| November 11, 2007 | Sunday | Shawwal 29, 1428 |
KARACHI: New US consulate location poses serious risks
KARACHI, Nov 10: A new hazard to the safety and security of citizens is coming up fast at the place where Maulvi Tameezuddin Khan Road (formerly Queen’s Road) and the Mai...
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KARACHI: Siemens ends Contract with KESC
KARACHI, Nov 10: Siemens Pakistan has terminated its operation and maintenance contract with the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation....
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KARACHI: Govt insists news channels were misleading nation
Karachi, Nov 10: Adviser to the Chief Minster on Information and Archives Maj (r) Hamid Hussain Abdi has alleged the banned news channel were misleading the nation, and insisted that the action against them is justified....
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PESHAWAR: Now it’s up to civil society, says deposed judge
PESHAWAR, Nov 10: Justice Dost Mohammad Khan of the Peshawar High Court, who did not take oath under the Provisional Constitution Order, on Saturday said taking oath under it was unconstitutional and illegal....
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PESHAWAR: Lawyers vow to continue boycott
PESHAWAR, Nov 10: The NWFP Bar Council on Saturday announced that lawyers would continue to boycott courts for an indefinite period....
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KARACHI: Student activism absent from city’s campuses
KARACHI, Nov 10: Throughout recent history, student activism has globally been instrumental in agitating for change. Be it the Prague Spring, the events at the Sorbonne in 1968, the active participation...
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KARACHI: PPP men held for agitation released KARACHI, Nov 10: Police released those workers of the Pakistan People’s Party late Friday night who had been picked up while protesting against Benazir Bhutto’s house arrest in Islamabad, and did...
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KARACHI: Candlelit vigil for democracy
KARACHI, Nov 10: Activists of various civil society organisations on Saturday took part in a candlelit protest outside the Karachi Press Club over the imposition of emergency rule in the country....
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KARACHI: ‘Efforts on to curb women trafficking’
KARACHI, Nov 10: The Sindh Women Development Department has ensured substantial allocation for a comprehensive plan to check women trafficking in the province....
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KARACHI: Effective check on smoking urged
KARACHI, Nov 10: Pulmonogists at a health forum called for making public places free of tobacco in order to reduce the chances of passive smoking....
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KARACHI: Exhibition on Russian space power held
KARACHI, Nov 10: A photo exhibition titled “Russia, a space power” was held at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture (formerly Friendship House) to celebrate two remarkable dates in the history of the outer space explorations....
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KARACHI: PMA medical camp in Gabopat today
KARACHI, Nov 10: To contain the spread of viral fever which has claimed 14 lives over the past two months in Deh Allah Bano, a village in Gabopat Union Council of...
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KARACHI: Journalists demand press freedom
KARACHI, Nov 10: The KUJ Dawn Unit has urged the government to lift the curbs on the media and revoke the Provisional Constitution Order immediately....
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KARACHI: 80 patients visit free camp
KARACHI, Nov 10: A free medical camp was organised in Gulistan-i-Jauhar under the auspices of Geriatric Care Foundation of Pakistan on Saturday....
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KARACHI: Industrialisation ruining life in villages around city KARACHI, Nov 10: Scores of villages falling in the jurisdictions of Malir, Gadap and Bin Qasim towns have been facing, what local residents fear, an environmental disaster owing to the industrialisation of the originally and officially agricultural terrain....
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KARACHI: PPP to stage demos today
KARACHI, Nov 10: The secretary-general of the Pakistan People’s Party, Sindh chapter, Nafees Siddiqui, on Saturday announced that his party would stage protest demonstrations across the country on Sunday against the...
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KARACHI: Accidents
KARACHI, Nov 10: An unidentified man in his mid-20s died after coming under the wheels of a train in Bin Qasim area on Saturday, Landhi police said....
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HYDERABAD: PPP activists held in midnight raids
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: Police rounded up a large number of PPP activists during midnight raids in different areas....
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HYDERABAD: Traffic diversion route map
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: The DCO of Hyderabad, Aftab Ahmed Khatri, has constituted a committee headed by SP City Hyderabad, Khawar Akbar Shaikh, with one representative each from Traffic Police, HDP and...
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HYDERABAD: Rs6m set aside for renovation of saint’s shrine
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: District nazim Hyderabad Kanwar Naveed Jamil has announced an allocation of Rs6 million for the construction and repair of Sakhi Abdul Wahab Shah Jilani shrine here on Friday night....
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HYDERABAD: Fund allocation for water schemes
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: District nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil on Friday night announced an allocation of Rs5 million for the mega projects and small schemes of water supply and sewerage system for UC-1 of city taluka....
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HYDERABAD: Civic agency promotes equality
HYDERABAD, Nov 10: Water and Sanitation Agency, HDA has discovered a novel method for the recovery of outstanding water charges from the defaulters by punishing those who have paid every last...
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TIMERGARA: Lawyers keep up protests
TIMERGARA, Nov 10: The lawyers on Saturday kept up the momentum in their ongoing struggle against the state of emergency....
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PESHAWAR: Ex-army personnel hired to sabotage march, claims PPP
PESHAWAR, Nov 10: The Pakistan People’s Party on Saturday claimed that the Punjab government had hired retired army personnel in order to sabotage its ‘long march’, scheduled for Tuesday....
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MARDAN: ‘Emergency rule has paralysed all national institutions’
MARDAN, Nov 10: Justice Shahjehan Khan Yousufzai, a deposed judge of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), on Saturday rejected the imposition of state of emergency in the country, terming the move unconstitutional....
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SWABI: Lawyer slams govt for using ‘brute force’
SWABI, Nov 10: Changaiz Khan, provincial president of the Save Judiciary Movement and the general secretary of the District Swabi Bar Association, said on Saturday that the ongoing movement of lawyers...
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PESHAWAR: Nomination papers scrutinised
PESHAWAR, Nov 10: The election and scrutiny committee of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry has rejected nomination papers of five candidates for four seats of the chamber’s executive committee....
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PESHAWAR: Plan to revive sick industrial units PESHAWAR, Nov 10: The NWFP industries department is trying to determine the exact number of sick units in the industrial estates of the province. It plans to devise a strategy for their revival....
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