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February 15, 2008 Friday Safar 07, 1429 KARACHI: Electioneering halts as PPP worker dies in clash KARACHI, Feb 14: Electioneering came almost to a standstill in Shah Faisal Colony on Thursday after Wednesday midnight tension between activists of the Pakistan People’s Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement... KARACHI: Govt leased land can’t be mortgaged, rules SHC KARACHI, Feb 14: Leased government land cannot be mortgaged or put to any other use and is liable to resumption if not used for the specified purpose or misused in violation... KARACHI: Panicked consumers stock up essentials KARACHI, Feb 14: Consumers have started precautionary buying of essential items ahead of the February 18 general elections. Retailers claim that many people are buying 20-25 per cent more than what... KARACHI: Joint efforts urged to steer country out of crisis KARACHI, Feb 14: There is a great need for a broad-based national reconciliation as the country cannot afford confrontation anymore. It is high time that all the political and religious parties... KARACHI: The issues at stake on Feb 18 KARACHI, Feb 14: A comparative reading of the manifestoes of the major political parties shows that their agendas are generally repetitions with lofty promises about the reformation of Pakistani society.... KARACHI: Lawyers ask Musharraf to quit KARACHI, Feb 14: The legal fraternity on Thursday reiterated its demand that President Pervez Musharraf step down as the country was passing through multiple crises “because of his wrong policies”.... KARACHI: PR launches three freight trains KARACHI, Feb 14: Pakistan Railways on Thursday launched three new fast freight trains from Karachi — two for Peshawar and one for Quetta-Chaman — for transportation of the goods in transit to Afghanistan (GITA).... HYDERABAD: Consequences disastrous if polls rigged: Khuhro HYDERABAD, Feb 14: Former leader of Opposition in Sindh assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro warned on Thursday that if elections were not held in a free, fair and transparent manner, the consequences... MITHI: PML-Q to sweep polls in Sindh, says Arbab MITHI, Feb 14: Former Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has claimed that Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid will win not only in Thar but will clinch all the seats of Sindh assembly.... MINGORA: Polling staff in Swat fear militants MINGORA, Feb 14: Government employees, who were assigned duties on various polling stations in the troubled Swat valley, have threatened to quit jobs if their duties in the areas dominated by militants were not cancelled.... KARACHI: Drawing a line somewhere KARACHI, Feb 14: Drawing is the mother of all visual arts. You can only distort a figure if you have the ability to draw it faithfully and have got your proportions right.... KARACHI: CAA to buy two calibration planes KARACHI, Feb 14: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is set to get two new calibration aircraft next month,... KARACHI: EC told to accept old NICs for NA-242 poll KARACHI, Feb 14: A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Thursday asked the Election Commission to allow all voters of NA-242 constituency having their names on the electoral rolls... KARACHI: Witnesses identify Toori KARACHI, Feb 14: Two witnesses appeared before the court of Judicial Magistrate, South, Khwaja Ashraf Hussain on Thursday and identified an alleged activist of the banned Jundullah jihadi outfit, Qasim Toori,... KARACHI: Land scam case against DIG adjourned KARACHI, Feb 14: The Accountability Court-I headed by Syed Aley Maqbool Rizvi on Thursday adjourned till Feb 28 the hearing of a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau against a DIG, Altaf Hussain Bhatti, and others.... KARACHI: ‘Religion has become an industry’ KARACHI, Feb 14: The western capitalism breeds and nurtures terrorism, which is generally state-sponsored as common man cannot afford to buy costly weapons and terrorise innocent people like him, said Ayatollah... KARACHI: Holidays KARACHI, Feb 14: The Sindh education and literacy department on Thursday announced that Feb 18 and 19 would be observed as holidays in all schools and colleges in the province on account of general elections.—PPI... HYDERABAD: PPP accused of harassing rivals HYDERABAD, Feb 14: An MQM candidate of PS-47 Qasimabad has accused the PPP of harassment. Aziz Soomro said his supporters in Qasimabad taluka, all four UCs, had been barred from going there making it a no go area.... HYDERABAD: Five SU students expelled HYDERABAD, Feb 14: The University of Sindh on Thursday expelled four students for five years from the university and cancelled their admissions and hostel allotment with immediate effect.... HYDERABAD: Army put on stand-by in 13 districts HYDERABAD, Feb 14: Army troops would be on standby to aid civil administration in case situation gets out of police and Rangers’ control during the election campaign or on the polling... MIRPURKHAS: Candidate quits SNF, backs PPP MIRPURKHAS, Feb 14: A leader of Sindh National Front of local chapter and an independent candidate for PS 64, PS 65 and PS 67, Asghar Narejo resigned from his basic membership... PESHAWAR: Reforms proposed in revenue dept PESHAWAR, Feb 14: A committee, constituted by the caretaker provincial set-up for reforms in the revenue system, has recommended several measures for overhauling the revenue department.... ABBOTTABAD: Nawaz says Musharraf not acceptable ABBOTTABAD, Feb 14: Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Mohammad Nawaz Sharif has termed the February 18 general election a referendum, adding that if the ‘Chaudhry League’ lost the polls, Pervez Musharraf will have no moral justification to remain in power....

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