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March 19, 2008 Wednesday Rabi-ul-Awwal 10, 1429 KARACHI: KESC consumers protest against load-shedding KARACHI, March 18: Enraged electricity consumers staged a protest demonstration at the KESC headquarters on Abdullah Haroon Road on Tuesday against prolonged power outages and the utility’s reported attempt to pass the burden of a tariff increase on to consumers.... KARACHI: JSQM man shot dead in Korangi KARACHI, March 18: A local leader of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mohaz was gunned down on Tuesday in Korangi, police and witnesses said.... KARACHI: FIA, police moved to probe illegal organ trade KARACHI, March 18: Responding to the initiative of doctors concerned about ongoing illegal human kidney trade, the Human Organ Transplantation Authority has asked the federal investigation agency, the Punjab government’s health department and police to investigate the matter without delay.... KARACHI: Ban on arms licences lifted KARACHI, March 18: The Sindh government has lifted a ban on the issuance of arms licences with immediate effect.... KARACHI: Woman says she was raped at mazar KARACHI, March 18: An 18-year-old woman was raped after being kidnapped from the premises of Mazar-i-Quaid on the night of March 15, police said quoting the victim.... KARACHI: PPP slams assembly session delay KARACHI, March 18: Terming the delay in the calling of the newly elected Sindh Assembly’s inaugural session “unconstitutional,” leader of the Pakistan People’s Party’s parliamentary party in the provincial assembly Pir... KARACHI: Executive order stressed to restore judges KARACHI, March 18: Welcoming the Murree Declaration, the secretary-general of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Munawwar Hasan, on Tuesday said that he, however, feared that it might meet the same fate as many other... KARACHI: Altaf warns of anti-MQM plot KARACHI, March 18: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has said that a big cache of arms and ammunition was being distributed in the metropolis as a part of conspiracy to target MQM workers and sympathisers.... PESHAWAR: Govt succumbs to transporters’ pressure: Increase in fare PESHAWAR, March 18: The provincial government has succumbed to the pressure of transporters and agreed to increase public transport fares, which will be notified soon, it is learnt.... BANNU: Rocket fired at checkpost BANNU, March 18: Uniden-tified miscreants fired rocket at a police checkpost in Ismaelkhel, the village of former president Ghulam Ishaq, few kilometres south-east of Bannu city in the small hours on Tuesday.... KARACHI: Eid Milad holidays KARACHI, March 18: The Sindh government on Tuesday declared 11th and 12th of Rabiul Awwal falling on March 20 and 21 as holidays on account of Eid Miladun Nabi (Peace Be... KARACHI: Wildlife department told to halt import of big cats KARACHI, March 18: The federal government has advised the Sindh government not to process any request for the import of big cats – lions and tigers – belonging to the endangered species, it has been reliably learned.... KARACHI: SHC seeks record of disputed Keamari land KARACHI, March 18: Justice Munib Ahmed Khan of the Sindh High Court directed the land utilization member of the provincial board of revenue on Tuesday to probe the record of 150... KARACHI: KU faculty seek end to power cuts on campus KARACHI, March 18: The Karachi University faculty have appealed to Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan, who is also the chancellor of the institution, to ask the Karachi Electricity Supply Company... KARACHI: Demand for recovery of missing persons KARACHI, March 18: Expressing concern over the fate of two missing persons, their relatives said that despite approaching all the relevant authorities and making all-out efforts to find them out during... KARACHI: Monitoring of police guards ordered KARACHI, March 18: The capital city police officer (CCPO) Karachi, Niaz Ahmed Siddiqui, has directed the DIGs of all the three zones of Karachi, SSP Security, all town’s SPs, SPOs and... KARACHI: School opened KARACHI, March 18: The nazim of Site Town, Izharuddin Ahmed, inaugurated the City Government’s Boys and Girls School in Hasrat Mohani Colony, after the completion of its renovation on Tuesday.... KARACHI: Public transport remains off roads KARACHI, March 18: Commuters faced hardships as public transport, except taxis and rickshaws, remained off the roads on Tuesday in response to a strike call given by the Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI).... KARACHI: Zia’s musings on the bard KARACHI, March 18: Shakespeare’s profundity can be matched by only a few. And to present his thoughts Zia Mohyeddin, the connoisseur of words, did justice to the dramatist and bard’s views.... HYDERABAD: Lecturers urge govt to solve problems HYDERABAD, March 18: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) on Tuesday warned that if the government did not solve the problems of college teachers by March 24, the association would... HYDERABAD: Suspended excise official appeals for justice HYDERABAD, March 18: Assistant Excise and Taxation Officer of Tando Allahyar, Amir Akhund, appealed to the high officials of his department on Tuesday to help him get acquitted of false cases filed against him by police.... LARKANA: Traders in Larkana go on strike LARKANA, March 18: Fruit and Vegetable Market Associ-ation after holding meeting with representatives of Larkana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and traders’ federation on Tuesday announced of indefinitely shutting down trade activities from Wednesday in protest against police attitude.... THATTA: ACE detects fraud in forest department THATTA, March 18: The Anti-Corruption Establishment detected fraud in the district Forest Department, here on Tuesday.... HYDERABAD: Students get cash prizes HYDERABAD, March 18: The University of Sindh on Tuesday awarded cash prizes to meritorious candidates who secured highest score in the pre-entry test for admission to the university’s bachelor degree programme for academic session 2008.... HYDERABAD: Foundation laid for bypass HYDERABAD, March 18: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil here on Monday night laid the foundation stone of Ghangra Mori bypass which would be completed in six months as per schedule at a cost of Rs900 million.... PESHAWAR: High court Registrar replaced PESHAWAR, March 18: Abbottabad district and sessions judge Hayat Ali Shah was appointed as the registrar of the Peshawar High Court on Tuesday.... PESHAWAR: Financial woes await next govt PESHAWAR, March 18: Pooling maximum resources to finance mounting recurrent expenditures and dispose of huge financial liability left over by the previous MMA government in the development sector is the biggest challenge the next provincial government has to tackle.... PESHAWAR: New set-up advised to avoid VIP protocol PESHAWAR, March 18: A special adviser to the caretaker provincial chief minister has urged the next federal and provincial governments not to opt for... MANSEHRA: Work on 131MW power project resumes MANSEHRA, March 18: Work on the 131 MW, Allai Khwar power project, has been restarted following the deployment of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) in the area, Dawn has learnt.... ABBOTTABAD: Woman, daughter die in accident ABBOTTABAD, March 18: A woman and her child were killed when a jeep plunged into a deep ravine near Kanthiali village on Monday evening....

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