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KARACHI: SHC seeks solution to problem of illegal constructions
KARACHI, Sept 18: The Sindh High Court summoned the high-ups of the city district government, the Sindh Police, the board of revenue, the Karachi Building Control Authority, the Karachi Water and... 
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KARACHI: US aggression criticised in city council
KARACHI, Sept 18: In a unanimously adopted resolution, the City Council on Thursday condemned the US and other allied forces’ aggression against peaceful and innocent people, including women and children, in Bajaur, Miramshah and other tribal areas of Pakistan....
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KARACHI: Govt asks Napa to vacate building
KARACHI, Sept 18: The Sindh government has directed the National Academy of Performing Arts to vacate the Hindu Gymkhana within three months....
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KARACHI: Lawyers insist on reinstatement of Justice Iftikhar
KARACHI, Sept 18: Despite having suffered many setbacks during the last few months, members of the legal fraternity are still optimistic that their struggle will bear fruit in the form of...
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KARACHI: KBCA fails to check illegal construction
KARACHI, Sept 18: At least 116 buildings are being constructed illegally in just three towns — Lyari, Saddar and Liaquatabad — of the city either with the connivance of or due to the inefficiency of the Karachi Building Control Authority....
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KARACHI: City govt may get back KBCA control
KARACHI, Sept 18: The Mass Transit Project Authority and the Karachi Building Control Authority would be restored to the Karachi City District Government and the development funds curtailed by the federal...
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HYDERABAD: Karo-kari is a money-making business: victim’s father
HYDERABAD, Sept 18: Police head constable Karim Bux Shar whose daughter fled the husband’s house for fear of getting killed as kari and took refuge at Darul Aman said on Thursday...
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HYDERABAD: Call for rescuing cooperative societies to safeguard depositors’ interests
HYDERABAD, Sept 18: Members of the Khwaja community have appealed to the president, prime minister, chief minister, social welfare organisations and specially Prince Karim Aga Khan to take notice of the...
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HYDERABAD: Lawyers determined to continue struggle
HYDERABAD, Sept 18: Lawyers boycotted courts and held rallies in several districts of the province on Thursday on a call given by the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and Supreme Court Bar...
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PESHAWAR: Three Russian prisoners freed on PHC order: Deportation soon
PESHAWAR, Sept 18: Three Russian captives including an army deserter were released from the Peshawar Central Prison on Thursday on the order of the Peshawar High Court....
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CHARSADDA: Blasts damage police station
CHARSADDA, Sept 18: Two improvised explosive devices went off near Umerzai police station, damaging the building and shattering windowpanes of nearby houses in Charsadda in the small hours of Thursday, officials and residents said....
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PESHAWAR: Documentary depicts woes of displaced persons
PESHAWAR, Sept 18: A 17-minute documentary, depicting the miseries of displaced people of Bajuar, was screened here at the Peshawar Press Club on Thursday....
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KARACHI: Fire tenders’ private maintenance costs more to city govt
KARACHI, Sept 18: Despite its two workshops equipped with the required equipment and staff, the city government continues to outsource the maintenance of its fire tenders, which cost the local authorities about Rs10 million a year....
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KARACHI: Man arrested for killing wife
KARACHI, Sept 18: A 40-year-old man was arrested in Landhi on Thursday for allegedly killing his wife....
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KARACHI: Ramazan sees surge in motorcycle theft
KARACHI, Sept 18: There has been a sharp rise in incidents of motorcycle theft and snatching in the city during the first 16 days of Ramazan, as compared to the corresponding period last year, Dawn has learnt....
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KARACHI: Rangers’ permanent stay in KU opposed
KARACHI, Sept 18: The Karachi University Teachers Society (KUTS) has opposed deployment of the Rangers on the KU campus on a permanent basis....
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KARACHI: Suspect in lockers heist case gets bail
KARACHI, Sept 18: The civil judge and judicial magistrate-III, South, on Thursday granted bail to one of the suspects in a bank robbery case against a surety bond of Rs100,000....
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KARACHI: 10 rescued
KARACHI, Sept 18: The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) on Wednesday evening rescued a fishing boat, Al-Zeeshan, and its 10 crew members in the deep sea near Gwadar, an MSA statement issued on Thursday said....
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KARACHI: Accident
KARACHI, Sept 18: A middle-aged couple and their two-year-old son were injured in a road accident near Star Gate....
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KARACHI: Body found
KARACHI, Sept 18: A partially decomposed body of an unidentified young man was found near Hazrat Abbas Colony, police and witnesses said....
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MIRPURKHAS: Woman’s body exhumed
MIRPURKHAS, Sept 18: A special medical board took samples of tissue of different organs after exhuming the body of Seema Khaskheli in Ismail Shah Shaheed graveyard in the presence of a judicial magistrate and police officers in Satellite town on Thursday....
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HYDERABAD: Suspected members of kidnappers’ gang held
HYDERABAD, Sept 18: Police have arrested two members of a gang which had kidnapped the director-general designs of provincial works and services department and recovered the ransom money of Rs3.6...
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SANGHAR: Transfer sought
SANGHAR, Sept 18: The government contractors continued their protest on Thursday against the EDO of finance....
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NAWABSHAH: Lecturers oppose principal’s move
NAWABSHAH, Sept 18: The Nawabshah chapter of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association continued hunger strike outside the press club in protest against the principal of Government Degree College on Thursday....
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SHIKARPUR: Traders warn of strike
SHIKARPUR, Sept 18: Traders threatened to observe shutter-down strike if the police failed to arrest the culprits behind attack on life of Engineer Hans Raj, said a meeting of the executive committee of Small Traders Association on Thursday....
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SANGHAR: 24 bonded labourers freed
SANGHAR, Sept 18: Khipro police on orders of the district and sessions judge have raided a brick kiln and recovered 24 bonded labourers working there....
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PESHAWAR: Govt unable to check rising doctors’ fee
PESHAWAR, Sept 18: The ANP-led provincial government is finding it hard to check the charging of high consultation fee by doctors from patients in private clinics due to lack of a mechanism to implement the rules notified four years ago....
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PESHAWAR: Transport Department established
PESHAWAR, Sept 18: The NWFP government has established a separate transport department to improve the performance of the sector....
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PESHAWAR: PHC bench declines to hear sanctity of ballot case
PESHAWAR, Sept 18: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Thursday declined to hear a writ petition challenging the showing of marked ballot papers by most of the members...
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