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KARACHI: Over 60 lockers broken open in another heist
KARACHI, Oct 20: In a heist eerily similar to the one experienced by the same bank some time back, a pair of robbers broke open lockers of a Habib Bank branch... 
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KARACHI: Power tariff cut ordered for ‘lifeline consumers’
KARACHI, Oct 20: Amid mounting public outrage against a massive increase in power tariff by the Karachi Electric Supply Company, the utility has been directed by the government to cut down the tariff hike from 70 per cent to 5.5...
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KARACHI: Security firms told to recruit locals
KARACHI, Oct 20: The Sindh government has ordered the implementation of a 2002 decision pertaining to the recruitment of local people in security companies and providing them with necessary training....
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PESHAWAR: Lashkars fail to subdue militants
PESHAWAR, Oct 20: The government’s strategy to counter militancy through raising lashkars is proving counterproductive in Fata particularly in volatile Bajaur region where armed volunteers are reluctant to go after militants,...
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PESHAWAR: MI chief, police officials put on notice over missing man
PESHAWAR, Oct 20: The Peshawar High Court on Monday put on notice the director general of Military Intelligence (MI), deputy superintendent of police and station house officer of Matta Tehsil, Swat...
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PESHAWAR: 2 Afghans held with explosives
PESHAWAR, Oct 20: The city police on Monday claimed to have arrested two Afghan nationals from Board Chowk of the University Road and recovered explosives from their possession....
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PESHAWAR: Wheeljam over police ‘excesses’ on 26th
PESHAWAR, Oct 20: Sarhad Transport Owners Association (STOA), Peshawar chapter on Monday announced to observe wheeljam on October 26 against the ‘high-handedness’ of the traffic police in the city....
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ABBOTTABAD: Former minister, brother arrested
ABBOTTABAD, Oct 20: Former provincial minister for local governments Sardar Mohammad Idrees and his brother Fazlur Rehman were arrested here on Monday after the anti-terrorism court, Abbottabad cancelled their bail plea....
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KARACHI: Chanesar Goth — another lawless Lyari in the making
KARACHI, Oct 20: Law-enforcement agencies are fast realising that the kind of frightening lawlessness that has come to be associated with Lyari is finding another breeding ground in the narrow lanes of the city’s oldest rural settlement called Chanesar Goth....
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PESHAWAR: 9 to 12-hour loadshedding plan unveiled
PESHAWAR, Oct 20: Peshawar Electric Supply Corporation (Pesco) has unveiled 9 to 12-hour daily loadshedding in NWFP in line with a new scheduled to meet the gap between supply and demand....
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KARACHI: Man, son get life for murder
KARACHI, Oct 20: An additional district and sessions judge on Monday jailed for life a man and his son in a murder case....
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KARACHI: Permanent solution to fishermen’s detention issue stressed
KARACHI, Oct 20: Speakers at a seminar held here on Monday urged the governments of Pakistan and India to take a lenient view of the cases of fishermen detained by...
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KARACHI: Start of college session from April termed ‘impracticable’
KARACHI, Oct 20: Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) has described the provincial education department’s decision of starting academic session of colleges from April 1 as “impracticable”, and urged the authorities...
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KARACHI: SSC-I Science group results out
KARACHI, Oct 20: The Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) on Monday notified the result of SSC-I (class IX) Science group annual examination-2008 on Monday....
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KARACHI: Gang busted; vehicles and CNG kits recovered
KARACHI, Oct 20: Five suspects allegedly involved in carjacking and theft of CNG kits from vehicles were arrested....
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KARACHI: Junior doctors protest denial of pay raise
KARACHI, Oct 20: A group of house officers working at the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) on Monday staged a protest demonstration in front of the office of the hospital’s medical superintendent,...
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KARACHI: Exhibition at Citiart
KARACHI, Oct 20: An exhibition of paintings by Mehtab Ali opens on Tuesday at the Citi art gallery at 6pm....
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KARACHI: KU meeting to debate pre-test issue today
KARACHI, Oct 20: Facing a storm of criticism over the NTS (National Testing Services) entry test fiasco that occurred on Sunday, Karachi University’s high-ups will debate the issue of beginning admission...
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KARACHI: Notice issued to CS in promotion case
KARACHI, Oct 20: The Sindh High Court on Monday issued notices to the chief secretary and other respondents in a petition moved by a grade 19 officer against the government’s failure...
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HYDERABAD: Govt urged to help SU establish Pir Hussam chair
HYDERABAD, Oct 20: Noted local and foreign scholars and historians have urged the relevant authorities to provide the University of Sindh with the required resources for the establishment of Pir Hussamuddin Rashidi chair to undertake research on various incomplete projects....
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KHAIRPUR: Two bandits held after ‘encounters’
KHAIRPUR, Oct 20: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested after encounters bandits Riaz Mohammad alias Chado Jagirani, carrying head money of Rs500,000, and Bego Mari, who were wanted in over 20 criminal cases....
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HYDERABAD: Farmers plan protest against water shortage
HYDERABAD, Oct 20: The Sindh Abadgar Tehrik would hold demonstrations across the province on Oct 24-25 in protest against acute shortage of water and fertiliser, low return on crops and price hike of agricultural inputs....
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DADU: Students present plays
DADU, Oct 20: An event titled “Improving English learning” was held in Johi on Monday under the aegis of the Cognitive Learning Centre, a language centre founded by the Johi Organisation for Rural Development and Natural Disaster (JORDAN)....
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NAWABSHAH: Cotton growers’ complaint
NAWABSHAH, Oct 20: Cotton growers of Nawabshah have demanded of higher authorities to take action against cotton ginners for not paying the government fixed-price of cotton to the growers....
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HYDERABAD: Teachers call for following seniority list in promotions
HYDERABAD, Oct 20: Criticising promotion of junior teachers to higher grades, the Sindh Professors and Subject Specialists Association, Hyderabad chapter, demanded doing away with the policy of favouritism and nepotism in education sector....
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NAWABSHAH: 750 job letters distributed
NAWABSHAH, Oct 20: PPP MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio has said that the government will take strict action against those officials asking for bribes for appointments in government departments....
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HYDERABAD: Need stressed for improved economic reporting
HYDERABAD, Oct 20: Media personnel are required to look into emerging issues of economic reporting because print journalism is going to grow more in terms of regional and national newspapers in future....
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HYDERABAD: Karsaz victims remembered
HYDERABAD, Oct 20: Sindh People’s Youth Organisation, Hyderabad division chapter, organised a commemorative gathering on Sunday to pay tribute to victims of Karsaz blasts....
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PESHAWAR: ‘Annual targets’ set for officers’ promotion
PESHAWAR, Oct 20: Every officer serving in Frontier province will have to meet ‘annual targets’ to qualify for promotion to the senior grades following an amendment in the annual confidential report (ACR)....
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PESHAWAR: Govt asked to honour LGs’ mandate
PESHAWAR, Oct 20: Members of the Town-II council on Monday expressed resentment over the reports about NWFP government’s move to ‘weaken’ the LG system and asked the government to honour mandate of the local bodies and stop conspiring against them....
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PESHAWAR: NAB barred from using tinted glass in vehicles
PESHAWAR, Oct 20: The NWFP government turned down a request of National Accountability Bureau (Frontier) about using tinted glass in VIP vehicles in view of the growing militancy in the province, sources said....
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