KARACHI: Investigators admonished by tribunal
KARACHI, June 24: The Nishtar Park blast inquiry tribunal admonished a provincial attorney and the police investigators on Saturday for delayed production of pictorial evidence....
KARACHI: Congo, Dengue under watch: EDO
KARACHI, June 24: While private hospitals are receiving an average two-four patients of viral haemorrhagic fever per day, EDO Health Dr Khalid Sheikh has asked health officers to ensure all precautionary...
KARACHI: 54 cellphones, 24 vehicles taken away
KARACHI, June 24: At least 54 cellphones and 24 vehicles were either snatched away at gunpoint or stolen by the bandits from different parts of the city on Saturday....
KARACHI: KESC blames weather for crisis
KARACHI, June 24: As the heatwave continued to grip the city for a third day on Saturday, a large number of people could not sleep during the night on Friday owing to frequent power breakdowns, and their misery continue into Saturday....
KARACHI: KU notifies date for graduate exams
KARACHI, June 24: The University of Karachi has announced tentative dates for the graduate level annual examinations 2006. The spokesman for the varsity said on Saturday that a decision to this...
KARACHI: Hot spell to continue
KARACHI, June 24: Karachi has been sizzling from the last three days, with the Met office forecasting yet another very hot and humid day for the city on Sunday....
KARACHI: New Karachi Town’s budget
KARACHI, June 24: New Karachi Town Nazim Muhammad Hanif Soorti on Saturday presented Rs326.579 million town budget for fiscal year of 2006-2007 in town council’s budget session for approval....
KARACHI: Women’s role in uplift highlighted
KARACHI, June 24: Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil has said that women if properly trained and educated could play an enormous role in the socio-economic uplift of the country....
KARACHI: Muttahida rejects JI’s peace moot
KARACHI, June 24: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement coordination committee has rejected Jamaat-i-Islami’s peace conference and whitepaper as mala fide propaganda....
PESHAWAR: ‘Quake survivors face psychiatric problems’
PESHAWAR, June 24: An alarmingly high number of earthquake survivors in the NWFP suffer from mental disorder, necessitating providing basic training to primary health workers....
PESHAWAR: PA demands withdrawal of increase in gas prices
PESHAWAR, June 24: The NWFP Assembly on Saturday approved six demands for grant of over Rs2.364 billion to meet additional expenditures, projected in the revised estimates, by various departments in the annual budget for 2006-07 fiscal year....
PESHAWAR: Varsities to cooperate in research
PESHAWAR, June 24: University of Peshawar and Balochistan University on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to continue cooperation in the fields of education and research....
Workshop at university
PESHAWAR, June 24: A four-week staff development training workshop started at the Kohat University of Science and Technology on Saturday....
HARIPUR: Criminals arrested
HARIPUR, June 24: The district police officer Haripur Syed Feroz Shah on Saturday, claimed to have “purged” the city of criminals and arrested a record numbers of proclaimed offenders required by police in a number of criminal acts....