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April 13, 2007 Friday Rabi-ul-Awwal 24, 1428 KARACHI: Lawyers on complete strike today KARACHI, April 12: The lawyers’ protest campaign continues and they will boycott the courts today. Seven lawyers observed a token hunger strike in the Sindh High Court bar room on... KARACHI: Release of 7,000 nationalists demanded KARACHI, April 12: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) on Thursday demanded that Sindhis be given control over their natural resources and the more than 7,000 Sindhi and Baloch nationalists who... KARACHI: Milk price: CDGK files review petition KARACHI, April 12: The city district government moved an application in the Sindh High Court on Thursday for the review of Tuesday’s court order fixing the retail milk price at Rs32 per litre.... KARACHI: Footballer also falls victim to gang-war KARACHI, April 12: Widespread panic gripped the union council areas of Shah Baig Lane on Thursday as the ongoing so-called gang war in Lyari claimed another precious life.... KARACHI: Small traders, nazims slam KESC for power crisis KARACHI, April 12: City-based small traders have vehemently criticised power load-shedding which, they said, had badly affected their business. They urged the government to abrogate the agreement under which the KESC had been privatised.... KARACHI: IPCC meeting KARACHI, April 12: Sindh government has decided to prepare a report on the losses caused by flow of saline water from Punjab and rainwater from Balochistan into Sindh so that the... KARACHI: Honour killings show no sign of decline KARACHI, April 12: Murders in the name of honour killing (karo-kari) are still on the rise as 1,305 people including women, children and men were murdered across the nation during 2006,... KARACHI: Peace in Saarc states stressed: Public dialogue KARACHI, April 12: Former Foreign Secretary Najmuddin A. Shaikh called for developing common interests in the region and setting issues among the Saarc states to strengthen this eight-nation block.... HYDERABAD: Notices issued to LG secy, director HYDERABAD, April 12: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Thursday issued pre-admission notices to secretary local government, director-I of Sindh Local Government Board, DCO of Hyderabad, Local... KARACHI: Workers evade avian flu test KARACHI, April 12: Health officials have so far not tested the workers of the three poultry farms in the city, where, according to farmers’ association, about 67,000 birds died or were... KARACHI: Traffic jams on various roads KARACHI, April 12: Sharea Faisal and the roads in the adjoining area witnessed a massive traffic jam due to a rally brought out by a political party from Quaidabad to Karachi Press Club.... KARACHI: Rally held against minister KARACHI, April 12: Speakers at a demonstration on Thursday condemned federal minister Nilofar Bakhtiar for her “un-Islamic” behaviour and demanded that she be sacked immediately.... KARACHI: Probe into Parachinar killings demanded KARACHI, April 12: The All Pakistan Shia Action Committee (APSAC) on Thursday demanded a high-level judicial probe into the Parachinar riots.... 15x4 — Four photographers and fifteen subjects FOUR of the most well known names in photography are coming together in an exhibition, titled “15X4”, which opens today at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture art gallery.... KARACHI: DG’s order to hold classes ignored KARACHI, April 12: Intermediate classes at a women’s college could not resume despite more than a month after the college principal laid off the cooperative teachers.... KARACHI: BIEK official’s absence puts students in trouble KARACHI, April 12: The absence of newly appointed secretary of Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK), who is yet to join his assignment, has affected the entire working of the board... KARACHI: Ad hoc body to take over Urdu varsity KARACHI, April 12: The Federal Urdu University senate on Thursday decided to appoint a high-powered committee comprising former vice-chancellor Dr Itefaq Ali, former registrar Dr Aslam Farukhi and retired justice Ghous Mohammad to look after the affairs of university.... KARACHI: Water shortage in many areas KARACHI, April 12: Residents of various localities in the city on Thursday complained of acute water shortage in their areas. Complainants from old areas of Kharadar said they were facing shortage of water for the last many days.... KARACHI: PN gets new logistics chief KARACHI, April 12: Rear Admiral Mohammad Shafi has assumed the Logistics Command of Pakistan Navy at a ceremony held at PN Dockyard here on Thursday. He took over from Rear Admiral... KARACHI: Road safety KARACHI, April 12: The World Health Organization (WHO) will launch a report titled ‘Youth and Road Safety’ on the occasion of the First United Nations Global Road Safety Week (April 23-29, 2007).... KARACHI: Man kills wife KARACHI, April 12: A young woman was killed allegedly by her husband and brothers-in-law in the limits of Mominabad police station on Thursday, police said. Shumaila, 20, a resident of Sector... KARACHI: Overflowing sewerage KARACHI, April 12: Schoolchildren studying at Government Boys Secondary School, Lyari-1, are facing a lot of difficulties reaching their school owing to nearby accumulated sewerage water gushing out from choked lines.... HYDERABAD: PR workers seek pay raise HYDERABAD, April 12: The Pakistan Railways’ cabin men demanded on Thursday pay raise and hard work allowance because they said they were the most overworked but underpaid employees of the railways department and the most important organ of the system.... NAWABSHAH: Growers at tail-end protest water shortage NAWABSHAH, April 12: Tail-end growers of Setharki minor demonstrated outside the press club and also observed a token hunger strike against the shortage of water on Thursday....

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