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KARACHI: Industrial areas fresh targets of criminals
KARACHI, July 13: The industrial areas of the city have emerged as a fresh ‘soft’ target for criminals, as in some five zones housing more than 10,000 production units, robberies, hijacking... 
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KARACHI: Two found shot dead
KARACHI, July 13: Two young men were killed on Sunday in acts of violence in separate parts of the city, police and hospital sources said....
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KARACHI: Flour millers punished
KARACHI, July 13: The provincial food department on Sunday suspended licences of four flour mills for not setting up outlets for sale of wheat flour at the government-fixed prices and violating other rules and regulations....
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KARACHI: Five low-cost housing sites proposed
KARACHI, July 13: The Sindh government has identified five locations in the metropolis to acquire 525 acres for a low-cost housing project....
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KARACHI: ‘MQM against confrontation’
KARACHI, July 13: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has directed Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad and City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal to avoid any confrontation with the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government in Sindh....
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KARACHI: ‘Women continue to endure violence’
KARACHI, July 13: Sindh Human Rights Minister Nadia Gabol said that specific laws pertaining to women protection were required for the progress of the nation....
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SWABI: Peace bodies being set up in all districts
SWABI, July 13: The provincial government has started manoeuvring to put in place ‘peace defence committees’ in all the 24 districts to contain spread and spillover of Talibanisation from the Federal...
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KHAR: ‘Spies’ to be executed publicly: militants
KHAR, July 13: A militant organisation in the Bajaur tribal region has announced rigorous punishment for alleged US spies saying that they would be executed publicly....
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TIMERGARA: Two FC men injured in Timergara attack
TIMERGARA, July 13: Two personnel of Frontier Constabulary were injured when unidentified persons ambushed a police vehicle near Government College Timergara on Saturday night, official sources told Dawn....
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BUNER: Girl shot dead in Buner
BUNER, July 13: A young girl was gunned down allegedly over her refusal to marry a man in Maskipur village here on Sunday, residents and police said....
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KARACHI: Infrastructure lacking to tap flower potential
KARACHI, July 13: Geographically placed at a unique location, Pakistan is home to a wonderful variety of plant life. However, it’s unfortunate that no infrastructure exists at the grass roots level to tap the country’s potential in floriculture....
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KARACHI: Class-X (General) results today
KARACHI, July 13: The Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) will notify results of SSC part-II (Class-X) General group on Monday, according to an announcement by the board’s controller of examinations....
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KARACHI: City to experience water shortage today
KARACHI, July 13: Frequent and prolonged power breakdowns, besides load-shedding, in the city have badly affected pumping of drinking water at various installations of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB), especially its major pumping stations at Dhabeji, Pipri and Gharo....
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KARACHI: Land retrieved
KARACHI, July 13: A city government team headed by officials of its revenue department and escorted by a strong contingent of police carried out an operation against land-grabbers on Sunday to...
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HYDERABAD: Committee formed to curb hoarding
HYDERABAD, July 13: DCO Ali Ahmed has formed a committee to launch a campaign against wheat hoarders, raid warehouses and depots and confiscate hoarded grain to help stabilise prices of flour in the district....
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KARACHI: Drizzle likely
KARACHI, July 13: The Met Office has forecast partly cloudy/ partly cloudy weather for the city on Monday with chances of a drizzle. The maximum temperature is expected to range between 32 and degrees centigrade.—APP...
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HYDERABAD: Nazim opens water filter plant
HYDERABAD, July 13: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil inaugurated a water filtration plant in union council-No7 of the City taluka on Saturday. It has been built at a cost of Rs500,000....
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HYDERABAD: SAU employees seek VC’s removal: Malpractices, nepotism alleged
HYDERABAD, July 13: Sindh Agriculture University Employees Union activists held a demonstration outside the press club on Sunday, demanding removal of Vice-Chancellor Dr Basheer Ahmed Shaikh, accusing him of being involved in malpractices, nepotism and favouritism....
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SUKKUR: Sukkur parks in a shambles
SUKKUR, July 13: Almost all the big and small public parks in the city are in a shambles due to apparent negligence of the departments concerned, condition of almost all the public parks in the city is in a shambles....
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THATTA: 3 of a family die in accident
THATTA, July 13: A woman and her two minor children were killed and seven other people were injured, three of them critically, when a car collided head-on with a van near Gharo on the National Highway on Sunday....
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SUKKUR: Early reinstatement of bank employees urged
SUKKUR, July 13: The UBL action committee on Sunday demanded reinstatement of the employees, unjustifiably sacked from 1997 to 2007....
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SUKKUR: Baby drowns in canal
SUKKUR, July 13: A minor girl lost her life as she fell into Gaji Minor Canal near Dad Leghari in Mirpur Mathelo on Sunday....
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PESHAWAR: Impersonator arrested
PESHAWAR, July 13: The Federal Investigation Agency''s (FIA) Immigration Cell has arrested an impersonator who was allegedly trying to visit abroad by taking advantage of face resemblance....
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