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KARACHI: Trepidation as Karachi goes to polls today
KARACHI, Feb 17: The city goes to the polls on Monday with fears of violence among voters, major contesting parties’ misgivings about fair elections and a question mark over the voters’...
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KARACHI: MQM-JUI in poll alliance
KARACHI, Feb 17: In what appears to be an election-specific alliance against the Pakistan People’s Party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the Jamiat Ulema Islam, which is contesting the election from...
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KARACHI: 7 teenagers arrested for putting up Hizb posters
KARACHI, Feb 17: Seven teenagers were arrested on Sunday at Numaish on M.A. Jinnah Road for putting up posters of an outlawed organisation....
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KARACHI: Test of sympathy, swing factors
KARACHI, Feb 17: Though things might turn out to be different in other parts of Pakistan on election day, the so-called ‘sympathy’ and ‘swing’ factors are not likely to have any major effect on the election dynamics of Karachi....
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KARACHI: 20,000 hired to help police in poll duty: ‘Force comprises leftover jobseekers’
KARACHI, Feb 17: The Sindh government has hired the services of around 20,000 special police personnel for four days for election duty....
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HYDERABAD: Police to break up gatherings outside polling stations
HYDERABAD, Feb 17: Provincial Police Officer Azhar Ali Farooqui said on Sunday that police and personnel of other law enforcing agencies would disperse political activists if they gathered in close proximity of polling stations on Monday....
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PESHAWAR: APDM to set up protest camps
PESHAWAR, Feb 17: In the already lacklustre electoral process, the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) has chalked out a plan for Monday to convince people for staying away from polling....
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SWAT: 2 commanders among seven militants held in Swat
SWAT, Feb 17: Security forces arrested seven hardcore militants, two of them commanders, during a search operation here on Sunday....
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KHAIRPUR: Qaim foresees majority
KHAIRPUR, Feb 17: PPP candidate for PS-29 and president of PPP Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, has said that his party would win with a thumping majority in February 18 elections throughout the country....
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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Man killed, 16 hurt in accident
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Feb 17: A trailer-cleaner was killed and sixteen polling staff members, including two police constables, were injured when a coach carrying the staff collided with a trailer near Shah Jamal petrol pump on National Highway in Kandiaro on Sunday....
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KARACHI: Woman forced by husband to give up a kidney
KARACHI, Feb 17: Revealing as hollow the government’s claim to have stamped out the illegal organ trade and forced ‘donations’, a young woman has accused her husband of selling one of...
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KARACHI: Provincial holiday
KARACHI, Feb 17: The Sindh government has declared Feb 22 as closed holiday across the province on account of the Urs of Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai....
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KARACHI: Kanupp resumes power supply to KESC
KARACHI, Feb 17: The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (Kanupp) has started functioning to resume supply of 80 megawatts electricity to the KESC after a gap of more than a month....
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HYDERABAD: Delay in fixation of wheat support price irks growers
HYDERABAD, Feb 17: The president of the Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) Syed Qamaruzzaman Shah on Sunday expressed concern at delay in announcement of support price for wheat and demanded that...
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BADIN: PPP-PML duel in Badin
BADIN, Feb 17: The electioneering ended here on Saturday night....
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HYDERABAD: Riverine forests fast disappearing
HYDERABAD, Feb 17: The Centre for Environment and Development (CEAD) said on Sunday that riverine forests were disappearing rapidly because of reduced flow of water, unchecked practice of illegally cutting down trees and encroachment upon forest lands....
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MIRPURKHAS: Umerkot to witness close contest
MIRPURKHAS, Feb 17: It has been observed that sympathies of masses have increased for People’s Party candidates after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Umerkot district....
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MIRPURKHAS: ST candidate quits race
MIRPURKHAS, Feb 17: The Sunni Tehrik candidate for PS-65 Mirpurkhas-II, Faheem Attari, has announced to withdraw from the contest in favour of People’s Party candidate Syed Ali Nawaz Shah....
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HYDERABAD: Polling officials replaced
HYDERABAD, Feb 17: A presiding officer and an assistant presiding officer of a polling station in Kotri taluka were replaced on charges of breaking the seal of ballot papers....
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HYDERABAD: JUP calls for severing ties with Denmark
HYDERABAD, Feb 17: Activists of Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan staged a demonstration outside the press club on Sunday in protest against the republication of blasphemous cartoons in 17 newspapers of Denmark....
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LARKANA: Feud claims brothers’ lives
LARKANA, Feb 17: Armed assassins killed two brothers in attacks on their houses in Ratodero on Sunday reportedly over an old family feud....
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PESHAWAR: Women ‘hired’ to cast bogus votes
PESHAWAR, Feb 17: Resourceful candidates have hired services of women smugglers for casting bogus votes and other election related activities, it is learnt....
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BANNU: Wapda official kidnapped
BANNU, Feb 17: Unidentified men on Sunday kidnapped a Wapda official from the Bannu-Miramshah road, official sources said. They said that assistant lineman Raees Khan was going on a motorbike in the cantonment police station area when the kidnappers intercepted him....
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PESHAWAR: Parachinar polling impossible: PPP
PESHAWAR, Feb 17: The Fata chapter of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has demanded of the Election Commission (EC) to postpone the election for NA-37, Tribal-II, where political administration has clamped the...
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MANSEHRA: 5,000 chickens culled in Mansehra
MANSEHRA, Feb 17: At least 5,000 chickens have been culled at a poultry farm in the Malipur area after a report of the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, confirmed presence of H5N1 virus.The...
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LAKKI MARWAT: PML-N backs ‘Q’ League in Lakki
LAKKI MARWAT, Feb 17: As many as 49 candidates are in the run for one National Assembly and three provincial assembly seats in Lakki Marwat district....
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PESHAWAR: Transporters threaten strike if dues not paid
PESHAWAR, Feb 17: Transporters on Sunday threatened to go on a wheeljam strike to protest against impounding of hundreds of public transport vehicles, and arrest of transport operators in the NWFP and the Punjab....
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SHIKARPUR: Case filed against PPP candidate
SHIKARPUR, Feb 17: A kidnapping case has been lodged against People’s Party candidate for NA-203 Shikarpur-II Sardar Wahid Bux Khan Bhayo and his men at Chak police station on Saturday....
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SUKKUR: Man killed in landmine explosion
SUKKUR, Feb 17: A man was killed and four others were wounded when their jeep hit a landmine in Bhittai Colony police station’s jurisdiction near Tangwani on Sunday....
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SHIKARPUR: RO replaced
SHIKARPUR, Feb 17: On an application of PPP candidate for NA-203 Shikarpur-II, Sardar Wahid Bux Bhayo, regarding recovery of missing blank ballot papers, the DRO Shikarpur had ordered lodging of an FIR into the matter....
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THATTA: PML-Q accused of disrupting peace
THATTA, Feb 17: A former MPA and the district president of PPP women wing, Humera Alwani, has claimed that the murder of assistant presiding officer, Pir Bux Sabro, by a policeman...
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