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March 07, 2007 Wednesday Safar 17, 1428 KARACHI: KESC told to pay Rs2.8m compensation KARACHI, March 6: The Sindh High Court has decreed a suit for damages against the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation to the tune of Rs2.835 million.... KARACHI: Milk retail price Rs28 per litre: SHC KARACHI, March 6: The Sindh High Court asked the city district government official concerned on Tuesday to call a meeting of all stakeholders to fix an agreed milk price within 16... KARACHI: Six colleges lose KU affiliation KARACHI, March 6: The University of Karachi disaffiliated six educational institutions on Tuesday. According to a university notification, different education institutions were disaffiliated in various programmes.... KARACHI: KBCA laws to be changed, says city nazim KARACHI, March 6: City Nazim Mustafa Kamal has said that there was a need to change the existing bylaws of the Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) to bring them at par with international standards.... KARACHI: Infant hurt in Lyari grenade blast KARACHI, March 6: A two-and-half-year-old girl was wounded on Tuesday in a hand-grenade blast in Kalakot as tension gripped parts of Lyari due to the ongoing gang war.... KARACHI: Show-cause issued to Al Qaeda case IO KARACHI, March 6: The court of Judicial Magistrate East, Ganhwar Khan Gadehi issued show cause notice to the investigation officer (IO) for his failure to produce the three alleged suspects of Al-Qaeda in court.... KARACHI: 300 expecting women die yearly for lack of facilities KARACHI, March 6: Approximately 300 expecting women died in Sindh in the last one year due to lack of adequate facilities in government hospitals in various districts.... KARACHI: City govt not settling Kidney Hill case out of court, PA told KARACHI, March 6: Sindh Local Government Minister Muhammad Hussain on Tuesday gave assurance to the Sindh Assembly that there was no move by the City District Government of Karachi to settle... PESHAWAR: ‘Law needed to check women trafficking’ PESHAWAR, March 6: Lack of proper legislation to check trafficking of women between the provinces and lack of public sensitisation to the issue are the main causes of the plight of... PESHAWAR: Govt hospitals face shortage of drugs for leishmaniasis PESHAWAR, March 6: The provincial health department has failed to purchase anti-leishmaniasis drugs for government hospitals in the province, it is learnt.... KARACHI: Thieves robbing girls of education KARACHI, March 6: More than a hundred pupils of a girls’ primary school are facing an uncertain future after repeated robberies of the school’s fixtures. In the latest incident, discovered on... KARACHI: Sindh PA fails to take up business KARACHI, March 6: The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday again failed to take up the business, sans a privilege motion, for which the session was requisitioned by the opposition.... KARACHI: Peace-lover cyclists start expedition from India KARACHI, March 6: A group of nine young peace activists has started a month-long cycle expedition from Indian state of Maharashtra to Islamabad, said a spokesman of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy on Tuesday.... KARACHI: Body formed to check traffic violations: Operators threaten wheel-jam KARACHI, March 6: The city government has constituted a vigilance committee to check traffic violations by the operators of Urban Transport Service (UTS) and KPTS Metro buses on different routes of the metropolis.... KARACHI: Police get remand of suspected militant KARACHI, March 6: Judicial Magistrate East, Ganhwar Khan Gadehi, on Tuesday remanded a suspect belonging to a banned sectarian organization, Sipah-i-Mohammad Pakistan, to police custody till March 10.... KARACHI: Water shortage KARACHI, March 6: Residents of various localities of Lyari have expressed concern at the water shortage and accused the KWSB officials of creating water crisis in their town.... KARACHI: Committees for police recruitment KARACHI, March 6: Inspector-General of Police, Sindh, Jahangir Mirza, has constituted four committees to complete the recruitment process to fill up the vacancies of contingent staff in all the three regions in the province and the Central Police Office.... KARACHI: Exhibition at Citi gallery KARACHI, March 6: ‘Moods of Women’, an exhibition of paintings by Mehtab Ali, opens at Citi art gallery on Wednesday at 5.30pm. On show will be 27 oil-on-canvas ingenious figurative artworks.... KARACHI: Women’s bill condemned KARACHI, March 6: The World Islamic Mission women wing chief, Dr Farida Ahmad, condemning the government on the murder of Zille-i-Huma has said the law and order has deteriorated to such an extent that even ministers are being killed.... KARACHI: Weather KARACHI, March 6: The Met office has forecast fair weather with hazy morning for the city on Wednesday with the temperature expected to range between 18 and 20 degrees Centigrade.... KARACHI: Efforts pledged to combat dengue KARACHI, March 6: Health officials of the provincial and district governments have vowed to continue their intensive efforts made last year to fight dengue.... KARACHI: Govt urged to review deep-sea fishing policy KARACHI, March 6: Describing deep-sea fishing as disastrous for the coastal economy of Sindh and Balochistan, speakers at a seminar on Tuesday urged the government to put a complete ban on... KARACHI: Rs518,000 looted from bank KARACHI, March 6: A gang of five bandits looted Rs518,000 from a bank branch in Peerabad. The police said the dacoits held the staff and bank guard hostage at gunpoint and looted the cash.... KARACHI: Power cuts persist KARACHI, March 6: Residents of various localities across the city suffered intermittent and prolonged power breakdowns on Tuesday.... KARACHI: Tawakkal acquitted KARACHI, March 6: A division bench of the Sindh High Court acquitted businessman Abdul Qadir Tawakkal in another accountability case on Tuesday.... KARACHI: Award for LRBT KARACHI, March 6: The Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology presented the Prevention of Blindness Award to the chairman of the Layton-Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust (LRBT), for the outstanding services in preventive ophthalmology in the Asia-Pacific region, rendered by LRBT and its chairman.... HYDERABAD: Better grade for technical staff sought HYDERABAD, March 6: The All-Pakistan Technical Draftsmen Association appealed on Tuesday to the prime minister to upgrade the technical staff on the pattern of non-technical staff (clerks).... PESHAWAR: Removal of encroachments ordered PESHAWAR, March 6: The NWFP irrigation department has directed all the district coordination officers (DCOs) in the province to remove encroachment nullahs and streams to minimise the threat of flood, officials said.... PESHAWAR: Cantt board, excise dept in row over tax collection PESHAWAR, March 6: The NWFP excise and taxation department on Tuesday rejected a claim of the Cantonment Board of Peshawar (CBP) on professional tax and said it was a provincial subject protected under the 1973 Constitution.... PESHAWAR: West urged to change attitude PESHAWAR, March 6: NWFP Minister for Education Maulana Fazle Ali Haqqani has urged the West to change its attitude towards Islam as there is no room for terrorism in it.... PESHAWAR: Widow seeks protection from son’s murderers PESHAWAR, March 6: A widow from Shabqadar area of the Charsadda district has appealed to President Gen Pervez Musharraf, NWFP Governor Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai and Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani to provide security to her family.... PESHAWAR: Officials transferred PESHAWAR, March 6: The NWFP government has ordered transfers and postings of officials of Malakand, Shangla and Swat districts.... HYDERABAD: Blood bank planned HYDERABAD, March 6: An agreement was signed on Tuesday for establishing a blood bank, thalassaemia and haematological centre at the cost of Rs300 million in the Hilal-e-Ahmer Building, Hyderabad.... HYDERABAD: SDF proposals HYDERABAD, March 6: The Sindh Democratic Forum (SDF) has proposed a number of amendments to the 1973 constitution aimed at ensuring restoration of provincial autonomy to all the federating units....

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