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KARACHI: Sindh’s top cop may be on his way out
KARACHI, June 11: The Provincial Police Officer of Sindh, Dr Shoaib Suddle, has been tipped as the next federal secretary for the interior following his retirement this month, well placed sources in Islamabad told Dawn.... 
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KARACHI: Rangers’ exit from educational institutes delayed
KARACHI, June 11: The Sindh cabinet’s decision to get the city’s educational institutions and hostels vacated by the Rangers has been put ‘in abeyance’ for the time being due to security considerations....
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KARACHI: Police launch hi-tech project while most stations lack basic facilities
KARACHI, June 11: While an ambitious Rs940 million e-policing project is in the pipeline, the administration has so far failed to address brass tacks issues concerning the police department....
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KARACHI: CDGK-NHA row still unresolved
KARACHI, June 11: A row between the city district government of Karachi (CDGK) and the National Highway Authority (NHA) over the collection of toll tax on the Lyari Expressway and the...
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KARACHI: Notices issued on ex-judge’s plea
KARACHI, June 11: A division bench of the Sindh High Court issued notices to the federal ministry of law and justice and other respondents on a petition moved by a former...
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KARACHI: No respite from prolonged power outages
KARACHI, June 11: The Karachi Electricity Supply Company failed to ensure uninterrupted power supply in most parts of the city on Wednesday despite the damages the utility had suffered a day...
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Text of budget speech 2008-09
ISLAMABAD, June 11: Minister for Privatisation and Investment Naveed Qamar, who was given additional charge of the ministry of finance, on Wednesday presented the budget proposals for the fiscal year 2008-09 in the National Assembly....
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PESHAWAR: Time bomb defused in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, June 11: The city police on Wednesday claimed to have foiled a terrorism attempt by defusing a time bomb, which was planted in a car parking of the busy Shafi Market in Saddar....
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UPPER DIR: Girls’ school burnt down in Dir
UPPER DIR, June 11: The building of a girls’ high school in the Wari area was burnt by some people on Wednesday morning —the second such incident in less than a week....
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KARACHI: 20 troopers posted at Mazar-i-Quaid
KARACHI, June 11: The Sindh government has taken the Rangers on board in line with the security plan for the Mazar-i-Quaid, as more than 20 men of the paramilitary force have been deputed to assist the existing security staff....
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KARACHI: Awareness of Aids drive for workers planned
KARACHI, June 11: The Sindh Aids Control Programme has decided to move into the industrial sector to spread awareness among workers of the dreaded HIV/Aids phenomena and inform the workers about preventive measures, said sources in the provincial programme....
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KARACHI: Stolen baby reunited with parents
KARACHI, June 11: The Anti-violent Crime Unit of the police recovered on Wednesday a newborn girl, who was kidnapped from a New Karachi hospital minutes after her birth on Monday, police said....
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KARACHI: Sindh-wide alert amid rains forecast
KARACHI, June 11: Chief Secretary Fazlur Rehman has directed the local government department and DCOs to ensure foolproof arrangements to meet any eventuality that may occur during the expected rains in Sindh....
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KARACHI: Sindh govt urged to scrap city’s master plan
KARACHI, June 11: Describ-ing the Karachi Strategic Development Plan 2020, better known as the master plan, as ‘disastrous’ for residents of old settlements in the city, speakers at a seminar urged...
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KARACHI: SSC results
KARACHI, June 11: The Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) is likely to start notifying results of the SSC annual examinations 2008 in the first week of July, board sources said...
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KARACHI: CAA plans drill
KARACHI, June 11: The Civil Aviation Authority has planned a full-scale “emergency evacuation exercise” at the Jinnah International Airport on Thursday, an official statement said on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Extraordinary perks of some SBP officials stir unrest
KARACHI, June 11: The State Bank of Pakistan has recently recruited some people on high salary packages on a contract basis while the permanent employees continue to get lesser remuneration, which...
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DADU: SHO suspended for abetting murder
DADU, June 11: Hyderabad region DIG Dr Sanaullah Abbasi on Wednesday suspended an SHO after a girl, who had eloped with a man and was arrested by the police official, died...
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HYDERABAD: Minister claims ending cuts on contracts
HYDERABAD, June 11: Sindh Minister for Works and Services Manzoor Hussain Wasan said on Wednesday that he had done away with the corrupt practice of seven per cent commission for the minister and the executive engineer on award of hefty contracts....
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HYDERABAD: Protest against Hesco continues
HYDERABAD, June 11: People continued to show their anger against Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) for third consecutive day on Wednesday and stormed into the office of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Hussainabad....
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LARKANA: Sindh seeks control of ancient sites
LARKANA, June 11: Sindh is holding negotiations with the centre to take possession of 130 archaeological sites, said Minister for Culture and Tourism Sassui Palijo....
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THATTA: Judges posts to be filled soon, says acting CJ
THATTA, June 11: Acting Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court, Justice Azizullah Memon, said on Wednesday that vacant positions of judges in the province would be filled soon....
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HYDERABAD: Doctors slam ‘leave without pay’ policy
HYDERABAD, June 11: Post-graduate doctors staged a protest demonstration outside the press club Wednesday against ‘leave without pay’ policy of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences....
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JACOBABAD: Man kills two sisters
JACOBABAD, June 11: A man killed his two sisters over a petty domestic dispute in Mehar Shah village in the Kandhkot area on Wednesday....
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PESHAWAR: Teachers asked not to take part in long march
PESHAWAR, June 11: The NWFP governor has taken notice of university teacher’s participation in the lawyer’s long march and directed them to avoid taking part in ‘political activities’....
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PESHAWAR: Missile strike termed naked aggression
PESHAWAR, June 11: NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani and Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti while strongly condemning the unprovoked attack by the coalition forces on the border security posts within Pakistani territory in Mohmand Agency, described it as “naked aggression”....
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KOHAT: IRC official kidnapped in Darra
KOHAT, June 11: Some militants kidnapped an official of the International Rescue Committee working for Afghan refugees, in the Shini Kalay area of Darra Adamkhel on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Growers unhappy on DAP subsidy level
KARACHI, June 11: The Sindh Abadgar Board has welcomed the removal of 15 per cent GST on insecticides in the new budget but described the raise in subsidy on DAP from Rs370 to Rs1,000 per 50 kg bag as insufficient....
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ISLAMABAD: Italian firms interested in power generation
ISLAMABAD, June 11: Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has offered Italian investors to invest in coal and hydel power generation projects in Pakistan....
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KARACHI: ITBA lauds tax amnesty schemes
KARACHI, June 11: A number of tax proposals given in the budget 2008-09 will help the government to generate more revenue, particularly the scheme for whitening hidden wealth on paying 2 per cent tax....
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FAISALABAD: Dairy firm’s accord with Faisalabad University
FAISALABAD, June 11: The Pakistan Dairy Development Company (PDDC) and University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) have inked a memorandum of understanding to contribute to the dairy and livestock development in Pakistan,...
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KARACHI: New KPT chief shares her vision with staff
KARACHI, June 11: Ms Nasreen Haq, who became the first woman civil servant to lead Karachi Port Trust, shared her views and vision with KPT management and workers on Wednesday after...
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KARACHI: Duty on mobile phones to encourage smuggling
KARACHI, June 11: The mobile phones became costlier after the imposition of Rs500 duty per mobile set....
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KARACHI: TCP tender for sugar
KARACHI, June 11: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has floated a tender for purchase of 50,000 metric tons of refined sugar from local mills....
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