| July 18, 2008 | Friday | Rajab 14, 1429 |
KARACHI: Lawyers slam CJ’s visit to Sindh
KARACHI, July 17: Chief justice of the Supreme Court Abdul Hameed Dogar’s visit to Sindh was condemned on Thursday by members of the legal fraternity, who vowed to prevent him from...
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KARACHI: Reactivation of price control bodies urged
KARACHI, July 17: The City Council on Thursday called upon the government to take effective measures to combat the spiralling trend of high prices of essential commodities....
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KARACHI: PPP man among six killed
KARACHI, July 17: Six people, including a local office-bearer of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, were killed overnight in acts of violence across the city, police and hospital sources said on Thursday.Sachal...
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KARACHI: Senate body for new probe into PNSC fires
KARACHI, July 17: A high-level committee will be constituted within a week to reinvestigate two major fire incidents which damaged the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) building last year causing a loss of around Rs700 million....
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KARACHI: Unscheduled Loadshedding plagues Karachi
KARACHI, July 17: A large number of Karachi Electric Supply Corporation consumers on Thursday called newspaper offices to complain about prolonged spells of scheduled as well as unscheduled loadshedding....
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PESHAWAR: JUI-F devises peace plan for Khyber Agency
PESHAWAR, July 17: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) has said it has devised a plan to persuade rival factions for establishing peace in the Khyber Agency....
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KOHAT: Blast damages Pesco office
KOHAT, July 17: A bomb blast damaged the main gate of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company complaint office in College Town area on Rawalpindi road late Wednesday night....
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PESHAWAR: Proposed children hospital in doldrums
PESHAWAR, July 17: Efforts are afoot to allot a plot, pledged by the former provincial government for the construction of a children hospital in public sector two years back, to a...
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KARACHI: Apologetic city nazim vows to complete ongoing projects
KARACHI, July 17: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal pledged on Thursday that the city government despite facing a financial crunch would continue and accomplish all its ongoing development projects on schedule for which funds were being arranged through bridge-financing....
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KARACHI: Plea against Rangers’ claim to land adjourned
KARACHI, July 17: Deputy Attorney-General Imran Ahmed questioned the maintainability of a petition challenging acquisition of land by the Rangers in a housing society when the matter came up for hearing...
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KARACHI: The Middle Kingdom rises
KARACHI, July 17: It is difficult to pick out which of the images displayed at China Showcase, a photographic exhibition inaugurated on Thursday at the Arts Council, best depicts modern China....
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KARACHI: Demand for making PMDC autonomous
KARACHI, July 17: Observing that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), the prime regulatory body for medical education in the country, has been overwhelmed by owners of private concerns, noted...
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KARACHI: Electrophysiology lab opened at DIMC
KARACHI, July 17: An electrophysiology lab was inaugurated at the Dow International Medical College (DIMC) on Thursday by Dr Syed Sibtul Hasnain, president of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC)....
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KARACHI: Social security benefits
KARACHI, July 17: The amendment made to the Provincial Employees Social Security Ordinance-1965 will bring the workers drawing up to Rs10, 000 salary a month or earning Rs400 into the ambit...
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KARACHI: Exhibition at VM gallery
KARACHI, July 17: A calligraphic, ceramic and painting exhibition titled “Journey through Zikir” by Shahida Ahmed opens on Friday at the VM Art Gallery at 6pm....
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KARACHI: Head money for criminals fixed
KARACHI, July 17: The Sindh government has worked out a list of over 200 hardened criminals involved in cases of murder, kidnapping for ransom, dacoities, highway robberies and other heinous crimes for years and could not be arrested as yet....
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KARACHI: Kidnapped girls
KARACHI, July 17: District and sessions judge (Central) Soofia Latif on Thursday directed the DIG Sindh and an SSP to recover two young girls allegedly kidnapped by their uncle, and produce the victims in court on Friday....
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KARACHI: Warrants
KARACHI, July 17: Special anti-corruption judge, Karachi, Syed Gul Munir Shah on Thursday issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of SI Khan Mohammad, ASI Mohammad Ali Shah and SI Abdul Hameed...
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MIRPURKHAS: Oil looted from trailer recovered
MIRPURKHAS, July 17: Police have claimed to have recovered 6,000 containers of cooking oil and ghee looted two days ago from the National Highway when a trailer going to Quetta was hijacked with the connivance of the driver and cleaner....
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HYDERABAD: College teachers seek promotion
HYDERABAD, July 17: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association has urged the Sindh government to immediately fill the posts of college lecturers that have been lying vacant for years, by promoting teachers already in service....
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JACOBABAD: Govt’s 100 days termed failure
JACOBABAD, July 17: Speakers at a seminar have described the People’s Party-led government’s performance in initial 100 days as disappointing....
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HYDERABAD: Admission scedule of MUET
HYDERABAD, July 17: The Mehran University of Engineering and Technology has announced schedule for admission to BE in City and Regional Planning and Architecture....
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HYDERABAD: Hyderabad airport to reopen on Aug 3
HYDERABAD, July 17: The Hyderabad airport, which was shut down 10 years ago, would be operational from August 3, said a spokesman of the district government....
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KHAIRPUR: Six principals relieved
KHAIRPUR, July 17: Six principals of colleges in the district, who were in grade-18 but working on senior posts of grade-19, were relieved of their charge on the directives of the Sindh government, sources said on Thursday....
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PESHAWAR: 19pc hike in 20kg flour bag price in two weeks
PESHAWAR, July 17: The price of 20kg flour bag went up by 19 per cent over the past two weeks in the provincial capital, officials and dealers said....
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