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March 01, 2008 Saturday Safar 22, 1429 KARACHI: Talks with MQM continue despite reservations: PPP KARACHI, Feb 29: Despite serious reservations, the Karachi leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party supports the party’s dialogue initiative with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to rid the province of the politics of confrontation and for the overall stability of the country.... KARACHI: Candidates told to move tribunals KARACHI, Feb 29: A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Friday asked a number of petitioners challenging unofficial results to approach election tribunals as their petitions required recording of evidence for their adjudication.... KARACHI: NAB court seeks report on amnesty law KARACHI, Feb 29: The judge of accountability court-I, Syed Aley Maqbool Rizvi, adjourned on Friday the hearing of a reference (1/2003) pertaining to a yellow cabs’ scam till March 5 and... KARACHI: Christians, JI stage protest over cartoons KARACHI, Feb 29: Christians join in the protest demonstrations being staged in the metropolis against the publication of blasphemous caricatures in Denmark and their reprint in different newspapers in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain.... KARACHI: Continuity of legal order stressed KARACHI, Feb 29: Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar of the Supreme Court emphasised on Friday continuity of the legal order as the sheet anchor of a democratic polity.... HYDERABAD: PPP’s move to form govt with MQM criticised HYDERABAD, Feb 29: The Sindh Democratic Forum (SDF) has expressed concern over attempts of Pakistan Peoples Party to form a ‘government of consensus’ in Sindh for which it is holding talks with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.... HYDERABAD: Protest against blasphemous cartoons HYDERABAD, Feb 29: Protest demonstrations were held across Sindh on Friday by various organisations against the publication of blasphemous cartoons in 17 newspapers of Denmark.... LANDI KOTAL: 3 killed in Jamrud clash LANDI KOTAL, Feb 29: Three persons were killed and two others sustained injuries when rival groups exchange heavy gunfire in an alleged kidnapping attempt of a tribal elder in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency on Friday.... PESHAWAR: Heavy agenda awaits next NWFP govt PESHAWAR, Feb 29: The next provincial government has to take several crucial decisions to carry forward a World Bank-sponsored multi-sectoral reform agenda left over by the previous MMA government.... PESHAWAR: ANP, PPP to have equal ministers in ‘small’ cabinet PESHAWAR, Feb 29: The Awami National Party and the Pakistan People’s Party, two main winners in the elections, have decided to form a small, but effective provincial cabinet which should serve the province and its people in a better way.... PESHAWAR: Militancy takes its toll on forests PESHAWAR, Feb 29: The NWFP forest department failed in achieving its targets fixed for preservation of forests and new plantation in the province last year due to the increasing militancy, an official said on Friday.... TIMERGARA: Nine injured in firing TIMERGARA, Feb, 29: At least nine people were injured in a clash between two tribes of Lower Dir over a land dispute on Friday.... PESHAWAR: Military convoy escapes blast PESHAWAR, Feb 29: A military convoy escaped a bomb blast while two shops were destroyed in another attack, sources said here on Friday.... PESHAWAR: Protests held against blasphemous cartoons PESHAWAR, Feb 29: Protests were staged on Friday in Peshawar, Swabi and Mansehra against the republication of blasphemous cartoons by a Denmark newspaper... HYDERABAD: Call to probe into forest destruction HYDERABAD, Feb 29: The Khebrani Forest Protection Committee of Indus Development Organisation (IDO) has condemned the burning of about 20,000 trees spread on 70 acres by land mafia and called upon... KARACHI: Grieving family says undertrial’s death ‘highly suspicious’ KARACHI, Feb 29: Although they believe that undertrial prisoner Khalil Ahmed’s death was surrounded by what they refer to as “highly suspicious circumstances,” members of the 34-year-old’s family have accepted his fate with patient stoicism.... KARACHI: Murdered man’s body to be exhumed in Orangi KARACHI, Feb 29: A special medical board will carry out the exhumation of the body of Mohammad Atique on March 1 (today) in Orangi Town, where he was buried in the