| June 26, 2008 | Thursday | Jamadi-us-Sani 21, 1429 |
KARACHI: Local Taliban warn truckers against supplying to Nato
KARACHI, June 25: Handbills and pamphlets threatening truck drivers and warning them against supplying oil and goods to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) troops in Afghanistan are being distributed by...
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KARACHI: Sindh Assembly members flout security rules
KARACHI, June 25: The fact that the province’s elected legislators tend to disregard the security requirements in place on their home turf, the historic Sindh Assembly building off Court Road, indicates...
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KARACHI: CM defends budget as discussion wraps up
KARACHI, June 25: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the new year’s budget has been prepared keeping in view the aspirations of the people, with particular emphasis...
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KARACHI: Policeman killed ‘by mistake’
KARACHI, June 25: Three people, including a woman, were killed on Wednesday in acts of violence in different parts of the city, police and hospital sources said....
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KARACHI: Courts boycotted over Nawaz’s disqualification
KARACHI, June 25: Legal fraternity stayed away from court proceedings at the City Courts and Malir District Courts on Wednesday in protest against the Lahore High Court decision that barred Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif from contesting by-election....
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PESHAWAR: Fata to get Rs8.6bn for ADP schemes
PESHAWAR, June 25: The Federally Administered Tribal Areas will get Rs8.662 billion for the Annual Development Programme for financial year 2008-09, showing an increase of 30 per cent over the previous year, officials said....
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MARDAN: 3 of a family shot dead in Mardan
MARDAN, June 25: Three members of a family, including a teenaged girl, were gunned down when a rival group barged into their house at Babuzai village following a family feud on Wednesday....
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BUNER: Man kills father, woman relative
BUNER, June 25: A man killed his father and a woman relative in the Anghapor village here on Wednesday, suspecting that they had illicit relations, police and local people said....
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KARACHI: Out-of-turn promotions in police being probed, PA told
KARACHI, June 25: Senior Minister of Sindh Pir Mazharul Haq said on Wednesday that former chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim and his allies were involved in the out-of-turn promotions of some police officers....
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KARACHI: SHC admits judge’s plea in date of birth case
KARACHI, June 25: The Sindh High Court admitted on Wednesday a writ petition moved by one of its judges against its administrative committee for not changing her date of birth....
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KARACHI: Youth commits suicide
KARACHI, June 25: An 18-year-old man committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in Korangi....
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KARACHI: Doctors to get managerial training: Anti-polio drive
KARACHI, June 25: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has asked the provincial health department to hold special training courses for all its grades 19 and 20 doctors to equip them with managerial skills....
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KARACHI: New EDO
KARACHI, June 25: For the second time in less than a month, the Sindh government has posted a KBCA officer as the EDO of Master Plan....
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KARACHI: City council
KARACHI, June 25: The adjourned meeting of the City Council will be held on Thursday at the City Council hall. City Naib Nazim Nasrin Jalil will preside over the meeting.—PPI...
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KARACHI: Orangi, Gadap budgets
KARACHI, June 25: The Orangi and Gadap town councils passed their respective budgets for the year 2008-09 on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Conference highlights threats to press freedom
KARACHI, June 25: Draconian media laws, use of brutal force against journalists and the impact of ‘corporatization’ and proliferation of the electronic media came under scrutiny on the second and last...
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KARACHI: ‘Govt must decide on terror policy’
KARACHI, June 25: The newly-formed Awami Muslim League chief, Shaikh Rashid Ahmed, has said that the present government will have to decide whether it is with the Taliban or the US if it wants to resolve the problems in tribal areas....
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HYDERABAD: Dist nazim presents Rs3.9bn budget
HYDERABAD, June 25: The district government has presented a budget of Rs3.901,526 billion for fiscal 2008-09 against the expenditure of Rs3.901,522 billion with no apparent allocations for women development....
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HYDERABAD: Powerhouse workers on token strike
HYDERABAD, June 25: A large number of employees of the Jamshoro thermal powerhouse on Wednesday observed a four-hour token strike in protest against a raid by Hesco team on their residential...
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NAWABSHAH: Two cops booked on murder charge
NAWABSHAH, June 25: Poli-ce on Wednesday booked 10 people, including two policemen, on charges of being involved in the murder of a Bhangwar man who was apparently killed in revenge after...
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MIRPURKHAS: Bandits gun down driver
MIRPURKHAS, June 25: A gang of bandits gunned down a driver of a pharmaceutical company on the Digri-Mirpurkhas road near Digri on Wednesday when he resisted their attempt to rob him....
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PESHAWAR: Two juveniles acquitted in murder case
PESHAWAR, June 25: The Peshawar High Court has acquitted two juvenile offenders sentenced to 14 years rigorous imprisonment each by the trial court in a double-murder case....
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PESHAWAR: Lawmakers criticise health dept for ‘misuse’ of funds
PESHAWAR, June 25: The NWFP Assembly on Wednesday approved six demands for grants of Rs5392 million to defray the expenditures to be made by law, health, works and services, roads and...
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