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KARACHI: Benazir Bhutto Chair set up at KU
KARACHI, Nov 12: Amidst generous praise for the slain former prime minister, the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Chair was established at the University of Karachi on Wednesday at a dedication ceremony held in the Arts Auditorium of the varsity.... 
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KARACHI: Banks told to adopt legal means for recovery of loans
KARACHI, Nov 12: The Sindh High Court disposed of nine identical petitions agitating harassment of alleged consumer loan defaulters by bank recovery teams with a direction to the respondent commercial banks to adopt legal means for recovery of outstanding amounts....
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KARACHI: MQM man among three killed in violent acts
KARACHI, Nov 12: Three people, including a 35-year-old worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, were killed in different parts of the city on Wednesday, police and witnesses said....
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KARACHI: St Joseph’s College observes diamond jubilee
KARACHI, Nov 12: The St Joseph’s College is observing its diamond jubilee this year. Founded in 1948 to educate women with the aim of “making them perfect citizens of the brave...
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KARACHI: Eyewitness identifies friend’s ‘kidnapper’
KARACHI, Nov 12: An anti-terrorism court recorded the testimony of a witness, who could not testify earlier due to paucity of time, in a kidnapping for ransom and murder case of a customs clearing agent on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Action against profiteers
KARACHI, Nov 12: City Government officials with magisterial powers penalised 105 people for profiteering in different areas of the city. They were found selling wheat flour at a rate higher than the one fixed by the government....
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KARACHI: Private schools told to get registered within 30 days
KARACHI, Nov 12: The directorate of private institutions, Sindh, has asked all unregistered private schools to get registered within 30 days or face legal action....
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KARACHI: Transporters withdraw strike call
KARACHI, Nov 12: A representative delegation of the Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI) and other organisations of public transport operators called on Sindh Minister for Transport Akhtar Hussain Jadoon to discuss their grievances....
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KARACHI: Exhibition showcases works by six photographers
KARACHI: For many people, one of the most prized possessions that they can cherish are photos. Preserved in albums or when mounted and framed, they are safely and lovingly put on corner tables or mantelpieces....
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KARACHI: The path less traveled
KARACHI, Nov 12: The journey has been central to the development of spirituality in Islam in both its spiritual and physical manifestations, as mystics and scholars have crisscrossed the world in search of truth....
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KARACHI: Rally demands arrest of BNP leader’s killers
KARACHI, Nov 12: Activists and supporters of the Baloch National Alliance, a conglomerate of several Baloch nationalist parties, staged a demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday to condemn the...
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KARACHI: Weather
KARACHI, Nov 12: The Met Office has forecast fair weather with hazy/misty morning for the metropolis on Thursday with the temperature expected to range between 18 and 34 degrees centigrade.—APP...
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KARACHI: Minister vows strict check on doctors: Free medicines at govt hospitals
KARACHI, Nov 12: Sindh Minister for health Dr Sagheer Ahmad has said that the government wants every needy patient to get medicines free of cost at all the government healthcare centres across the province....
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KARACHI: Fake CNICs scam
KARACHI, Nov 12: Deputy Chairman of NADRA Tariq Malik has said that the national database is completely secure....
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KARACHI: ADP schemes reviewed
KARACHI, Nov 12: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Wednesday presided over a meeting held at the chief minister’s house to review various ongoing development schemes being carried out by different departments under the Annual Development Programme....
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KARACHI: SHC issues notices in plot case to police, others
KARACHI, Nov 12: A division bench of the High Court of Sindh (SHC) on Wednesday issued notices to respondents for Nov 19 in a case of encroachment of a plot adjacent to a police station....
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KARACHI: 16 Indian fishermen held, boats seized
KARACHI, Nov 12: Sixteen Indian fishermen were arrested by the Maritime Security Agency for violating Pakistan’s territorial waters, an MSA spokesperson, Lt-Commander Shakil Ahmed Khan, told Dawn on Wednesday....
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HYDERABAD: SHC issues notices to Hesco chief
HYDERABAD, Nov 12: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued notices to chief executive officer of Hesco and deputy attorney general (DAG) to appear in court...
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HYDERABAD: Only 4 post-graduate psychiatrists working in Sindh govt hospitals
HYDERABAD, Nov 12: Speakers expressed their anguish over the fact that only four consultant psychiatrists were working in the Sindh government hospitals. They called upon the government to give incentives to...
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UMERKOT: Growers blame officials for shortage of water
UMERKOT, Nov 12: Growers and general public have accused irrigation officials of creating artificial shortage of water in the Umerkot area by letting influential landlords tamper with watercourses and steal water meant for irrigating land and drinking....
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HYDERABAD: Dist govt sends more goods for quake victims
HYDERABAD, Nov 12: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that the district government will continue to dispatch relief goods to the quake- hit people of Balochistan till their rehabilitation....
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HYDERABAD: Villager wants erring lab closed
HYDERABAD, Nov 12: A villager has accused a privately-run laboratory of issuing him a wrong test report, which declared that his son’s kidneys had failed, and demanded its closure....
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HYDERABAD: Policeman killed by bandits
HYDERABAD, Nov 12: A police constable of Tando Allahyar was shot dead by the fleeing bandits, who had earlier looted the passengers of a wagon when the policemen signalled the car to stop near Hakra Mori police post on Tuesday night....
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HYDERABAD: Water filter plants
HYDERABAD, Nov 12: The District Coordination Officer (DCO) of Hyderabad, Ali Ahmed Loond, has expressed his dissatisfaction over the pace of development work for installation of filtration plants for Clean Drinking...
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PESHAWAR: FIA crackdown on moneychangers extended to NWFP
PESHAWAR, Nov 12: Officials of the Federal Investigation Agency on Wednesday conducted raids in different districts of the NWFP, arresting four people and seizing currency notes of different countries....
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PESHAWAR: Violence forces filmmakers to shoot in Punjab, Afghanistan
PESHAWAR, Nov 12: Filmmakers of the violence-wracked Frontier province have started shooting in Punjab and parts of Afghanistan....
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PESHAWAR: 2 foreigners freed on court order
PESHAWAR, Nov 12: An Uzbek and a Kyrgyz were released from the Peshawar Central Prison on Wednesday on the order of the Peshawar High Court....
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PESHAWAR: People suffer as Michni operation continues
PESHAWAR, Nov 12: The security forces continued search operation against militants in Michni area where curfew remained imposed for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, a police official said....
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TIMERGARA: CD shop blown up in Dir
TIMERGARA, Nov 12: A CD shop was blown up in Chakdara by unidentified outlaws in the jurisdiction of Ouch Police Station on Wednesday, police and residents told Dawn....
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