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May 14, 2007 Monday Rabi-us-Sani 26, 1428   Benazir urges judiciary to take action: Karachi killings ISLAMABAD, May 13: Chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party Benazir Bhutto has urged the Supreme Court and the Sindh High Court to take action over the killings in Karachi and the... Call for judicial probe into Karachi violence ISLAMABAD, May 13: The Pakistan Muslim League-N has demanded a judicial inquiry into Saturday’s violence in Karachi that claimed the lives of a large number of innocent people.... PM blames CJ for killings ISLAMABAD, May 13: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday condemned the incidents of violence in Karachi and put the blame for the violent events on refusal by Chief Justice of Pakistan to defer his scheduled visit to Karachi.... Fazl blames MQM for violence PESHAWAR, May 13: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman has held the Muttahida Qaumi Movement responsible for the violence in Karachi, saying the plan for the killings in the city had been prepared in London.... Journalists seek protection ISLAMABAD, May 13: Speakers on Sunday demanded that the government should protect media organisations and journalists to ensure freedom of the press in Pakistan.... 11 activists killed in Karachi, says ANP PESHAWAR, May 13: Eleven workers of the Awami National Party were killed and 17 injured in Saturday’s violence in Karachi while 10 workers were missing, said a party press release.... HRCP calls for disarming MQM LAHORE, May 13: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is deeply aggrieved at the loss of life and bloodshed caused by the violence perpetuated in Karachi on Saturday.... Traders to join today’s strike LAHORE, May 13: Anjuman-i-Tajran Pakistan chairman Haji Maqsood Butt, regarded as pro-government, on Sunday held the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) responsible for the bloodshed in Karachi and announced observing a countrywide strike on Monday (today) to condemn it.... Karachi riots: Punjab feels the aftershocks MANDI BAHAUDDIN, May 13: Opposition parties observed black day here on Sunday and elsewhere in the province against Karachi killings.... Bureaucrats’ training abroad to be shelved: Poor results ISLAMABAD, May 13: The government has decided in principle to shelve a plan to send 50 senior bureaucrats for training to a top US university this year after finding that officers sent earlier had produced no better results.... Call to make FST functional ISLAMABAD, May 13: Serving and retired government servants, whose cases are held up with the non-functional Federal Service Tribunal (FST), have urged the government to immediately appoint its chairman so that their cases could be decided.... Begum Ispahani passes away KARACHI, May 13: Begum Ghamar Ispahani, widow of Mirza Abul Hasan Ispahani, a close associate of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, died of lung failure here on Sunday. She was 90.... British media extensively covers carnage LONDON, May 13: The British media on Sunday extensively covered Saturday’s carnage in Karachi with The Sunday Telegraph reporting that gunmen on motorcycles were pumping bullets into crowds demonstrating against Pakistan''s President Pervez Musharraf, while police stood by and watched.... Balochistan parties give strike call QUETTA, May 13: Opposition parties in Balochistan have given a call for strike in the province for Monday. They will hold rallies on Tuesday to condemn the killing of innocent political activists, blaming the MQM for the violence.... Talal Bugti new JWP chief QUETTA, May 13: The Jamhoori Watan Party’s national convention on Sunday elected Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti as new party chief, who vowed to continue the struggle for complete autonomy for Balochistan within the parameters of the constitution.... Six killed as coach overturns QUETTA, May 13: At least six people were killed and 11 others injured, four of them seriously, when a Karachi-bound coach overturned on the Coastal Highway in the Agor area on Sunday.... Dhodial providing unique environment to various species PESHAWAR, May 13: Dhodial pheasantry, spread over an area of 168 kanals and 13 marlas in the scenic Hazara valley, provides a unique environment to 32 different types of beautiful and colourful pheasants, where they are sheltered.... Mumtaz urges rulers to resign LARKANA, May 13: The Sindh National Front (SNF) Chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto on Sunday held the government and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement responsible for Karachi killings and urged them to quit... Balochistan lawyers to boycott courts QUETTA, May 13: Lawyers in Balochistan on Sunday decided to boycott court proceedings in the province on Monday to condemn the killing of innocent people during violence in Karachi and express solidarity with the victims’ families.... AJK police protest ‘constable’s kidnapping’ MUZAFFARABAD, May 13: AJK police have disagreed with "one-sided inquiry into the abduction of their constable" by Punjab province police and called for a joint probe to unearth facts, it has been learnt.... Pak-Iran border wall to divide the Baloch, says Kachkol QUETTA, May 13: The construction of a wall at the Pakistan-Iran border is an attempt to divide the Baloch people living on both sides of the border, according to leader of the opposition in the Balochistan Assembly, Kachkol Ali.... Bar warns MQM activists MANSEHRA, May 13: The District Bar Association threatened on Sunday to set on fire the offices of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in Mansehra and Balakot if its activists did not leave the area and abandoned their offices by Monday.... Fesco bills ‘powerless’ consumers JHANG, May 13: Residents of Thatti Behram village are forced to pay power bills despite the fact that the village has been without electricity for the last nine months.... Illegal oil trade in full swing MUZAFFARGARH, May 13: Illegal trade of petrol and diesel is going on in Mahmood Kot and Qasba Gujrat towns of Muzaffargarh without any check.... The most unkindest cut of all LAYYAH, May 13: In a brazen-faced demonstration of how frail blood relations become in the world of stonehearted chauvinists, two brothers have chopped off an ear and nose of their sister-in-law... President, PM asked to quit TOBA TEK SINGH, May 13: Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) central secretary-general Farooq Tariq has demanded of President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to resign from their offices.... Traders to keep shutters down FAISALABAD, May 13: Traders are set to observe a shutter-down strike in parts of Punjab today (Monday) to register their protest against the deteriorating law and order situation in general and the Karachi bloodletting in particular.... NA Speaker grieved SIALKOT, May 13: Razia Bibi, the first wife of National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Ameer Hussain, died due to cardiac arrest here on Sunday. She was 65.... The journey they will ever repent LAHORE, May 13: A group of women bussed to Islamabad to attend the Istehkam-i-Pakistan rally on Saturday beat the bus driver for the out-of-order air conditioner and returned to Lahore without attending the rally.... Musharraf warned of ethnicity factor: PPP to stand by opposition LAHORE, May 13: The Pakistan People’s Party alleged on Sunday that President Musharraf regarded himself as commander of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, but warned that consequences would be disastrous for the... A day of funerals and speeches LAHORE, May 13: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) received on Sunday the body of its leader killed in the Karachi violence on Saturday while the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and other political organisations offered ‘ghaibana namaz-i-janaza’ for those killed in Karachi.... Police on high alert in Lahore LAHORE, May 13: More than 5,000 police officials have been deployed across the city to maintain law and order on the eve of protest announced by the opposition and lawyers.... PML-N for suo motu action against Rangers LAHORE, May 13: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has urged the acting chief justice of Pakistan to take action against the Rangers and other law-enforcing agencies for their failure to protect people who were killed in Karachi on Saturday.... Citizens robbed of cash, cells LAHORE, May 13: Eleven robbers looted a house in Raiwind city here on Sunday night....

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