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KARACHI: Call to implement Benazir card scheme thru UCs
KARACHI, June 16: The city council on Monday urged the federal government to implement the Benazir Card Relief Scheme through union councils and its nazims in a fair manner so that only deserving persons get its benefits.... 
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KARACHI: Rs2.6 billion allocated for special projects
KARACHI, June 16: The Sindh government has allocated Rs2.639 billion for special projects in Karachi in its budget statement for the financial year 2008-09....
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KARACHI: BIEK approves Rs452.5m budget
KARACHI, June 16: The board of governors of the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, on Monday approved a budget of Rs452.5 million for the financial year 2008-09....
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KARACHI: Over Rs3bn allocated for health schemes
KARACHI, June 16: The Sindh government has allocated Rs3027.936 million for 21 new and 62 ongoing health schemes under the annual development programme in the 2007-08 budget....
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KARACHI: Quashment plea under NRO dismissed
KARACHI, June 16: A division bench of the Sindh High Court dismissed on Monday a petition moved by a former public servant for the quashment of a National Accountability Bureau case against him under the National Reconciliation Ordinance of October 2007....
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HYDERABAD: SU external exams under new system begin on Aug 26
HYDERABAD, June 16: External Examinations of BA Part-I and MA Previous of the Sindh University, under new system, will commence from August 26 at 16 centres....
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PESHAWAR: NWFP budget: education up to HSC level made free
PESHAWAR, June 16: The NWFP government has allocated Rs5.5 billion for education sector in annual budget 2008-09 and announced to provide free education up to intermediate level....
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HAIRPUR: Long march objectives achieved: Aitzaz
HAIRPUR, June 16: Supreme Court Bar Association president Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has said that lawyers’ movement will continue till the restoration of all deposed judges of the superior judiciary....
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KARACHI: Rs267bn budget presented in ‘passive session’
KARACHI, June 16: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Monday presented the new budget of over Rs267 billion for the financial year 2008-09 in a largely passive session of the provincial assembly....
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KARACHI: ‘There is nothing new in budget’
KARACHI, June 16: Though not launching an all-out assault on the Pakistan People’s Party-led Sindh government, opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly Jam Madad Ali mildly criticized the Qaim Ali Shah-led...
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KARACHI: Rangers spending overshoots by 55pc
KARACHI, June 16: The annual budget allocation for the Sindh Rangers, which overshot by 55 per cent during the last fiscal, has been increased by 4.8...
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KARACHI: The turbulent life and times of Sibghatullah Shah
KARACHI, June 16: Perhaps the argument that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter is best exemplified – specifically in Sindh’s context – by the personality and life-story of the...
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KARACHI: Indictment of five terror suspects deferred
KARACHI, June 16: The additional district and sessions judge-II, Central, Nelofer Shahnawaz, on Monday deferred the indictment of five suspected terrorists till June 28 due to their non-production in court from the Central Prison....
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KARACHI: Reforms in tax laws urged to improve economy
KARACHI, June 16: Holding laxity in the enforcement of laws in the country responsible for tax evasion, speakers at a seminar said that keeping in view the progress made by tax...
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KARACHI: Hearing in Mengal’s servants plea put off
KARACHI, June 16: The Sindh High Court on Monday adjourned the hearing in a plea pertaining to the kidnapping of two officials of the Military Intelligence by four domestic servants of...
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KARACHI: Two brothers shot dead
KARACHI, June 16: Two brothers were shot dead early on Monday at their rented house in Usmanabad....
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KARACHI: Electrocuted
KARACHI, June 16: A 28-year-old electrician of a steel factory was electrocuted at his workplace in Site....
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KARACHI: ‘Gangster’ injured
KARACHI, June 16: An unidentified man, suspected to be a gangster, was shot at and wounded in the ongoing gang warfare in Lyari, police said....
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KARACHI: Name changed
KARACHI, June 16: The Sindh chief minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, on Monday gave his approval to the change of the name of the Razzaqabad Police Training School to Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Centre....
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HYDERABAD: District council debates causes of traffic chaos
HYDERABAD, June 16: Unregulated flow of traffic and subsequent traffic jams in the city were attributed by the district council members to massive encroachments on roads and inattention of the taluka municipal administrations concerned at the council’s session on Monday....
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HYDERABAD: Man killed for removing wreaths from grave
HYDERABAD, June 16: A man was shot dead near Tando Yusuf graveyard here late on Sunday night following a dispute over removal of floral wreaths from a grave a couple of days ago....
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HYDERABAD: Encroachments, pocked roads deface Qasimabad
HYDERABAD, June 16: Potholed and dug-up roads, dark and narrow streets, non-functioning fire tenders, haphazard construction and encroachments on main roads, streets and government land, are the main features that characterise...
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HYDERABAD: Laws promised against karo-kari
HYDERABAD, June 16: Sindh Minister for Women Development Touqeer Fatima Bhutto has said that the government will make special laws to eliminate the black and inhuman custom of karo-kari and violence against women....
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HYDERABAD: Expert calls for improving maternal health status
HYDERABAD, June 16: About 30,000 women die every year because of pregnancy complications with another 300,000 enduring lifelong disability, said gynaeacologist Dr Hameda Jagrani....
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HYDERABAD: ASI booked for detaining policeman
HYDERABAD, June 16: Qasimabad police lodged a case against ASI of Qasimabad police station on Monday on the orders of sessions’ judge on charges of detaining a police constable in wrongful confinement....
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HYDERABAD: Medical colleges cut admission test fee
HYDERABAD, June 16: A meeting to finalize policy of admission to MBBS and BDS in the LUMHS, Chandika Medical College Larkana, Nawabshah Medical College and Sardar Ghulam Mohammad Mahar Medical College...
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PESHAWAR: Two killed in ambush
PESHAWAR, June 16: Two persons were killed and five others injured when unidentified persons opened fine on a car in Bara Qadeem area on Monday....
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PESHAWAR: Rs2bn set aside for wheat subsidy
PESHAWAR, June 16: The NWFP government has allocated Rs2 billion in the budget for subsidy on wheat purchase. According to the 2008-09 budget documents, the provincial government is purchasing wheat for...
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