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November 09, 2006 Thursday Shawwal 16, 1427 KARACHI: Centre yet to help curb dengue as 2 more die KARACHI, Nov 8: Mosquito-transmitted diseases continue to haunt Karachiites as two more patients succumbed to dengue fever amid arrival of 83 affected persons to 14 city hospitals on Wednesday.... KARACHI: Another day of power failures KARACHI, Nov 8: Citizens braved another day of power failures on Wednesday as KESC resorted to unannounced power loadshedding after a shortfall of up to 200 MW in power generation.... KARACHI: PA witnesses exhausting ‘fight for honour’ KARACHI, Nov 8: The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday failed to take up any legislation business as members from both sides of the divide wasted much of time in the four-hour session in exchanging hot and harsh words.... KARACHI: Joint resolution on Bajaur, Malakand opposed KARACHI, Nov 8: The members of City Council got divided on Wednesday when the treasury benches tabled a resolution condemning the suicide bombing in Malakand agency, claiming lives of 35 soldiers... KARACHI: Nearly 1,500 doctors to be appointed in 15 days: Sindh Assembly told… KARACHI, Nov 8: Sindh Health Minister Syed Sardar Ahmed told Sindh Assembly on Wednesday that some 90 per cent existing vacancies for doctors would be filled within a fortnight.... KARACHI: Suicide bomber’s brother examined: US diplomat killing case KARACHI, Non 8: An anti-terrorism court recorded on Wednesday partial deposition of the suicide bomber’s brother in the US diplomat killing case. Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the ATC-5, who is... PESHAWAR: Assembly condemns Dargai suicide attack PESHAWAR, Nov 8: NWFP lawmakers on Wednesday condemned the suicide attack on an army training centre in Malakand and termed it a horrifying outcome of the policies of the military regime, which was opposed to all kinds of democratic norms.... PESHAWAR: ANP urges action to stem tide of terrorism PESHAWAR, Nov 8: Awami National Party leader Asfandyar Wali Khan has condemned the Dargai suicide attack and expressed concerned that the wave of militancy and terrorism was now spilling over to the settled parts of the province.... KARACHI: Court seeks plan to demolish illegal buildings KARACHI, Nov 8: The Sindh High Court asked the chief controller of buildings and the inspector-general of police on Wednesday to work out an action plan to evacuate and demolish all... KARACHI: Man crushed under road roller KARACHI, Nov 8: A young man died in a road accident involving not a car, bus, truck or lorry, but being crushed under a road roller on Mangopir Road here on Wednesday.... KARACHI: Ex-Afghan commander arrested KARACHI, Nov 8: A former Afghan commander of the Hikmatyar group was arrested in the Peerabad area in an early morning raid, police said. A senior officer of the CID... KARACHI: Teams to be deployed at all entry points: Polio drive from 14th KARACHI, Nov 8: The Sindh health department has decided to depute vaccination teams at all entry points of the province on the National Immunisation Days from Nov 14 to 16 as... KARACHI: Doctors fear outbreak of infectious diseases KARACHI, Nov 8: Health experts fear that the city could be attacked by more terrible infectious or vector-borne diseases, leishmaniasis in particular, in the hot weather if the health officials continued... KARACHI: BA supple exam results notified KARACHI, Nov 8: The University of Karachi on Wednesday announced results of BA Part-I (Regular, External and BOL) and Part-II Supplementary Examination 2005. According to result statistics of BA Part-I exams,... KARACHI: Fumigation carried out in Baldia KARACHI, Nov 8: More than 40 spray vehicles were used in fumigation carried out in eight union councils of Baldia Town in wee hours. Baldia Town Nazim Kamran Akhtar, Naib Nazim Zahid Mehmood and TMO Ghulam Shabbir Jatoi inaugurated the drive.... KARACHI: Ranger officials issued notices for harassing factory owner KARACHI, Nov 8: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued notices to two Rangers officials for allegedly harassing a hosiery factory owner in the Federal ‘B’ Industrial Area.... KARACHI: MQM defends its conduct in house KARACHI, Nov 8: Senior Minister for Health Syed Sardar Ahmad has said that despite mudslinging targeted at the MQM chief, and character assassination of Mohammad Hussain as resorted to by opposition... KARACHI: AC judge transferred KARACHI, Nov 8: The judge of Accountability Court No. 2, Hasan Feroze, has been transferred after the expiry of his three-year term. According to a notification of the federal law, justice... KARACHI: 93 deprived of vehicles, phones KARACHI, Nov 8: At least 34 vehicles and 59 mobile phones were taken away by bandits from different parts of the city on Wednesday.... KARACHI: City govt fails to resume work on Preedy Street KARACHI, Nov 8: The city government has failed to resume the construction of the new Preedy Street, which has been lying incomplete for the last three years.... KARACHI: Caretaker VC for Urdu varsity demanded KARACHI, Nov 8: Anjuman-i-Asatiza of Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology has demanded a caretaker vice-chancellor for the institution.... KARACHI: Declamation contest KARACHI, Nov 8: Students of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology bagged the trophy in the All Karachi Bilingual Declamation Contest for 2006 held at DHA College for Women on Wednesday.... KARACHI: Blood diseases KARACHI, Nov 8: The Pakistan Society of Haematology in collaboration with the Haematology Department of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation will organise an educational and awareness programme on ‘blood diseases’... KARACHI: Paintings show at Kunj KARACHI, Nov 8: An exhibition of modern miniature and manuscript paintings by S. M. Mansoor opens at the Kunj art gallery at 5pm on Thursday. The exhibition will continue till Nov 30.... HYDERABAD: Workers not getting minimum wages HYDERABAD, Nov 8: The Sindh chapter of the Pakistan Sugar Mills Workers Federation has expressed concern over an inordinate delay in the issuing of notification about minimum wages of workers at Rs4,000 per month.... HYDERABAD: Canal breach floods crops on 1,500 acres HYDERABAD, Nov 8: Vegetables, sugarcane, onion and cotton crops on 1,500 acres were inundated after Naseer Wah developed a 100-foot breach, eight kilometres from Tando Allahyar on Wednesday morning.... PESHAWAR: Literary book to be launched on 11th PESHAWAR, Nov 8: The Pakistan Academy of Letters, Peshawar Chapter, has arranged the launching ceremony of a literary book “Kulyat-i-Sain”, compiled by prominent poet and writer M.... PESHAWAR: Body formed to revise paramedical courses PESHAWAR, Nov 8: NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah Khan has formed a committee to revise paramedical courses and speed up efforts for affiliating diploma and degree programmes in paramedical courses with the...

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