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KARACHI: Millers face action for refusing to lower prices: Wheat flour crisis
KARACHI, July 12: After failing to prevail upon flour mills owners to bring down wheat prices, the provincial government’s food department has decided to launch an operation against millers if they failed to observe the ex-mill price in the province.... 
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KARACHI: Karachi being rapidly stripped of mangrove cover
KARACHI, July 12: Large tracts of mangrove forests under the control of multiple agencies – the Port Qasim Authority, Karachi Port Trust and Defence Housing Authority – in the Korangi Creek...
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KARACHI: Woman identifies her kidnapper in court
KARACHI, July 12: A woman kidnapped on April 29 in the limits of the Gizri police station and released after payment of Rs2 million as ransom appeared in the court of...
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KARACHI: Bid on Zardari’s life: accused abroad or underground, judge told
KARACHI, July 12: The SSP of the Special Investigation Unit on Saturday informed the additional district and sessions judge-VII (South), Irfan Hussain Siddiqui, that the accused in the case pertaining to...
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HYDERABAD: Khuhro denies rift in PPP
HYDERABAD, July 12: Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Ahmad Khuhro has dismissed reports of friction in the Pakistan People’s Party and alienation of senior party leaders....
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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Lecturers continue hunger strike
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 12: Dozens of lecturers of the district appointed on ad hoc basis continued their token hunger strike outside the press club on the fifth consecutive day on Saturday....
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NAWABSHAH: Villagers accuse PPP of harassment
NAWABSHAH, July 12: A large number of people belonging to Pakistan Muslim League-Functional staged a demonstration in Mir Khan Leghari village near Sakrand on Saturday in protest against workers of Pakistan People’s Party accusing them of harassment....
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KARACHI: ‘Oral exams likely for jobs in health dept’
KARACHI, July 12: Around 2,100 applicants, who had emerged successful in the written tests for contractual jobs of medical officers, specialists and nurses held in the last days of the Arbab...
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KARACHI: Man kills wife
KARACHI, July 12: A 48-year-old man hammered his wife to death on Saturday in their house in Korangi, police and hospital sources said....
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KARACHI: ‘Target killings’
KARACHI, July 12: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and the Shia Ulema Council (SUC) at a meeting at the Quba Auditorium here on Saturday attributed the recent series of “target killings” to a plot to trigger sectarian violence in Karachi....
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CHITRAL: Food crisis attributed to population explosion
CHITRAL, July 12: NWFP Minister for Population Welfare Salim Khan has said that a strategy was being worked out for family planning taking on board all segments of the society....
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PESHAWAR: SCCI opposes revised tax on electricity
PESHAWAR, July 12: Consumers, both domestic and commercial, will have to pay 10 per cent tax if their monthly electricity bill exceeds Rs20,000, following the upward revision of tax rates in the federal budget....
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CHITRAL: Villagers protest ‘forced’ eviction
CHITRAL, July 12: The residents of Seen Lusht village have alleged that the local administration on the behest of a local influential family was forcibly evicting them from their homes....
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GHALANAI: Girl killed, two injured in roof collapse
GHALANAI, July 12: A ten-year-old girl was killed and two children were injured when roof of the room they were sleeping in collapsed in Saro Kalley area of Mohmand Agency on...
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TIMERGARA: Cancellation of postings criticised
TIMERGARA, July 12: PPP’s Timergara tehsil president Sher Mohammad has criticised the provincial education minister for cancelling postings of education officers in Lower Dir and called upon the federal government to take notice of the matter....
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SWABI: Man kills ex-wife
SWABI, July 12: A man killed his ex-wife in the Maneri area here on Saturday and then surrendered to police along with his pistol....
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HYDERABAD: PML-F, PPP office-bearers join PML-N
HYDERABAD, July 12: More than half a dozen leaders of different political parties of Jamshoro district announced joining Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz at a news conference at the press club here on Saturday....
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THATTA: Protest against lawlessness
THATTA, July 12: The coastal town of Gharo remained closed on Saturday in protest against growing incidents of theft and deteriorating law and order situation in the area....
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HYDERABAD: SHC issues notices to DPO, SHO
HYDERABAD, July 12: The Sindh High Court Hyderabad Circuit Bench on Friday issued notices to DPO Sanghar, SHO police station Tando Adam and eight other private respondents on a constitutional petition...
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LARKANA: List of health officials sent to SPSC
LARKANA, July 12: The names of 1300 doctors and paramedics who had cleared tests conducted by the National Testing Service (NTS) have been sent to the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) for scrutiny....
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NAWABSHAH: Dist nazim complains of victimisation
NAWABSHAH, July 12: A nazim of PML-Q backed Awami Ittehad has accused the government of political victimisation and demanded withdrawal of false cases against him and other activists of his party....
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THATTA: Growers bemoan rise in fertiliser price
THATTA, July 12: A large number of small growers took to the streets in Mirpur Bathoro town on Saturday in protest against what they called artificial increase in the prices of agricultural inputs, especially fertiliser....
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THATTA: Health officials’ retrenchment multiply patients’ problems
THATTA, July 12: Retrench-ment of six doctors and 49 paramedics by the district administration has compounded problems for the patients as well as the sacked employees....
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KHAIRPUR: 17 education Officers transferred
KHAIRPUR, July 12: Seventeen officers working as headmaster, headmistress, DOE and ADOE have been relieved from their present postings and directed to report to the Education and Literacy Department, Sindh, Karachi, for further orders....
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NAWABSHAH: JI slams likely cabinet expansion
NAWABSHAH, July 12: Jamaat-i-Islami has criticised the likely expansion of the federal cabinet and demanded of the government to restore the deposed judges....
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