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September 25, 2007 Tuesday Ramazan 12, 1428 KARACHI : ‘SHC not bound to consider affidavits’ KARACHI, Sept 24: The Sindh High Court adjourned on Monday its suo motu inquiry into the May 12 incidents in the city to Oct 22 to enable the advocate-general, who has... KARACHI : PPP mulls position on Wajihuddin’s candidacy KARACHI, Sept 24: The Pakistan People’s Party on Monday weighed its options regarding the candidacy of former Supreme Court judge Wajihuddin Ahmad, who has been selected by the legal fraternity to contest the forthcoming presidential election.... KARACHI : Qualified officials leave Sepa in the lurch KARACHI, Sept 24: The situation in the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) is worse than the environment situation in the province, as an overwhelming majority of its technically qualified officials have... KARACHI : Govt reactivates dengue fever reporting cell KARACHI, Sept 24: Perturbed by reports of a surge in cases of mosquito-borne dengue fever, which claimed another life on Sunday, the Sindh health department has decided to reactivate its disease... KARACHI : Charge-sheet submitted two months after boiler blast KARACHI, Sept 24: The investigation officer (IO) of the Taimuria police station on Monday submitted to the court of judicial magistrate-12, Central, Abdul Zahoor Chandio, the charge-sheet against the accused factory owner Akhtar Hussain Baloch in the boiler explosion case.... KARACHI : Three die in road accidents KARACHI, Sept 24: Three persons died in separate road accidents in different parts of the city on Monday.... KARACHI : SHC order on transfer of cases at NAB request KARACHI, Sept 24: A court or tribunal seized of any case involving an offence under the National Accountability Ordinance must transfer it to an accountability court when so requested by the... KARACHI : Admission date extended KARACHI, Sept 24: The University of Karachi has extended the last date for admissions to the affiliated colleges in BEd and MEd for the session 2007-2008 to Sept 29, according to a press release issued here on Monday.... KARACHI : Atta price fixed at Rs15 per kg; officials, hoarders warned KARACHI, Sept 24: The Sindh government has fixed wheat flour prices at Rs15 per kg at the retail level and Rs13.5 per kg at the ex-mill stage with immediate effect, a handout issued on Monday from the provincial food department said.... KARACHI : LPP backs lawyers’ protest call KARACHI, Sept 24: The Labour Party Pakistan expressing concern over the arrest of politicians termed it an anti-democracy movement of the government.... KARACHI : Surplus sugar mills staff to get jobs soon KARACHI, Sept 24: Sindh Health Minister Syed Sardar Ahmed on Monday assured that all surplus employees of the privatised Dadu and Thatta sugar mills will be given jobs before Eid-ul-Fitr.... KARACHI : Inquiry into liquor tragedy on: minister KARACHI, Sept 24: Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation Shabbir Ahmed Qaimkhani has said that the probe into the deaths of many people in the recent liquor tragedy was being conducted... KARACHI : Placement list of commerce, humanities issued KARACHI, Sept 24: The Centralised Admission Policy (CAP) Committee on Monday released the lists of colleges with their cut-off marks for admission to colleges in Commerce (female) and Humanities (male) faculties.... KARACHI: New registrar for special court-1 KARACHI, Sept 24: The chief justice of the Sindh High Court has appointed Kaniz Fatima Zulifqar, a civil judge/judicial magistrate in Sukkur, as registrar (BS-17) of the Special Court-1 (CNS), Karachi.... KARACHI : Arrest warrants for defiant policemen re-issued KARACHI, Sept 24: The additional district and sessions judge-II, Central, Nilofer Shahnawaz Azimi, on Monday again issued non-bailable arrest warrants against eight police officials who have not been appearing in court... KARACHI : HRCP slams arrest of leaders, workers KARACHI, Sept 24: Condemning the arrests of political leaders and activists in Islamabad and the Punjab, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) termed it ‘the worst political victimisation’ and part of the pre-poll rigging in the upcoming presidential election.... KARACHI : Shershah bridge KARACHI, Sept 24: Federal Minister for Communications Mohammad Shamim Siddiqui has said that the report pertaining to the inquiry into the collapse of Shershah Bridge section of the Northern Bypass would come out before Eidul Fitr.... HYDERABAD: SU approves Rs102.5m deficit budget HYDERABAD, Sept 24: The senate of the University of Sindh on Monday approved annual budget of Rs1,372.331 million with a deficit of Rs102.513 million for 2007-08 and endorsed the revised budget of Rs1,068.997... HYDERABAD : Underage marriage: court orders production of UTP HYDERABAD, Sept 24: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday directed the central prison to produce an under-trial prisoner in court on Oct 1 after converting his... HYDERABAD : Villagers instructed on method to handle snakebite cases HYDERABAD, Sept 24: The most effective method and the one recommended by doctors to deal with snakebite is called RIGHT method, it was stated by experts at a workshop here.... HYDERABAD : Cheques given to heirs of cylinder blast victims HYDERABAD, Sept 24: Di-strict Nazim Hyderabad Kanwar Naveed Jamil, here on Monday, distributed cheques of Rs50,000 each among heirs of five who died in a cylinder blast in Maan Enterprises, SITE Area on July 25.... HYDERABAD : Govt failure to control prices criticised HYDERABAD, Sept 24: The government has failed in controlling price hike even in Ramazan as it was too occupied in retaining Pervez Musharraf as the President, said Secretary All Pakistan Trade... HYDERABAD : PPP vows to provide jobs HYDERABAD, Sept 24: The PPP is striving for the restoration of democracy through fair, free and impartial elections, said the President Qaim Ali Shah while speaking at a workers’ meeting at Jamshoro, on Sunday.... MIRPURKHAS : Protest against NBP officials MIRPURKHAS, Sept 24: The employees of irrigation and health departments staged a demonstration outside the National Bank of Pakistan’s main branch here on Monday to protest against unnecessary objections raised by the bank officials on advance salary loan applications.... HYDERABAD : Students’ hunger strike enters fourth day HYDERABAD, Sept 24: The hunger strike by the students of Sindh Agriculture University against the university’s vice-chancellor entered its fourth day as one of the seven strikers was rushed to Hyderabad Civil Hospital on Monday in serious condition.... PESHAWAR : Information officers go on strike PESHAWAR, Sept 24: Information ministers of the NWFP government went on an indefinite pen-down strike on Monday in protest against the administration’s inaction over cases of promotion.... PESHAWAR : Lenient sentence in honour killing irks Chief Justice PESHAWAR, Sept 24: Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Justice Tariq Pervez Khan on Monday took a suo motu action against a trial court’s decision to award lenient sentence to three people, including father of a girl, in an honour killing case.... MANSEHRA : Mild earthquake jolts Balakot MANSEHRA, Sept 24: A mild earthquake, measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale, jolted Balakot and surrounding areas on Monday.... PESHAWAR : Bureaucratic reshuffle in NWFP PESHAWAR, Sept 24: The NWFP government has ordered reshuffling of senior officers from different cadres with immediate effect.According to a notification issued by the Establishment and Administration Department (E&AD) here on... PESHAWAR : Donor bodies see rapid increase in AIDS cases PESHAWAR, Sept 24: Donor organisations have warned the government that HIV/AIDS could spread rapidly if it failed to make a law allowing the UN and other organisations to work with certain high-risk populations....

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