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KARACHI: Six killed across city
KARACHI, July 7: At least six people, including a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and a police constable were killed on Monday in acts of violence in different parts of the city, police and witnesses said.... 
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KARACHI: SHC takes suo motu notice of juvenile ordinance’s abuse
KARACHI, July 7: A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday expressed concern over lack of enforcement and abuse of the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000, in the province....
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KARACHI: CM orders action against profiteers
KARACHI, July 7: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has ordered stringent measures, including raids on wholesale and retail shops, to curb profiteering and keep the prices of essential commodities under control....
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KARACHI: Three get bail in Rs150m robbery case
KARACHI, July 7: Justice Khwaja Naveed Ahmed of the Sindh High Court granted bail to three accused in the Rs150 million heist in the city on January 6....
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KARACHI: Hearing of Zardari’s appeal on Benazir’s accounts today
KARACHI, July 7: Justice Khwaja Naveed Ahmed of the Sindh High Court put off on Monday the hearing of a succession application moved by the PPP leader, Asif Ali Zardari, for...
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KARACHI: Altaf summons crucial meeting
KARACHI, July 7: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has summoned an important meeting of the party in London to review the overall political and economic situation in Pakistan, MQM’s relations...
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KARACHI: IO again fails to comply with court order: Mazar gang-rape case
KARACHI, July 7: Additional district and sessions judge-IV (East) Aftab Ahmed Bughio on Monday issued show-cause notice through the SSP (Investigation) to the investigation officer of a gang-rape case for not producing the police file before the court....
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HYDERABAD: ‘Local PPP leaders grabbing land’
HYDERABAD, July 7: President Sindh People’s Youth Organisation Hyderabad Division Ahsan Abro, General Secretary Mama Rind, and Syed Akram Shah, Javed Khanzada and Kaleem Khanzada have claimed that land grabbers, some...
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SANGHAR: 21 bonded labourers freed
SANGHAR, July 7: Police got 21 bonded labourers, including women and children, released after a raid on Wali Mohammad Keerio village on Monday....
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PESHAWAR: Court grants bail to alleged militant
PESHAWAR, July 7: The Peshawar High Court on Monday granted bail to an alleged member of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. The accused was arrested few months ago in connection with a shootout during which two alleged militants were killed in Charsadda....
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KARACHI: EDOs told to seek minister’s nod before recruitments
KARACHI, July 7: Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed told the executive district officers (health) on Monday that they must seek approval from him or the Sindh health secretary before recruiting health staff at their level....
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‘The support for women in Iran is tremendous’
It is common for outsiders to think that Iranian women are living a suppressed life in a state controlled by clerics. Dr Faiza Azimzada, a professor and deputy head of research...
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KARACHI: Transport strike on Friday
KARACHI, July 7: Transpor-ters have deferred their strike for a raise in public transport fares and other demands to Friday. Earlier, they had announced the strike for Thursday....
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KARACHI: ‘Bill on domestic violence soon’
KARACHI, July 7: MPA Humaira Alwani of the Pakistan People’s Party on Monday said that preparation of a bill to check domestic violence was under way and urged the masses to...
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KARACHI: New scheme of studies
KARACHI, July 7: A workshop for the new scheme of studies commenced on Monday at the office of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK)....
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KARACHI: ‘Violation of KBCA rules responsible for collapse’
KARACHI, July 7: Chief Controller of Buildings Manzoor Kadir has said that violation of building rules had led to the collapse of the building in Swat Colony, Baldia Town, on Sunday....
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KARACHI: Drizzle forecast
KARACHI, July 7: The Met Office has forecast cloudy weather with chances of drizzle for Karachi on Tuesday with the maximum temperature expected to range between 32ºC and 34ºC....
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KARACHI: Immigrants held
KARACHI, July 7: The Pak-istan Coast Guards on Monday apprehended 30 illegal immigrants who were trying to cross into the border from the coastal area....
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KARACHI: Govt to help people own houses in katchi abadis
KARACHI, July 7: Minister for Katchi Abadis and Spatial Development Mohammad Rafiq Engineer has directed the Sindh Katchi Abadis Authority (SKAA) to extend all possible cooperation and assistance to the occupants...
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HYDERABAD: 86pc prisoners in province under trial: adviser
HYDERABAD, July 7: Adviser to Chief Minister on Jails Gul Mohammad Jakhrani has said that 86 per cent of inmates in the province’s jails are under trail prisoners, whose number only...
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HYDERABAD: Eviction order irks residents
HYDERABAD, July 7: Employees of Qasimabad, Latifabad and city talukas living in 12 servant quarters of Rani Bagh have appealed to authorities to provide them alternate accommodation as they had been asked by the district government to vacate these....
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SANGHAR: Urea dealers accused of fleecing growers
SANGHAR, July 7: After disappearance of DAP from open market, urea fertiliser has also vanished, forcing growers to buy the essential agricultural inputs at Rs730 per bag in the black-market, Rs100 more than the companies’ price of Rs635 per bag....
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NAWABSHAH: Journalists’ protest
NAWABSHAH, July 7: Journalists of Nawabshah took out a rally and staged demonstration outside DPO office to protest against police failure to arrest accused involved in the attack on a journalist, on Monday....
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HYDERABAD: Water from Manchhar starts flowing into river
HYDERABAD, July 7: The discharge of Manchhar lake water into the River Indus began on Monday with release of 1,100 cusec water through Aral Wah after water technologist declared it fit for human consumption....
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BATKHELA: FC man killed in Skhakot
BATKHELA, July 7: A soldier of the Frontier Constabulary was shot dead in Skhakot on Monday....
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PESHAWAR: ANP-devised health policy on hold
PESHAWAR, July 7: The ruling Awami National Party has failed to implement its own health policy owing to lack of coordination between the health department and the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, sources said....
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CHITRAL: Protesters abandon plan to disrupt polo festival
CHITRAL, July 7: The residents of Oveer valley abandoned their programme to block the busy Booni road on the occasion of the Shandur polo festival on Monday after the district nazim assured them to fulfil their demand....
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