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KARACHI: Lawyers receive parties’ support
KARACHI, April 21: The Karachi Bar Association (KBA) on Saturday claimed to have gained the support of many political parties and civil society organisations for participation in the April 24 procession... 
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KARACHI: City govt observes Earth Day by trimming trees
KARACHI, April 21: As people across the globe pledge to keep the environment unpolluted on the 37th Earth Day on Sunday, the government continues its drive to keep one of the arterial roads of the city denuded of trees....
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KARACHI: Police move to keep seminaries under watch
KARACHI, April 21: Police have started to draw up a list of the city’s religious seminaries whose students are capable of following in the footsteps of the stick-wielding youths of Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid in Islamabad....
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KARACHI: Muttahida expands coordination committee
KARACHI, April 21: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has expanded its supreme body, the Coordination Committee, by adding to it five members....
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KARACHI: Students worst sufferers of power outages
KARACHI, April 21: The students taking SSC Part-II exams are facing hardships both at home and at examination centres due to frequent and prolonged power failures....
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HYDERABAD: Kotri rally opposes construction of RBOD
HYDERABAD, April 21: People belonging to different political parties demonstrated in Kotri against the construction of Right Bank Outfall Drain (RBOD)....
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MIRPURKHAS: Shortage of fertiliser hits cotton crop
MIRPURKHAS, April 21: Sowing of cotton and chilli crops in Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, Sanghar and Tharparkar has hit snags due to non-availability of fertiliser and nitrogen phosphate in the local markets....
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KARACHI: Two more held in Turabi case
KARACHI, April 21: Two more suspects have reportedly been arrested in North Nazimabad for their alleged involvement in the killing of eminent religious scholar Allama Hasan Turabi and his nephew on July 14 last year....
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KARACHI: Judicial killing — a cruel act
KARACHI, April 21: Superintendent Nusrat Hussain Mangan of the central jail considers himself fortunate that he has never had to witness a man being hanged....
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KARACHI: Transporters protest against robberies: Sharah-i-Orangi not safe anymore
KARACHI, April 21: In protest against the growing incidents of robberies in public transport, some transporters blocked Shahrah-i-Orangi on Saturday morning....
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KARACHI: Sessi pledges best possible facilities for workers
KARACHI, April 21: The Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution Commissioner Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi has said all available resources were being utilised to provide best possible medical and other facilities to the secured employees....
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KARACHI: DCET status
KARACHI, April 21: The principal of Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, Dr Mohammad Nasim said that his college would remain under the control of the federal government even after getting...
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KARACHI: PFUJ-Apnec demands day tomorrow KARACHI, April 21: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the All Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation (APNEC) will observe ‘Demands Day’ on April 23 for the implementation of the 7th...
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KARACHI: Fatema Hasan’s poetry praised
KARACHI, April 21: Some key literary personalities were among a significant number of people who attended a programme, arranged at the Karachi Gymkhana by its literary committee, to pay tribute to known Urdu poet Fatema Hasan....
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HYDERABAD: New canal from Chashma opposed
HYDERABAD, April 21: The Sindh Farmers Association has expressed concern over excavation of a new canal from the Chashma Barrage by the Punjab government in collaboration with Wapda to irrigate land in Rawalpindi and Gujar Khan....
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PESHAWAR: PFC turns down district governments’ plea: Allocation of 40pc uplift funds for mega projects
PESHAWAR, April 21: The Provincial Finance Commission (PFC) of the NWFP has turned down the demand of district governments for doing away with the condition of allocating 40 per cent of their development funds for big projects....
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PESHAWAR: TMAs asked to clear power dues
PESHAWAR, April 21: The Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) has asked various tehsil municipal administrations (TMAs) to pay their outstanding dues amounting to Rs227 million by April 25 to avoid disconnection of power supply....
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PESHAWAR: Peshawar, UK varsities plan joint research
PESHAWAR, April 21: The department of social work of the University of Peshawar and the Durham University have initiated a joint research on “stress and experience of Pakistani youth” as part of individual linkage programmes of professors....
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PESHAWAR: Kidnapped man recovered
PESHAWAR, April 21: The capital city police on Saturday recovered a man who was kidnapped one-and-a-half-month ago in Surizai area in Peshawar....
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PESHAWAR: Microfinance Mela
PESHAWAR, April 21: The Sarhad Micro Finance Network is holding its second annual Mela at the Peshawar Garrison Club on Sunday....
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NAWABSHAH: Two PML-F workers handed over to police: Kidnapping case
NAWABSHAH, April 21: Nawabshah chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) on Friday handed over its two workers to police for their reported involvement in the kidnapping of a trader and his friend....
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DADU: Couple shot dead by relatives
DADU, April 21: A woman and her husband were killed allegedly by their relatives over a matrimonial dispute in Mirzoo Khoso village, Mehar taluka, late Friday night....
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