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KARACHI: Relief & trepidation as Musharraf resigns
KARACHI: Aug 18: Former president Pervez Musharraf’s decision to resign, announced on national television on Monday exactly two decades and a day after the country’s last military leader was killed in a plane crash, met with mixed responses in the city....
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KARACHI: Lawyers demand judges’ reinstatement
KARACHI, Aug 18: Jubilant lawyers demanded an immediate reinstatement of all the deposed judges in accordance with the commitments made by the ruling coalition leaders in their Murree and Islamabad declarations....
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KARACHI: Blazing guns greet president’s departure at Bilawal House
KARACHI, Aug 18: The end of the Musharraf era was marked outside Bilawal House – the Karachi residence of Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari – with incessant gunfire as...
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KARACHI: Former jail chief sent to prison
KARACHI, Aug 18: A link judge of the Special Anti-Corruption Court, Karachi, remanded on Monday a former superintendent of the Central Prison in judicial custody till Aug 22 for his alleged involvement in a corruption case....
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KARACHI: Ghaus says resignation victory of democracy
KARACHI, Aug 18: The president of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, Sindh chapter, Syed Ghaus Ali Shah, has termed Pervez Musharraf’s decision of leaving the presidency, victory of the people and the democratic forces in the country....
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HYDERABAD: Protests held against murder of journalist
HYDERABAD, Aug 18: Journalist held demonstrations in many districts of interior Sindh in protest against the murder of Azeem Laghari, a journalist of Dadu district on Monday....
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JACOBABAD: Jirga settles tribal dispute
JACOBABAD, Aug 18: A jirga held in Dari village near Kandhkot on Sunday night settled a 20-year-old dispute between Suhriani and Mohammadani tribes by imposing huge fines on both sides....
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KARACHI: A look at Karachi’s uplift projects
KARACHI, Aug 18: The city witnessed an unprecedented development work during the more than eight-year rule of former president Pervez Musharraf as he was behind the timely allocation of funds by...
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KARACHI: Govt set to cancel arms licences
KARACHI, Aug 18: The Sindh government has decided to cancel all arms licences issued over several decades in a bid to streamline and build a computerised database of weapon-owners across the...
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KARACHI: Over 7,000 schools not registered
KARACHI, Aug 18: There are as many as 7,000 unregistered private schools operating in the city. Most of these schools are established on a purely commercial basis without fulfilling the standard requirements of running a school, it is learnt....
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KARACHI: PSMA seeks govt help against Cantt board decision
KARACHI, Aug 18: The Private Schools Management Association (PSMA) has sought the government’s help as the Cantonment Board Faisal (CBF) has decided to seal off any private school operating in the residential area of Gulistan-i-Jauhar....
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KARACHI: Drizzle forecast
KARACHI, Aug 18: The Met Office has forecast cloudy/ partly cloudy weather with chances of a drizzle for Karachi on Tuesday with the maximum temperature expected to range between 31°C and 33°C....
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KARACHI: Four killed in separate incidents
KARACHI, Aug 18: At least four people were killed on Monday in separate incidents in parts of the city, police said....
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KARACHI: Woman wounded
KARACHI, Aug 18: A 45-year-old woman was shot at and wounded by the father-in-law of her daughter in Saeedabad here on Monday....
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NAWABSHAH: Tail-end growers seek water
NAWABSHAH, Aug 18: Growers of Khiyaroon minor, Nusrat irrigation division, held a demonstration and observed token hunger strike in front of the press club on Monday against acute shortage of water....
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KHAIRPUR: Two women, man killed
KHAIRPUR, Aug 18: Two women and a man were killed in the name of honour in two separate incidents on Monday....
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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Rs2.5m looted
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Aug 18: Four armed men looted Rs2.5 million cash from Habib Bank employees when they were going to deposit the money at the National Bank on Monday....
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PESHAWAR: Lawyers to observe thanksgiving day
PESHAWAR, Aug 18: Jubilant lawyers celebrated the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf by distributing sweets and playing music here on Monday with the resolve to continue their struggle till the restoration of Pre-Nov 3 judiciary....
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PESHAWAR: Net café, police station attacked in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Aug 18: Unidentified persons on Sunday night planted a bomb near a net café-cum-public call office in Gulbahar, which went off with a big bang and damaged its building....
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PESHAWAR: Jubilation in NWFP, Fata over Musharraf’s exit
PESHAWAR, Aug 18: People across the Frontier province and tribal areas on Monday celebrated the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf....
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PESHAWAR: MMA govt accused of making illegal appointments
PESHAWAR, Aug 18: The former Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government has been accused of recruiting 2,675 untrained teachers without test and interview in Dera Ismail Khan, the native district of Maulana Fazlur Rehman,...
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KOHAT: Dispute over Akhorwal coal royalty resolved
KOHAT, Aug 18: The local Taliban have resolved an old dispute among different sub-tribes of Darra Adamkhel over distribution of royalty from the Akhorwal coal mines and opened the mines for production after three years, official sources said on Monday....
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PESHAWAR: ‘17 relief camps set up for IDPs’
PESHAWAR, Aug 18: Chief Minister NWFP Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Monday said that 17 relief camps had been set up for the displaced persons and the government was utilising all...
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PESHAWAR: MPAs see democracy’s victory in resignation
PESHAWAR, Aug 18: Members of provincial assembly here on Monday termed the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf a victory of democratic forces and vowed to scrape all the policies adopted by the former dictator....
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BUNER: Two suspected militants held in Buner
BUNER, Aug 18: Police raided hideouts of suspected militants in Daggar Tangay on Monday and arrested two persons, officials said....
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