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KARACHI: Body set up to promote higher education
KARACHI, Aug 12: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has said that coordinated measures are being taken for promotion of higher education and improvement in its quality.... 
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KARACHI: Court stops builder from raising complex
KARACHI, Aug 12: The Sindh High Court has restrained a builder from raising a commercial complex on a plot situated on a newly-commercialized road....
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KARACHI: Rs800m Lyari package to be reviewed
KARACHI, Aug 12: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has called a meeting to review Rs800 million development package for Lyari Town and speedy removal of problems of the long-neglected area....
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KARACHI: Steps urged to check Dengue fever
KARACHI, Aug 12: Dengue hemorrhagic fever, which has emerged to be an epidemic and a common feature in Karachi for around a year, is currently registering a surge due to filth and pools of stagnant water witnessed across the city....
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KARACHI: Protesters condemn Israeli attacks
KARACHI, Aug 12: Speakers at a rally on Saturday demanded that Israeli aggression against Lebanon be stopped immediately and leaders of Israel and its patrons, United States and the United Kingdom, be tried for crimes against humanity....
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KARACHI: 28 vehicles, 31 mobile phones taken away
KARACHI, Aug 12: Bandits took away 28 vehicles and 31mobile phones in various localities of the city on Saturday....
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KARACHI: 91 freed under remission
KARACHI, Aug 12: The Sindh government has released 91 prisoners, two of them women, from different jails in Sindh in pursuance of President Pervez Musharraf’s announcement for remission on the eve of the Independence Day....
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KARACHI: Need for friendly police stressed
KARACHI, Aug 12: Speakers at a seminar have stressed the need for maintaining close coordination between police and citizens for good governance, improving image and enhancing skills of police, and creating awareness of law and fundamental rights in citizens....
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KARACHI: Education schemes reviewed
KARACHI, Aug 12: Sindh Chief Secretary Fazalur Rehman has directed the officials concerned to adopt mechanized monitoring system for effective and timely implementation of the projects under works and services departments....
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KARACHI: Bonsai show
KARACHI, Aug 12: The Bonsai Exhibition-2006, organised by the Pakistan Bonsai Society in collaboration with the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), was held at Zamzama Park on Friday evening....
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KARACHI: Health sector grabbed by mafia, says expert
KARACHI, Aug 12: The health sector has been taken over by a ‘mafia’ that sells hospitals on the pattern of police stations to the highest bidders....
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KARACHI: Balochs’ struggle to continue, seminar told
KARACHI, Aug 12: Baloch students, youths and intellectuals here on Saturday pledged to continue their struggle for rights....
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KARACHI: Awareness of rights in women increasing
KARACHI, Aug 12: Speakers at a consultative meeting here on Saturday said that a country could not progress in true sense if half of its population was denied opportunities to play its due role in the day to day life....
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KARACHI: Two die in road accidents
KARACHI, Aug 12: Two persons died in road accidents in different parts of the city on Saturday. Police said that two motorcyclists were knocked down by a 2-D route bus at KDA Chowrangi, North Nazimabad....
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KARACHI: Workshop owner killed, body found
KARACHI, Aug 12: A strangulated body of a 65-year-old man was recovered from his house in Mochko area, police said....
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KARACHI: Blast case
KARACHI, Aug 12: An anti-terrorism court in Karachi on Saturday adjourned the hearing of the Madinatul Ilm suicide bombing case against two activists of banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi after examination of prosecution witness....
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HYDERABAD: Villagers urged to move to safe places: Flood threat
HYDERABAD, Aug 12: Officials of the Jamshoro district administration on Saturday called upon residents of about 15 to 20 villages of the kutcha area to shift to safe places because water level in the Indus River is continuously rising....
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HYDERABAD: Lebanese people’s massacre by Israel condemned
HYDERABAD, Aug 12: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (STPP) has condemned the massacre of innocent civilians including children, women and elderly by Israel in Lebanon and appealed to the United Nations and international community to work swiftly to end the bloodshed....
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NAWABSHAH: Statements recorded in Brohi murder case
NAWABSHAH, Aug 12: Witnesses on Saturday recorded statements before the Sakrand judicial magistrate in a staged encounter case in which Rasool Bux Brohi was killed by police personnel of the Lyari Task Force....
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DADU: Flood water inundates large area
DADU, Aug 12: Hundreds of acres of land were inundated by flood water in the kutcha area of Dadu and Jamshoro districts on Saturday. Residents of the area have started shifting to safe places along with their cattle....
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