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KARACHI: SHC prohibits construction work on ‘KWSB land’
KARACHI, Sept 26: The Sindh High Court prohibited on Friday any construction work on a 200-acre piece of land claimed by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board till further notice.... 
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KARACHI: PM wants work on Lyari expressway expedited
KARACHI, Sept 26: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has directed the National Highway Authority (NHA) to complete the unfinished Lyari Expressway at the earliest....
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KARACHI: Minister assails ‘negative’ media reports
KARACHI, Sept 26: Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Friday criticised the media for running what he described as negative stories about law-enforcement agencies that failed to recognise the progress the country had made against terrorism....
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KARACHI: Handover of traffic control to city govt opposed: 20,000 CNG buses needed: DIG
KARACHI, Sept 26: DIG Traffic Wajid Ali Durrani has said that 20,000 CNG buses are required to provide some relief to millions of commuters who are forced to use the substandard public transport in the city....
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HYDERABAD: Al Quds Day observed in Sindh
HYDERABAD, Sept 26: Al Quds Day was observed accorss Sindh on Friday to condemn Israel’s brutal occupation of Baitul Maqaddas, one of the holiest sites of Islam....
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MINGORA: Mortar shell kills woman, son in Mingora
MINGORA, Sept 26: A paramilitary soldier and two policemen were injured in separate attacks by militants while a woman and her son were killed when a mortar shell hit their house on Friday....
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PESHAWAR: Civil disobedience feared in Swat
PESHAWAR, Sept 26: The law and order situation in Swat has deteriorated to such an extent that common people are poised to start ‘civil disobedience’, some residents and police officials fear....
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TIMERGARA: Protesting prisoners stick to demands
TIMERGARA, Sept 26: More than 500 inmates of the Timergara District Prison continued their protest on Friday against what they said delay in hearing of their cases due to the prevailing law and order situation in Swat and lawyers’ movement....
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KARACHI: Saeedabad shootout sparks panic in sleepy locality
KARACHI, Sept 26: The residents of Saeedabad, Sector 11, woke up on Friday morning by the ominous rattle of gunfire and found afterwards that an inconspicuously small house in their locality...
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KARACHI: Water shortage in DHA
KARACHI, Sept 26: The managing director of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, Ghulam Arif, called on the administrator of Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Brig Khalid Tirmizi, at his office on Friday and discussed the problem of water shortage in DHA....
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KARACHI: Large-scale transfer of teachers begins
KARACHI, Sept 26: Transfer and posting of a large number of teachers from one college to another has been started with the commencement of the new academic year....
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KARACHI: ‘Benazir chair’ being established in KU, SU
KARACHI, Sept 26: The Sindh government has decided to establish “Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Chair” in the Karachi University and the Sindh University....
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KARACHI: Demand for strict security at KU
KARACHI, Sept 26: While expressing satisfaction over the vice chancellor’s decision to debar a student accused of thrashing three university teachers on Aug 26, Karachi University Teachers’ Society has warned the...
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KARACHI: SBTE declares results
KARACHI, Sept 26: The Sindh Board of Technical Education has announced the results of diploma in Commerce part-II annual examinations....
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KARACHI: Guard gets bail in bank heist case
KARACHI, Sept 26: An additional district and sessions court, south, granted bail to a suspect against a surety of Rs100,000 in a bank robbery case on Friday....
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KARACHI: Teachers hold protest
KARACHI, Sept 26: Teaching and non-teaching activities remained suspended at Rana Liaquat Ali Khan College of Home Economics and Khatoon-i-Pakistan College on Friday in protest against the Sindh government’s decision of...
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KARACHI: Man found in N. Nazimabad
KARACHI, Sep 26: A young man was found dead in a gunny bag in North Nazimabad area on Friday....
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KARACHI: STDC board meets after 15 years
KARACHI, Sept 26: The first meeting of the board of governors of Sindh Tourism Development Corporation (STDC) was held on Thursday. The meeting is held, approximately, after over a decade and...
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MIRPURKHAS: Police officials accused of backing ‘killer cops’
MIRPURKHAS, Sept 26: Old Mirpur union council nazim Ghulam Mohammad Shah has called on the Sindh police chief to take note of the alleged negligence of the Mirpurkhas police....
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HYDERABAD: Team to manage hospital waste
HYDERABAD, Sept 26: A non-government organisation (NGO) working for the improvement in hospital waste management system at the Liaquat University hospitals in Hyderabad and Jamshoro has formed a waste management team....
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THATTA: Sit-in on Highway
THATTA, Sept 26: Around 300 to 400 needy persons on Friday staged a sit-in on National Highway to protest the delay in their payments from the Baitul Maal....
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THATTA: MPA alleges corruption in dist govt department
THATTA, Sept 26: Pakistan People’s Party MPA Humera Alwani, while criticising the alleged corruption and mismanagement in the district works and communications department, has called for concrete steps for improving the performance of the department....
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PESHAWAR: Six Nepalese challenge detention under FCR
PESHAWAR, Sept 26: The Peshawar High Court on Friday put on notice the administration of Khyber Tribal agency and Peshawar Central Prison’s superintendent in a habeas corpus petition filed by six Nepalese challenging their detention under the Frontier Crimes Regulation....
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WANA: Tribesman killed in Taliban attack
WANA, Sept 26: A local tribesman was killed and four Taliban militants were injured when they clashed in the Shakai area of South Waziristan Agency on Friday....
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