| September 10, 2008 | Wednesday | Ramazan 09, 1429 |
KARACHI: Sepa says noise level alarmingly high
KARACHI, Sept 9: In its latest survey on noise pollution, the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has found the vehicular traffic-induced noise in the city at an alarmingly high level, necessitating some regulatory measures to reduce people’s exposure to such noise....
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KARACHI: Chinese firm told not to collect garbage
KARACHI, Sept 9: The city government has not allowed the Chinese company that has been given the contract to collect garbage from the city and take it to landfill sites for disposal to start work....
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KARACHI: SHC dismisses plea in Kidney Hill case
KARACHI, Sept 9: The Sindh High Court dismissed on Tuesday a petition challenging a compromise in respect of the 62-acre Kidney Hill Park but allowed the petitioner organization to institute a suit as the issue involved a factual controversy....
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KARACHI: Young worker commits suicide
KARACHI, Sept 9: A 24-year-old man committed suicide on Tuesday in North Karachi, police and witnesses said....
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KARACHI: No let-up in load-shedding
KARACHI, Sept 9: With the mercury rising to 37 degrees centigrade on Tuesday afternoon, the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation faced a shortfall of around 490 megawatts and carried out two spells of load-shedding, each roughly two hours long....
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KARACHI: Overfishing, pollution continue to threaten marine resources
KARACHI, Sept 9: Overfishing and pollution continue to threaten marine resources and the livelihood of thousands of fishermen in the country as a weak surveillance network allows the owners of deep-sea trawlers to violate the relevant laws....
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KARACHI: Body set up to inspect private schools
KARACHI, Sept 9: The Sindh education department has constituted a 16-member committee to carry out inspection of private schools in the province....
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KARACHI: Free-will couple wins court ruling
KARACHI, Sept 9: A district and sessions judge on Tuesday disposed of an application filed by the father of a teenaged girl for the recovery of his daughter allegedly kidnapped by...
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KARACHI: BDS results announced
KARACHI, Sept 9: The University of Karachi on Tuesday announced the result of BDS second professional supplementary examination 2008....
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KARACHI: Nazim approves changes in food bylaws
KARACHI, Sept 9: The city government has decided to revamp the existing system of checking the sale and supply of food items, eatables and drinks at hotels, restaurants, shops and other...
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KARACHI: PMA demands arrest of doctor’s killers
KARACHI, Sept 9: The Pakistan Medical Association on Tuesday condemned the killing of a professor by alleged fanatics and demanded immediate arrest of killers....
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KARACHI: Remand in kidnap case extended
KARACHI, Sept 9: The civil judge and judicial magistrate, south, Ashraf Hussain Khawaja, extended the police remand of three suspects in a kidnap case till Sept 12....
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KARACHI: Dawn staffer grieved
KARACHI, Sept 9: The mother of Fazal Mehmood, an assistant in Dawn’s editorial department, died in a local hospital after a protracted illness on Monday....
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KARACHI: Jamaat leader condemns US attacks
KARACHI, Sept 9: Jamaat-i-Islami Deputy Chief Prof Ghafoor Ahmad has said that the country is facing grave internal and external threats and it is for the first time in the history...
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KARACHI: Security steps for oil terminals planned
KARACHI, Sept 9: The government has decided to build a security boundary wall around the oil terminal area in Keamari to prevent sabotage and oil theft incidents....
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KARACHI: PPP activists celebrate Asif’s swearing-in
KARACHI, Sept 9: Activists of the Pakistan People’s Party celebrated the swearing-in of Asif Ali Zardari as president of the country on Tuesday....
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KARACHI: Forecast
KARACHI, Sept 9: The meteorological office has forecast hot and dry weather for the city on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Gang busted, stolen vehicles recovered
KARACHI, Sept 9: Police have arrested two members of a gang involved in inter-provincial car lifting and recovered several stolen vehicles from their possession along with gadgets used for tampering of engine and chassis numbers....
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KARACHI: 17 more dengue patients hospitalised
KARACHI, Sept 9: Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed has said that 515 dengue suspect patients have been brought to various hospitals in the province since January....
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KARACHI: Rights group meets Afghan CG
KARACHI, Sept 9: The Consul-General of Afghanistan in Karachi, Abdul Ahad Khaliqyar, has assured a delegation of a human rights group that children of Dr Aafia Siddiqui would be handed over to Pakistan shortly....
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HYDERABAD: Workers resent political interference in Hesco affairs
HYDERABAD, Sept 9: Workers of Hyderabad Electricity Supply Company held rallies and demonstrations across the province to observe “Demands Day” on Tuesday on a call given by the Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union....
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HYDERABAD: Reduction in wheat quota deepens flour crisis
HYDERABAD, Sept 9: Due to wrong policies of the Sindh food department, Hyderabad is once again faced with an acute shortage of wheat and if the department failed to release the...
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HYDERABAD: 90 dehs declared calamity-hit areas
HYDERABAD, Sept 9: The Sindh relief secretary, exercising powers under section 3 of the Sindh National Calamities Act-1958, has declared 90 dehs of Kambar, Miro Khan, Warh, Qubo Saeed Khan and...
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HYDERABAD: AAG seeks time to file statement in fishermen’s case
HYDERABAD, Sept 9: Additional Advocate-General (AAG) Sindh Allah Bachayo Soomro here on Monday sought time to make a statement regarding registration of FIRs against office-bearer of Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) on...
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LARKANA: Four of a family shot dead
LARKANA, Sept 9: Four members of a family were gunned down by unidentified assailants in Behram Town near Qambar on Tuesday morning....
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SUKKUR: Man kills wife
SUKKUR, Sept 9: A woman was strangled by her husband on the pretext of karo-kari in Jhando Domki village within the jurisdiction of Ghauspur police limits near Kandhkot late on Monday night....
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HYDERABAD: Laws to curb violence against women urged
HYDERABAD, Sept 9: Leaders of opinion and elected representatives have demanded that the influential persons of Naseerabad, Balochistan, who were involved in burying women alive, should be arrested and hanged in public....
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HYDERABAD: Signature campaign against jirga system
HYDERABAD, Sept 9: The Hyderabad chapter of the Women Action Forum launched a signature campaign against jirga system at Allama I.I. Kazi campus of the University of Sindh on Tuesday....
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DADU: Woman under threat allowed to live with parents
DADU, Sept 9: A woman, whose killing has been ordered by a jirga, was produced by police before the second civil judge and judicial magistrate of Sehwan on Tuesday....
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PESHAWAR: Transporters fleecing commuters in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Sept 9: Owing to lack of proper check, the local transporters are overcharging commuters besides denying 50 per cent concession allowed to students and senior citizens....
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PARACHINAR: Six killed in Kurram
PARACHINAR, Sept 9: Six people were killed and 11 others injured in fresh clashes between rival tribes as the tribal force (Lashkar) set the house of a Taliban commander on fire in the Kurram Agency on Tuesday....
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KHAR: Army regains control of Khar suburbs: Fresh fighting claims eight lives
KHAR, Sept 9: Seven militants and a woman were killed as security forces backed by artillery and helicopter gunships targeted militants’ hideouts in the Tang Khatta area, eight kilometres from here, on Tuesday....
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