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KARACHI: Condition of Pakistani workers in S. Arabia a cause for concern
KARACHI, Dec 21: Saleem, a 34-year-old from Karachi’s Gurumandir area, has been working as a driver for an oil company executive in Ras Tanura, a city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, for the past three years.... 
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KARACHI: Sindh govt committee to look into CDGK-police land row
KARACHI, Dec 21: Police authorities have turned down requests by the city government to help reclaim pieces of land encroached upon by different groups, pushing the provincial government to set up a committee to look into the matter....
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KARACHI: Authorities lack knowledge about identification parade
KARACHI, Dec 21: The basic aim of holding an identification parade of an accused is to strengthen the prosecution’s case. But in a number of cases it dents the prosecution side...
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KARACHI: Illegal barriers raise issues of security, ethnicity in city
KARACHI, Dec 21: The barriers that have been placed across a large number of streets of the metropolis have left the authorities in an awkward situation since, in addition to being...
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KARACHI: Enactment of law against child abuse urged
KARACHI, Dec 21: Participants of a three-day conference, organised by the child rights and abuse committee of the Pakistan Paediatric Association (PPA), urged the government to immediately introduce the child protection...
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KARACHI: Launch of Benazir’s book today
KARACHI, Dec 21: The archives department of the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (Szabist) is organising the launching ceremony of Ms Benazir Bhutto’s book “Democracy the only way for Pakistan” at a local hotel on Monday....
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KARACHI: National child protection policy soon, says Gilani
KARACHI, Dec 21: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the national child protection policy, prepared in close consultation with all stakeholders including relevant ministries and provincial governments, will be notified soon....
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KARACHI: PMA wants end to quota system
KARACHI, Dec 21: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has urged the government to end the admission quota for the children of judges, armed forces officers, and other officials in medical colleges of the country....
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KARACHI: No public dealing at KU on 29th
KARACHI, Dec 21: The University of Karachi has announced that there will be no public dealing in the institution on December 29 on account of the annual convocation 2008, to be held that day....
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KARACHI: Research tailored for country’s requirements stressed
KARACHI, Dec 21: Vice-Chancellor of the University of Karachi Prof Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui has called for conducting research in accordance with the country’s requirements....
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KARACHI: Unlawful high-rises being built in Bath Island
KARACHI, Dec 21: A builder, so influential that no official or NGO is willing to mention his name, is illegally constructing a couple of high-rise buildings in Bath Island’s residential area, it has been learnt....
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KARACHI: MQM man commits suicide
KARACHI, Dec 21: A 32-year-old worker of the Muttahida Quami Movement committed suicide in his house near Teen Talwar on Sunday....
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HYDERABAD: Policemen suspended for illegal detention
HYDERABAD, Dec 21: The Hyderabad DPO has suspended an ASI and a constable of the Qasimabad police station for illegally keeping a boy in custody....
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MITHI: Council rejects changes in school building plans
MITHI, Dec 21: The Tharparkar district council on Saturday adopted a resolution, rejecting eight schemes of primary school buildings, the location of which had been changed by the EDO education....
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KHAIRPUR: Relief for rain-hit people urged
KHAIRPUR, Dec 21: The Khairpur district chapter of the Sindh Social Forum has called upon the government to undertake relief measures for the rain-hit people of the district....
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HYDERABAD: STP decries arrest of activists
HYDERABAD, Dec 21: A large number of Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party activists held a demonstration and observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Sunday to protest against...
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KOHAT: Taliban enforce ‘Sharia’ in Orakzai
KOHAT, Dec 21: The Taliban announced enforcement of ‘Sharia’ in upper parts of the Orakzai tribal region, militant sources said here on Sunday....
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PESHAWAR: Attacks on Pakhtuns: PPP-S to send ‘fact-finding’ team to Karachi
PESHAWAR, Dec 21: Chief of his own faction of Pakistan People’s Party Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao has demanded of the federal and Sindh governments to provide protection of life and property to the Pakhtuns living in Karachi and Hayderabad....
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PESHAWAR: Influential doctors calling the shots in health dept: Transfers & postings
PESHAWAR, Dec 21: Lack of proper system of monitoring and evaluation of the employees coupled with the influence used by doctors, hundreds of doctors have been working on lucrative posts for more than a decade in violation of rules....
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TIMERGARA: Man, son shot dead in Timergara
TIMERGARA, Dec 21: Unidentified gunmen on Sunday shot dead a man and his son in the jurisdiction of Munda police station here, police and locals said....
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SWABI: Three women among four shot dead in Swabi
SWABI, Dec 21: Three women and a man were shot dead on Sunday for alleged immoral activities in the jurisdiction of Swabi police station....
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