| April 06, 2008 | Sunday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 28, 1429 |
KARACHI: PA oath-taking session marred by rowdyism
KARACHI, April 5: Amid the raucous and incessant sloganeering of party activists, the newly-elected members of the Sindh Assembly took the oath in the inaugural session of the provincial assembly held here on Saturday....
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KARACHI: Arbab escapes activists’ wrath, fails to take oath
KARACHI, April 5: Former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim on Saturday managed to escape the wrath of enraged activists and left the assembly without taking the oath....
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KARACHI: Muzaffar blames extra passes for disorder
KARACHI, April 5: Outgoing Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah has said that the Sindh Assembly is the highest elected institution of legislation in the province and it is the duty of political leaders to keep up its traditions and values....
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KARACHI: PML-F decides to sit on opposition benches
KARACHI, April 5: Pakistan Muslim League (F) Parliamentary Leader in the Sindh Assembly Jam Madad Ali has said that his party has decided to sit on the opposition benches....
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KARACHI: Sindh Assembly passes cancelled
KARACHI, April 5: The Sindh Assembly speaker has cancelled all visitors’ passes, including to the governor’s, speaker’s, diplomats’, ministers’, ladies’ and visitors’ galleries, except for the press gallery passes....
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KARACHI: Magistrate deposes in girl’s kidnap, killing case
KARACHI, April 5: An anti-terrorism court recorded on Saturday the statement of a judicial magistrate in a case pertaining to the kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-old girl....
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KARACHI: 1.4 tons of hashish seized
KARACHI, April 5: The Excise and Taxation Department, Sindh, has seized 1.4 tons of hashish and arrested four suspects allegedly involved in the narcotics trade....
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KARACHI: Jinnah Award
KARACHI, April 5: The Jinnah Award for the year 2007 and 2006 will be conferred on former Dawn editor Ahmad Ali Khan and founder of the Tehrik-i-Istiqlal Air Marshal (retd) Asghar...
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KARACHI: Rangers keep low profile in KU
KARACHI, April 5: While faculty members of the University of Karachi are generally standing their ground on the recent manhandling of Dr Riaz Ahmed by Rangers on university premises, the Rangers...
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KARACHI: Weather
KARACHI, April 5: The Met Office has forecast fair/partly cloudy weather for Karachi on Sunday with maximum temperature expected to range between 31 and 33 degrees centigrade.Dry...
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KARACHI: Three teenagers drown
KARACHI, April 5: Three teenagers drowned on Saturday in two separate incidents in different parts of the city, witnesses and police said....
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PESHAWAR: Stoning to death of couple condemned
PESHAWAR, April 5: The Women Action Forum (WAF) protested on Saturday the alleged stoning to death of a couple in Mohmand Agency and demanded legal measures to curb punishments by non-state parties....
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PESHAWAR: Election of three ministers challenged
PESHAWAR, April 5: The elections of three NWFP ministers and three other legislators have been challenged before the Peshawar High Court and the election tribunal. The ministers include Rahimdad Khan, Sher Azam Wazir and Liaqat Shabab....
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PESHAWAR: Pesco faces 608MW power shortage
PESHAWAR, April 5: The Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) is facing a power shortage of 608MW in peak hours daily, which is fulfilled through one-hour loadshedding in four to six intervals a day throughout the NWFP....
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PESHAWAR: Businessmen seek better banking services
PESHAWAR, April 5: Businessmen of the area here have asked the commercial banks to provide bank statements free of cost besides improving their computerised services....
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PESHAWAR: NWFP to seek return of FC from Balochistan
PESHAWAR, April 5: The NWFP government on Saturday decided to seek return of hundreds of Frontier Constabulary men from the insurgency-hit Balochistan to overcome its own law and order situation in the province, a highly- placed source said....
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MANSEHRA: PML-N issues notices to office-bearers
MANSEHRA, April 5: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Mansehra chapter, has issued showcause notices to some party office-bearers and activists for running election campaign of those contesting the Feb 18 general election on other parties’ tickets, Dawn has learnt....
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KOHAT: Billiard club blown up Kohat
KOHAT, April 5: A billiard club was blown up in Togh Bala on the Rawalpindi road on Friday night....
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