| December 17, 2008 | Wednesday | Zilhaj 18, 1429 |
KARACHI: Prolonged outages plague Karachi
KARACHI, Dec 16: Citizens of Karachi have been experiencing unannounced load-shedding of up to six hours a day in spite of the fact that demand for electricity registers a significant drop in the winter months....
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KARACHI: Plea for interim restraint order rejected: SPSC power to appoint subordinate judiciary
KARACHI, Dec 16: A division bench of the Sindh High Court issued notices to the attorney-general, the advocate-general and the respondents in a petition moved by the SHC Bar Association against...
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KARACHI: Sindh seeks power to collect sales tax
KARACHI, Dec 16: The Sindh government decided on Tuesday to approach and urge the federal government to restore to the provinces the authority to collect sales tax on services....
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KARACHI: Two arrested in family slaughter case
KARACHI, Dec 16: Police on Tuesday claimed to have solved the family slaughter mystery as they arrested two young suspects, one of them a class-X student, for killing a 38-year-old woman and her three children in North Karachi....
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KARACHI: ‘Dhaka tragedy symptoms re-emerging’
KARACHI, Dec 16: Intellectuals, politicians and key members of the coalition government warned on Tuesday that the factors that had led to the fall of Dhaka in 1971 had started re-emerging,...
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KARACHI: Robbers jailed for four years
KARACHI, Dec 16: An additional district and sessions judge on Tuesday sentenced two men to four years in prison for robbery....
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KARACHI: ‘Saarc parliament can bridge trust deficit’
KARACHI, Dec 16: Amid the persistent and growing trust deficit in South Asia, the need for establishing a South Asian parliament was considered necessary to bring together countries of the Saarc region....
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KARACHI: Ghazi Urs
KARACHI, Dec 16: A three-day annual Urs of Sufi Hazrat Abdullah Shah Ghazi will be observed in Clifton from December 19 to 21 under the administrative control of the Auqaf department of the Sindh government....
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KARACHI: KU announces schedule of admissions
KARACHI, Dec 16: The University of Karachi on Tuesday announced the schedule of entry tests, fee submission and completion of admission formalities in different departments in both morning and evening programmes....
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KARACHI: PMA finds fault with free drug distribution policy
KARACHI, Dec 16: The Pakistan Medical Association expressing its concern over what it has described as an alarming surge in hepatitis cases has warned that if immediate steps are not taken...
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KARACHI: Art gallery clarifies
KARACHI, Dec 16: An art gallery, Louvre, has clarified that it has not been involved in any dealing with Tariq Husain who was arrested by police last month in Clifton for producing forgeries of artworks by prominent artists....
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KARACHI: Rain centres set up
KARACHI, Dec 16: The Orangi town administration has declared rain-related emergency in the wake of a metrological office forecast for heavy rains....
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KARACHI: Photos show at V.M. Art
KARACHI, Dec 16: An exhibition of photographs by Qamar Bharoocha Bana opens at the V.M. Art gallery on Wednesday at 5pm....
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KARACHI: CDGK hospital project being revived
KARACHI, Dec 16: The Sindh government will provide approximately Rs866 million to the City District Government Karachi over three years in order to complete construction of a stalled 400-bed hospital project...
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KARACHI: APC calls for action to unite nation
KARACHI, Dec 16: An all-parties conference, held under the auspices of the Jamaat-i-Islami on Tuesday, called upon the government to take strict notice of Indian plans and to take the necessary action to unite the nation against any Indian designs....
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KARACHI: Rain forecast
KARACHI, Dec 16: The meteorological office has forecast cloudy weather with chances of rain and thunderstorm at a few places in the city on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Killed in accident
KARACHI, Dec 16: A 25-year-old motorcyclist was knocked down by a fast-moving minibus near Nauras Chowrangi in the Site police limits....
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HYDERABAD: Hesco wants 150pc recovery for Dec
HYDERABAD, Dec 16: Manager, Hyderabad operation circle, Hesco, Muzaffar Ali Abbasi, has expressed dissatisfaction over recovery of power bills during November and directed the officials and staff concerned to ensure 150 per cent recovery for December....
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HYDERABAD: Affected villagers returning home
HYDERABAD, Dec 16: Most of the water has been drained out from the villages, which had been flooded by breaches in HDA’s lagoon in Qasimabad taluka a couple of days ago,...
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HYDERABAD: Body seeks Rs110m for rehabilitation: Breach in reservoir
HYDERABAD, Dec 16: The district relief committee recommended at a meeting on Tuesday that the National Disaster Management Authority release Rs100 million and the provincial relief department Rs10 million to rehabilitate...
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HYDERABAD: JUP condemns Swat killings
HYDERABAD, Dec 16: Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan chief Dr Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair has condemned the killing of Pir Samiullah and his companions in Swat (NWFP) and said that the killing of Ulema and Mashaikh is the worst form of terrorism....
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HYDERABAD: SU to display Qaleech Baig’s literary works
HYDERABAD, Dec 16: The literary works of Shamsul Ulema Mirza Qaleech Baig lying with his family and at other places will be collected for display at the University of Sindh’s central library and for reference at the Mirza Qaleech Baig chair....
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HYDERABAD: Joint efforts for protection of women’s rights urged
HYDERABAD, Dec 16: Speakers at a seminar marking the International Human Rights Day have called for joint efforts for protecting rights of women and the underprivileged irrespective of their colour, gender, race, religion or social status....
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HYDERABAD: Another deer dies in zoo
HYDERABAD, Dec 16: Death on Tuesday of the third deer over 20 days reportedly from severe cold after the Rani Bagh zoo was opened for public after completion of major renovation...
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PESHAWAR: MMA lawmakers assail govt for allowing ‘un-Islamic’ banking
PESHAWAR, Dec 16: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal lawmakers in the NWFP Assembly here on Tuesday criticised the provincial government for allowing Bank of Khyber (BoK) to stop conversion of its conventional branches into Islamic banking system....
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PESHAWAR: Bus service for women launched in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Dec 16: Peshawar has become the first city in the country to have an exclusive CNG bus service for women commuters....
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MARDAN: Policeman killed, two hurt in attack
MARDAN, Dec 16: A policeman was killed and two others got injuries when unidentified armed men opened fire on a patrolling party late on Monday night....
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MINGORA: Taliban bury body of Pir, free 7 hostages
MINGORA, Dec 16: Taliban buried the body of their staunch opponent Pir Samiullah at an undisclosed location in Swat and freed seven more hostages on Tuesday....
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PESHAWAR: Three sites identified for ‘carpet nagar’
PESHAWAR, Dec 16: The contact group constituted to expedite work on establishment of ‘carpet nagar’ in the vicinity of Peshawar has informed a meeting held here that three sites have been identified for the project....
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PESHAWAR: Transporters want Nato supplies’ terminals shifted to Nowshera
PESHAWAR, Dec 16: The Sarhad Goods Transport and Adda Owners Association on Tuesday called upon the government to shift the terminals for Nato and US forces’ supplies to Azakhel, Nowshera, otherwise they would boycott transportation of the supplies to Afghanistan....
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MIRAMSHAH: Militants execute ‘killer’
MIRAMSHAH, Dec 16: Local Taliban publicly executed an alleged killer after what they called his confession to the crime here on Tuesday....
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