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KARACHI: Bhagwandas says reinstatement of deposed judges soon
KARACHI, Jan 12: Deposed judge of the Supreme Court Justice Rana Bhagwandas assured lawyers on Saturday that their movement would bear fruit and all the deposed judges would be reinstated and the judiciary would become independent in the next few weeks....
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KARACHI: Fatima in Surprise Lyari visit
KARACHI, Jan 12: Fatima Bhutto, the 25-year-old daughter of the slain PPP (SB) chief Mir Murtaza Bhutto, surprised residents of Lyari on Saturday when she visited several localities and mingled with people....
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KARACHI: Special anti-polio drive from 22nd
KARACHI, Jan 12: Like other provinces, Sindh is also all set to observe special national immunisation days on Jan 22 and Jan 24 to administer anti-polio vaccines to about 6.5...
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KARACHI: Violent behaviour linked to media exposure
KARACHI, Jan 12: Experts at a seminar held here on Saturday lambasted the negative role the media has played in exposing people, particularly children, to violence, which, in turn, desensitizes them...
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KARACHI: Indian fishermen arrested
KARACHI, Jan 12: Six Indian fishermen were arrested and their boat seized by the Maritime Security Agency for fishing illegally in Pakistani waters....
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KARACHI: Deportation of US journalist slammed
KARACHI, Jan 12: The Pakistan People’s Party on Saturday criticised the deportation of a reputed American journalist, Nicholas Schmidle, by the Pakistani authorities last week....
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KARACHI: Killer of cop gets life term
KARACHI, Jan 12: An Anti-terrorism Court on Saturday awarded a life term to a man found guilty of killing a policeman during an encounter about seven years back....
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KARACHI: Weather
KARACHI, Jan 12: The Met Office has forecast cloudy weather with chances of light rain/drizzle in the city on Sun-day with minimum temperature expected to range between 12 and 14 degrees centigrade....
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KARACHI: Class-X exam forms
KARACHI, Jan 12: The Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) has extended the date for submission of forms for the SSC Part-II (Class X) annual examination-2008 (Science and General groups) up to Jan 24 without a late fee.—APP...
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KARACHI: New academic year from April 1: Meeting told
KARACHI, Jan 12: In a detailed meeting on Saturday, the stakeholders of the provincial education department discussed the decision of the department’s steering committee about the start of the new academic...
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KARACHI: Businessman freed, kidnapper killed KARACHI, Jan 12: A businessman who was kidnapped for ransom about a week ago was safely recovered on Saturday after a shootout between police and his captors, one of whom was killed....
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KARACHI: Jail trial of Akhtar Mengal resumes
KARACHI, Jan 12: The jail trial of former Balochistan chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal resumed here on Saturday by an anti-terrorism court headed by its newly-appointed judge Ahmed Nawaz Shaikh who will indict the accused on January 26....
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KARACHI: Former minister blames PPP for violence
KARACHI, Jan 12: Former federal minister for water and power Liaquat Ali Khan Jatoi, who is a central leader of the PML-Q, has blamed PPP leadership and workers for the violence...
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CHITRAL: Hudood Cases decline in Chitral
CHITRAL, Jan 12: Cases registered under the Hudood Ordinance in Chitral declined in the year 2007 as compared to the data of 2006....
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LANDI KOTAL: Demonstration held against loadshedding
LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Jan 12: Traffic remained suspended on the Peshawar-Torkham Road for nearly three hours on Saturday when tribesmen held a demonstration there against power loadshedding....
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PESHAWAR: Court orders wheat supply without bias
PESHAWAR, Jan 12: In a civil suit filed by the Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) against abolition of subsidised wheat quota to 25 flour mills in the Peshawar district, a local court on Saturday directed the government to distribute wheat to mills without any discrimination till further orders....
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CHITRAL: Action against airport manager sought
CHITRAL, Jan 12: Former MNA from Chitral Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali on Saturday called upon the caretaker prime minister and the defence minister to take action against the manager of the...
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HYDERABAD: Student loan scheme re-launched
HYDERABAD, Jan 12: The registrar, University of Sindh, M. Saleh Rajar, announced on Saturday that talented students in various teaching institutes and departments needing financial assistance could apply for Students Loan Scheme re-launched by the government....
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