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KARACHI: Opposition stages walkout on Bajaur issue: Rumpus mars Sindh Assembly proceedings
KARACHI, Nov 3: The Sindh Assembly met on Friday morning to take up a heavy agenda of 29 items but was adjourned abruptly amid a charged atmosphere created by opposition’s protest...
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KARACHI: Protest demos against attack on seminary
KARACHI, Nov 3: Protest demonstrations were staged in several parts of the city on Friday condemning the attack on religious seminary in Bajaur Agency leaving more than 80 persons dead....
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KARACHI: 108 more VHF cases reported
KARACHI, Nov 3: The numbers of suspected viral haemorrhagic fever cases swelled to 2,243 in the city on Friday, as another 108 patients believed to be inflicted with mosquito-borne diseases were rushed to various government and private hospitals....
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KARACHI: DHA, Cantt boards doing little to check dengue
KARACHI, Nov 3: Residents of the areas falling in the Defence Housing Authority and cantonment board areas complain that despite the great risks they were exposed to in the shape of...
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KARACHI: Carjacking in October highest since 2000
KARACHI, Nov 3: City police failed in meeting the deadline of Oct 31 given by the prime minister for curbing street crimes as bandits outwitted law enforcers by breaking the previous records of snatching and stealing cars and motorbikes....
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KARACHI: Prices for plots in Taiser scheme exorbitant
KARACHI, Nov 3: The low-cost housing scheme of Taiser Town is no more for people of low-income group, as the price range of 240 and 400 square yards residential plots in...
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KARACHI: SHC acquits LJ activist in sectarian killing case
KARACHI, Nov 3: The Sindh High Court on Friday acquitted an activist of banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi of sectarian killing charges but upheld the conviction of co-accused awarded to him by the trial court....
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KARACHI: Anti-encroachment drive in Shah Faisal Town
KARACHI, Nov 3: A grand operation would be started soon against encroachments in Shah Faisal Town and roads and sidewalks would be made free of illegal occupations to facilitate people in transportation....
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KARACHI: Govt slammed for blocking opposition move
KARACHI, Nov 3: The combined opposition in Sindh assembly on Friday slammed the ruling coalition for preventing it from moving a resolution condemning what it termed extra-judicial killing of innocent people....
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KARACHI: Ibad calls for legislation to improve facilities: Health, education sectors
KARACHI, Nov 3: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has stressed the need for streamlining medical and education facilities in the province in line with international standards and emphasised upon necessary legislation...
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KARACHI: New research techniques urged for progress
KARACHI, Nov 3: With the passage of time our approach towards qualitative research should be changed using the latest techniques and methodologies....
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KARACHI: ICCS offers free dengue tests
KARACHI, Nov 3: The International Centre for Chemical Sciences (ICCS), University of Karachi, announced on Friday that the diagnostic and clinical research facilities would be available free of cost for deserving patients....
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KARACHI: MBBS exam results announced
KARACHI, Nov 3: The examinations department, University of Karachi, on Friday announced the results of Third Professional MBBS Supplementary Examination 2006....
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KARACHI: Chinese team of Red Cross visits Sindh Hilal-i-Ahmer
KARACHI, Nov 3: A six-member Chinese Red Cross delegation visited Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Sindh Provincial branch on Friday and attended an informative briefing regarding current humanitarian services and projects of the society....
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KARACHI: Enrolment forms
KARACHI, Nov 3: The enrolment section of Karachi University on Friday announced acceptance schedule of enrolment forms and fee of MA (colleges) for academic session 2005....
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KARACHI: Mumtaz for new constitution, provincial autonomy
KARACHI, Nov 3: Chairman of Sindh National Front and Sindh Qaumi Ittehad, Sardar Mumtaz Ali Khan Bhutto, said on Friday that provinces would not accept less than complete autonomy with ownership rights over their all the resources....
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KARACHI: Father stabs daughter to death
KARACHI, Nov 3: A young woman was stabbed to death by her father in Landhi over her marriage dispute. Police said that Nadia, 19, and Amjad Khan solemnised in court on Oct 20....
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KARACHI: International college planned
KARACHI, Nov 3: Establishment of Dow International Medical College is on cards following formal approval of the proposal by the syndicate of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS)....
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KARACHI: Matricide suspect remanded
KARACHI, Nov 3: A judicial magistrate of the District East on Friday remanded Hanif Khan, accused of killing his mother, to judicial custody. JM Hifzur Rehman directed the jail authorities to produce the accused before him on Nov 16....
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HYDERABAD: Plan finalised to control dengue fever
HYDERABAD, Nov 3: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has directed officials concerned to adopt precautionary measures in the district to curb spread of dengue virus before it turns into an epidemic....
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LARKANA: Larkana drainage scheme in doldrums
LARKANA, Nov 3: The fate of a major drainage project being executed at a cost of Rs191.680 million hangs in the balance. Work on the project was stopped four months ago...
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KHAIRPUR: Man kills wife
KHAIRPUR, Nov 3: A man killed his wife in the Nao Goth area on Thursday....
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PESHAWAR: Fazl sees US bid to foil peace efforts
PESHAWAR, Nov 3: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Friday that the United States wanted to create anarchy in Pakistan by bombing innocent people in Bajaur Agency....
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KOHAT: Rs4.2bn quake-proof bridge on Indus planned
KOHAT, Nov 3: The National Highway Authority will build a quake-proof bridge at Khushalgarah on the Indus River at a cost of Rs4.23 billion....
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PESHAWAR: Ministers, MPAs protest against Bajaur killings: Govt, US criticised
PESHAWAR, Nov 3: Member of the NWFP Assembly on Friday staged a protest march from the assembly hall to Khyber Road against the bombing of a seminary in Bajaur Agency and killing of 82 students....
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PESHAWAR: Demolition of record room stayed
PESHAWAR, Nov 3: The Peshawar High Court on Friday stayed the demolition of a 150-year-old mohafiz khana (record room) planned by the government....
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KOHAT: Preventive steps taken against dengue fever
KOHAT, Nov 3: The Kohat Tehsil Council was informed on Thursday that the administration had taken precautionary measures against dengue fever and anti-virus fumigation had been started in all union councils of the teshsil....
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KOHAT : Proclaimed offenders among 205 arrested
KOHAT, Nov 3: Local police arrested 205 criminals, including 36 proclaimed offenders, wanted in murder cases during a two-month special campaign against anti-social elements in the Kohat district....
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