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KARACHI: Flaws in security plan put sensitive buildings at risk
KARACHI, Oct 19: As a terror threat looms over the country considering last month’s bomb attacks in Punjab and Islamabad, the police authorities have found serious flaws in security arrangements made... 
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KARACHI: ST man among three killed
KARACHI, Oct 19: Three people, including a 22-year-old worker of the Sunni Tehreek, were killed on Sunday in violent activities in different parts of the city, police and witnesses said....
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KARACHI: Sabzi Mandi becoming ‘mini-Bajaur,’ says report
KARACHI, Oct 19: A report submitted to the Sindh agriculture minister recommends that to save the New Sabzi Mandi on the Super Highway from becoming a ‘mini-Bajaur and Waziristan’ and a...
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KARACHI: Pakistan risks losing orbital slot if satellite not launched
KARACHI, Oct 19: The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) is at present focusing on launching a communication satellite, a target that the organisation says will be achieved by 2011....
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KARACHI: Minibuses torched in Surjani, Orangi
KARACHI, Oct 19: Two minibuses were set on fire in separate parts of the city on Sunday....Witnesses said a fast-moving Khan Coach knocked down a motorcyclist in Surjani Town. They said the onlookers caught the minibus driver and gave him a hiding....
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KARACHI: Law enforcers enjoy liberal use of unclaimed vehicles
KARACHI, Oct 19: Let alone the law-enforcement agencies, even civilians having the ‘right connections’ are using unclaimed vehicles for their personal use, which are supposed to be deposited at the central...
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KARACHI: Traders plan ‘revolt’ against KESC
KARACHI, Oct 19: The Old City Traders Alliance (OCTA), Karachi, has warned that they would seize the head office of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) if the privatization agreement of the utility....
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KARACHI: 340m gallons untreated sewage makes its way into sea daily: Treatment plant out of order
KARACHI, Oct 19: The sewage treating capacity of the KWSB treatment plants has shrunk to a mere 60 million gallons a day as one of its treatment plants has abruptly stopped functioning....
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KARACHI: Five Indian fishermen arrested
KARACHI, Oct 19: Five Indian fishermen were arrested on Saturday for fishing illegally in Pakistani territorial waters....
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KARACHI: Cell to control trafficking of women
KARACHI, Oct 19: The recently created “women trafficking control cell” will start functioning from next month....
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KARACHI: ‘Discrimination with Sindhis’ slated
KARACHI, Oct 19: Speakers at a meeting on Sunday urged the elected government to start working and solve the pressing problems being faced for years by people, who were continuing to...
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KARACHI: Larkana package
KARACHI, Oct 19: Sindh Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad Ayaz Soomro has said that package of Rs7 billion has been approved for the development of Larkana city....
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KARACHI: Reinstatement of deposed judges demanded
KARACHI, Oct 19: The Jamaat-i-Islami, Sindh, has said that the warm welcome accorded to deposed chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudary in Hyderabad has proved that the masses want restoration of independent judiciary and reinstatement of all deposed judges....
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HYDERABAD: Absence of ‘free courts’ delayed Karsaz FIR registration: Justice Chaudhry’s Hyderabad address
HYDERABAD, Oct 19: Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has said that had the Supreme Court been working (independently) the FIR of Karsaz bombing would have been lodged on Oct 18 and the culprits arrested....
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HYDERABAD: SAU employees plan long march to Karachi
HYDERABAD, Oct 19: The All Sindh Universities Employees Federation at a meeting at the Sindh Agriculture University has rejected any inquiry against SAU Vice-Chancellor Dr Bashir Shaikh as long as he...
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DADU: Law on women’s rights urged
DADU, Oct 19: A large number of women from four districts of Sindh took out a rally here on Sunday, demanding equal political, economic and social rights for women....
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Animals imported for zoo
HYDERABAD, Oct 19: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil said on Sunday that 75 per cent of animals for Rani Bagh zoo had been imported and it was now officers’ duty to...
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HYDERABAD: Call to conduct admission test again
HYDERABAD, Oct 19: Pakistan People’s Party MNA Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur has said he has received innumerable complaints about irregularities, corruption, favouritism and nepotism in the test for admission to MBBS...
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PESHAWAR: Teaching hospitals to get bosses on lucrative packages
PESHAWAR, Oct 19: The NWFP government has decided to appoint chief executives (CEs) at four major hospitals on lucrative packages to benefit their ‘blue-eyed’ in the health sector....
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PESHAWAR: District nazims to meet on 22nd
PESHAWAR, Oct 19: A meeting of the district nazims of NWFP has been convened on October 22 (Wednesday) here to chalk out policy in wake of media reports about changes in Local Government Ordinance 2001....
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PESHAWAR: Marble city’s future hangs in the balance
PESHAWAR, Oct 19: Despite provision of funds by the government, the Pakistan Stone Development Company (Pasdec) has yet to complete the marble city project in the Mohmand tribal region....
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CHARSADDA: US national sent to judicial lock-up
CHARSADDA, Oct 19: A local court sent a US national of Pakistani origin to the judicial lock-up for 14 days here on Sunday. Jude Kenan, whose local name is Jawad Ali,...
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KOHAT: Tribesmen ask Taliban to leave Orakzai
KOHAT, Oct 19: Four out of 18 tribes have banned the activities of the Taliban in Orakzai Agency following an assurance by the government that the ongoing military operation in the tribal region would be suspended....
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PESHAWAR: ROZs to get Congress nod soon: Boucher
PESHAWAR, Oct 19: The US Congress will give go ahead to the plan of setting up of Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs) in NWFP and Fata as part of its cooperation with...
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SUKKUR: Tribal clash claims youth’s life
SUKKUR, Oct 19: The ongoing dispute between Mahar and Gabol communities claimed a life near village Bachal Gabol situated in Yaroo Loond police limits Ghotki district on Sunday....
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NAWABSHAH: PPP workers seek jobs in school
NAWABSHAH, Oct 19: Activists of Pakistan People’s Party held a demonstration and observed a token hunger strike outside the press club on Sunday in protest against non-provision of jobs at a school for which they had donated land....
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DADU: Man kidnapped
DADU, Oct 19: Seven armed men kidnapped a man from Bhan road. The victim, Mohammad Azim Kolachi, a resident of Qazi Ahmed, was on a visit to Dadu to meet his relatives....
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