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KARACHI: Control over educational boards sparks controversy
KARACHI, Aug 14: Heated debate in various forums over whether administrative control of Sindh’s educational boards should remain with the provincial governor or be transferred to the provincial education department preceded... 
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KARACHI: Solid waste Project put on hold
KARACHI, Aug 14: The city government’s plans went awry when it emerged on Thursday that the Chinese firm that was supposed to meet the deadline of launching a crucial solid waste...
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KARACHI: Three killed in city
KARACHI, Aug 14: Three unidentified bodies were found from different parts of the city on Thursday....
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KARACHI: Health dept wants extra funds: Dengue fever
KARACHI, Aug 14: The health department has requested an allocation of special funds from the Sindh government for different initiatives the department has planned in the event of a dengue fever outbreak in the province....
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KARACHI: 34 Indian fishermen released
KARACHI, Aug 14: A group of 34 Indian prisoners under the age of 18 were freed in accordance with the federal government’s decision as a goodwill gesture on the occasion of the Independence Day on Thursday....
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HYDERABAD: Musharraf should be tried: Magsi
HYDERABAD, Aug 14: Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi said on Thursday that the people of Sindh demanded unanimously that Musharraf should not only be impeached but he should be prosecuted for the heinous crimes against the nation....
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PESHAWAR: People start leaving Mohmand: Fear of military operation
PESHAWAR, Aug 14: Thousands of people fleeing the Mohmand Agency due to an imminent military operation have started reaching the adjacent Peshawar and Charsadda districts....
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MINGORA: Three more killed in Swat
MINGORA, Aug 14: Three more persons were killed in the district on Thursday as security forces backed by artillery and helicopter gunships continued to pound different areas....
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PESHAWAR: Bajaur displaced people observe ‘black day’
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KARACHI: JSM rejects ‘Taliban bogey’ in Sindh
KARACHI, Aug 14: The Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM) has announced that it will not accept any form of colonisation of Sindh and warned those elements trying to harass Sindhis in the name of “Talibanisation”....
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KARACHI: Six years on, Orangi hospital still not functional
KARACHI, Aug 14: The provincial government has failed to start services from a 50-bed hospital in the nearly six years that have passed since the completion of its building, which cost more than Rs30 million of taxpayer money....
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KARACHI: Nazims, councillors among over 7,000 registered as volunteers
KARACHI, Aug 14: More than 7,000 cards were issued to willing volunteers, including the city nazim, naib nazim, councillors, Karachi DCO and other CDGK officers, on the first day of the...
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KARACHI: The art of bonsai
KARACHI: It is fascinating to see a tree in miniature form. The perfect version of a normal full-grown tree, this style, known as bonsai, is an art-form said to be more than 2,000 years old and has its origins in China....
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KARACHI: Admissions to Class XII not yet completed
KARACHI, Aug 14: Despite the expiry of the July 31 deadline for the completion of the admission process of Class XII set in accordance with the Sindh education department’s academic calendar,...
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KARACHI: Gifts distributed
KARACHI, Aug 14: Sindh Minister for Women Development Tauqir Fatima Bhutto on Thursday visited the Women’s Jail and distributed clothes and gifts amongst the prisoners and their children....
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KARACHI: Wajih demands accountability of ‘rulers’
KARACHI, Aug 14: Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed, the retired Supreme Court judge who challenged General Pervez Musharraf in the controversial presidential election, has said that “Musharraf had imposed a second martial law...
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KARACHI: Seminar on DNA testing
KARACHI, Aug 14: A seminar on “Forensic DNA testing concepts and use by law enforcing agencies and jurists” is being held on Saturday under the aegis of the Dr A.Q....
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KARACHI: KESC charges domestic consumers 16pc more
KARACHI, Aug 14: Two and a half million people, who continued to experience power outages throughout the ongoing summer, have been charged 16 per cent more by the Karachi Electric Supply...
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KARACHI: Anti-polio strategy to be discussed on 16th
KARACHI, Aug 14: A meeting of the provincial steering committee on polio eradication has been convened under the chairmanship of the chief secretary of Sindh on August 16 at the Sindh Secretariat building....
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KARACHI: Drizzle forecast
KARACHI, Aug 14: The Met Office has forecast cloudy/ partly cloudy weather with chances of a drizzle/light rain for Karachi on Friday with the maximum temperature expected to range between 31 and 33 degrees centigrade....
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KARACHI: Scuffles mar ST rally
KARACHI, Aug 14: Tension gripped Submarine Chowk in Defence following a clash-like situation between the Rangers and participants of a rally....
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HYDERABAD: Sindh in festive mood on Independence Day
HYDERABAD, Aug 14: Civil society organisations, political parties and district and town administrations staged rallies and processions and educational institutions organised special programmes across the province to mark the 61st Independence Day of the country on Thursday....
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HYDERABAD: ‘Freedom’ questioned
HYDERABAD, Aug 14: The activists of Berozgar Noujawan Tehrik staged a protest demonstration outside the press club on Independence Day on Thursday against unemployment....
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HYDERABAD: Most veterinary hospitals remain non-functional
HYDERABAD, Aug 14: Sindh Agriculture Forum President Noor Ahmed Nizamani has appealed to the government to help alleviate grievances of livestock farmers by reactivating veterinary hospitals and animal husbandries, which are mostly non-functional....
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HYDERABAD: Best teacher of 2007
HYDERABAD, Aug 14: Professor (Dr) Sagheer Ahmed Shaikh of Institute of Food Sciences and Technology of Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam has been awarded the best teacher cash award of Rs100,000 for the year 2007 by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan....
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SANGHAR: Strike against family of police official
SANGHAR, Aug 14: A complete strike was observed in Tando Adam town and over 200 people staged a sit-in outside the town’s police station in protest against torture of three women by a police official’s family in Chanhio Mohalla on Thursday....
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DADU: Two villagers shot dead
DADU, Aug 14: Two villagers were shot dead and eight others were injured in a clash over water rotation at village Malho Babar in taluka Sehwan on Wednesday....
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DADU: Call for Arrest of killers
DADU, Aug 14: The Dadu police have failed to arrest the accused in the murder case of a TV journalist, Mohammad Azeem Leghari, and his relatives, protesters say....
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MIRPURKHAS: Man fall to death
MIRPURKHAS, Aug 14: A man suffered serious injuries after falling from the roof of a moving bus near Kherao Shakh on the Sindhri road and later died in a hospital here on Thursday....
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SUKKUR: PPP holds rally against Musharraf
SUKKUR, Aug 14: People’s Party activists took out a rally and staged a demonstration against President Pervez Musharraf outside Sukkur Press Club here on Thursday....
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KHAIRPUR: Four go missing
KHAIRPUR, Aug 14: Four friends went missing near Karampur of Kandhkot district on Thursday....
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PESHAWAR: LG officials to get judicial powers soon
PESHAWAR, Aug 14: The NWFP governor and chief minister have approved a summary about reviving the erstwhile executive magistracy system by assigning judicial powers to executive officers....
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