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KARACHI: Govt orders probe into Rs31bn land scam
KARACHI, June 10: The Sindh government has ordered investigations into all illegal allotments of land made during the last five years across the province, including Karachi.... 
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KARACHI: Power riots break out in various areas
KARACHI, June 10: Perturbed by prolonged power outages amid the current sultry weather conditions, citizens in many parts of the city took to the streets in the early hours of Tuesday to vent their anger against the power utility....
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KARACHI: Control of courts police force to change hands
KARACHI, June 10: In a move to ensure the 100 per cent production of undertrial prisoners (UTPs) in court for their hearings, it is expected that the administrative control of the...
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KARACHI: City council criticizes govt over price hike
KARACHI, June 10: The Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition government came under fire in the City Council on the issue of the price hike when treasury members on Tuesday insisted that the...
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KARACHI: Met office warns of rough seas
KARACHI, June 10: The met department has advised fishermen venturing out to the sea from Sindh as well as the adjoining Makran coastal areas in Balochistan to take special care as the sea could be rough in the next two days....
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KARACHI: Sindh govt to build one million houses every year
KARACHI, June 10: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the government is finalising a plan to provide shelter to homeless people....
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KARACHI: Flour mills seek free movement of wheat
KARACHI, June 10: The Pakistan Flour Mills Association has said that flour mills are unable to cater to the demand of millions of citizens as there is an ‘unnecessary and illegal’...
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KARACHI: SHC stays proceedings in kidnap case
KARACHI, June 10: The Sindh High Court stayed on Tuesday the anti-terrorism court proceedings in a kidnap for ransom case against ‘Shahid Rind’ identified as ‘Bahadur Brohi’ in a dubious identification parade....
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KARACHI: HSC exam forms of 40 candidates cancelled
KARACHI, June 10: The Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, during the scrutiny process has detected 40 forged examination forms submitted by private candidates for appearing in the Higher Secondary Certificate (Part-I) annual examinations-2008, which began on Tuesday....
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KARACHI: MBBS results
KARACHI, June 10: The Dow University of Health Sciences announced results of the MBBS Final Professional Exams-2008 on Tuesday....
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KARACHI: 66 varsities await funds from HEC
KARACHI, June 10: As many as 66 public sector universities across the country are still awaiting the release of quarter-yearly funds by the Higher Education Commission (HEC)....
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KARACHI: Indian delegates visit two city jails
KARACHI, June 10: The eight-member Pakistan-India Judicial Committee on Prisoners visited two jails in the city and talked to Indian prisoners regarding their welfare on Tuesday, it has been reliably learnt....
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KARACHI: Woman killed
KARACHI, June 10: A woman was killed by unidentified persons in her Gulistan-i-Jauhar apartment late on Monday night....
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KARACHI: City zoo receives its first langur
KARACHI, June 10: A male langur – Semnopithecus entellus – caught in Nagarparkar town, Tharparkar district and kept in the offices of the Sindh Wildlife Department, Mithi for about one-and-a-half months has been shifted to the Karachi Zoological Garden....
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KARACHI: Body set up to probe baby’s theft
KARACHI, June 10: The Sindh health department on Tuesday constituted an inquiry committee to investigate the theft of a two-hour-old girl at the Sindh Government Hospital in New Karachi....
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HYDERABAD: SU forms body for research programmes
HYDERABAD, June 10: Adva-nced Studies and Research Board of the Sindh University in a meeting on Monday constituted a committee to check facilities in teaching institutes and departments for research apart from ongoing activities of MPhil and PhD....
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HYDERABAD: Villagers fear eviction
HYDERABAD, June 10: A group of villagers staged a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Tuesday to protest their likely eviction from their village located on the Sindh government’s Communication and Works Department’s land....
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HYDERABAD: Council members vent anger over Wasa performance
HYDERABAD, June 10: Members of district council on Tuesday voiced in unison their frustration over failure of Water and Sanitation Agency in supplying clean drinking water to people despite huge spending by district government in water supply sector....
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HYDERABAD: Audit of inactive NGOs sought
HYDERABAD, June 10: The United Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has called for an annual audit of the NGOs working for the elimination of child labour but spend only 10 per cent from millions they receive in donations....
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THATTA: Woman bandit arrested
THATTA, June 10: The Thatta police have arrested a woman bandit from the Bao Poorandas forest....
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MIRPURKHAS: Newsman dies
MIRPURKHAS, June 10: Senior journalist of Mirpurkhas Dost Ali Bhatti died after protracted illness at Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi late Monday night. He was 65.Mr...
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SUKKUR: Dispensary building’s sale slated
SUKKUR, June 10: The chairman of the Citizen Welfare Organisation and member New Sukkur Taluka Council, Syed Imran Ali Shah, has condemned the sale of a municipal dispensary building to a...
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HYDERABAD: Shop owner seeks protection
HYDERABAD, June 10: A resident of the Station Road, Mohammad Ilyas Khilji, has appealed to authorities to provide him protection and his life is in danger since he got possession of his shops through a court order from his tenant....
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PESHAWAR: SCCI rejects Friday as holiday
PESHAWAR, June 10: Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday rejected the government’s decision to close shops at 9pm and observe Friday as public holiday....
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PESHAWAR: Plan to revive 277 sick units
PESHAWAR, June 10: The NWFP government has prepared a plan to make functional 277 sick units in the province’s five industrial zones and install 803 new factories to boost local economy and create job opportunities....
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PESHAWAR: NWFP lawyers, political parties set to join long march
PESHAWAR, June 10: Activists of various political parties and the lawyers’ bodies from the different districts of the NWFP would join the legal fraternity’s long march, when it reaches Islamabad on June 13....
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BANNU: 4 injured in Bannu net cafe blast
BANNU, June 10: Four persons sustained injuries when a remote controlled bomb went off in a net café at the busy Bannu bazaar on Tuesday....
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UPPER DIR: Law set aside to generate revenue: Non-custom paid vehicles
UPPER DIR, June 10: The provincial government has decided to regularise more than 100,000 non-custom paid vehicles in seven districts of the NWFP....
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PESHAWAR: Rs2.9bn uplift plan for North Waziristan proposed
PESHAWAR, June 10: A development plan worth Rs2.909 billion has been proposed for the North Waziristan Agency, which includes flood protection and reclamation of agriculture land and surface irrigation schemes....
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WANA: Taliban allow officials to resume duty
WANA, June 10: Leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud has asked government officials to resume their duties and start work on development projects in the Mehsud areas of South Waziristan tribal region....
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CHARSADDA: Kidnapped girl meets parents after 13 years
CHARSADDA, June 10: A 15-year-old girl kidnapped by a prayer leader from Dera Ismail Khan met her parents here on Tuesday after 13 years owing to the efforts of elders of the area....
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SWABI: Boy dies of snake bite
SWABI, June 10: The non-availability of anti-snake bite vaccine at the DHQ hospital, Swabi, caused the death of a young man here on Tuesday....
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