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July 27, 2007 Friday Rajab 11, 1428 KARACHI: Power cuts as supply from Kanupp remains suspended KARACHI, July 26: Power supply from the Karachi nuclear power plant (Kanupp) could not be restored until Thursday evening, 24 hours after a fault caused by the tripping of two circuits... KARACHI: Rooftop hoardings disallowed KARACHI, July 26: A meeting held at the Station Headquarters Karachi on Thursday decided that hoardings and billboards would be removed by August 10 since they might have been rendered unsafe by the recent storms.... KARACHI: 37,000 compete for 9,100 teaching posts KARACHI, July 26: Around 37,000 candidates from five districts --including 4,000 from Karachi -- appeared in written tests for the recruitment of primary schoolteachers in the province on Thursday.... KARACHI: Despite bail cancellation, ‘rapist’ at large KARACHI, July 26: A ten-year-old boy, who was raped in a public park, and his mother are being threatened by the man accused of the crime – who is at liberty... KARACHI: 1,720 shopkeepers to get alternative space: Parking plaza behind Empress Market KARACHI, July 26: As many as 1,720 shopkeepers of Khwaja Shahabuddin and Umer Farooq markets situated behind Empress Market in Saddar will be moved to temporary sites at Lines Area.... KARACHI: Warrants for arrest of absconders in Nishtar blast case KARACHI, July 26: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of the absconding accused in the Nishtar Park bomb blast case. The explosion had killed 54 people... KARACHI: NAB files three references KARACHI, July 26: The National Accountability Bureau on Thursday filed three new references in the Administrative Accountability Court against officials of different government departments.... HYDERABAD: Govt apathy towards flood affectees slated HYDERABAD, July 26: The Hyderabad Grand Alliance has condemned the apathy and indifferent attitude of the Sindh government towards the flood- affected people and urged it to take effective measures to provide relief to them.... PESHAWAR: Asfandyar calls for national reconciliation PESHAWAR, July 26: Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has stressed the need for ‘national reconciliation’ to cope with the wave of militancy and terrorism in the region, saying that... SWABI: Pakistani students excel in Physics Olympiad SWABI, July 26: Two Pakistani students, Muhammad Suleman Mahmood and Mohammad Zeeshan Javed, have won ‘honourable mentions’ at the 38th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) held in Isfahan, Iran, on July 13-22.... MANSEHRA: Peace committees to be constituted MANSEHRA, July 26: Peace committees will be constituted at union and district levels in Mansehra for controlling the deteriorating law and order situation in the district and averting attacks on offices and officials NGOs, Dawn has learnt.... KARACHI: Boiler blast: interim report submitted KARACHI, July 26: An interim inquiry report commissioned by the provincial minister for industries was submitted to the office of the Sindh Industries and Labour Department on Thursday.... KARACHI: Indictment in Turabi case now on Aug 7 KARACHI, July 26: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday deferred the date for the indictment of the accused in Allama Hassan Turabi’s murder case and fixed Aug 7 for the purpose.... KARACHI: SHC wants victim’s wife made party in LTF case KARACHI, July 26: The Sindh High Court on Thursday directed the defence counsel for the defunct Lyari Task Force’s sacked chief Chaudhry Aslam to submit an amended title of the Mashooq... KARACHI: City Courts record in bad shape KARACHI, July 26: An estimated 0.95 million files documenting different cases and other court documents may be damaged or destroyed because of insufficient arrangements in the record room of the City Courts, Karachi.... KARACHI: Minister’s men robbed of weapons KARACHI, July 26: Two armed guards, one from the police and the other from a private security agency, were robbed of their weapons by armed men on Thursday, as they stood on duty outside the DHA residence of a federal minister.... KARACHI: ‘Gulshan Town to spend 75pc of budget on development’ KARACHI, July 26: Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town will spend 75 per cent of its Rs1.22 billion budget for 2007-08 on development, while a large sum was also utilised for similar projects last year.... KARACHI: PPP slams killing of party workers KARACHI, July 26: Leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) expressing concern over the ‘target killings’ of party activists demanded on Thursday that the authorities immediately arrest the culprits involved in these heinous