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KARACHI: Academic year cut adds to students’ woes
KARACHI, Sept 3: The current academic session for first-year students at the city’s government colleges, which is already running a month and a half behind the rest of the country, will... 
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KARACHI: City govt told to maintain land as public park
KARACHI, Sept 3: The Sindh High Court directed the city district government on Wednesday to take over a piece of land carved out of an amenity plot in Gulshan-i-Iqbal and maintain its status as a public park....
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KARACHI: Gas supply to KESC plant restored
KARACHI, Sept 3: Amid a persisting power crisis in the city and a row over outstanding dues of suppliers of fuel and electricity against the KESC, the Sui Southern Gas Company...
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KARACHI: Two brothers held in designer’s murder case
KARACHI, Sept 3: Police arrested on Wednesday two young brothers in the murder case of famous fashion designer Sheikh-Amir Hassan....
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KARACHI: Two women among three killed in violent acts
KARACHI, Sept 3: Two women, one of them 22-year-old and the other 85-year-old, and a man were killed in separate acts of violence on Wednesday, police and witnesses said....
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KOHAT: Militants loot banks in Darra Adamkhel
KOHAT, Sept 3: Militants in Darra Adamkhel barged into a branch of United Bank Limited on Wednesday afternoon and took away Rs2 million from it after blowing the strong room, official sources said....
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CHARSADDA: Jirga fails to come up with plan against militancy
CHARSADDA, Sept 3: A jirga held to devise a strategy against growing militancy in tribal areas and parts of the Frontier province ended without any consensus and clear-cut plan to curb the menace....
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LANDI KOTAL: Six tribal elders among 46 arrested under FCR
LANDI KOTAL, Sept 3: Political authorities arrested six elders and 40 other men in a crackdown on the Khogakhel tribe and also sealed the property of the tribe here on Wednesday, officials and residents said....
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KARACHI: BIEK teams to check students’ attendance
KARACHI, Sept 3: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has decided to set up 18 teams — one for each town of the metropolis — to monitor attendance of HSC...
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KARACHI: Graduation forms
KARACHI, Sept 3: The University of Karachi on Wednesday extended the last date for the submission of examination forms and fee for BA, BCom, BOL and BSc (improvement of division) external examination-2008 from Sept 8 to 13....
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KARACHI: Baloch leader slams burying alive of women
KARACHI, Sept 3: The National Party, led by Dr Abdul Hayee Baloch, has strongly condemned the burying alive of women in Balochistan in the name of tradition or custom....
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KARACHI: S.M.A. Khairi passes away
KARACHI, Sept 3: Former ambassador S.M.A. Khairi passed away on Tuesday evening. A gold medallist from Aligarh University, Mr Khairi had done his MA from the Fletchers School of Law and Diplomacy, US....
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KARACHI: Lyari people seek special development package
KARACHI, Sept 3: Anger is simmering in Lyari Town, a strong support base of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), reportedly due to the indifferent attitude of the relevant authorities towards the solution of the problems afflicting the locality....
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KARACHI: MA results
KARACHI, Sept 3: The University of Karachi on Wednesday announced the results of MA Final (external), annual examinations-2007 in the disciplines of Arabic, General History, Mathematics, Persian, Philosophy and Sindhi....
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KARACHI: Exhibition at VM Art
KARACHI, Sept 3: “Six degrees of separation: chaos, congruence and collaboration and odd spaces”, an exhibition of works by 15 artists in painting, miniature, sculpture and digital video art, opens at the VM Art Gallery at 2pm on Thursday....
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KARACHI: Presidential election strategy discussed
KARACHI, Sept 3: The government has decided to make all-out efforts to check the menace of extremism by crushing all anti-social elements to maintain peace and harmony in the province....
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KARACHI: Rape case suspects sent to lock-up
KARACHI, Sept 3: A civil judge and judicial magistrate, east, on Wednesday remanded two suspects in police custody till Sept 8 in a kidnap-cum-rape case....
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KARACHI: Suspected arms dealer arrested
KARACHI, Sept 3: An arms dealer was arrested in Lucky Star locality of Saddar on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Steps for better technical education
KARACHI, Sept 3: The 45th meeting of the Committee of Chairmen and Directors of Technical Education (CCDTE) has taken a number of decisions for the uplift of the standard of technical and vocational education in the country....
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KARACHI: Contempt notice issued against EDO
KARACHI, Sept 3: A contempt-of-court notice was issued against the executive district officer (EDO) of the city government’s revenue department for Sept 19 by a division bench of the Sindh High...
