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April 27, 2007 Friday Rabi-us-Sani 09, 1428 KARACHI: Court orders reclamation of grabbed land KARACHI, April 26: The Sindh High Court ordered the municipal and police authorities to remove all encroachments made by land grabbers over a 500-acre area in Keamari along the sea.... KARACHI: Free-for-all mars City Council session KARACHI, April 26: Physical assault on several opposition members, exchange of vulgar language, boycott by opposition benches and complete chaos marked the Thursday proceedings of the City Council.... KARACHI: Governor promulgates ordinance on madressahs KARACHI, April 26: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan has promulgated an ordinance to amend the Societies Registration Act, 1860, regarding registration of Madressahs, in its application to the province of Sindh.... KARACHI: Three die in road accidents KARACHI, April 26: Three persons were killed in separate road accidents on Thursday, police said.... KARACHI: Expressway to concrete paradise KARACHI, April 26: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal believes that the answer to this port city’s many woes lies in constructing a 24-km elevated expressway at a cost of 225 million dollars.... KARACHI: Lawyers plan rally for May 2 KARACHI, April 26: Lawyer fraternity continued its protest campaign on Thursday with more members observing token hunger strike and most members of all bar associations boycotting court proceedings to press the... KARACHI: Lal Masjid clerics vow to enforce Sharia KARACHI, April 26: Students of religious seminaries here on Thursday staged their first rally in support of the demands of Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid of Islamabad.... HYDERABAD: Govt urged to curb child labour HYDERABAD, April 26: Child labour issue still remains a major concern for Pakistan particularly in Hyderabad where about 73 per cent children are working in bangle industry alone, said the speakers... HYDERABAD: Poverty on the rise since 1990s, says expert HYDERABAD, April 26: Dr. Rafiq Chandio who has done PhD on "Economic Growth, Financial Liberalisation and Poverty in Pakistan (1970-2000)” has said that poverty has been on a steady rise in... HYDERABAD: Country hit by constitutional crisis, says PPP leader HYDERABAD, April 26: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) Sindh General Secretary Nafees Siddiqui said on Thursday that the next general elections would be fought between the enlightened and the extremist.... KARACHI: Laws to check fake drugs soon KARACHI, April 26: Amendments to the existing drug rules will be made soon to make them more effective against fake drugs dealers in the province.... KARACHI: Low-cost diabetes testing kits urged KARACHI, April 26: Physicians and patients at a health awareness programme on Thursday observed that any reduction in the cost of glucose detection tests conducted at laboratories or homes could lead to a better management of diabetes.... KARACHI: Trauma centre project KARACHI, April 26: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan has said that availability of modern health care facilities would help eliminate quackery.... KARACHI: Tests for health dept posts on May 14 KARACHI, April 26: The Sindh Health Department on Thursday notified all candidates, who applied for appointment against various posts in BPS-5 to BPS-15 advertised by the department in 2005, to appear... KARACHI: Dialogue urged to help resolve ME conflicts KARACHI, April 26: Political independence is a very vital fact of the world yet this independence is not possible without real need of an honorable compromise.... KARACHI: HSC suppl marks sheets KARACHI, April 26: The Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi has notified that marks sheets of HSC supplementary examinations 2006 for private candidates of the commerce group have been dispatched to their residential addresses.... KARACHI: Clinic for Lyari KARACHI, April 26: Haji Abdullah Haroon Community Health Services has decided to set up a modern charity clinic for the poor residents of Lyari.... KARACHI: Rangers to be relieved of water tanker duties KARACHI, April 26: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) plans to introduce a metering system on major pipelines and will also take away the job of provision of water tankers from the rangers.... KARACHI: Students hold anti-dowry walk KARACHI, April 26: A lot of enthusiasm filled the students and teachers of Jinnah University for Women on Thursday as an awareness walk was held on the premises of the university,... KARACHI: Indiscipline blamed for road accidents KARACHI, April 26: Unfit vehicles and lack of discipline amongst drivers and pedestrians were the main causes of growing road accidents in Pakistan, speakers told a moot here on Thursday.The... KARACHI: ‘Leadership wants to empower middle class’ KARACHI, April 26: City Naib Nazim Nasrin Jalil has said that the vision, under which the Haq Parast leadership is working, is that of solving the people’s problems by bringing the middle class to the helm of affairs.... Monument clarification Referring to the caption of a picture published in Dawn’s April 21 issue, the Bahadur Yar Jan Co-operative Housing Society, Bahadurabad, has clarified that the model of the Chaar Minar of... KARACHI: Inspection KARACHI, April, 26: The Sindh Chief Minister''s Inspection and Monitoring Team has begun inspection and monitoring of development schemes in different sectors in Kashmore district from Wednesday.... HYDERABAD: SU students stage sit-in HYDERABAD, April 26: A large number of male and female students of the University of Sindh on Thursday staged a demonstration and sit-in for two hours at Zero Point in protest against delay in announcement of last semester’s results.... HYDERABAD: Nazim deplores slow pace of development works HYDERABAD, April 26: Keeping in view problems being faced by the people of Hyderabad, District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil expressed dissatisfaction over the slow pace of work on some development schemes.... THATTA: Supremacy of law to be ensured: Soomro THATTA, April 26: Acting president and chairman of Senate Mohammadmian Soomro said on Thursday that the government was performing well within its constitutional limits and believed it would complete its tenure....

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