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KARACHI: Security jitters ahead of Bhutto’s return
KARACHI, Oct 17: With the threat of a suicide bombing looming large, as was pointed out by the Sindh home secretary who quoted the intelligence agencies, the chairperson of the Pakistan...
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KARACHI: Schedule of many flights disrupted
KARACHI, Oct 17: Several incoming and outgoing flights of different airlines, scheduled for Thursday, have either been cancelled or delayed because of the expected arrival of Benazir Bhutto in Karachi....
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KARACHI: Police incur Arbab’s ire: Row over PPP hoardings
KARACHI, Oct 17: The disagreement between the Chief Minister House and the Central Police Office over the police’s role to remove hoardings and banners put up by the Pakistan People’s Party...
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KARACHI: Dengue death toll rises to 11
KARACHI, Oct 17: With the mosquito menace showing no sign of going away, the deaths of three more dengue fever patients were reported amid fresh admissions of patients with febrile illness and bleeding to city hospitals on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Educational institutes closed today
KARACHI, Oct 17: The provincial government on Wednesday announced that all educational institutions in the city will be closed on Thursday (today) to save children from facing “expected difficulties” owing to anticipated traffic jams....
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KARACHI: Agencies insist Al Qaeda threat to Benazir real
KARACHI, Oct 17: The modalities and execution of a plan to ensure safety and security of Benazir Bhutto, chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party and former prime minister, were discussed threadbare...
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KARACHI: SHC says no fitness papers for polluting vehicles: Police told to continue drive
KARACHI, Oct 17: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed the traffic police to continue their drive against smoke-emitting and noise-creating vehicles and ensure no vehicle ran on city roads without fitness certificates....
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KARACHI: ‘Cult of Bhutto’ peaks ahead of return to Pakistan
KARACHI, Oct 17: His children wear headbands with Benazir Bhutto’s picture, but Abdul Raziq has not come to pay any ordinary tribute to the former Pakistani prime minister -- he has doused them and himself in petrol....
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KARACHI: Alternative traffic routes announced
KARACHI, Oct 17: DIG Traffic Wajid Ali Khan has said that the welcome rally for PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto will start from Karachi airport and approach Mazar-i-Quaid via Sharea Faisal on Thursday....
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HYDERABAD: CM accused of violating court orders: Appointment of lecturers
HYDERABAD, Oct 17: The Commission Pass Lecturers Action Committee Sindh has accused the sindh chief minister of violating the orders of Division Bench Sindh High Court headed by the Chief Justice...
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MIRPURKHAS: Rally seeks amendments to Tenancy Act
MIRPURKHAS, Oct 17: A rally was taken out by the South Asia Partnership Pakistan (SAP) in collaboration with a local NGO Sami Samaj Sujag Sangat on Wednesday, demanding amendments to the...
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HYDERABAD: Protest against NRO
HYDERABAD, Oct 17: The activists of Pasban Hyderabad chapter staged a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Wednesday against the National Reconciliation Ordinance....
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PESHAWAR: Elections a defining moment, says ANP
PESHAWAR, Oct 17: Awami National Party provincial chief Afrasiab Khattak has advised the party activists to work for the success of party candidates in the coming elections it was a defining moment for Pakhtuns in history....
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MARDAN: Caravan of PPP leaves Mardan for Karachi
MARDAN, Oct 17: A caravan of PPP workers, leaders and lawyers left here for Karachi to welcome party chairperson Benazir Bhutto on her arrival from abroad on Thursday....
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PESHAWAR: JI leader for organised movement against govt
PESHAWAR, Oct 17: Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Siraj-ul-Haq has asked people to get united to launch a struggle under the banner of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) to end military rule in the country....
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KARACHI: Return of the prodigal
KARACHI, Oct 17: Benazir Bhutto’s second homecoming in just over 20 years will certainly be different from the one experienced by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson in Lahore in 1986....
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KARACHI: Mandi committee officials to seek bail confirmation
KARACHI, Oct 17: Officials of the market committee of the New Sabzi Mandi, charged in a land scam involving millions of rupees, will appear in the court of the special judge...
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KARACHI: Viral diseases in Keamari claim two more lives
KARACHI, Oct 17: Two more patients of viral infection died in Deh Allah Bano, falling in Gabopat union council of Keamari Town, raising the death toll in the area to seven....
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KARACHI: Kazmi files plea for disposal of dud cheque cases
KARACHI, Oct 17: Civil rights campaigner Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi on Wednesday submitted an application to the court of Judicial Magistrate-I, East, Shamsuddin Junejo for disposal of two dud cheque cases which were registered against him at the Al-Falah police station....
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KARACHI: Gang-rape probe
KARACHI, Oct 17: Sindh Chief Secretary Ejaz Ahmed Qureshi has ordered officials of the Sukkur and Ghotki police to initiate a probe into the alleged gang-rape of two women by eight persons in Ghotki and submit a report within a week....
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KARACHI: Weather
KARACHI, Oct 17: The Met office has forecast hot and dry weather with hazy/misty morning in Karachi on Thursday. The maximum temperature is expected to range between 35 and 37 degrees centigrade.—PPI...
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KARACHI: Minister dissatisfied with CHK performance
KARACHI, Oct 17: Sindh Minister for Health Syed Sardar Ahmad has expressed his utter dissatisfaction over the state of the affairs at the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), observing that the government...
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KARACHI: Repeal of anti-worker laws urged
KARACHI, Oct 17: The Pakistan Labour Federation (PLF) has demanded that all “black” laws against workers and the ordinances allowing forced retrenchment be withdrawn....
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KARACHI: Remand of two kidnap accused extended
KARACHI, Oct 17: Administrative Judge of the Anti-terrorism Court (ATC), Karachi, Justice Amir Hani Muslim on Wednesday extended the police remand till Oct 20 of two persons accused of being involved...
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HYDERABAD: Judge orders action against SHO
HYDERABAD, Oct 17: District and sessions judge Hyderabad here on Wednesday ordered DPO Hyderabad to take departmental action against the SHO B-Section police station for keeping two teenaged boys in illegal detention....
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HYDERABAD: SU announces pre-entry test schedule
HYDERABAD, Oct 17: The Director Admissions University of Sindh, here on Wednesday, announced the pre-entry test for admissions to all disciplines of masters degree programme including, MA, MSc, MCom, MPA and...
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KOHAT: Govt urged to build tomb, library at Kiyani’s grave
KOHAT, Oct 17: The government has been urged to construct a tomb and a library at the grave of former Chief Justice West Pakistan High Court Mohammed Rustam Kiyani....
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MIRPURKHAS: Mills in competition to acquire more cane
MIRPURKHAS, Oct 17: Competition between sugar mills to get more cane has begun due to fast approaching crushing season....
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LAKKI MARWAT: Call for transfer of nazims’ powers
LAKKI MARWAT, Oct 17: Central president of the PML Ulema and Mashaikh Wing Dr Mohammad Khalid Raza Zakori has urged people to reject all those politicians who have failed to solve their problems....
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KOHAT: Blast damages CD shops
KOHAT, Oct 17: Three CD shops were damaged when a bomb went off in a market on the Dhoda road on Tuesday night, area people said....
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