| July 14, 2006 | Friday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 17, 1427 |
KARACHI: Release of women from Sindh jails begins
KARACHI, July 13: Eleven under-trial women prisoners, who have benefited from the recent presidential ordinance on detained women, were released from the special prison for women in the city on Thursday evening....
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KARACHI: PPP MPAs get bail in Ishwar Lal case
KARACHI, July 13: Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, leader of the opposition in the provincial assembly, and three other MPA of the Pakistan People’s Party were granted on Thursday pre-arrest bail by the...
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KARACHI: Analysts rule out change at CM level KARACHI, July 13: The two successive meetings between Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim and Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad this week have failed to produce any positive result but analysts...
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KARACHI: SHC asks FM to submit comments in contempt case
KARACHI, July 13: The Sindh High Court again asked the foreign minister, the foreign secretary and the cabinet secretary to file their comments on a petition alleging contempt of court by...
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KARACHI: Moves against Islamic laws to be resisted: MMA
KARACHI, July 13: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has renewed its pledge to frustrate all attempts to repeal the Hudood Ordinance and other Islamic laws, and vowed to launch a vigorous campaign to defend such laws....
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KARACHI: Drive against Hudood Ordinance slammed
KARACHI, July 13: Prof Shah Faridul Haque, the newly-elected chairman of the Supreme Council of Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan (Noorani), said here on Thursday that anti-Islam forces were behind the drive against the Hudood Ordinance....
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KARACHI: Altaf sees lead for party in 2007 polls KARACHI, July 13: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief, Altaf Hussain, has said that MQM candidates'' victory in recent elections of Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly with big margins heralds its success across the country in general elections of 2007....
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KARACHI: Power failures continue in city
KARACHI, July 13: Power supply to a major portion of the city remained suspended on Thursday owing to disruption in supply from Hubco for Baldia grid....
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KARACHI: Expatriate couple robbed of valuables
KARACHI, July 13: A couple who returned to the city after staying 45 years in Britain was deprived of all their valuables in a house burglary in Gulshan-i-Iqbal....
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KARACHI: 51 mobile phones, 30 vehicles taken away
KARACHI, July 13: At least 51 mobile phones and 30 vehicles were either snatched or stolen in the city on Thursday. Police said 24 cell phones were snatched at gunpoint and...
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KARACHI: Storm-water drains found choked at several places
KARACHI, July 13: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, has identified encroachments and illegal constructions on drains as the main cause of their choking and can play a havoc with the city during monsoon rains....
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KARACHI: Nazim yet to fulfill pledge on chairlift
KARACHI, July 13: With five children in tow, a man intently looks at a crow that gently rocks back and forth as it is perched on the sliding chairlift cable in Safari Park....
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KARACHI: Health deptt’s inquiry into kidney-theft fails to take off
KARACHI, July 13: The Sindh health department committee assigned to probe the alleged theft of a gall bladder patient’s kidney during surgery by a doctor has failed to give any result....
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KARACHI: Ban on swimming in sea nowhere in sight
KARACHI, July 13: The city government has failed to implement the ban imposed by it on swimming and bathing at city beaches as high tides in the Arabian Sea continue to pose threat to the picnickers'' lives....
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KARACHI: Rs2 billion special package for city
KARACHI, July 13: The Sindh government has allocated a special package of Rs2 billion for uplift works in Karachi under the Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the budget 2006-07....
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KARACHI: Children enjoy beach visit
KARACHI, July 13: A large number of young children living in the Special Prison for Women in the city had fun for over three hours at a seaside restaurant on Thursday....
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KARACHI: BDS suppl exams
KARACHI, July 13: The KU exams department announced schedule for submission of forms and fee of second and third professional BDS supplementary exams 2006....
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KARACHI: SHC issues notices in detention case KARACHI, July 13: The Sindh High Court issued notices to the federal and provincial attorneys for July 19 in a petition alleging illegal confinement of Sindh Nationalist Forum chairman and Jeay Sindh Tehrik activist Asif Baladi....
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KARACHI: Conflict in statements of witness found
KARACHI, July 13: Pakistan Sunni Movement chief Shah Sirajul Haq Qadri’s cross-examination on Thursday revealed more discrepancies in his statements to the tribunal and the investigators....
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KARACHI: Facilities for city govt employees
KARACHI, July 13: On the directives of City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal, the city government issued a notification on Thursday for the provision of facilities to the city government’s employees at...
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KARACHI: SHCBA seeks probe into plane crash KARACHI, July 13: The Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) expressed rief over the demise of Justices Nazir Ahmed Siddiqui and Mohammad Nawaz Bhatti of the Lahore High Court in the...
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KARACHI: Dawn staffer passes away
KARACHI, July 13: Shahid Ahmed, a system operator of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, died on Thursday night after a prolonged illness. He was 51....
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KARACHI: New abattoirs
KARACHI, July 13: The veterinary department of the City District Government Karachi has proposed construction of three new slaughter-houses to provide hygienic meat to citizens....
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HYDERABAD: PPP accuses police of torturing local leader
HYDERABAD, July 13: Leaders of the Hyderabad and Tando Mohammad Khan People’s Party on Thursday vowed to continue their demonstrations and sit-ins till the release of district (rural) taluka party leader Abdul Hakeem Khoso....
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HYDERABAD: Protest against arrest of kiln worker
HYDERABAD July 13: A large number of kiln workers staged a demonstration on Thursday in protest at registration of a case against their colleague Rano Bheel....
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PESHAWAR: Cultivation of poppy down 45pc: governor
PESHAWAR, July 13: NWFP Governor Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai has said poppy cultivation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas has declined by 45 per cent this year and more reduction in production of the drug will be ensured....
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PESHAWAR: PHC suspends CM’s order to remove tehsil nazim
PESHAWAR, July 13: The NWFP chief minister Akram Khan Durrani and three others were put on notice by the Peshawar High Court in a contempt of court petition....
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PESHAWAR: PPP seeks support for charter of democracy
PESHAWAR, July 13: The Pakistan People’s Party on Thursday urged ‘genuine’ political forces to endorse the charter of democracy which, it says, has “challenged the present autocratic rule”....
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PESHAWAR: Nurses threaten to launch protest
PESHAWAR, July 13: The NWFP Nurses Association has said the provincial government has failed to solve problems of nurses and announced that it will hold a protest demonstration to press for acceptance of its demands....
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PESHAWAR: PML did not attack press club: minister
PESHAWAR, July 13: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Durrani has said the government holds the press in high esteem and will never take any step undermining freedom of the press....
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PESHAWAR: Centre trying to destabilise provincial govt: Siraj
PESHAWAR, July 13: NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq on Thursday criticised the centre for impeding the smooth functioning of the MMA government in the province....
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PESHAWAR: Cyber-cafes raided for illegal phone service
PESHAWAR, July 13: Two international mini-gateway exchanges were seized and two persons operating cyber-cafes were arrested in Hayatabad on Thursday, an official said....
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