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KARACHI: Construction of five-star hotel in Clifton allowed
KARACHI, July 10: The City Council on Thursday allowed the construction of a five-star hotel at Clifton beach by adopting a majority resolution submitted by the treasury benches.... 
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KARACHI: Lawyers term Aitzaz’s remarks damaging
KARACHI, July 10: The president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Aitzaz Ahsan on Thursday came under fire at the general body meeting of the Karachi Bar Association for criticizing...
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KARACHI: Law-enforcers to liaise with Balochistan government
KARACHI, July 10: Admitting that no major figures have been apprehended in the Lyari operation, police have said that they are keeping a close liaison with the Balochistan government in an...
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KARACHI: Ogra, ministry, gas dealers told to file comments: Pleas against overcharging
KARACHI, July 10: The Sindh High Court directed the federal petroleum ministry, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority and the CNG dealers association to file their comments on two petitions questioning overcharging by gas dealers by July 24....
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KARACHI: ‘Best poll management system developed’
KARACHI, July 10: Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan (PEC) Kanwar Mohammed Dilshad has said that the commission, in collaboration with IFES and funding by the US and other donor...
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HYDERABAD: Indian writers urge liberal visa policy
HYDERABAD, July 10: Sindhi writers from India have requested the governments of Pakistan and India to adopt a liberal visa policy for writers to encourage interaction between people through writings....
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HYDERABAD: Magsi warns PPP against followingMusharraf
HYDERABAD, July 10: Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi said on Thursday that the Pakistan People’s Party government had weakened itself by toeing the policies of President Pervez Musharraf and sharing power with Muttahida Qaumi Movement....
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HYDERABAD: PPP capable to resolving problems: minister
HYDERABAD, July 10: Sindh Minister for Information Shazia Marri has said that the Pakistan People’s Party has always come to power to extricate the country from a difficult situation....
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CHITRAL: Chitral down Gilgit in Shandur polo final
CHITRAL, July 10: Chitral-A won the Shandur polo festival for the third consecutive year, beating Gilgit-A by 9-7 in the final played on Wednesday at the highest polo ground of the world....
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PESHAWAR: ‘Militant’ among five picked up from hospital
PESHAWAR, July 10: An under-treatment patient suspected to be involved in the killing of four Frontier Corps personnel and four other persons were taken away by personnel of law enforcement agencies...
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KARACHI: Karsaz victim’s heirs let down by lethargic process
KARACHI, June 10: For Zaitoon Awan, the faintest hopes of seeing her son, missing since the October 18, 2007 bomb attacks on Benazir Bhutto’s welcome procession near Karsaz, have vanished....
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KARACHI: Two shot dead in ‘encounter’
KARACHI, July 10: An activist of the PPP Shaheed Bhutto and his associate were killed on Thursday in Gulshan-i-Iqbal in what the police claimed was an encounter....
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KARACHI: Pappu acquitted in robbery case
KARACHI, July 10: The civil judge and judicial magistrate, West, Mohammad Ibrahim Sheikh, on Thursday acquitted an alleged gangster of Lyari, Arshad Pappu, in a robbery case due to lack of evidence....
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KARACHI: Influential person buried in protected graveyard
KARACHI, July 10: An influential person has been buried in a national monument where such acts are banned under the law, but the departments concerned seem to be least troubled about...
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KARACHI: Complainant deposes in Allama Turabi assassination case
KARACHI, July 10: The Anti-Terrorism Court-III on Thursday recorded the statement of Shafaat Hussain, the complainant of a suicide attack in which Allama Hassan Turabi, a leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal,...
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KARACHI: ‘Response to govt’s family planning measures poor’: World Population Day concern
KARACHI, July 10: Like elsewhere across the globe, which is likely to see an increase of about 73 million people in its population this year, the World Population Day (WPD) will also be observed in the city on July 11....
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KARACHI: Government’s Balochistan policy criticised
KARACHI, July 10: The chief of the National Party, Dr Hayee Baloch, has accused the PPP government of pursuing the policy of the previous government regarding the Balochistan issue....
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KARACHI: CM orders immediate action on employment plan
KARACHI, July 10: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday ordered immediate steps for initiating implementation of the “Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Youth Development Programme”....
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KARACHI: KWSB budget approved
KARACHI, July 10: The Sindh government has approved the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) budget for the financial year 2008-09 and its revised budget for the fiscal 2007-08, it was officially announced here on Thursday....
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KARACHI: Minister for federal ban on Jirgas
KARACHI, July 10: The Sindh human rights department is pondering over preparation of a proposal for a federal ban on the holding of tribal courts, popularly known as “Jirga”....
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KARACHI: BD scholars call for cooperation in education
KARACHI, July 10: Visiting Bangladeshi delegation of scholars and researchers has said education can be a major factor in cementing relations between Bangladesh and Pakistan....
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KARACHI: APC wants probe into Karachi serial blasts
KARACHI, July 10: An All-Parties Conference organised by the Jamaat-i-Islami has called for a high-level judicial inquiry into the July 7 series of blasts in Karachi and urged the relevant authorities...
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KARACHI: Edhi backs capital punishment
KARACHI, July 10: Criticising the government’s decision to withdraw the death sentence, renowned social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi on Thursday said that the murderers of humanity should be awarded death....
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KARACHI: HSC results
KARACHI, July 10: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) will announce results of the HSC part-II Home Economics group annual examination-2008 on Friday, it is learnt....
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KARACHI: Sindh govt replaces law officers
KARACHI, July 10: The provincial government replaced eight of its law officers posted at the Sindh High Court principal seat and at its Sukkur bench on Thursday....
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HYDERABAD: Exam form submission date announced
HYDERABAD, July 10: The controller of examinations, University of Sindh has announced the schedule for filing the examination forms by external candidates for BA part-I and MA (previous) for annual examinations 2008....
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SHIKARPUR: Kidnappers set man free for ransom
SHIKARPUR, July 10: Kidnapped engineer Abdul Wahab Shaikh of Khairpur was freed by kidnappers and he reached his home on Thursday....
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PESHAWAR: Lawyers to observe black day on Aug 14
PESHAWAR, July 10: Condemning the government and parliament over the judges’ issues, the protesting lawyers on Thursday announced to observe black day on Aug 14 if the government failed to restore the pre-Nov 3 judiciary....
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PESHAWAR: Nanbais threaten to go on strike
PESHAWAR, July 10: Nanbais of the city have threatened to observe a strike if the government does not ensure supply of flour to them at subsidised rates....
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MANSEHRA: Seminary head killed, two daughters injured
MANSEHRA, July 10: The administrator of a local seminary was killed and his two married daughters were injured when some people barged into his house in the Labarkot area and opened fire on the family members on Thursday morning....
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GHALANAI: Three officials kidnapped
GHALANAI, July 10: Three employees of the accounts office of Ghalanai were kidnapped in the Krapa area of Yakaghund, Lower Mohmand, on Thursday....
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