courtyard of a house in February.... KARACHI: UTP suffers as police, jail look for record KARACHI, Feb 29: A man supposedly charged in a murder case in 1997 has spent the past seven years behind bars but has so far not been produced before the court... KARACHI: KU mid-term exams KARACHI, Feb 29: The University of Karachi has restructured the pattern of the mid-term examinations of BS-I and II.... KARACHI: Drugs trafficker convicted KARACHI, Feb 29: An anti-narcotics court on Monday sentenced a drug-peddler to 25 years in prison.... KARACHI: Anti-polio drive in Korangi KARACHI, Feb 29: The town municipal administration of Korangi is all set to launch a two-day anti-polio campaign from March 4.... KARACHI: KWSB to get back hydrants shortly KARACHI, Feb 29: The city government’s much-awaited plan of ‘one hydrant for one town’ is likely to be implemented soon as the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board finalises its strategy of... KARACHI: Doctors, nurses seek job letters KARACHI, Feb 29: Several doctors and nurses, who had qualified for the post of medical officers, specialists and nurses in the Sindh health department, staged protest demonstrations outside the Sindh Secretariat... HYDERABAD: Journalist dies HYDERABAD, Feb 29: Senior journalist Mohammad Hassan Kumbhar died on Friday in the Jinnah Hospital in Karachi after undergoing surgery following a heart attack.... HYDERABAD: Sewerage schemes approved HYDERABAD, Feb 29: Thirty-two sewerage schemes to be completed at a cost of Rs623.706 million in Latifabad, city and Qasimabad Talukas have been approved by the District Nazim of Hyderabad, Kanwar Naveed Jamil.... HYDERABAD: Research topics HYDERABAD, Feb 29: A meeting of the Advanced Studies and Research Board of the University of Sindh discussed research proposals recommended by various boards of faculties of the university on Friday.... HYDERABAD: Call to put Jatois’ names on ECL HYDERABAD, Feb 29: PPP activists from Dadu district have asked the government to put the names of Liquat Jatoi and his brothers on the exit control list ‘to stop them from leaving the country.’... MIRPURKHAS: Man dies in accident MIRPURKHAS, Feb 29: A man was killed and eight others were injured in three accidents on Khipro-Mirpurkhas Road, on Friday.... HARIPUR: Free after a decade-long nightmare HARIPUR, Feb 29: Four prisoners who spent over a decade behind the bars because of nonpayment of Diyat (compensation for murder under Shariat law) got released after the provincial government paid their fine here on Friday.... HARIPUR: Minister advocates prisoners’ education HARIPUR, Feb 29: Federal Minister for Women Development and Special Education Barrister Shahida Jamil has said that the government was laying stress on the education of prisoners particularly juveniles and women... PESHAWAR: Two killed over property dispute PESHAWAR, Feb 29: Two people were killed and five others injured when two groups of property dealers exchanged fire in the Yakatut police area here on Friday.... CHARSADDA: ‘Criminal’ injured in encounter arrested CHARSADDA, Feb 29: The Tarnab police arrested an injured associate of Seyar alias Seyaray, an alleged criminal and mastermind of different suicide attacks on security forces and government installations, here on Friday.... DARRA ADAMKHEL: Jirga to meet Baitullah to curb militancy DARRA ADAMKHEL, Feb 29: Tribal elders here have decided to send a jirga to meet the head of Tehreek Taliban Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud to seek his help to curb militancy in the restive Darra Adamkhel.... TIMERGARA: Free ration distributed in Lower Dir TIMERGARA, Feb 29: To restore the declining image of Pakistan Army in public and show sympathy with the poor and vulnerable communities, army officials on Friday distributed free ration among widows, orphans and helpless people of Lower Dir.... BADIN: Man dies in accident BADIN, Feb 29: A man was killed and 25 others were injured when a bus of Ansari Sugar Mills overturned on Badin-Hyderabad Road, on Thursday.... NAWABSHAH: Two sisters kidnapped NAWABSHAH, Feb 29: Two sisters were kidnapped by armed men from village Ali Nawaz Jamali near Bandhi on Thursday.... KHAIRPUR: People pin hopes on coalition KHAIRPUR, Feb 29: Civil society leaders have welcomed alliance of three major political parties the PPP, the PML-N, and the ANP and hoped the grouping will last for five years in the interest of general public....

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