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KARACHI: Senate body wants Rangers to vacate public buildings
KARACHI, May 22: The senate’s standing committee on interior has demanded that Rangers be moved from public buildings – including educational institutions in the city – and personnel of the paramilitary force be relocated to other residential facilities.... 
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KARACHI: NHA allowed to build flyover on private land
KARACHI, May 22: A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Thursday allowed the National Highways Authority to resume the construction of the halted Karachi Northern bypass flyover on the 1,380.5...
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KARACHI: Lawyers back on the march
KARACHI, May 22: The lawyers’ fraternity of the city on Thursday boycotted legal proceedings at the City Courts and District Courts Malir on the call of the Pakistan Bar Council against...
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KARACHI: Citizens’ lives blighted by load-shedding
KARACHI, May 22: Electricity consumers suffered long spells of load-shedding in their localities on Thursday as the Karachi Electric Supply Company faced a record shortfall of 567 megawatts during the evening peak hours....
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KARACHI: Notices issued on PTV man’s plea
KARACHI, May 22: A division bench of the Sindh High Court issued notices to the Pakistan Television and the federal information and broadcasting ministry in a petition moved by a senior producer of the television against his dismissal from service....
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KARACHI: Lyari gang warfare flares up
KARACHI, May 22: The gang warfare in Lyari has flared up once again as rival groups have taken up positions in the buildings in their respective control, and exchanges of fire...
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HYDERABAD: Nawaz urges masses to wipe out dictatorship
HYDERABAD, May 22: Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Mian Nawaz Sharif has called upon the masses to support democratic forces to wipe out dictatorship for ever from the country, saying the survival of future generations depends upon that....
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HYDERABAD: Sindh-based lawyers prepare for long march
HYDERABAD, May 22: City lawyers are anxiously waiting for 10th of June to be part of long march after which they believe, pre-November 3 judiciary will be restored....
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PESHAWAR: Rousing welcome awaits deposed CJ in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, May 22: The lawyers on Thursday resolved to award historical welcome to deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on May 31 and also called upon the civil society groups to join hands with them on that occasion....
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PESHAWAR: Centre asked to take NWFP on board: Talks with militants in Fata
PESHAWAR, May 22: NWFP Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that centre should take on board the provincial government in peace talks with militants in the tribal areas....
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KARACHI: Two sisters go missing
KARACHI, May 22: Two young sisters went missing on Thursday in Shah Latif Town, off the National Highway....
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KARACHI: Demand for release of visa fraud victims
KARACHI, May 22: Relatives of those people who have been held by Indian authorities on charges of “visa tampering” have called for their immediate release from Indian prisons on humanitarian grounds....
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KARACHI: World losing 50,000 species every year, seminar told
KARACHI, May 22: Pakistan, a signatory to seven international conventions on the environment, needs to urgently develop and implement a biodiversity action plan to conserve its depleting plant and animal species, many of which have already been wiped out....
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KARACHI: Every district will have a women hostel: minister
KARACHI, May 22: Sindh Minister for Women Development Tauqir Fatima Bhutto has said that the government is considering various proposals for the welfare of women and these include establishment of women hostels in all districts of Sindh....
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KARACHI: Markets in old city areas to open on Fridays
KARACHI, May 22: Traders of the old city areas have decided to defy the government’s orders to keep their business closed on Fridays....
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KARACHI: Weather
KARACHI, May 22: The Met Office has forecast partly cloudy/windy weather for Karachi on Friday with the maximum temperature expected to range between 33°C and 35°C....
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KARACHI: Indian fishermen
KARACHI, May 22: A batch of 96 Indian fishermen released by the Pakistan government from Karachi jails as a goodwill gesture will set off for Wagha on Friday morning....
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KARACHI: Fears of gastroenteritis outbreak loom
KARACHI, May 22: With the weather turning hot and humid, like other parts of the province reports of gastroenteritis particularly among children have started to pour in at various city hospitals....