crimes.... KARACHI: Pruning of trees along Sharea Faisal begins KARACHI, July 26: The city government’s Parks and Horticulture Department (PHD) has started pruning the trees along both sides of Sharea Faisal in order to enable them to cope with rough weather during the current monsoon season.... KARACHI: Technical education, training authority KARACHI, July 26: Sindh Governor Dr lshratul Ibad has promulgated an ordinance to provide for the establishment of an authority to regulate technical education and vocational training in the province.... KARACHI: ‘Inequality breeds terrorism’ KARACHI, July 26: Objectivity and truthful representation of reality are the hallmarks of a free and dynamic media. These things help develop norms of professional coverage and reporting.... KARACHI: Acting governor KARACHI, July 26: Sindh Assembly Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah was sworn in as acting governor on Thursday as Dr Ishratul Ibad proceeded to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah.... KARACHI: Cultural exchange programme KARACHI, July 26: The Provincial Minister for Culture and Tourism, Rauf Siddiqi, on Thursday held a meeting with the Saudi Consul-General, Dr Hasan Attar, and other diplomats.... KARACHI: Plan to create city centre alternatives chalked out KARACHI, July 26: The city district government Karachi (CDGK) has chalked out an ambitious plan to develop new urban centres in peripheral areas to decentralise economic and public services activity in... KARACHI: Community service inspires SIUT volunteers KARACHI: “Six weeks into the volunteer programme at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) and I feel really bad. Not because I am not happy working here, but because... KARACHI: Case of convicted drug-seller sent back for retrial KARACHI, July 26: Justice Muhammad Moosa K. Laghari of the Sindh High Court on Thursday allowed an appeal against the conviction in a drug selling case and remanded back the case to the trial court for retrial.... KARACHI: CNG buses from next month: minister KARACHI, July 26: To help control the growing environmental pollution some 1,000 new CNG buses will stat plying the city’s roads from next month, Sindh Minister for Environment and Alternative Energy... KARACHI: Independence Day celebrations KARACHI, July 26: City Naib Nazim Nasrin Jalil said that the participation of boys and girls belonging to all the city colleges and schools of the city government would be ensured in the Independence Day celebrations on August 14.... HYDERABAD: Lapse in safety measures feared: Oxygen plant explosion HYDERABAD, July 26: Lapse in safety measures in filling and loading oxygen cylinders has been feared to have caused the explosion which killed four people and injured six others at the oxygen filling plant here on Wednesday night.... MITHI: Unlawful cultivation on state land noted MITHI, July 26: Taluka Nazim Chhachhro Dilawar Khan Malkani has urged Nazims of union councils and revenue officials to take notice of the government land brought under cultivation unlawfully.... HYDERABAD: Call to save PML-Q from disintegration HYDERABAD, July 26: PML-Q activists (dissident group) have condemned an alleged vilification campaign launched by a pro-Ghaffar Qureshi group against the senior members and office-bearers of the party’s women wing and... HYDERABAD: Workshop for peasants HYDERABAD, July 26: Institute of Food Sciences and Technology, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam here on Thursday organised a one-day training workshop for the peasants and growers of the coastal belt Badin on the preservation of fruits and vegetables.... UPPER DIR: CM distributes compensation cheques among flood victims UPPER DIR, July 26: Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani on Thursday visited the flood-hit areas of Upper Dir district and gave away compensation cheques to the families of the dead and injured.... PESHAWAR: Gas supply to Hangu, Thall promised PESHAWAR, July 26: NWFP Governor Ali Mohammad Aurakzai has said that natural gas will be made available to the people of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas to the maximum possible extent... KOHAT: Recovery of paramedic demanded KOHAT, July 26: Paramedics of District Headquarters and Women and Children Hospitals in Kohat on Thursday observed a complete strike in protest against the kidnapping of one of their colleagues.... LAKKI MARWAT: Three men kidnapped LAKKI MARWAT, July 26: Six unidentified men masquerading as cops kidnapped three persons along with two pick-up trucks in the Muslim Bagh area of Serai Naurang on Thursday morning, officials said....

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