| August 05, 2006 | Saturday | Rajab 9, 1427 |
KARACHI: Sunshine pushes up mercury
KARACHI, Aug 4: After five days of light to moderate rains which hit the city’s civic infrastructure, Karachiites finally had a sunny day on Friday....
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KARACHI: City nazim to get more powers: governor
KARACHI, Aug 4: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has said that President Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have taken notice of the problems emerging due to separate jurisdictions of various agencies and organisations in Karachi....
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KARACHI: Journalist’s wife hurt, robbed
KARACHI, Aug 4: Wife of a senior journalist was injured while trying to resist a robbery attempt at the gate of the Karachi Press Club on Friday....
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KARACHI: PPP MPA granted pre-arrest bail: Eshwar Lal case KARACHI, Aug 4: The district and sessions judge, South, Agha Rafique Ahmed Khan, granted on Friday bail before arrest to a PPP MPA in the Eshwar Lal case....
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KARACHI: PML chief’s assurances satisfy forward bloc
KARACHI, Aug 4: A meeting in Islamabad on Friday between the high command of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League and the ‘forward bloc’ formed recently within the party’s Sindh chapter seems to have ended on a positive note....
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KARACHI: Officials with magisterial powers not in action: Price control
KARACHI, Aug 4: The city government officials, who have been invested with special magisterial powers to control prices, are yet to come in action although traders have already started increasing the rates of essential items ahead of Ramazan....
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KARACHI: One controlling body for city demanded
KARACHI, Aug 4: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Thursday demanded of the authorities concerned to handover the control of all the civic affairs of the city to a single authority....
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KARACHI: Protest against power cuts
KARACHI, Aug 4: A large number of Lyariites on Friday staged a protest demonstration against the KESC administration for prolonged power cuts in several areas of the town for the past many days....
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KARACHI: Rains exposed efficiency of govt: PPP
KARACHI, Aug 4: A meeting of Karachi Coordination Committee of the Pakistan People’s Party on Friday condemned the atrocities being committed on the people of Lebanon and asked the international community to act immediately to enforce a ceasefire....
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KARACHI: BDS results announced
KARACHI, Aug 4: The examination department of the University of Karachi on Friday announced the results of final professional BDS annual examinations 2006....
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KARACHI: Changes in Hudood laws opposed
KARACHI, Aug 4: Speakers at a seminar on Friday warned that a protest movement would be launched if any change was made in Hudood laws....
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KARACHI: Iranian envoy meets Ghafoor
KARACHI, Aug 4: Iranian Consul General in Karachi Agha Moosa Hussaini has criticised the world community and United Nations for failing to stop Israeli aggression, and accused US, Britain and certain...
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KARACHI: Medical camps
KARACHI, Aug 4: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has directed the police officers to join hands with the city government in the relief work and extend full cooperation in setting up medical camps....
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KARACHI: Two die in accident; woman shot dead
KARACHI, Aug 4: Two persons were crushed when a container being transported on a lorry fell on their car at Qayumabad intersection on Friday....
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KARACHI: Registration of case against LNH staff ordered
KARACHI, Aug 4: The additional district and session judge, Karachi East, on Friday ordered SHO New Town police station to register FIR against doctors, administration and paramedics of Liaquat National Hospital....
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KARACHI: Ghinva’s father passes away
KARACHI, Aug 4: Abood Attavi, father of Ghinva Bhutto, Chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party-SB, died in Tripoli, Lebanon, on Thursday night after protracted illness. He was 83....
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KARACHI: Electrocuted
KARACHI, Aug 4: A worker of the Pankha Hotel in Shershah area, Mohammad Yousuf, was electrocuted when he was rectifying a fault in an electric fan of the hotel.—PPI...
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HYDERABAD: Political parties warned against contesting polls under Gen Musharraf
HYDERABAD, Aug 4: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan has said that if political parties decide to contest 2007 general elections under Gen Pervez Musharraf it will be tantamount to giving legitimacy to the dictatorial regime....
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THATTA: Hundreds of fishermen marooned: Thatta coastal areas
THATTA, Aug 4: In the aftermath of week-long torrential rains and sea intrusion, hundreds of fishermen and their families are still stranded in submerged villages along the Thatta coast....
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HYDERABAD: ‘SEA against agitation’
HYDERABAD, Aug 4: In what appears to be apparent rift in the teachers and employees unwritten alliance against Sindh government’s ban on their associations, the Sindh Educational Alliance said on Friday...
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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Israeli aggression condemned
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Aug 4: On the call of Pakistan People’s Party-SB, a complete strike was observed on Friday in Naushahro Feroze to protest against Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Palestine....
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KHAIRPUR: Protest against police
KHAIRPUR, Aug 4: Hundreds of people from Waris Gambhir village and surrounding area blocked the National Highway near the Therhi bypass on Thursday night in protest against excesses of the motorway police....
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PESHAWAR: Govt school teachers asked to declare their income, assets
PESHAWAR, Aug 4: The provincial government has asked, for the first time, that government school teachers declare their income and assets for the financial year which ended on June 30, it has been learnt....
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PESHAWAR: ‘All democratic forces agree on one-point agenda’
PESHAWAR, Aug 4: The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians has said that all genuine democratic forces had agreed on the one-point agenda of bringing to an end the military’s intervention in state affairs....
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