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KARACHI: Police allowed direct access to cellphone data
KARACHI, Sept 16: The federal government has given police much-sought-after privilege of directly approaching mobile phone service providers to access cellular phone calls and short messaging service (SMS) data while investigating criminal cases without involving the telecoms regulator.... 
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KARACHI: SHC notices in ‘missing’ man case issued
KARACHI, Sept 16: A two-member bench of the Sindh High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the home secretary, the inspector-general of Sindh, the directors-general of the Rangers, Inter-Services Intelligence and...
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KARACHI: ‘City roads should be car-free rather than signal-free’
KARACHI, Sept 16: The city is expanding at a rapid pace and if an efficient and inexpensive public transport system is not put in place now, it will collapse in the...
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KARACHI: Shortfall of 500MW causes outages
KARACHI, Sept 16: The Karachi Electric Supply Company faced yet another day of shortfall of around 500 megawatts as supply from the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (Kanupp) and the DHA’s Cogen...
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KARACHI: Disabled man, son die in accident
KARACHI, Sept 16: Three people, including a man and his son, were killed on Tuesday in separate traffic accidents in different parts of the city, police and witnesses said....
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KARACHI: Young boy found strangled
KARACHI, Sept 16: The body of an unknown young boy was found on Tuesday at a desolate place near Northern Bypass....
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KARACHI: No case pending against Asif, SHC told
KARACHI, Sept 16: No case, proceeding or inquiry is pending against President Asif Ali Zardari in any court or forum within or outside the country, federal and National Accountability Bureau counsel...
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Time and space
WE as a nation do not seem to value time. An example of this is that many of the clocks put up during the colonial era are in ramshackle condition....
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KARACHI: 16 more dengue patients admitted to hospitals
KARACHI, Sept 16: As many as 16 new patients suspected of having contracted the dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals across the city on Tuesday....
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KARACHI: Food inflation pushes millions to the brink
KARACHI: Mukhtaran, 30, a housemaid, is currently working in five houses in an upscale locality of Karachi and drawing a salary of Rs3,500. She supports a family of five....
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KARACHI: Policy to check pollution urged
KARACHI, Sept 16: The Sindh Minister for Human Rights, Nadia Khan Gabol, urged the environment and transport departments and the traffic police to jointly evolve a comprehensive policy to combat environmental pollution....
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KARACHI: Encroachments
KARACHI, Sept 16: The nazim of Site Town, Izharuddin Ahmed Khan, said on Tuesday that the town administration would not succumb to any kind of pressure during its drive against encroachments....
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KARACHI: Asif urged to restore parliament’s powers
KARACHI, Sept 16: Vice-President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has suggested that President Asif Ali Zardari make his first address to the joint session of parliament historic by announcing the schedule for restoring powers of parliament....
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KARACHI: Posting of teachers
KARACHI, Sept 16: A spokesman for the Chief Minister’s House on Tuesday, commenting on a press report regarding posting of 650 teachers, denied that a summary in this regard was lying with the chief minister for approval....
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KARACHI: Fruit-vendors overcharge, ignore govt rate list
KARACHI, Sept 16: Except for some relief in the prices of melons, people continued to pay high rates for almost all fruit varieties at the end of the 15th of Ramazan...
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KARACHI: Prof Rafat Karim passes away
KARACHI, Sept 16: Professor Dr Rafat Karim, Pakistan’s leading authority on Shakespeare and president of the Shakespeare Association of Pakistan, died of cardiac arrest on Tuesday. He was 68....
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HYDERABAD: SHC wants policemen booked for death in custody
HYDERABAD, Sept 16: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court has upheld the order of additional sessions judge-I of Mirpurkhas and directed a petitioner to lodge an FIR at...
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HYDERABAD: Police accused of distorting murder FIR
HYDERABAD, Sept 16: A resident of Yasrab Colony Islamabad, Hyderabad has accused Phulelli police of distorting the FIR in the murder case of his father and demanded to transfer the case to Crime Branch for reinvestigation....
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HYDERABAD: Teachers saddened by demise of leader
HYDERABAD, Sept 16: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association at a meeting held here has expressed profound sorrow over the sudden death of its president Syed Riaz Ahsan and termed it...
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HYDERABAD: Job test on 20th
HYDERABAD, Sept 16: Hyderabad Community Development Department EDO Shafaat Hussain Unnar has announced that the written test and interviews for the recruitment of vacant posts including assistant, senior clerk, junior clerk,...
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KARACHI: Mercury climbs down to 32°C
KARACHI, Sept 16: The city got some relief from the heat wave that had gripped the city for the past few days as the mercury climbed down by nearly seven degrees and the highest temperature recorded on Tuesday was 32°C....
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SANGHAR: Landlord fends kidnappers off
SANGHAR, Sept 16: A landlord foiled a bid to kidnap him in Ward No. 16, here on Monday night....
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HYDERABAD: Adabi board to publish Girami’s work
HYDERABAD, Sept 16: Sindhi Adabi Board vice-chairman Shaikh Aziz has announced that the board will publish the writings of Moulana Girami in two volumes....
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DADU: Power outage sparks protests
DADU, Sept 16: Residents of Jamshoro town and its surrounding areas observed strike and staged a demonstration on Dadu-Jamshoro railway track on Tuesday to protest against power outage for last two days....
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PESHAWAR: More than one boss create confusion at prime hospitals
PESHAWAR, Sept 16: Six doctors have been working against three sanctioned posts of medical superintendents at various hospitals in the province, official sources say....
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BUNER: Two suicide jackets, explosives recovered
BUNER, Sept 16: The Buner police claimed on Tuesday to have foiled a sabotage bid and seized two suicide jackets from suspected militants....
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KOHAT: 3 militants escape Kohat prison
KOHAT, Sept 16: Three convicted militants, including the mastermind of bomb attacks on CD shops, escaped from the Kohat district prison early Tuesday morning....
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KOHAT: Six security men injured in attack on convoy
KOHAT, Sept 16: Six security personnel were injured, three of them critically, in a remote-control bomb attack on a convoy in Darra Adamkhel on Tuesday....
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