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February 05, 2008 Tuesday Muharram 26, 1429 KARACHI: Rangers poultry farm sealed KARACHI, Feb 4: A team of the city government’s agriculture and poultry officials on Monday sealed a poultry farm maintained by the Sindh Rangers near the Toll Plaza on the Super... KARACHI: PPP rally attacked in Lyari KARACHI, Feb 4: Panic gripped the business district of the city on Monday evening when rumours about the killing of a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader circulated following an attack on... KARACHI: Karsaz tribunal orders arrest of PPP leader KARACHI, Feb 4: An inquiry tribunal investigating the Oct 18 Karsaz blasts issued a non-bailable warrant for the arrest of Pakistan People’s Party leader Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Monday after he refused to appear before the tribunal to record his testimony.... KARACHI: PPP candidate’s poll petition dismissed KARACHI, Feb 4: A full bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday dismissed a writ petition moved by the former federal minister, Ghulam Akbar Lasi, PPP candidate for the seats... KARACHI: Armstrong suggests looking beyond dogmas KARACHI, Feb 4: “In the West, we talk about democracy as you talk about Islam. But where is it? People are questioning if democracy is really working.... KARACHI: Fresh samples taken for bird flu tests KARACHI, Feb 4: A joint team of national and international health agencies has taken some more samples from three suspected patients, who were shifted from the bird flu-infected poultry farm in Gadap to the Civil Hospital Karachi on Friday.... KARACHI: Academic session from August KARACHI, Feb 4: Caretaker Federal Education Minister Shamsh Kassim-Lakha has said that the decision on when to begin the new academic year has been left to the coming elected government and... KARACHI: Water supply to three islands inaugurated KARACHI, Feb 4: Cautioning that some internal as well as external forces were out to bring a halt to the democratic process in the country, Sindh governor Dr Ishratul Ibad urged... KARACHI: Four judges reinstated KARACHI, Feb 4: The chief justice of the Sindh High Court on Monday exercising his powers under the Sindh Civil Servants (Efficiency & Discipline) Rules, 1973, reinstated four suspended judges of the subordinate judiciary.... KARACHI: KU syndicate gets four new members KARACHI, Feb 4: The University of Karachi on Monday announced the results of the Karachi University syndicate election to the seats for professors, associate professors, assistant professors and lecturers.... KARACHI: Hearing in boy’s hanging case put off to 23rd KARACHI, Feb 4: Additional district and sessions judge (East) Rana Zaki Shamsi on Monday adjourned the hearing of a case pertaining to the murder of a 12-year-old boy till Feb 23.... KARACHI: Weather KARACHI, Feb 4: The Met Office has forecast cold and dry weather in Karachi on Tuesday with minimum temperature expected to range between 7 and 9 degrees centigrade.... KARACHI: Opposition walkout over blocking of UC funds KARACHI, Feb 4: The proceedings of the City Council session on Monday was once again marred by protests by the opposition benches, accusing the city government of ‘blocking uplift funds’ earmarked for their union councils.... KARACHI: SHC refuses to stay probe KARACHI, Feb 4: The Sindh High Court issued a notice to the advocate-general for Feb 7 in a PPP petition seeking dissolution of the tribunal investigating the Oct 18 blasts at... KARACHI: Attack on PML-Q women slammed KARACHI, Feb 4: Information Secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, Sindh, Haleem Adil Shaikh has condemned the alleged attack on his party’s women workers in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Sunday, and warned that any such attack in the future will be avenged.... KARACHI: CDGK team assaulted KARACHI, Feb 4: The naib nazim of Orangi Town and a city government official were wounded on Monday by land-grabbers.... HYDERABAD: Hesco staff celebrate pay scale revision HYDERABAD, Feb 4: The Hesco employees distributed sweets and garlanded Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union (CBA) president Abdul Latif Nizamani and other union leaders here on Monday on... HYDERABAD: Council wants compensation for losses HYDERABAD, Feb 4: Members of the Tando Mohammad Khan District Council at its meeting on Monday demanded that each union council should be given an amount of Rs2.5... HYDERABAD: Villager seeks help against NAB official HYDERABAD, Feb 4: A villager has appealed to the president and the prime minister, minister for interior, director-general NAB and others to save him and other peasants from the alleged tyranny of deputy director of NAB, Abdul Hafeez Siddiqui.... PESHAWAR: NWFP may scrap CNG bus project: Non-fulfilment of formalities PESHAWAR, Feb 4: The NWFP government may scrap a deal the City District Government (CDG) has reached with a private company for running CNG buses in the city, it is learnt.... KHAR: Three killed, four injured over property dispute KHAR, Feb 4: Three people, including a woman and her young daughter, were killed while four others of the same family were injured in a clash between two brothers over a... PESHAWAR: TNSM’s fresh move for Sharia enforcement PESHAWAR, Feb 4: The defunct Tanzim Nefaz-i-Sharia-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) has prepared some fresh recommendations to be sent to the provincial government regarding the government’s plan to enforce Sharia in the defunct Malakand division.... MANSEHRA: SC seeks report on delay in shifting of convict MANSEHRA, Feb 4: The Supreme Court (SC) has taken notice of the delay in the shifting of a condemned prisoner from Karachi to Abbottabad for execution and directed the Sindh and... PESHAWAR: Safety bodies to be set up in NWFP districts PESHAWAR, Feb 4: The provincial government has decided to establish district public safety commissions in all districts of the NWFP, except in the Malakand region because there is no police force, it is learnt.... TIMERGARA: Teachers want transfer to home stations TIMERGARA, Feb 4: The non-local teachers of primary schools in Lower Dir district have threatened to set up a hunger strike camp in front of Peshawar High Court if they were not transferred to their home stations before fresh appointments.... LANDI KOTAL: Blast damages hospital record room LANDI KOTAL, Feb 4: An explosive device went off in the Agency Headquarters Hospital here on Monday, damaging its record room, officials said. No loss of human life was reported....

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