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KARACHI: CM sees anti-govt plot behind ethnic tension
KARACHI, Nov 27: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said on Thursday that the elements that were defeated in the election were looking for issues to destabilise the coalition government... 
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KARACHI: Families of injecting drug users face Aids threat
KARACHI, Nov 27: Experts at a media workshop on Thursday said that there was a great need to focus on the children and spouses of injecting drug users (IDUs) and to...
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KARACHI: Muttahida man among several killed in city
KARACHI, Nov 27: A supporter of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was shot dead and another party worker and a donkey-cart rider were wounded in an attack in the Nishtar Road area at around noon on Thursday, the Jamshed Quarters police said....
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KARACHI: Josh’s ‘skirmishes’ recalled
KARACHI: The International Urdu Conference officially got under way at the Arts Council on Thursday evening. And, by local standards, it got under way pretty much on time: just 90 minutes behind schedule....
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KARACHI: ‘Pakistan has donor-recipient relationship with EU’
KARACHI, Nov 27: Terming the relationship between Pakistan and the European Union (EU) as a “donor-recipient” one, a scholar, speaking at an international seminar on Thursday, said that conversely, India enjoyed...
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KARACHI: Govt asked to deposit petitioner’s compensation money with court
KARACHI, Nov 27: The Sindh High Court directed the provincial home department on Thursday to deposit the compensation awarded to a petitioner for illegal detention in 2005 with its nazir by Dec 2....
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KARACHI: HSC-I Com results
KARACHI, Nov 27: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi on Thursday announced the results of HSC-I Commerce annual examinations-2008....
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KARACHI: ‘Sindh paying high cost of sea intrusion’
KARACHI, Nov 27: The Sindh government would suffer a loss of over Rs4 billion in Thatta district alone on account of sea intrusion and depletion of mangrove forests over the next...
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KARACHI: ‘POF Eye’ at Ideas-2008
KARACHI, Nov 27: The “POF Eye”, a product of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories currently on display at the IDEAS-2008 at Expo Centre, has been attracting a large number of foreign visitors...
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KARACHI: Robbers convicted
KARACHI, Nov 27: A judicial magistrate on Thursday sentenced two men to three years in prison for robbery....
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KARACHI: 184 bomb blasts took place in 10 years, PA told
KARACHI, Nov 27: The Sindh assembly on Thursday was told that from 1998 to 2008 as many as 184 incidents of bomb blasts occurred in the province in which 1,770 causalities took place....
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KARACHI: SC to hear plea against forced conversion
KARACHI, Nov 27: A Supreme Court bench issued notices to the ministry of law, justices and human rights in a petition seeking legislation against forcible conversion....
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HYDERABAD: Mine workers criticise MPA’s statement
HYDERABAD, Nov 27: Trade unions of Lakhra coalfield have reacted strongly to MPA Nisar Panhwar’s statement against mine workers, terming it ‘provocative and part of a conspiracy to spark ethnic riots’....
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HYDERABAD: Pakistan has ‘extremely low’ number of students in varsities, conference told
HYDERABAD, Nov 27: Academics at the concluding session of the National Conference on Education said on Thursday that only four million youths in a country of over 150 million were enrolled in universities and termed the number ‘extremely low’....
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SHIKARPUR: Elderly man shot dead
SHIKARPUR, Nov 27: An elderly man was killed allegedly by his relatives after he refused to give a girl of his family in marriage to a rival family to settle a karo-kari related dispute....
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HYDERABAD: Cardiac surgery unit at LUMHS gets surgeon
HYDERABAD, Nov 27: The cardiac surgery unit at Liaquat University Hospital is now completed with the appointment of Prof Mudassar Iqbal as surgeon....
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HYDERABAD: Police accused of detaining eight women
HYDERABAD, Nov 27: A student of Sindh University has accused police of taking away eight women of his family after ransacking their homes in the Haji Khair Mohammad Khokhar village of...
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HYDERABAD: Suicide
HYDERABAD, Nov 27: A 20-year-old man committed suicide in Mahar Shah colony here on Thursday by hanging himself in his rented house....
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PESHAWAR: Schools for special children planned
PESHAWAR, Nov 27: The NWFP Social Welfare and Women Development Department has planned to set up schools for physically challenged children in the province through public-private partnership....
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PESHAWAR: Fresh lawyers’ movement after Eid, says Kurd
PESHAWAR, Nov 27: A fresh peaceful lawyers'' movement would be launched from Peshawar after Eidul Azha, said Supreme Court Bar Association president Ali Ahmad Kurd here on Thursday for what he termed attainment of the desired goals....
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PESHAWAR: Plan to cope with cattle disease ahead of Eid
PESHAWAR, Nov 27: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, in collaboration with the Frontier government, will launch a programme to cope with the foot and mouth disease (FMD) in cattle....
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KHAR: Lashkar to set up checkpoints along border
KHAR, Nov 27: The lashkar of the Salarzai tribe has decided to set up checkpoints along the border to curb militants’ infiltration from Afghanistan into the Bajaur Agency....
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KOHAT: Bomb goes off near rail track; rockets fired in Kohat
KOHAT, Nov 27: A bomb exploded near the railway track minutes before the crossing of a railcar in the Bahawalnagar area here late Wednesday night....
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WANA: Five militants killed as vehicle hits landmine in Wana
WANA, Nov 27: Five suspected militants were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside landmine in the Tiarza area here on Thursday evening....
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MINGORA: Four bodies found in Swat
MINGORA, Nov 27: Four bodies were found in different areas of Swat district and one person was shot dead in Mingora city on Thursday....
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