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KARACHI: Four rag-pickers killed in wall collapse
KARACHI, Dec 11: Four young boys were killed and seven others injured, some of them critically, when a wall of a warehouse collapsed in Baldia Town on Tuesday, the first day of Eidul Azha, police and witnesses said.... 
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KARACHI: Parties praised for peaceful hide collection
KARACHI, Dec 11: Karachi Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal took heart from the fact that no untoward incident was reported from across the metropolis over the collection of hides of sacrificial animals...
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KARACHI: SHCBA to challenge SPSC power to appoint subordinate judiciary
KARACHI, Dec 11: The Sindh High Court Bar Association decided on Thursday to challenge the transfer of power to make appointments in the subordinate judiciary from a selection board comprising high court judges to the provincial public service commission....
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PESHAWAR: Comedy of errors did most damage to Nato trucks
PESHAWAR, Dec 11: Inadequate fire fighting facilities and lack of prompt action by the fire brigade of the City District Government caused much of the damage at the transit parking facility...
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MARDAN: ‘Hidden hand’ spoiling Karachi peace: CM
MARDAN, Dec 11: NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti said that some ‘hidden hands’ were at work to deteriorate political and economic situation in Karachi in pursuance of their vested interests....
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MINGORA: FC attacked in Swat
MINGORA, Dec 11: Militants attacked a school housing personnel of the Frontier Corpse (FC) near Saidu Sharif Airport on Thursday....
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PESHAWAR: Uplift work possible in Fata, says study
PESHAWAR, Dec 11: The prevailing militancy may have worsened the security situation, but development activities can continue in most parts of the NWFP and its adjoining tribal areas, says a new study....
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LANDI KOTAL: LI militant killed in Khyber
LANDI KOTAL, Dec 11: A militants was killed and four other were injured when security forces and activists of a banned outfit clashed here on Thursday, officials said....
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KOHAT/BUNER: Darra Taliban own Buner attack
KOHAT/BUNER, Dec 11: A pro-Baitullah Mehsud Taliban group of Darra Adamkhel has claimed responsibility for an attack in Buner on Eid day, in which a child was killed....
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KARACHI: Beauty salons using ‘toxic’ fairness creams
KARACHI, Dec 11: Various preparations used at beauty salons to make facial skin look fairer contain high concentrations of mercury (a dangerous toxin), corticosteroids (a class of steroid hormones) and hydroquinone,...
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KARACHI: City still in holiday mood
KARACHI, Dec 11: Though Thursday was officially a working day, a good number of Karachi’s citizens were clearly still in a holiday mood on the third day of Eidul Azha, as...
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KARACHI: Special postage stamp issued
KARACHI, Dec 11: The Pakistan Post on Wednesday issued a special postage stamp of Rs4 denomination on the award of UN Human Rights Prize-2008 to Benazir Bhutto, according to a press release issued on Thursday....
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KARACHI: Disrupted BCom exams resume tomorrow
KARACHI, Dec 11: The Karachi University has announced that the BCom annual examinations-2008 will resume on Saturday (Dec 13) as per the original programme....
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KARACHI: Hides snatchers held
KARACHI, Dec 11: A Sindh Rangers mobile team arrested nine people allegedly involved in snatching of hides of sacrificial animals at gunpoint in Sohrab Goth area during Eid days....
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KARACHI: Funds for prisoners’ release
KARACHI, Dec 11: Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister Ms Sharmila Farooqui on Thursday visited the central prison and the women & juvenile jail and listened to the prisoners’ grievances....
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KARACHI: ‘30 per cent hospital staff did not turn up’
KARACHI, Dec 11: A large number of patients reporting at various government hospitals had to suffer because of low attendance of doctors, paramedics and other staff on Thursday, although it was a working day....
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KARACHI: Fair weather forecast for city
KARACHI, Dec 11: The Met Office has forecast fair weather with cool night for Karachi on Friday with the minimum temperature expected to range between 10 and 12 degrees centigrade....
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KARACHI: Courts wear deserted look
KARACHI, Dec 11: The city courts and Malir district courts wore a deserted look as few lawyers, litigants and staff members turned up on Thursday, a working day after three consecutive public holidays announced on account of Eidul Azha....
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KARACHI: Sepa plans combined hearing: Windmill projects
KARACHI, Dec 11: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency has decided to hold a combined public hearing for environmental clearance of prospective windmill cases on the Gharo-Keti Bander-Hyderabad Natural Wind Corridor, it has been reliably learnt....
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KARACHI: Accident
KARACHI, Dec 11: One person was killed and three others injured when a long vehicle hit a Suzuki Hi-roof on the Hawkesbay Road on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: ‘Campaign’ against CJ deplored
KARACHI, Dec 11: Senior Sindh Minister Pir Mazharul Haq and Minister for Law Ayaz Soomro have condemned criticism of the chief justice of Pakistan, maintaining that a “particular group has initiated...
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KARACHI: JI slams UN ban on ‘patriotic’ group
KARACHI, Dec 11: Jamaat-i-Islami Secretary General Syed Munawwar Hasan has said that imposing a ban on “patriotic persons and organisations” is against the sovereignty of the country and the government should...
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KARACHI: HR week
KARACHI, Dec 11: The Sindh human rights department has chalked out a programme to observe the “Human Rights Week” in the province from Dec 15....
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HYDERABAD: Suo motu action sought
HYDERABAD, Dec 11: The Asian Human Rights Commission has appealed to the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, to take suo motu notice in the case...
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HYDERABAD: Breach leaves thousands of villagers homeless
HYDERABAD, Dec 11: Several thousand villagers including women and children were left high and dry following a breach in the water storage lagoon of Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) in Karan Khan Shoro village Qasimabad in the wee hours of Wednesday....
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UMERKOT: Umerkot short of health budget
UMERKOT, Dec 11: Hospitals in Umerkot district are facing shortage of medicines and specialists due to inadequate budgetary allocations....
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HYDERABAD: Artiste passes away
HYDERABAD, Dec 11: Noted radio and TV artiste, Yaqoob Zakaria breathed his last here on Monday night. He was 72 and has left behind three sons and three daughters....
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