| November 16, 2008 | Sunday | Ziqa'ad 17, 1429 |
KARACHI: Students with trade skills denied higher education
KARACHI, Nov 15: Although engineering diploma enrolment has registered an increase of about 39 per cent over the past five years, students acquiring relevant trade skills are still deprived of their...
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KARACHI: Warrants out for Arbab, 19 other witnesses
KARACHI, Nov 15: A judicial magistrate (south) on Saturday re-issued bailable warrants for the arrest of former Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim and 19 other prosecution witnesses for not...
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KARACHI: DHA earmarks Rs9 billion for development projects
KARACHI, Nov 15: The Defence Housing Authority has planned to chalk out a master plan early next year for a new housing project to be developed on a piece of land astride the Super Highway....
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KARACHI: ‘Photojournalism is the pursuit of justice’
KARACHI, Nov 15: Pointing out that there was voluminous documentary evidence in the shape of video and still images of the events of May 12, 2007, renowned barrister Qazi Faez Isa...
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KARACHI: Another accused acquitted: Nizam murder case
KARACHI, Nov 15: A district and sessions judge acquitted on Thursday an accused in the Justice Nizam murder case....
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KARACHI: Old couple shot dead
KARACHI, Nov 15: An old couple were gunned down in their Gulistan-i-Jauhar house on Saturday. Police suspected the victims might have resisted nearly half a dozen robbers....
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KARACHI: Diabetes among children on the rise, moot told
KARACHI, Nov 15: Parents have an important role to play in the lives of their teenage wards suffering from diabetes. They should help the diabetic children select the right kind and...
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KARACHI: Convocation
KARACHI, Nov 15: More than 70 students of Sir Adamjee Institute were conferred BBA/ MBA degrees at its first convocation held recently, said a press release....
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KARACHI: FCS to update electoral rolls for board’s election
KARACHI, Nov 15: The Fishermen Cooperative Society has planned to hold elections of its board of directors for which spadework has already started though officially the process will begin on November...
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KARACHI: Admissions
KARACHI, Nov 15: The Federal Urdu University for Arts, Science and Technology (Fuuast) has announced that the admission forms for BBA, BCom (semesters II, IV, V & VI) and MBA and...
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KARACHI: Talks offer
KARACHI, Nov 15: The Sunni Tehrik has welcomed Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain’s offer of talks and joint efforts to defuse tension between the two parties but regretted that another...
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PESHAWAR: Court grants bail to rape accused
PESHAWAR, Nov 15: The Peshawar High Court has granted bail to a man charged with raping a girl after the victim stated that the accused was now her husband....
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MANSEHRA: Induction of honest people into peace committees sought
MANSEHRA, Nov 15: Ulema, local bodies’ representatives and elders have urged induction of clean and honest people in the peace and reconciliatory committees to avert threat of Talabanisation in the district....
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PESHAWAR: Jamaat terms NWFP govt’s performance disappointing
PESHAWAR, Nov 15: The 200-day performance of Awami National Party-led coalition government disappointed people of NWFP, who were facing growing lawlessness, corruption and unemployment, said Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Sirajul Haq....
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SWABI: Four of a family drown
SWABI, Nov 15: A man and his three sons were among five people who drowned and a tractor trolley was swept away when water was released from the Tarbela reservoir in River Indus on Saturday....
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LAKKI MARWAT: Teachers warned against absenteeism
LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 15: Deputy District Officer (DDO) (Primary) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Department (ESED) Haji Sanaullah Khan Begukhel on Saturday found several teachers absent from duty during a surprise visit to a number of schools....
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PESHAWAR: Frontier buys chopper for VIPs
PESHAWAR, Nov 15: The NWFP government has purchased a helicopter, while acquisition of another one is on the cards, for swift movement of the chief minister, governor and other VIPs....
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TIMERGARA: Honour killing claims two lives in Dir
TIMERGARA, Nov 15: A girl and a man were gunned down in the name of honour in Ramora village late on Friday night in the jurisdiction of the Ouch Police Station, police and residents told Dawn....
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PESHAWAR: HRCP flays govt for Mohmand operation
PESHAWAR, Nov 15: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Saturday criticised the government for launching military operation in the Mohmand Agency without taking emergency preparedness steps before its inception....
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MITHI: Eight PML-Q supporters sent to jail
MITHI, Nov 15: The district and sessions judge of Tharparkar on Saturday cancelled application for bail submitted by eight accused belonging to Arbab group and ordered to send them to jail....
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SHIKARPUR: Man kills mother
SHIKARPUR, Nov 15: A man killed his mother, Ms Malikan, 40, over suspicions she had illicit relations with somebody in Darvesh Kakepotto village in the limits of Karan police station on Saturday.—Correspondent...
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HYDERABAD: Govt keen on improving lot of masses: minister HYDERABAD, Nov 15: The Sindh government is determined on resolving the problems of people at their doorstep for which open katchcheries were being held by all ministers, said Sindh Minister for Katchi Abadis and Spatial Development, Engineer Mohammad Rafique....
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LARKANA: Doctor sacked, BHU staff served notice
LARKANA, Nov 15: The district support manager of the People’s Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI), Ghulam Abbas Detho, on Saturday terminated services of Dr Irfan Shaikh, who had been posted as medical...
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HYDERABAD: Growers urge Passco to step in
HYDERABAD, Nov 15: The Sindh Abadgar Board has urged the federal minister for agriculture and livestock to tell Pascco to set up rice purchase centres in Sindh without delay as poor farmers were being fleeced by traders....
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LARKANA: Delay in opening rice purchase centres to deepen crisis
LARKANA, Nov 15: Leaders of growers’ organisations and rice millers foresee further deepening of crisis if the Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Supplies Corporation (Passco) delays opening procurement centres to buy rice produce from growers in Sindh and Balochistan....
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HYDERABAD: Advice for educational institution
HYDERABAD, Nov 15: Educational institutions are advised to focus not only on formal but also technical education for enabling the youth of today serve the country more resourcefully, said Acting Governor and Deputy Speaker of the Sindh Assembly Ms Shehla Raza....
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JACOBABAD: Protest against kidnapping
JACOBABAD, Nov 15: A large number of doctors, lady health workers, paramedical staff and relatives of Dr Abdul Hameed Kehar and his driver who were kidnapped a couple of days ago...
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