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KARACHI: City govt, NHA fight over toll tax
KARACHI, March 8: The city district government Karachi (CDGK) and the National Highway Authority (NHA) are on a collision course over the collection of toll tax at two mega-projects – the... 
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KARACHI: Qaim rejects split in party over PM’s nomination
KARACHI, March 8: As differences cropped up in the Pakistan People’s Party over the nomination of prime ministerial slot, Sindh Chief Minister designate Syed Qaim Ali Shah has expressed hope that...
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KARACHI: Power crisis worsens as summer looms
KARACHI, March 8: Given the Karachi Electric Supply Company’s failure to enhance its generation and distribution capacity, and refusals by the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) and the Water and Power...
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KARACHI: Case against ex-KBCA chief adjourned
KARACHI, March 8: The judge of the special anti-corruption court, Syed Gul Munir Shah, on Saturday adjourned the hearing of a corruption case against a former chief of the Karachi Building Control Authority and others till Mach 22....
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KARACHI: Re-polling in Shikarpur stayed
KARACHI, March 8: A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Saturday stayed re-polling at 18 polling stations of NA-202, Shikarpur, Sindh, and 17 polling stations of PS-12, Shikarpur, till March 14, 2008....
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KARACHI: Hill Park’s renovation being planned
KARACHI, March 8: The rehabilitation and renovation of the Hill Park will begin by the end of the current month....
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KARACHI: ‘Improving women’s status key to social change’
KARACHI, March 8: Stressing the need for improving the status of women, speakers at a seminar said that women’s empowerment was the catalyst for progress and mass social change that could only come through good quality, affordable education....
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KARACHI: Coastline projects opposed
KARACHI, March 8: Speakers and participants of a seminar on Saturday opposed coastline projects, saying that development and construction aimed under such projects would not only add to human suffering but...
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KARACHI: Asif’s absence in Mir case condoned
KARACHI, March 8: The additional district and sessions judge-II, East, Naseem Mansoor, on Saturday condoned the absence of the co-chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, Asif Ali Zardari, in the Mir...
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KARACHI: Several more buildings to get heritage cover
KARACHI, March 8: The Sindh government has decided, in principle, to ensure protection of cultural heritage of Sindh by providing heritage cover to some of the landmark buildings in Karachi and...
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PESHAWAR: Row between NWFP, Punjab imminent: New water reservoirs
PESHAWAR, March 8: The NWFP government has decided to build reservoirs for storage of water coming from springs of the Abbottabad district’s Galyat area to meet the growing demand of the local population....
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PESHAWAR: Fighting lawlessness next govt’s priority: PPP
PESHAWAR, March 8: The Pakistan People’s Party has said the provincial coalition government will employ all available options to end the ongoing lawlessness and restore rule of the law and peace in violence-hit parts of the province....
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GHALLANAI: WFP launches food scheme in Fata
GHALLANAI, March 8: The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a food scheme for primary schools in Fata in which biscuits, cooking oil and flour will be distributed among the needy students....
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TIMERGARA: Honour killing claimed 25 lives in Dir last year
TIMERGARA, March 8: In spite of the fact that the International Women’s Day will be observed across the globe on Saturday with traditional pledges for the protection of women rights, the...
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LANDI KOTAL: Lashkar arranges lovers’ marriage
LANDI KOTAL, March 8: In an unusual development, the Lashkar-i-Islam arranged marriage of a teenaged boy and a girl, who were in love and had eloped, in Bara here on Saturday....
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PESHAWAR: Shariah to be supreme law of Malakand: CM
PESHAWAR, March 8: Caretaker Chief Minister Shamsul Mulk said on Saturday that the existing Shariah regulation had been improved into a set of Islamic laws which would be enforced in the Malakand region after approval by the federal government....
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KOHAT: Faraz enthrals audience at farewell for IG
KOHAT, March 8: Renowned poet Ahmed Faraz mesmerised the audience by reciting his popular poems at a function held here on Friday night to bid farewell to NWFP IGP Sharif Virk....
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PESHAWAR: MPAs-elect vow to work for women’s rights
PESHAWAR, March 8: Newly-elected parliamentarians on reserved seats for women in the provincial assembly vowed in the presence of a large number of women to work in their capacity as MPs...
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PESHAWAR: Four shot dead
PESHAWAR, March 8: Four persons, including a woman, were allegedly shot dead in Peshawar and Abbottabad areas, according to the police....
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KHAR: Bomb defused; teacher abducted
KHAR, March 8: Security forces on Saturday defused a time bomb near a private clinic in Bajaur Agency, sources in the political administration said....
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