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October 17, 2007 Wednesday Shawwal 4, 1428 KARACHI: Arbab, PPP in row over hoardings KARACHI, Oct 16: Directives from Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim to remove hoardings and banners put up by the Pakistan People’s Party to welcome its chairperson Benazir Bhutto upon... KARACHI: PPP seeks permission to airdrop leaflets KARACHI, Oct 16: Another application filed by the Pakistan People’s Party for permission to drop leaflets and confetti through a chartered aircraft across the city has been sent to police for security clearance.... KARACHI: Journalist shot dead KARACHI, Oct 16: A journalist was shot dead in Lyari on Monday night. Azar Abbas Hydri, associated with an Islamabad-based English daily, was intercepted by armed men near Aath Chowk at around 1:30 am.... KARACHI: PPP complains to CJ of ‘harassment’ KARACHI, Oct 16: Pakistan People’s Party Sindh chapter President Syed Qaim Ali Shah has asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, to take action against Chief Minster... KARACHI: Six Gadani tragedy victims laid to rest KARACHI, Oct 16: Six of the victims of the Gadani drowning tragedy were buried in different parts of the city on Tuesday. As many as 18 youngsters, who had gone to... KARACHI: City govt asked to fumigate schools KARACHI, Oct 16: The city government’s education department has asked the municipal services department to fumigate the city’s approximately 3,000 public sector schools in a bid to prevent the spread of... KARACHI: Key CHK issues still unresolved KARACHI, Oct 16: A rift has developed between the administration of the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) and senior doctors over the resumption of work at the hospital’s Gynaecology & Obstetrics Department... KARACHI: NGO awaits Darul Aman handover KARACHI, Oct 16: Although the city government had decided to hand over the management of Darul Aman to an NGO, Panah, under an agreement signed a couple of months back, a formal transfer of the institution is yet to take place.... KARACHI: Most Lyari community bodies inactive KARACHI, Oct 16: Most non-governmental organisations NGOs) and community based-organisations (CBOs) operating in Lyari Town have almost stopped functioning apparently owing to the financial crunch.... KARACHI: Relatives of patients beat up JPMC staff KARACHI, Oct 16: Two persons who had sustained serious injuries in a road accident on Sunday died at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Sunday, hospital and police sources said.... KARACHI: Kazmi withdraws kidnap case against police KARACHI, Oct 16: Civil rights campaigner Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi has withdrawn the case against police, pertaining to the abduction of his wife. The case (FIR 312/07) was registered in Sept 2007 on a court order.... KARACHI: Another polio case detected in Sindh KARACHI, Oct 16: With the detection of another polio case in Sindh, the total number of confirmed polio cases reached six for the current year in the province which is yet to witness the onset of winter.... KARACHI: ‘Privatisation rendered 0.8m jobless’ KARACHI, Oct 16: Eminent labour leader Habibuddin Junaidi on Tuesday said that the policies of privatisation and downsizing imposed by the present rulers had rendered more than 0.8... KARACHI: Quaid-i-Millat’s death anniversary observed KARACHI, Oct 16: The Quaid-i-Millat Liaquat Ali Khan Memorial Committee has reiterated its demand for naming Islamabad airport after Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, the first prime minister of Pakistan who was assassinated in Rawalpindi in 1951.... KARACHI: Former FCS director dies KARACHI, Oct 16: A prominent social figure of Lyari and a representative of the fishermen community in Sindh and Balochistan, Seth Deedag Baloch, died here on Monday after a protracted illness.... KARACHI: Youth found shot dead KARACHI, Oct 16: The decomposed body of a 20-year-old boy was recovered from a sewer in Mominabad, North Nazimabad Town, on Monday.... KARACHI: Hot, dry weather KARACHI, Oct 16: The Met Office has forecast hot and dry weather in Karachi on Wednesday with maximum temperature expected to range between 35 and 37 degrees centigrade.... KARACHI: Keamari fire KARACHI, Oct 16: A fire broke out in a junk godown located in Keamari area on Monday.... KARACHI: The wilds of Karachi University KARACHI: With more than 100 gardeners employed on record and others on payroll by the landscape and gardening department of the University of Karachi, certain places, particularly the staff colony, on... KARACHI: Minister irked by conditions at CHK KARACHI, Oct 16: Perturbed at the deteriorating