case of ‘criminal dumping’ of highly toxic industrial waste in an open area of Abidabad, Site Town....
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KARACHI: Electricity failures continue
KARACHI, May 6: People complained about frequent power failures in various localities on Saturday while the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation claimed normal power supply across the city....
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KARACHI: DCET entry test
KARACHI, May 6: The Dowood College of Engineering and Technology on Saturday announced that the pre-admission test for the batch 2005-2006 would be conducted by Muhammad Ali Jinnah University on May 7 at 10:45am at its Karachi and Islamabad campuses....
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KARACHI: Hizb activists sent to jail
KARACHI, May 6: Administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts in Karachi on Saturday sent four activists of the banned Hizbul Tehrir to jail, who are facing charges under anti-terrorism law, turning down police request for further police remand....
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KARACHI: KU admissions
KARACHI, May 6: The vice-chancellor of Karachi University Dr Pirzada Qasim on Saturday asked the directorate of evening programme to extend the date for submission of admissions till May 9.—PPI...
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HYDERABAD: Govt criticised for raising oil prices
HYDERABAD, May 6: The Sindh Abadgar Board on Saturday rejected the government claim that Pakistan had suffered huge losses of Rs66 billion since 2004 for not increasing the price of oil commensurate with prices of the international market....
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HYDERABAD: Nazim accused of ignoring rural taluka
HYDERABAD, May 6: Elected representatives of the Hyderabad rural taluka have made a frontal attack on the district nazim for discriminating against the taluka in respect of development schemes and patronising the TMO who they alleged was a diehard MQM activist....
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HYDERABAD: Dadu admits to have spent uplift funds of Jamshoro
HYDERABAD, May 6: Dadu has for the first time admitted on record that it has utilised Jamshoro’s share in funds, and agreed to hand over records on liabilities and funds to...
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KHAIRPUR: Dams to water generals’ lands: Qaim
KHAIRPUR, May 6: The President of Pakistan People’s Party, Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, has alleged that the Kalabagh, Akhori and Basha dams have been planned only to irrigate lands of generals, feudal lords and influential persons....
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LARKANA: Seven blood banks told to close business
LARKANA, May 6: A team of the Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority on Saturday conducted raids in Shahdadkot town and served notices to seven blood banks to closed down....
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KHAIRPUR: Demolition of villages in Karachi condemned
KHAIRPUR, May 6: People’s Party MPA Nawab Wassan has criticised demolition of Sindhi villages in Karachi. Talking to reporters here on Saturday, he condemned what he described as the murder of two villagers during a demolition drive on Friday in Karachi....
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PESHAWAR: PTA seizes illegal phone exchange
PESHAWAR, May 6: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has seized an illegal international mini-gateway and arrested on person from his office here on Saturday....
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PESHAWAR: People not to be deceived again, says minister
PESHAWAR, May 6: Minister for Political Affairs Amir Muqam has said that people of the country are not going to believe those who had deceived them in the past....
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TIMERGARA: Rs9m to be spent on uplift schemes, says nazim
TIMERGARA, May 6: The district government has allocated Rs 9 millions, out of Rs 30.6 millions, for developmental schemes in Timergara tehsil of the Lower Dir district....
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PESHAWAR: Rs4.1bn farm project for tribal areas
PESHAWAR, May 6: The government will implement Rs4.1 billion Agribusiness Development and Diversification Project in tribal areas, says a handout....
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LANDI KOTAL: Noted Pashto poet passes away LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), May 6: A noted musician and Pashto poet Sana Gul Joshi died of bullet wounds in a Peshawar hospital on Saturday. He was 75....
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