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August 17, 2006 Thursday Rajab 21, 1427 KARACHI: CM orders reopening of 2,900 schools KARACHI, Aug 16: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim on Wednesday ordered that 2,900 closed government schools in the province would be opened at the earliest.... KARACHI: City govt grant for Anjuman increased KARACHI, Aug 16: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday announced to increase financial aid to the Anjuman Taraqi-i- Urdu from rupees one million to two million.... KARACHI: Quaid’s mausoleum closed KARACHI, Aug 16: The Mazar of Quaid-i-Azam will remain closed to public for the second consecutive day, Thursday, owing to the widespread damage to its interior caused during a free-for-all on the occasion of the Independence Day.... KARACHI: Napa ordered to stop work at Hindu Gymkhana KARACHI, Aug 16: The Karachi Building Control Authority has directed the parties concerned that the illegal construction being carried out at the Hindu Gymkhana be stopped, it is reliably learnt.... KARACHI: STB revises schedule for delivery of textbooks KARACHI, Aug 16: The Sindh Textbook Board has once again revised its schedule for delivery of textbooks to primary and secondary school students and now the same will be available in full range likely by August 26.... KARACHI: Agencies get further time for filing comments: Whereabouts of activists KARACHI, Aug 16: A division bench of the Sindh High Court asked the provincial police officer on Wednesday to remain in touch with the ministries of interior and defence and intelligence agencies to ascertain the whereabouts of five alleged detainees.... KARACHI: Ceramic traditions at Mohatta KARACHI, Aug 16: An exhibition titled Tale of the tile: the ceramic traditions of Pakistan, organized by the Mohatta Palace Museum, will be formally inaugurated at the museum after eight weeks of public previews here on Thursday.... SUKKUR: Water level constantly rising at Kotri SUKKUR, Aug 16: The peak flood of the season is expected to cross the Sukkur Barrage by Thursday afternoon. The water level at the Guddu Barrage was decreasing and a fall of 55,000 cusecs has been recorded there.... PESHAWAR: Provincial govt seeks Rs22bn for disaster plan PESHAWAR, Aug 16: The NWFP government has sought Rs22 billion from Islamabad to execute its disaster plan, minimising losses of life and property caused by natural calamities every year in the province.... KARACHI: Man beaten to death in Defence KARACHI, Aug 16: A young man was beaten by a group of men who later threw him on a live electric wire causing his instant death in Defence on Wednesday.... KARACHI: Man gets death for kidnapping KARACHI, Aug 16: An anti-terrorism court sentenced on Wednesday a man to death in a kidnapping for ransom case.... KARACHI: 21 vehicles, 54 mobile phones taken away KARACHI, Aug 16: At least 21 vehicles and 54 cell phones were either snatched or stolen by bandits on a day when personal secretary to the Sindh Home Minister also fell... KARACHI: Renovation of Wazir Mansion discussed KARACHI, 16: The issues of reconstruction and renovation of Wazir Mansion, the birth place of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and promotion of cultural activities around Jehangir Kothari Parade, Clifton, were discussed... KARACHI: CHK to have orthopaedic trauma centre soon KARACHI, Aug 16: The establishment of orthopaedic trauma centre (accident and emergency centre) in Civil Hospital Karachi with a cost of Rs1.4 billion has been approved and its construction will start soon.... KARACHI: Workshop on child health KARACHI, Aug 16: The vice-chancellor of Dow University of Health Sciences, Prof Masood Hameed Khan, inaugurated a master-trainer workshop on integrated management of childhood and neonatal illness on Tuesday.... KARACHI: Janam Ashtamy KARACHI, Aug 16: The Hindu community in the city, like elsewhere around the globe, celebrated their annual festival of Janam Ashtamy to mark the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna.... KARACHI: SPLA plans protest KARACHI, Aug 16: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association has announced that teachers would hold protest meetings at over 238 colleges in the province on Aug 17 against the ban on teachers’ associations.... KARACHI: Miniatures at Canvas KARACHI, Aug 16: An exhibition of miniatures by four artists opens at the Canvas gallery at 5pm on Thursday.... KARACHI: Exam forms KARACHI, Aug 16: The University of Karachi has announced the schedule for submission of exam forms.... KARACHI: JI’s rally pays tribute to Hezbollah, Hamas KARACHI, Aug 16: Paying rich tribute to Hezbollah and Hamas resistance movements, Jamaat-i-Islami leaders on Wednesday said that the handful of Mujahideen resisting the military giant, Israel, in Lebanon had proved... KARACHI: Two more remanded in Turabi case KARACHI, Aug 16: Two more suspects have been remanded to police custody till Aug 23 for allegedly masterminding suicide attack to kill Allama Hassan Turabi in Karachi.... KARACHI: Marie Adelaide Centre’s