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KARACHI: Controversy over control of KWSB continues
KARACHI, May 22: Despite the fact that the acrimony that has had developed between the Sindh LG minister and the city nazim over the control of the KWSB and the KBCA...
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KARACHI: Steps ordered for control of hepatitis
KARACHI, May 22: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has called for better health facilities to the poor and needy people at all government hospitals, dispensaries and health units....
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HYDERABAD: University expels seven students
HYDERABAD, May 22: The Sindh University authorities have expelled seven students nominated in a murder case of a student for five years and cancelled their admissions while banning their entry into the campus....
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LARKANA: Hesco ruining rice industry, says millers’ leader
LARKANA, May 22: Three hundred rice mills out of one thousand in Sindh and Balochistan have switched over to generators and oil engines due to unrelenting electricity problem....
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HYDERABAD: Hesco, Wasa taken to task for playing havoc with people
HYDERABAD, May 22: The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) and Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) have been directed to evolve a joint strategy for reducing loadshedding duration to ensure supply of drinking water....
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HYDERABAD: Denial
HYDERABAD, May 22: Apropos a news item published in May 19 issue of daily Dawn and captioned “Doctors await promotion, Dr Niaz Memon and Dr Anwar Ismail Memon have denied that...
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HYDERABAD: Baby’s body in gunny bag found
HYDERABAD, May 22: Body of a minor girl stuffed in a gunny bag was found near Amani Shah graveyard in Latifabad on Thursday....
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PESHAWAR: Release of jirga members sought
PESHAWAR, May 22: Tribal elders have called upon the government to release members of a jirga and constitute a commission to probe the riots in the Kurram Agency....
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KOHAT: Darra elders agree to represent govt in talks with Taliban
KOHAT, May 22: In a major breakthrough the hesitant tribal elders from Frontier Region of Kohat on Thursday agreed to negotiate with local Taliban in Darra Adamkhel on behalf of the government for restoring law and order in the area....
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MANSEHRA: Zardari, Musharraf two sides of same coin: Imran
MANSEHRA, May 22: Chairman Tehrik-i-Insaf (TI) Imran Khan has termed PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari and President Musharraf two sides of the same coin and said that both leaders would never...
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MARDAN: Two killed in attacks
MARDAN, May 22: Two persons were allegedly killed and three, including a woman, were injured in two attacks here on Thursday....
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TIMERGARA: Runaway bridegroom returns after 45 years
TIMERGARA, May 22: A bridegroom, who ran away from a forced marriage 45 years ago, returned home in a Lower Dir village on Thursday....
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PESHAWAR: Flour price unlikely to come down in Frontier
PESHAWAR, May 22: People are likely to pay more for flour owing to government’s failure to acquire the commodity from Punjab through official channels, flourmill owners and dealers say....
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GHALANAI: Official, pro-govt tribesman kidnapped
GHALANAI, May 22: A political muharrar and a pro-government elder of the Mohmand Agency were kidnapped by some people in the Ghazi Baig area, 25 kilometres north-west from here, on Thursday....
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SWABI: Wheat hoarders eye new crop in Swabi
SWABI, May 22: After the arrival of fresh crops, wheat hoarders have become active and flour prices are skyrocketing in the district. Consumers have demanded of the government to take action...
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NAWABSHAH: Rangers to be deployed in Larkana
NAWABSHAH, May 22: Rangers would be deployed for the maintenance of law and order in Larkana said former Nawabshah district nazim and PPP candidate for NA-207 Faryal Talpur here on Thursday....
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SHIKARPUR: Woman killed in clash
SHIKARPUR, May 22: A woman was killed and three other people were injured in an armed attack on a village on Thursday....
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HYDERABAD: Transporters want timekeepers removed
HYDERABAD, May 22: The Coaster Owners Association has threatened to suspend the public transport on Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas road from May 24 if a coaster stand in Tando Allahyar was not retrieved from, what they called ‘the control of timekeepers’....
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