| January 02, 2009 | Friday | Muharram 04, 1430 |
|
KARACHI: SC suspends SHC order on city govt police station
KARACHI, Jan 1: Rejecting a detailed caveat entered by the Karachi Building Control Authority, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court suspended here on Thursday the operation of a Sindh High... 
|
|
KARACHI: KWSB loses land meant for key projects
KARACHI, Jan 1: At a time when more than 370 million gallons of untreated sewage of the city is being disposed of into the sea, the proposed sewage treatment plant (STP-IV),...
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Baker killed in Lyari
KARACHI, Jan 1: A young man has been killed by unidentified assassins in Lyari, police said on Thursday....
|
|
KARACHI: Campaign Against plastic bags put on hold
KARACHI, Jan 1: The City District Government Karachi has decided not to take action against manufacturers, sellers and users of polythene bags till January 15 despite a ban imposed by the Sindh home department recently....
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Probe into ‘encounter’ killing initiated
KARACHI, Jan 1: A departmental inquiry has been initiated into an alleged police encounter in which a man was killed in Defence Housing Authority’s Tauheed Commercial area late on Wednesday night....
|
|
KARACHI: Suspects in girl’s murder case remanded
KARACHI, Jan 1: The administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts, Karachi, Justice Salman Ansari, on Thursday remanded two suspects in police custody till Jan 8 in a kidnap and murder case of a 12-year-old girl student of a seminary....
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Establishment of anti-encroachment force likely
KARACHI, Jan 1: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has asked the law department to work out the modalities of raising an “anti-encroachment force” with the brief to protect and retrieve government lands....
|
|
KARACHI: Lawyers’ boycott
KARACHI, Jan 1: Lawyers observed their weekly boycott of legal proceedings at the city courts and the Malir district courts on Thursday....
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Registration of 26 more blood banks approved
KARACHI, Jan 1: The Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority (SBTA) has given its approval for the registration of 26 blood banks in both the public and private sectors in the province, according to an official announcement....
|
|
KARACHI: ‘Seafood exports rise despite EU ban’
KARACHI, Jan 1: The country’s seafood exports registered a significant increase in 2008 despite a ban imposed by the European Union (EU) on the seafood imports from Pakistan....
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Bill on domestic violence returned on a technicality
KARACHI, Jan 1: The Sindh Law Department (SLD) has returned a private bill relating to domestic violence to the assembly secretariat, urging it to follow proper procedures....
|
|
KARACHI: Rs15 billion uplift schemes considered: Provincial Development Working Party meeting
KARACHI, Jan 1: The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP), which met here under the chairmanship of Additional Secretary Planning and Development Nazar Hussain Mahar, considered a large number of schemes....
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Reward money for information about criminals
KARACHI, Jan 1: The provincial government on Thursday announced reward money for those who could provide information that could lead to the arrest of wanted criminals involved in serious crimes in Sindh....
|
|
KARACHI: Man killed in accident
KARACHI, Jan 1: The owner of a donkey-cart was killed in a hit-and-run accident on the Super Highway on Thursday night....
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Kanupp tripped by KESC faults
KARACHI, Jan 1: It was a less than festive start to the new year for citizens of Karachi, as massive outages hit KESC consumers across the city, after the utility’s system was tripped by multiple faults....
|
|
KARACHI: 600 ad-hoc lecturers face uncertain future
KARACHI, Jan 1: The fate of more than 600 ad-hoc lecturers, including teachers of the Sindhi language, hangs in the balance as their services have neither been regularised nor extended as...
|
|
|
||
|
HYDERABAD: APCA leaders slam posting of ‘outsiders’ in Jamshoro
HYDERABAD, Jan 1: The office-bearers of the Jamshoro chapter of All-Pakistan Clerks Association held a demonstration outside the press club on Thursday in protest against transfers and promotions of people belonging...
|
|
HYDERABAD: Plan to contain waterlogging, salinity urged
HYDERABAD, Jan 1: Speakers at a seminar held here on Thursday urged the government to develop a plan to control fast-spreading menace of salinity and waterlogging in the province, implement land reforms and give tenancy rights to poor peasants....
|
|
|
||
|
HYDERABAD: Employees complain of discrimination
HYDERABAD, Jan 1: The All-Sindh Universities Employees Federation has criticised what it called ‘stepmotherly treatment’ being meted out to the universities in interior Sindh and said that the employees of the...
|
|
HYDERABAD: Water discharge from Manchhar stopped
HYDERABAD, Jan 1: Discharge of water from the Manchhar Lake into the River Indus to reduce level of the lake, which is attaining an alarming proportion, has been stopped in the...
|
|
|
||
|
HYDERABAD: Arrangements for Shah Latif’s Urs discussed
HYDERABAD, Jan 1: Sindh Culture Secretary Shams Jafrani has said that the provincial culture department has planned to celebrate the 265th three-day Urs of the great saint and poet, Shah Abdul...
|
|
HYDERABAD: Nationalists celebrate new year in Bhit Shah
HYDERABAD, Jan 1: A large number of leaders of political parties and civil society and artistes gathered at the shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai on Thursday to celebrate the new year....
|
|
|
||
|
SWABI: Protests against loadshedding in Swabi, Mansehra
SWABI, Jan 1: A large number of workers of textile mills of the Gadoon Amazai Industrial Estate held a protest demonstration on Thursday against what they called 19-hour loadshedding carried out by the Peshawar Electric Supply Company....
|
|
KOHAT: Kohat tunnel opens for hajis today
KOHAT, Jan 1: The Kohat Friendship Tunnel will be opened on Friday to facilitate the hajis travelling to the southern districts of NWFP....
|
|
|
||
|
PESHAWAR: Frontier wants early NFC session
PESHAWAR, Jan 1: Financial woes of the NWFP and Balochistan will increase manifold if the federal government did not finalise the long awaited seventh National Finance Commission award, says the NWFP representative in the commission....
|
|
PESHAWAR: One killed as police post blown up
PESHAWAR, Jan1: A police constable was killed when unidentified persons blew up a checkpost here on Thursday morning while a sanitary worker sustained injuries in another blat....
|
|
|
||
|
ISLAMABAD: Traders want Mardan-Lahore rail service
ISLAMABAD, Jan 1: The Mardan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (MCCI) has urged the government to launch a non-stop Mardan-Lahore rail service on daily basis to provide better travel facilities to...
|
|
CHITRAL: Kunar route opens for travellers: Stranded in Chitral
CHITRAL, Jan 1: The Afghan government has allowed the people of Chitral to use the Kunar route to reach Peshawar after closure of Lowari Top due to snowfall....
|
|
|
||
|
PESHAWAR: Schools in NWFP closed till 10th
PESHAWAR, Jan 1: The government and private schools in the NWFP will remain closed from Jan 2 to Jan 10 in respect of the holy month of Muharram, according to a...
|
|
|
|
|
||
