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KARACHI: Tribunal seeks list of witnesses to April 9 violence
KARACHI, Aug 16: A Sindh High Court inquiry tribunal investigating the April 9, 2008 violence in Karachi adjourned its proceedings till Aug 30 while directing a liaison officer from the police to submit a list of prosecution witnesses with their affidavits.... 
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KARACHI: Father, son get life for killing youth
KARACHI, Aug 16: An anti-terrorism court sentenced to life imprisonment a man and his son on Saturday in a case of kidnap and murder of a 21-year-old man....
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KARACHI: Bank guard named as prime suspect
KARACHI, Aug 16: Authorities said on Saturday that the prime suspect in the HBL locker heist was the security guard who wrote a letter giving an eye-witness account of the crime...
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KARACHI: Bank says compensation not to exceed insurance ceiling
KARACHI, Aug 16: Habib Bank Limited has stated that citizens whose lockers were broken into at the Saddar Road branch will be compensated for their losses but the compensation sums will not exceed the insurance ceiling....
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KARACHI: When east meets west
KARACHI: An interesting fusion of South Asian and European music, sponsored by Alliance Francaise, Karachi and Mumbai and Goethe-Institut with Sampurna and the Lahore-based Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop, was staged at...
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KARACHI: Court orders arrest of 10 witnesses
KARACHI, Aug 16: An additional district and sessions judge issued on Saturday bailable warrants for the arrest of about 10 prosecution witnesses and directed the police to arrest and produce them before the court on Sept 9....
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KARACHI: Boat modification under way to meet EU standards
KARACHI, Aug 16: Under a boat modification plan, chalked out in line with the standards laid down by the European Union for the lifting of its ban on seafood imports from...
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KARACHI: Dawn staffer grieved
KARACHI, Aug 16: An elder sister of senior Dawn sub-editor Taheer Hussain passed away on Saturday. She was laid to rest after funeral prayers at Masjid Khairul Amal in Ancholi....
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KARACHI: Mir Murtaza murder case
KARACHI, Aug 16: The court of additional district and sessions judge-I, East, adjourned on Saturday the hearing of Mir Murtaza Bhutto murder case till Aug 30 as the judge was deputed on special duty in the Sindh High Court....
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KARACHI: Rakhsha Bandhan celebrated
KARACHI, Aug 16: Members of the Hindu community across the city, like their counterparts around the world, celebrated their annual festival of “Rakhsha Bandhan” on Saturday....
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KARACHI: Learning from history
KARACHI, Aug 16: Great nations learn from history. However, it seems our nation is prone to collective amnesia as we have the tendency to easily forget our past....
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KARACHI: Health officials told to boost anti-polio drives
KARACHI, Aug 16: Sindh Chief Secretary of Fazlur Rehman has said that the government will deal strictly with those district coordinator officers (DCOs) and executive district officers (EDOs) of health who...
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KARACHI: Shot dead
KARACHI, Aug 16: A 32-year-old man was shot dead near Haqqani Chowk in the limits of the Mithadar police....
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KARACHI: Musharraf will resign by 22nd: PPP leader
KARACHI, Aug 16: The secretary-general of the Pakistan People’s Party, Sindh, Nafees Siddiqui, on Saturday claimed that President Pervez Musharraf would tender his resignation before Aug 22 as his allies had abandoned him to face charges and impeachment....
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KARACHI: Books banned
KARACHI, Aug 16: Sindh Home Department has, under section 99-A Cr.PC, banned some books containing objectionable and inflammatory religious material against the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) which tantamount to outraging religious feelings of Muslims....
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MANSEHRA: Two more girls fall victim to Vani
MANSEHRA, Aug 16: A woman whose two daughters were brought from Karachi to the tribal area of Kala Dhaka to marry them off to two brothers under the Vani custom, has...
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TIMERGARA: Bajaur crisis: children born in the open
TIMERGARA, Aug 16: The displaced persons (DPs) of Bajaur have been facing problems while the federal and provincial governments had been silent spectators, victims of the ongoing clashes between the military and militants in the region complained on Saturday....
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KOHAT: Steps urged to maintain peace in Kohat
KOHAT, Aug 16: Members of the National Movement for Unity (NMU) on Saturday accused police of failing to solve 21 cases related to sectarianism and expressed the fear that if strict...
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PESHAWAR: Power supply normalises in Peshawar after a week
PESHAWAR, Aug 16: The Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) on Saturday restored power supply to the provincial capital, which was disrupted after miscreants blew up a tower of the main transmission line near Sheikh Mohammadi area on August 8....
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CHITRAL: Police officials’ widows awarded plots
CHITRAL, Aug 16: The widows of the police officials, who lost their lives in a bomb blast in 1987, were handed over the award documents of plots in Regi Lalma township in a ceremony here in the police lines....
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HYDERABAD: Palijo urges CJ to look into SAU affairs
HYDERABAD, Aug 16: Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo on Saturday urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo motu notice of the situation prevailing in the Sindh Agriculture University and initiate an inquiry against the university vice-chancellor....
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HYDERABAD: Edhi all praise for Musharraf
HYDERABAD, Aug 16: Renowned social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi said on Saturday that he could not forget the favours done to him by President Pervez Musharraf in his social work and...
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MIRPURKHAS: Musharraf urged to step down
MIRPURKHAS, Aug 16: Hundreds of Pakistan People’s Party workers and office-bearers including the party’s women wing held a rally, urging Musharraf to step down on Saturday....
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HYDERABAD: Woman’s allegations tarnish Mannu Bheel’s image
HYDERABAD, Aug 16: The kidnapping case of Mannu Bheel’s nine family members seems to be taking a back seat amid a controversy involving Mannu Bheel and a woman Meena Kohli, who has accused him of attempting to sexually assault her....
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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Rape victim complains of receiving threats
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Aug 16: The office-bearers of Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) visited Khahi Jalal Ji village on Saturday and met with victim girl, who was kidnapped two years ago and was raped several times....
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DADU: Qalandar’s Urs to begin from 21st
DADU, Aug 16: The three-day 756th annual Urs of Hazrat Qalandar Lal Shahbaz will begin on August 21 in Sehwan. The devotees of Lal Shahbaz have started reaching at the Dargah...
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KHAIRPUR: Tailors seek wage raise
KHAIRPUR, Aug 16: A large number of labourers working in tailoring shops took out a rally under the banner of Sachal Tailor Masters Labour Union Khairpur on Saturday for their demands....
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HYDERABAD: HSC Part-II Humanities results out
HYDERABAD, Aug 16: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Hyderabad has announced the results of Higher Secondary School Certificate part-II (class-XII) Humanities group, annual examinations 2008....
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THATTA: Contractor kidnapped
THATTA, Aug 16: A contractor of Banana, Fayaz Arain, and twelve labourers, majority of them of scheduled caste were kidnapped from two different agricultural fields in Shah Loko forest near Keenjhar lake on the National Highway here on Saturday....
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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Boy electrocuted
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Aug 16: Eight-year-old Shaman Solangi who was student of class-III died of electrocution when he stumbled and fell on a damaged electric wire in Buth Solangi village on Saturday....
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MITHI: Duo go on long march
MITHI, Aug 16: The member of HRCP’s Tharparkar chapter, Dolat Thari, along with the UC councillor, Bhagchand, has started a protest long march for the restoration of fundamental rights, supremacy of constitution and law and order in the country....
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JACOBABAD: Raksha Bandhan
JACOBABAD, Aug 16: Hindus celebrated “Raksha Bandhan” festival with religious zeal and fervour here on Saturday....
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