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KARACHI: Inquiry tribunal fails to identify April 9 culprits
KARACHI, Oct 24: The inquiry tribunal, which was entrusted with the task of identifying culprits behind the April 9 violence that left 11 people dead, has offered no guidelines to the... 
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KARACHI: Activities remain suspended in KU
KARACHI, Oct 24: The Karachi University wore a deserted look on Friday morning after suspension of academic and administrative activities a day earlier on account of protests by students and non-teaching staff....
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KARACHI: Minister vows to build park on Gutter Baghicha site
KARACHI, Oct 24: Sindh Katchi Abadis Minister Rafiq Engineer said on Friday that a park would be developed at the Gutter Baghicha and nobody would be allowed to misuse the amenity plot....
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KARACHI: Cantonment board restrained in amenity plot conversion case
KARACHI, Oct 24: A division bench of the Sindh High Court restrained the Faisal cantonment board on Friday from taking coercive action to recover conversion charges from the owners of CNG...
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MINGORA: Jirga warns Taliban to leave Matta in 3 days: Schools open today
MINGORA, Oct 24: A jirga of over 4,000 tribal elders from different villages of the restive Matta tehsil on Friday gave a three-day deadline to the Taliban to leave the area or face action of an armed lashkar (tribal force)....
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KHAR: 14 more militants killed in Bajaur
KHAR, Oct 24: 14 more militants were killed and eight others inured as security forces pounded suspected militant hideouts in restive Bajaur Agency on Friday....
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KARACHI: Napa puts up Badal Sircar play on Nov 6
KARACHI, Oct 24: The ongoing battle between the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) and the Sindh government to vacate the Hindu Gymkhana became the focus of a press conference held on Friday on the Napa premises....
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KARACHI: Lukewarm response to JI strike call over tariff hike
KARACHI, Oct 24: Businessmen, industrialists, traders and shopkeepers in Karachi gave a lukewarm response to the Jamaat-i-Islami’s shutterdown call for Friday as only a few markets were closed, although the call...
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KARACHI: Energy policy, Wapda & KESC under fire
KARACHI, Oct 24: Amid widespread protests across the country against the massive increase in power tariff, participants of a seminar held here on Thursday evening condemned the KESC for pursuing the...
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KARACHI: Inter (Arts) results out
KARACHI, Oct 24: Special (regular) candidates fared much better than regular and private candidates in the Higher Secondary School Certificate Part-II (Humanities group) annual examinations, results of which were announced on Friday....
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KARACHI: Plea for transfer of kidnap case rejected
KARACHI, Oct 24: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday rejected an application for the transfer of a case pertaining to the kidnapping of a four-year-old boy for ransom to a regular court....
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THATTA: Health project brings little improvement
THATTA, Oct 24: Lack of coordination, supervision and implementation have so far kept the benefits of the People’s Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI) from trickling down to masses and managed to bring little visible improvements in the health sector of the district....
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HYDERABAD: No compromise on independence of judiciary: CJ
HYDERABAD, Oct 24: Chief Justice of Sindh High Court Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali has said that when certain things suffer from a trauma or shock, it takes some time to restore confidence but people will see an independent judiciary working....
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HYDERABAD: SU issues merit list for MA admission
HYDERABAD, Oct 24: The University of Sindh has issued first provisional merit list of candidates selected for admissions to masters degree programme under quota system....
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HYDERABAD: Chakki owners accused of creating flour shortage
HYDERABAD, Oct 24: Sindh food department vigilance committee Chairman, Shahnawaz Magsi, has refuted the allegations of the chakki owners against him and said that the chakki owners were trying to hoodwink the people by distorting facts....
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HYDERABAD: Councillors urged to serve community
HYDERABAD, Oct 24: Sindh University pro-vice chancellor Professor Dr Rafia Ahmed Shaikh has called upon women councillors of Sindh to fulfil their responsibilities by serving community....
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MIRPURKHAS: Cleanliness drive
MIRPURKHAS, Oct 24: Mirpurkhas taluka municipal administration launched cleanliness drive from union council No-1 here on Friday....
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HYDERABAD: Group highlights problems of NA-221
HYDERABAD, Oct 24: A newly-formed Constituency Relation Group for NA-221 Hyderabad comprising professors, political and social activists, women and students has said that the main objective of the group was to...
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LANDI KOTAL: Tribesmen hail resolution on ending militancy
LANDI KOTAL, Oct 24: People from a cross section of the tribal society here have welcomed the 14-point resolution passed during the in-camera joint sitting of the parliament, which stipulates a...
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SWAT: Violence shatters students’ hopes in Swat
SWAT, Oct 21: “My dreams of becoming a doctor have been all but shattered,” said Sara Khan, aged 18, at Swat Public School. Her college had been open twice a week - providing there was no curfew or bombing....
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PESHAWAR: Frontier accuses Punjab of using wheat as a tool
PESHAWAR, Oct 24: The NWFP government on Friday termed the ban on movement of wheat and flour by Punjab as unconstitutional and said that it was being used as a tool by the Punjab government....
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MANSEHRA: Clearance of debris starts after 3 years: Quake-hit hospital
MANSEHRA, Oct 24: Work on the demolition and clearance of debris of the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital, which was badly damaged in the October 8 earthquake, started after the Earthquake Rehabilitation...
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MARDAN: Girl among two killed in Mardan clash
MARDAN, Oct 24: Two persons including a minor girl were killed and two others sustained serious injuries in a clash between proclaimed offenders and villagers of Naway Kalley on Friday evening....
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PESHAWAR: Man indicted in Sherpao case
PESHAWAR, Oct 24: An anti-terrorism court here on Friday indicted an accused for the last year’s suicide bombing targeting the then interior minister, Aftab Ahmad Sherpao, in Charsadda.The...
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PESHAWAR: Reshuffle in bureaucracy
PESHAWAR, Oct 24: The NWFP government has ordered transfer and posting of several officers with immediate effect....
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PESHAWAR: Police sceptical of lashkars
PESHAWAR, Oct 24: Officials of different police stations in the rural circle have expressed reservations over the formation of Awami Lashkars (public forces) and feared that if the law and order...
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Bomb defused in D. I. Khan market
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Oct 24: The police reportedly foiled a terror attempt by defusing a time-device fitted on a bicycle at the Bara Market here on Thursday night....
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ABBOTTABAD: Law to register clinical labs soon
ABBOTTABAD, Oct 24: National Accreditation Programme for clinical laboratories has been launched and all laboratories will be registered with the College of Pathology of Pakistan (CPP) soon after legislation....
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