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KARACHI: Next two months crucial for govt: Rashid
KARACHI, July 27: The president of the Awami Muslim League, Shaikh Rashid, has predicted that the next two months will be crucial for the democratic dispensation in the country.... 
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KARACHI: Vehicle insurance violations hit victims’ claims
KARACHI, July 27: Given that virtually none of the city’s transporters fulfil the legal requirement of obtaining third-party insurance for their public transport vehicles, victims of traffic accidents are not paid the damages to which they are entitled, Dawn has learnt....
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KARACHI: NIH draining Sindh of indigenous snakes
KARACHI, July 27: Hundreds of poisonous snakes, captured in Sindh without permission of the provincial wildlife department, are taken to the Islamabad-based National Institute of Health every year for the preparation of anti-snake venom serum (ASVS)....
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KARACHI: 4 picnickers drown off Hawkesbay
KARACHI, July 27: Four picnickers drowned overnight off the Hawkesbay beach, police and hospital sources said on Sunday....
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KARACHI: Dengue-monitoring cell’s revival ordered
KARACHI, July 27: In view of the reports of recent deaths caused by dengue fever, Sindh health minister Dr Sagheer Ahmad has ordered the revival of the Sindh health department’s dengue...
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KARACHI: Coverage restricted to four towns: CDGK’s garbage disposal project
KARACHI, July 27: In order to avoid a further delay in the handing over of solid waste management to a Chinese firm, the city government has restricted the initial launch of...
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KARACHI: City council session
KARACHI, July 27: The adjourned session of the City Council will be held at 4.30pm on Monday in the council hall of the Naib Nazim secretariat, KMC building.—PPI...
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KARACHI: Enforcement of laws against overfishing urged
KARACHI, July 27: The Karachi-based fisherman community has welcomed the government’s fishing policy expressed its apprehensions about the implementation of the laws aimed at checking the illegal practices that lead to depletion of marine resources....
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KARACHI: LG employees working on OPS reverted
KARACHI, July 27: All officers and officials of the local government department working on OPS (own pay and scale) have been reverted forthwith and ordered to report to the department immediately for further posting....
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KARACHI: Transporters seek notification of new fares
KARACHI, July 27: The Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI) has urged the relevant authorities to issue the notification regarding transport fares without further delay....
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KARACHI: 100,000 youths to get training, stipend
KARACHI, July 27: Sindh Labour Minister Ameer Nawab Khan has said that about 100,000 youths will be imparted skill training and provided stipend under the Benazir Youth Programme....
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KARACHI: Hundreds under constant threat of electrocution
KARACHI, July 27: Hundreds of people visiting the Sunset Club and the adjacent marriage gardens in the Defence Housing Authority for recreation or attending ceremonies remain under the threat of electrocution as the vicinity has high-tension electricity cables passing overhead....
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KARACHI: Diarrhoea cases on the rise
KARACHI, July 27: Diarrhoea cases among children and elderly people in the city are on the rise reportedly owing to unhygienic and brackish water being supplied through private tankers in certain water-starved localities....
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KARACHI: Malik Anokha laid to rest
KARACHI, July 27: Noted television and film actor Malik Akber Abbas, popularly known as Malik Anokha, died of cardiac arrest on the night between Saturday and Sunday....
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HYDERABAD: Union nazim alleges harassment
HYDERABAD, July 27: People in authority have unleashed a reign of terror against their political rivals in the Tando Allahyar district and elected representatives of the people are being harassed, intimidated...
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HYDERABAD: Minister wants end to sale of gutka
HYDERABAD, July 27: Sindh Minister for Special Education Syed Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi has asked police to curb the sale of mainpuri and gutka in Tando Allahyar within a week....
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HYDERABAD: MNA to raise Hyderabad airport issue in assembly
HYDERABAD, July 27: People’s Party MNA from Jamshoro Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur said that if PIA flights were not resumed from Hyderabad airport, as per announced schedule, he would raise the issue on the floor of the National Assembly....
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HYDERABAD: Trauma centres in four dists planned
HYDERABAD, July 27: A survey for construction of trauma centres in four district of Sindh is under way and will be completed in five to six months....
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NAWABSHAH: Irrigation dept employees continue protest
NAWABSHAH, July 27: Hundreds of members of Irrigation Workers Union continued their protest outside the press club on Sunday to press for acceptance of their demands....
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PESHAWAR: Peshawar among most polluted cities: study
PESHAWAR, July 27: Portraying a bleak picture of environmental degradation, the NWFP Environmental Protection Agency (Epa) has declared the provincial capital one of the most polluted cities facing with serious ecological problems....
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CHITRAL: Hospital found locked, staff absent
CHITRAL, July 27: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Mutasim Billah Shah, during a surprise visit on Sunday, found the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Booni locked as the entire staff including doctors was absent from duty....
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PESHAWAR: Truckers go on strike to protest POL taxes
PESHAWAR, July 27: The truckers in NWFP went on strike for indefinite period on Sunday against taxes on petroleum products and undue fines imposed on them by motorways police....
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TIMERGARA: Govt being run through emails, cellphones: JI
TIMERGARA, July 27: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) provincial chief Sirajul Haq has said that the budget passed by the coalition government in the NWFP was not based on facts....
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PESHAWAR: Security concerns hamper activities at Nishtar Hall
PESHAWAR, July 27: Security concerns have been hampering launching of cultural activities at Nishtar Hall despite the government’s directive about three months ago....
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KOHAT: Blast damages cellphone tower
KOHAT, July 27: A blast damaged the switch room of a cellphone tower in Bilitang area, a stronghold of local Taliban, on Rawalpindi Road on late Saturday night....
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MIRAMSHAH: Taliban leader vows to continue fight
MIRAMSHAH, July 27: A local Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bhadur has accused the government and agencies of creating rifts among various militant groups to weaken what he said ‘their movement against imperialist forces’, sources said....
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KHAR: Woman among two killed over land dispute
KHAR, July 27: Two people including a woman were killed and one person received serious injuries in an exchange of fire between two groups over a land dispute in Salarzai, Bajaur region on Sunday....
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