scope to widen KARACHI, Aug 16: The Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC) is now planning to integrate leprosy care with the general health care system so that patients could get the facility of diagnosis and treatment close to their homes.... KARACHI: PPP plans to observe protest day on 21st KARACHI, Aug 16: Pakistan People’s Party Sindh Council has called for a day of protest on Monday (Aug 21) against the Election Commission’s alleged failure to check pre-election rigging and preparation of “doctored” electoral list by the ruling coalition partners.... KARACHI: 171 CDGK men may be sacked KARACHI, Aug 16: As many as 171 more employees of the city government will be dismissed from their service after completing required procedure, as they failed to attend a ceremony held... KARACHI: Five towns suffer as waterline bursts KARACHI, Aug 16: At least five towns and a number of vital installations went without water on Wednesday owing to a shortfall of 80 million gallons of water which the city suffered during the last two days.... KARACHI: Baloch people continue protest on 98th day KARACHI, Aug 16: The protest Baloch people against illegal confinement of their family members allegedly by government agencies entered 98th day as they continued their sit-in at their camp outside the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday.... KARACHI: PTCL team calls on governor KARACHI, Aug 16: Sindh governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Wednesday urged the PTCL to provide a comparatively better telecom package to its customers.... KARACHI: Baloch Marxist leader dies KARACHI, Aug 16: Yar Mohammad Yar, a senior progressive political worker of Lyari and popularly known as ‘Comrade Yar’, died on Tuesday night after a protracted illness. He was 69.... KARACHI: Teams formed to clear rainwater KARACHI, Aug 16: The city government has constituted 13 groups comprising health department staff and deployed them in various localities to clear stagnant rainwater, which was posing threat of outbreak of malaria and other epidemics.... KARACHI: Cabinet meeting KARACHI, Aug 16: It will be for the first time in the provincial history that the Sindh cabinet will hold its meeting at a remote place.... HYDERABAD: Plea for efficient use of land, water resources HYDERABAD, Aug 16: Agriculture experts have recommended improvement in development and management of water for agriculture.... NAWABSHAH: Brohi case: six police officials sent to jail NAWABSHAH, Aug 16: The judicial magistrate, Sakrand, Mr Suhail Ahmed Mangi, sent six police officials allegedly involved in the Rasool Bux Brohi encounter case to Nawabshah jail on Wednesday.... HYDERABAD: Measures taken to ensure supply of clean water HYDERABAD, Aug 16: The Director-General of Environmental Protection Agency, Sindh, Nasreen Naz Ansari, has expressed satisfaction over steps taken by the district government of Hyderabad to provide clean drinking water to people.... BADIN: Crops hit by heavy rainfall in Sindh BADIN, Aug 16: Widespread rain coupled with storm lashed some districts of Sindh on Wednesday. Farmers said that farmlands were saturated and there was no place to drain out the rainwater.... LARKANA: Family of four shot dead LARKANA, Aug 16: Four members of a family, two of them women and one infant, were killed in Allahabad area of the city on Wednesday morning.... HYDERABAD: Demand for transfer of Hesco official HYDERABAD, Aug 16: The Hyderabad Saraffa and Jewellers Group has lashed out at Hesco’s Gari Khata SDO for his rude behaviour with office-bearers of the group and power consumers.... SHIKARPUR: Father and son gunned down SHIKARPUR, Aug 16: A man and his son were killed at the Jehan Khan bus stop on Wednesday morning.... PESHAWAR: PHC stays district council session on no-trust motion PESHAWAR, Aug 16: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday stayed a session of the Dera Ismail Khan District Council convened by the council’s secretary to decide a no-confidence motion against District Nazim Mohammad Mukhtar Ahmad Khan.... PESHAWAR: GST on services provides fiscal space to NWFP: ‘Tax of the future’ PESHAWAR, Aug 16: Increased receipts on account of general sales tax on services, a provincial levy introduced on July 1, 2000, has provided a much needed fiscal space to the cash strapped NWFP government, according to official sources.... PESHAWAR: Two-year-old affected by polio PESHAWAR, Aug 16: The NWFP Health Department has detected a fresh case of polio, raising the number of cases to five in the province this year, a WHO official said.... PESHAWAR: ANP accepts Azam Hoti’s resignation PESHAWAR, Aug 16: Awami National Party president Asfandyar Wali Khan has accepted the resignation of ANP leader Mohammad Azam Khan Hoti from the party’s offices.... PESHAWAR: FIA arrests man with forged visa PESHAWAR, Aug 16: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday arrested at the Peshawar airport of passenger who was attempting to board a flight on forged visa, an official said....

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