services at the Civil Hospital Karachi, Sindh minister for health Syed Sardar Ahmad has convened a meeting of the relevant quarters on Thursday to help improve the conditions.... KARACHI: ‘Verbal orders’ for hoardings’ removal KARACHI, Oct 16: The city government’s local taxes department succumbed to the pressure of the Sindh chief minister and asked all outdoor advertisers to remove screens carrying PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s portraits, banners and her party’s flag from their signboards.... KARACHI: Govt urged to ensure safety at beaches KARACHI, Oct 16: Beaches and coastal areas are the most attractive places of recreation in Karachi not only for local and foreign tourists, but also for its citizens.... HYDERABAD: Rulers security threat to country: JI HYDERABAD, Oct 16: Naib Ameer Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan Professor Ghafoor Ahmed has said that the country was in the grip of political and economic crises while the present rulers have become a security risk.... HYDERABAD: Purchase of equipment for water testing lab approved HYDERABAD, Oct 16: District Development Committee at a meeting held here the other day, approved the purchase of scientific equipment for the water and food testing laboratory under the annual development... HYDERABAD: PPP rallies: commuters hit by vehicle shortage HYDERABAD, Oct 16: Commuters will face acute shortage of vehicles including buses, coasters and vans across Sindh from Wednesday evening as almost 80 per cent of the vehicles have been booked... KHAIRPUR: ‘BB to fill political vacuum’ KHAIRPUR, Oct 16: Former district Nazim Khairpur Ms Nafisa Shah has said that the return of PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto would fill the political vacuum in the country and the entire political scenario would be changed.... KHAIRPUR: Govt tactics to delay Benazir’s return wouldn’t work: Qaim KHAIRPUR, Oct 16: President PPP Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the government had launched a campaign to obstruct or at least delay the return of Ms Benazir Bhutto but such tactics would not prove successful.... NAWABSHAH: Seven injured in accident NAWABSHAH, Oct 16: Seven people were injured when a speedy van overturned at the National Highway near village Nawab Wali Mohammed on Wednesday.... THATTA: Four killed in bus, coaster collision THATTA, Oct 16: Four passengers were killed while 32 others injured as a Karachi bound bus collided head on with an oncoming picnicker’s coaster near Makli bypass on the National Highway on Tuesday afternoon.... MIRPURKHAS: NGOs call for land reforms MIRPURKHAS, Oct 16: Three NGOs — HRCP, Sindh Samaji Sangat, and Indus Rural Development Programme — took out a procession on Tuesday from the railway station chowk to protest against the... KHAIRPUR: Woman killed KHAIRPUR, Oct 16: A woman was killed by her husband on Eid day on pretext of karo-kari.... PESHAWAR: PPP asks Sindh govt to stop political victimisation PESHAWAR, Oct 16: The NWFP chapter of the Pakistan People’s Party has called upon the Sindh government to exercise restraint and end victimisation of its workers and what it called a smear campaign against the party in the province.... PESHAWAR: No free education in Jalozai camp PESHAWAR, Oct 16: Many Afghan refugee children living in Jalozai are deprived of education as there is no free school in the camp.... PESHAWAR: Plan to improve school monitoring PESHAWAR, Oct 16: The NWFP education department is set to undertake an ambitious training programme for the Parent-Teacher Councils, formerly known as Parent-Teachers’ Associations, to improve monitoring of public sector schools, an official said.... PESHAWAR: Peshawar PPP caravan leaves for Karachi PESHAWAR, Oct 16: Over 400 workers of the Pakistan People’s Party workers left on Tuesday for Karachi by buses to welcome party chairperson Benazir Bhutto on her arrival at Quaid-i-Azam International Airport on Thursday.... KARAK: Two killed in road accident KARAK, Oct 16: Two people were killed and two women suffered injuries when a motorcycle rammed into a car near the Fateh Sheri Banda on the Indus Highway on Sunday.... TIMERGARA: Movement against govt soon: JI TIMERGARA, Oct 16: Lower Dir district Amir of Jamaat-i-Islami, Maulana Ahmad Ghafoor, has said that the MMA will mobilise people for launching a decisive movement against the government.... LAKKI MARWAT: People urged to bury differences for uplift LAKKI MARWAT, Oct 16: Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Salim Saifullah Khan has urged people to show tolerance and shun differences for bringing prosperity to the Lakki Marwat district....

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