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July 12, 2007 Thursday Jamadi-us-Sani 26, 1428 KARACHI: UTS ghosts haunt new public transport scheme KARACHI, July 11: The city government is making efforts to launch a CNG bus project and is offering transport companies some incentives in this regard. However, transporters remain apprehensive and refer... KARACHI: NGO fined Rs50,000 for absence from court KARACHI, July 11: The Sindh High Court ordered a non-governmental organisation on Wednesday to pay Rs50,000 as costs for failure to appear in person or through counsel when a division bench took up its urgent petitions against builders and developers.... KARACHI: City Council meets today KARACHI, July 11: The naib nazim of Karachi, Nasreen Jalil, has called a meeting of the City Council for Thursday.... KARACHI: Delays hit cultural complex project KARACHI, July 11: The city government has failed to initiate work on a project to establish a state-of-the-art cultural complex and model library despite the fact that the project was announced in the last financial year (2006-07).... KARACHI: Fact-finding team probing KESC’s ills KARACHI, July 11: While delays in the repairs of the so-called local faults in the KESC’s distribution system still bugged consumers, a high-level fact-finding team, appointed on the directives of Prime... KARACHI: Rights activist fears for life KARACHI, July 11: Civil rights campaigner Syed Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi appealed to the Sindh High Court on Wednesday to provide security to him and his family as they were feeling insecure... KARACHI: Need for reducing birth rate stressed: World Population Day KARACHI, July 11: The Sindh population welfare department has not held a mega-event on the World Population Day (WPD) out of consideration for those affected by the recent rains and floods in the province.... KARACHI: WHO stresses setting up of emergency response cell KARACHI, July 11: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has stressed the need for a fully-fledged system and mechanism to efficiently handle the situation arising out of natural calamities in Sindh.... HYDERABAD: MQM accused of forcing ADP members to change loyalty HYDERABAD, July 11: Representatives of taluka and union councils Hyderabad belonging to the Awam Dost have accused the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) of harassing them through police to make them change their loyalties in its favour.... PESHAWAR: PHC allows petitions against fresh recruitment PESHAWAR, July 11: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday allowed two writ petitions filed against an advertisement inviting applications from candidates for appointments as public prosecutors and superintendents in the prosecution directorate.... KARACHI: PMDC earns doctors’ ire over ‘violation of rules’ KARACHI, July 11: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Karachi chapter, on Wednesday strongly condemned the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) for ignoring its own rules and regulations.... KARACHI: Supporters of army operation slammed KARACHI, July 11: The legal fraternity on Wednesday reacted strongly to the military action against men, women and children in the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa, and declared that all those killed in the operation were martyrs.... KARACHI: CM pledges relief without discrimination KARACHI, July 11: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said that his government has taken all emergency measures to provide relief to the rain- and flood-affected people in the province.... KARACHI: City govt launches cleanliness drive KARACHI, July 11: Sindh Minister for Local Government, Katchi Abadis and Spatial Development Mohammad Hussain Khan has urged citizens to fully cooperate with their relevant town municipal administrations (TMAs) in the cleanliness campaign launched by city government.... KARACHI: Ombudsman redresses 435 complaints in six months KARACHI, July 11: The Sindh Ombudsman office has provided relief to 435 people who had submitted their complaints against various departments of the city district and provincial governments during the last six months.According... KARACHI: Lyari road inundated with sewage KARACHI, July 11: Sewage water gushing out from choked lines has inundated a portion of Shah Latif Bhittai Road, a commercial route in Lyari Town. The road links the town with Saddar and Keamari towns.... KARACHI: KDA officials convicted in fraud case KARACHI, July 11: The special judge of the anti-corruption court here has convicted and sentenced officials of the defunct KDA for their involvement in the illegal allotment of a plot in North Karachi.... KARACHI: Tribute paid to labour leader KARACHI, July 11: The Labour Party of Pakistan on Wednesday paid tribute to thelife and services of late labour leader C.R. Aslam.... KARACHI: ‘The ministers are lying through their teeth’ KARACHI, July 11: Mufti Mohammad Naeem, head of the Jamia Binoria Site Town, has been an open critic of the Lal Masjid duo’s anti-vice campaign and was a member of the... KARACHI: MMA slams govt over Lal Masjid operation KARACHI, July 11: Activists of religious parties at a rally here on Wednesday vowed to hold the military rulers and the government accountable for the invasion of the Lal Masjid and... KARACHI: Two men shot dead KARACHI, July 11: Two men were shot dead by gunmen in different localities here on Wednesday. A man, in his early thirties, was shot dead by unknown persons in a shop where he worked, in the Preedy police limits.... KARACHI: Seminaries under strict watch: adviser KARACHI, July 11: Security has been beefed up throughout the province, including Karachi, and seminaries on the home department list are under strict watch after the Lal Masjid operation, said Adviser... KARACHI: Donors urged to help cyclone victims in Balochistan KARACHI, July 11: Describing the post-cyclone situation in Kharan district as horrible, a former minister of Balochistan has urged the donor countries to come forward to rescue the affected people.... KARACHI: MBBS final professional result announced KARACHI, July 11: The examinations department, University of Karachi, on Wednesday announced the results of the MBBS final professional annual examinations, 2007.... KARACHI: LLB paper KARACHI, July 11: The University of Karachi on Wednesday announced that the postponed paper of LLB final that was to be held on June 27, will now be held on Thursday July 12, 2007, from 2pm to 5pm.—PPI... HYDERABAD: MMA condemns action against Lal Masjid HYDERABAD, July 11: Activists of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) staged a demonstration on Wednesday outside the local press club to condemn Lal Masjid tragedy.... HYDERABAD: Sehwan under threat from swelling Manchhar Lake HYDERABAD, July 11: Leader of People’s Party Parliamentarians, Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur, on Wednesday warned that the water in Manchhar Lake had reached dangerous levels and would lead to inundation of... NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: 2 women shot dead, man injured: Old enmity NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 11: Two women were killed and a man suffered serious injuries when four armed men allegedly belonging to their rivals opened indiscriminate fire after forcing into their house in Gohino Khan Rind village of Kandiaro taluka on Wednesday.... HYDERABAD: PML-Q women seek CM’s intervention HYDERABAD, July 11: The ladies Wing of the PML-Q has rebelled against the provincial leadership and called upon the Sindh Chief Minister and central leadership of the party, Choudhry Shujaat Hussain,... PESHAWAR: Selection of KMU’s senate resented PESHAWAR, July 11: Senior faculty members of the Khyber Medical College (KMC) have expressed resentment over the nomination of the senate members of the newly established Khyber Medical University (KMU).... PESHAWAR: Centres of excellence to be set up: Plan to benefit Fata students PESHAWAR, July 11: NWFP Governor Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai on Wednesday approved centres of excellence of education at the school level in the province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).... SWABI: Five to participate in Iran physics contest SWABI, July 11: A seven-member squad—five students and two officials--has left for Iran on Wednesday to participate in the 38th International Physics Olympiad contest to be held in Isfahan from July 13 to 22.... PESHAWAR: ‘Change in tax law to boost revenue’ PESHAWAR, July 11: The recent amendments made in the Income Tax Ordinance 2001 are aimed at increasing the revenue collection, documentation of economic activities, widening of tax base and simplification of tax laws.... MARDAN: Man gets death for murder MARDAN, July 11: The district and sessions judge on Wednesday sentenced a villager to death and fined him Rs100,000 after he was found guilty of killing his brother....

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