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KARACHI: Health experts want scope of EPI widened
KARACHI, Aug 30: Health experts have urged the federal health authorities to widen the scope of the Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) by including vaccinations for meningitis, pneumonia and diarrhoea, which,... 
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KARACHI: April 9 tribunal to examine doctors, firemen
KARACHI, Aug 30: A Sindh High Court inquiry tribunal investigating the April 9, 2008 violence will next week examine doctors who treated the injured and received dead bodies of the people...
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KARACHI: Police help to curb price-hike in Ramazan stressed
KARACHI, Aug 30: While Ramazan is round the corner, the city government is likely to achieve little success in stabilising the prices of essential goods on official rates during the coming...
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KARACHI: Fashion designer found shot dead
KARACHI, Aug 30: A fashion designer and a constable were killed on Saturday in separate acts of violence in the city, police and witnesses said....
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KARACHI: Power generation picks up, cuts persist
KARACHI, Aug 30: After Friday’s intervention by the ruling party in KESC matters, the utility’s foreign managers pushed up generation at the Bin Qasim Power Plant, probably by using furnace oil, to calm the growing outrage of the people....
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KARACHI: City literati remember Ahmed Faraz
KARACHI, Aug 30: Top poets, intellectuals and artists of Karachi piled eulogies and elegies on Ahmed Faraz at a literary reference organized to pay homage to the popular poet at the Arts Council on Friday night....
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KARACHI: Eshwar case hearing put off
KARACHI, Aug 30: A district and sessions court on Saturday adjourned till Sept 2 the hearing of a case registered against the former MPAs of the Pakistan People’s Party for allegedly...
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KARACHI: JI to support ex-CJ in presidential poll
KARACHI, Aug 30: Announcing his party’s decision to support Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate retired justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui in the Sept 6 presidential election, Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed has called...
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KARACHI: Encroachments re-emerge
KARACHI, Aug 30: All sorts of encroachments have re-emerged around Lea Market just a few days before Ramazan....
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KARACHI: Sanitary workers stage protest
KARACHI, Aug 30: Several hundred sanitary workers on Saturday staged a demonstration at the Civic Centre and blocked the main University Road against the city government’s plan to hand over lifting and disposal of solid waste to a foreign firm....
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KARACHI: City council
KARACHI, Aug 30: The adjourned session of the city council would be held at 11:30am on Monday, a handout issued here on Saturday said. Naib City Nazim Nasreen Jalil will chair the session.—PPI...
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HARIPUR: Ramazan relief plan for Haripur
HARIPUR, Aug 30: A comprehensive plan has been devised to ensure maximum relief to the citizens including setting up of sasta (cheap) bazaars during the holly month of Ramazan....
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NOWSHERA: Jirga asks Taliban to quit Nowshera
NOWSHERA, Aug 30: A local jirga has asked the Taliban to wind up their camps and vacate the region before first Ramazan, otherwise they would take guns to quell militancy in the region....
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MARDAN: Three killed in Mardan
MARDAN, Aug 30: Three persons, including two women, were killed in separate incidents in different areas of the district on Saturday....
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PESHAWAR: Rs28bn needed for Fata uplift projects
PESHAWAR, Aug 30: The government will need Rs28 billion to complete development projects reflected in the current Annual Development Programme for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, officials say....
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KARAK: Karak roads dilapidated
KARAK, Aug 30: The entire road network in the district is in dilapidated condition for the last many years but the authorities have not paid any heed to this grave situation....
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PESHAWAR: No respite for consumers in Ramazan: Spiralling flour prices
PESHAWAR, Aug 30: People in Frontier will be paying double the amount consumers in the province of Punjab are paying for a 20-kilogram flour bag during the holy month of Ramazan, an official at the food department said....
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KOHAT: Two killed, four injured in Darra
KOHAT, Aug 30: Two persons were killed and four others sustained injuries when rockets hit two houses in Meri Khel and Tandi Kalay areas of Darra Adamkhel during exchange of fire between militants and security forces on Saturday afternoon....
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SWABI: Three kidnapped children recovered
SWABI, Aug 30: Three school-going children of a police officer, who were abducted three days ago, were recovered from Lahore in a police raid on Saturday....
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