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KARACHI: Campaign against composite exam system picks up
KARACHI, Feb 3: Banners against the composite examination system proposed for Class Nine and Ten were displayed at various places across the city on Saturday amid uncertainty among the concerned students... 
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KARACHI: UTP dies in Landhi jail
KARACHI, Feb 3: A 35-year-old under trial prisoner, Basant Ali Chandio, arrested two weeks ago, died on Saturday in Landhi jail. His family alleged he died due to severe torture in custody....
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KARACHI: SC allows married girl to stay with parents
KARACHI, Feb 3: The Supreme Court on Saturday allowed a girl who got married on her own free will to stay with her father till July when she would be sent off ceremonially....
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KARACHI: Ghotki gang-rape condemned
KARACHI, Feb 3: The Aurat Foundation on Saturday asked its district-level Citizens Action Committees for women Rights (CACs) to protest on Wednesday against an incident in Goth Habib Labano of Ubavro,...
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KARACHI: SHC order reserved on Beachfront Project
KARACHI, Feb 3: A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Saturday reserved its order on a petition against the ‘Beachfront Project’ of the Defence Housing Authority....
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KARACHI: Police get 50 motorcycles
KARACHI, Feb 3: Federal ministry for ports and shipping has given 50 motorcycles to police for containing street crime in the city....
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KARACHI: Drinking water assessment project in doldrums
KARACHI, Feb 3: A drinking water quality assessment project pertaining to three cities of Sindh including Karachi, is still incomplete despite the passage of more than a year....
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KARACHI: Power cuts hit most city areas
KARACHI, Feb 3: Power consumers in most of the city areas suffered prolonged and intermittent suspension of electricity supply on Saturday as the KESC carried out upgradation, replacement and maintenance of its various installations....
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KARACHI: FST orders adverse remarks expunction from ACR KARACHI, Feb 3: The Federal Service Tribunal has ordered the expunction of adverse remarks from the annual confidential report (ACR) of an income tax commissioner....
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KARACHI: Demo staged against forced disappearance of nationalists
KARACHI, Feb 3: Speakers at a protest demonstration on Saturday condemned the forced disappearance of nationalist leader Dr Safdar Sarki and others....
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KARACHI: Postings in KWSB
KARACHI, Feb 3: A grade-20 senior engineer of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, Salman Chandio, was posted as deputy managing director of the KWSB on Saturday....
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KARACHI: Price-hike criticised
KARACHI, Feb 3: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal condemning the recent raise in prices of cement, gas, ghee, oil and other commodities demanded that prices should be brought down so that the masses could make both ends meet....
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KARACHI: PPP urges MMA to withdraw candidate
KARACHI, Feb 3: A central leader of Pakistan Peoples’ Party has appealed to the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal to withdraw its candidate for by-election on a vacant national assembly seat (NA-250) in favour...
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KARACHI: Salam Day observed
KARACHI, Feb 3: Students from various educational institutions were invited to speak on topics related to physics at a programme held to mark the 81st birth anniversary of late Professor (Dr) Abdus Salam at the Usman Institute of Technology....
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KARACHI: Finer aspects of architecture
KARACHI, Feb 3: The houses of prominent architects, which they designed for their own living, were highlighted at a seminar held at a local hotel on Saturday....
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KARACHI: CDGK undertook 26 mega projects in 2006
KARACHI, Feb 3: City Nazim Mustafa Kamal has said besides completing the signal-free corridor from Airport to SITE, the city district government of Karachi has also initiated 26 mega development projects...
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KARACHI: Governor lauds rangers’ role
KARACHI, Feb 3: The Governor Sindh, Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan, said on Saturday that the Sindh government had requested the federal government to provide high-tech weapons and other latest equipment for...
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KARACHI: Hingol Dam opposed
KARACHI, Feb 3: Experts at the two-day workshop held to devise a detailed management plan for the Hingol National Park, the country’s largest destination of its sorts, maintained that Hingol Dam...
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KARACHI: Unregistered vehicles fined
KARACHI, Feb 3: As a part of their special campaign launched against unregistered vehicles (applied for registration) and for displaying other type of illegal number plates, the traffic police chalanned 361 vehicles, detained 214 and fined them Rs36,100....
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HYDERABAD: EDO wants speedy work on waterways
HYDERABAD, Feb 3: EDO (agriculture) Shuhabuddin Siddiqui has directed the deputy district officers of his department to expedite pace of work on watercourse lining to surpass the annual target of the...
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HYDERABAD: Liaquat wants drive against Hesco defaulters stepped up
HYDERABAD, Feb 3: Federal Minister for Water and Power Liaquat Ali Jatoi on Saturday directed the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) Chief Executive Maqbool Ahmed Khwaja to step up the company’s...
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HYDERABAD: Notices issued to dist officers, sub-engineers
HYDERABAD, Feb 3: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil on Saturday issued show-cause notices to district officer buildings and sub-engineers after receiving monitoring committee report that the contractor in collusion with engineers...
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HYDERABAD: University projects completed
HYDERABAD, Feb 3: The Sindh University has completed four development projects, funded to the tune of Rs45 million by the Higher Education Commission, at Allama I. I. Kazi Campus in Jamshoro....
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PESHAWAR: Plan to run CNG buses still on hold
PESHAWAR, Feb 3: A proposal floated more than two years ago to start CNG bus service in the provincial metropolis has hit snags because of a lack of government will and opposition from private transporters lobby....
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PESHAWAR: Joint fight urged against terrorism PESHAWAR, Feb 3: NWFP Assembly Speaker Bakht Jehan has stressed the need for people and police joining hands for total elimination of terrorism from the country....
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PESHAWAR: MMA failed to maintain peace in NWFP: Muqam
PESHAWAR Feb 3: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government has failed in maintaining law and order situation in the Frontier province due to which people have now started feeling insecure and apprehensive, said the Federal Minister for Political Affairs, Engr Amir Muqam....r Amir Muqam....
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