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KARACHI: Price-control exercise
KARACHI, Sept 3: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Javed Hanif, who holds the charge of Controller-General of Prices, has asked all city government officials with magisterial powers to show no leniency to...
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HYDERABAD: Marxist scholar dies at 32
HYDERABAD, Sept 3: Young Marxist scholar and Lecturer, Philosophy Department, University of Sindh, Asim Ali Akhund, popularly known as Comrade Asim died in a Karachi hospital on Tuesday. He was 32....
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HYDERABAD: Reconciliation courts Recommended
HYDERABAD, Sept 3: Sindh Civil Services and Local Government Academy Director-General Mohammad Ibrahim Qureshi has recommended establishment of reconciliation courts, particularly for providing justice to women embroiled in domestic disputes....
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HYDERABAD: Woman dies in mysterious circumstances
HYDERABAD, Sept 3: A 30-year-old woman Khatoon Sheikh died under mysterious circumstances in Latifabad-10 in the jurisdiction of the A-section police station....
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HYDERABAD: Calls for removal of VC getting stronger
HYDERABAD, Sept 3: Around 30 educationists and leaders of the civil society drew the attention of Sindh governor/chancellor of universities and the Sindh Agriculture University Syndicate towards cessation of academic and...
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HYDERABAD: Court orders probe into disappearance of girls
HYDERABAD, Sept 3: Justice Amir Hani Muslim of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, here on Wednesday ordered an independent inquiry to be conducted by DPO and two other police...
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HYDERABAD: RBOD workers call off protest
HYDERABAD, Sept 3: Employees of the Right Bank Outfall Drain project, Jamshoro district have called off the protest against non-regularisation of their services and non-payment of salaries in deference to Ramazan....
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SHIKARPUR: Dacoits go on rampage; loot several people
SHIKARPUR, Sept 3: A group of armed dacoits looted five cellphones, a laptop computer, and cash from employees of a mobile company on Lakhi-Naudero road near the railway crossing No.2...
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HYDERABAD: Juvenile offenders appear before court
HYDERABAD, Sept 3: Seven juvenile offenders whose trial had been delayed or their applications were not being heard were produced before the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench here on Wednesday....
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PESHAWAR: PHC orders status quo in transfer cases
PESHAWAR, Sept 3: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday ordered to maintain status quo in two writ petitions filed by district nazims of Karak and Buner challenging transfers of government officials without their consent by the provincial government....
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PESHAWAR: Lawmakers want more teachers recruited
PESHAWAR, Sept 3: Frontier lawmakers on Wednesday exposed the hollowness of the education department while speaking on shortage of basic teaching staff, extra rooms and furniture for growing number of students...
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MARDAN: Rs254m okayed for Mardan roadworks
MARDAN, Sept 3: The Works and Services Department has approved Rs254 million for repairing of various roads in the district, an official told Dawn here on Wednesday....
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PESHAWAR: France sends relief goods for Bajaur IDPs
PESHAWAR, Sept 3: The French government has provided relief goods to 12,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Bajaur Agency, who fled the area for the camps setup in Lower Dir, Malakand and Mardan after security forces operation against the militants....
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MARDAN: Sacked workers’ protest enters 65th day
MARDAN, Sept 3: The protest of the sacked employees of a local sugar mill entered into the 65th day here on Wednesday....
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LAHORE: Plea against power tariff rise re-listed
LAHORE, Sept 3: Lahore High Court Judge Justice Hamid Ali Shah on Wednesday ordered re-listing for Sept 15 of a petition challenging the proposed 31 per cent raise in the electricity tariff....
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LAHORE: Pepco ‘relief’
LAHORE, Sept 3: In line with the government directions, the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) has made effective arrangements for continuous power supply on domestic feeders from 4am to 6am and 7pm to 9:30pm for Sehr and Iftar, respectively....
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LAHORE: HRCP hails seats for the disabled at UET
LAHORE, Sept 3: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday welcomed the creation of two seats for disabled students at the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, from session 2008...
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LAHORE: Boy dies doing a wheelie
LAHORE, Sept 3: A teenager lost his life while performing stunts on his motorcycle in Shafeeqabad on Wednesday....
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LAHORE: Rally, not sit-in
LAHORE, Sept 3: Lawyers in the city will stage their Thursday rally today for the restoration of judges but have called off sit-in because of Ramazan....
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LAHORE: Loot and plunder a thing of past: CM
LAHORE, Sept 3: Billions of rupees have been looted over the last eight years, but now the era of loot and plunder has been buried, an official handout quoted Chief Minister...
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