KARACHI : SBP told to stop work in protected building
KARACHI, Oct 12: The Sindh government has directed the State Bank of Pakistan to stop the work being carried out in its old historical building (originally the State Bank of India...
KARACHI : Dispute over bylaws on hoardings
KARACHI, Oct 12: While bylaws concerning hoardings have been revised in the wake of the summer storm during which giant billboards collapsed across the city, the city government has parted ways...
KARACHI : Dengue death toll rises to eight
KARACHI, Oct 12: The death toll in the mosquito-caused epidemic rose to eight in the city as another patient suspected to be suffering from dengue fever died in a private hospital during the last 24 hours, ending at 3pm on Friday....
KARACHI : SHC orders production of detainee
KARACHI, Oct 12: A Sindh High Court division bench ordered the production of a detainee and warned a provincial attorney that the government or its officials may have to pay compensation if there was no plausible reason for his prolonged detention....
KARACHI : Witnesses testify in two boys’ murder case
KARACHI, Oct 12: Two eyewitnesses in a kidnapping for ransom and double murder case testified on Friday in an anti-terrorism court against the accused, Asif Masih....
KARACHI : 125 prisoners freed under Eid remission
KARACHI, Oct 12: A total of 125 prisoners, one woman among them, were released from different prisons in the city under the remission announced by the president of Pakistan on the occasion of Eidul Fitr....
KARACHI : Delays list bridge collapse inquiry
KARACHI, Oct 12: Federal minister for Communication Shamim Siddiqui has acknowledged that the inquiry report pertaining to the Sept 1 collapse of the Shershah bridge, a section of the Northern Bypass,...
KARACHI : First platelet separator for Sindh hospital
KARACHI, Oct 12: The Sindh Government Qatar Hospital, Orangi Town will be the first public sector health care facility in the province to have a platelet separator....
KARACHI : Graffiti on KU campus banned
KARACHI, Oct 12: The University of Karachi has banned wall-chalking and display of banners and posters within the limits of the institution, stating that the decision had been taken in the...
PESHAWAR : 300 CD shops attacked
PESHAWAR, Oct 12: In Ramazan about 300 CD shops have been attacked by the Taliban militants across the North West Frontier Province....
PESHAWAR : Air strikes assailed
PESHAWAR, Oct 12: The Fata chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has condemned the killing of tribesmen in air strikes in North Waziristan and demanded of Islamabad to end the “massacre of innocent civilians in the agency”....