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KARACHI: Probe blames police for four deaths
KARACHI, Jan 4: An inquiry into the killing of four young men from Balochistan by a team of the Anti-Car Lifting Cell in an alleged shootout has established that the incident was the “outcome of criminal negligence” of the police party... 
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KARACHI: Mumtaz Bhutto shifted to hospital
KARACHI, Jan 4: Police shifted the detained chief of the Sindh National Front and a former chief minister of Sindh, Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in the small hours of Sunday on Sindh High Court orders....
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KARACHI: Leopard’s plight fails to move city govt
KARACHI, Jan 4: The city government is yet to take any steps to alleviate the suffering of the lone female leopard kept in unnatural conditions in the CDGK’s Korangi-Landhi zoo and being ‘targeted’ by visitors for fun....
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KARACHI: Bodies of murdered women found
KARACHI, Jan 4: Two young women were killed on Sunday in separate acts of violence in the city, police and witnesses said....
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KARACHI: Member of influential family faces hunting case
KARACHI, Jan 4: A member of an influential family and his companions have been booked under the Sindh Wildlife Protection Ordinance, 1972, for hunting a crocodile at a game reserve,...
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KARACHI: Outages may push demand for solar, wind power
KARACHI, Jan 4: KESC consumers fed up with prolonged bouts of load-shedding and rising tariffs may turn to alternative power sources to help ease woes as several small contractors in the...
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KARACHI: Two children die
KARACHI, Jan 4: Two small children were killed on Sunday when they fell into an open manhole on the premises of the police headquarters in Garden, police and witnesses said....
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KARACHI: Power cuts persist
KARACHI, Jan 4: Unannounced load-shedding persisted in many parts of the city despite a low demand on account of a closed holiday on Sunday....
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KARACHI: Allottees’ complaint
KARACHI, Jan 4: People who have been alloted land in a housing scheme of Gadap Town have urged the city government to help them take possession of their plots occupied by unscrupulous elements....
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KARACHI: Poaching poses threat to wildlife in Pai forest
KARACHI, Jan 4: The numbers of hog deer, gray partridges, wild boars, jackals, jungle cats, Bengal foxes and mongooses are fast declining in Nawabshah’s Pai forest due to poaching by influential people....
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KARACHI: Dug-up road
KARACHI, Jan 4: A portion of the road dug up for a drain in the Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society’s Street 7, behind an outlet of a fast food chain, has become a death trap for passers-by....
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KARACHI: Bhutto’s birthday
KARACHI, Jan 4: The 81st birthday of the Pakistan People’s Party’s founder-chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto will be observed on Monday with simplicity keeping in view the sanctity of Muharram....
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KARACHI: KU orientation classes today
KARACHI, Jan 4: The orientation classes at Karachi University would be held on January 5 (today), a university official announced on Sunday....
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KARACHI: Secretariat building plan ready
KARACHI, Jan 4: The New Sindh Secretariat complex design, with minor alterations, is ready to be included in the new financial year’s annual development programme. This was stated by Syed Sardar...
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HYDERABAD: Child rights bill to be tabled soon
HYDERABAD, Jan 4: The director of the National Commission for Child Welfare and Development, Sajjad Ahmed, has said that the government was giving priority to protection of child rights and a...
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THATTA: Hepatitis on the rise in Thatta coastal areas
THATTA, Jan 4: As many as 362 new cases of hepatitis-C had been reported, most of them from remote coastal areas of the district, and various waterborne diseases were on the...
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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: JSQM seeks release of leaders, workers
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Jan 4: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz held a procession in Bhirya Road town on Sunday, demanding release of party leaders and activists....
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DADU: Hospitals worst victims of outages
DADU, Jan 4: People on Sunday endured yet another day of prolonged power cuts. The situation affected the functioning of hospitals and a number of surgeries had to be postponed due to non-availability of power....
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HYDERABAD: Reopening of schools in a week ordered
HYDERABAD, Jan 4: The district coordination officer of Matiari, Baqaullah Unnar, has urged the district management of the education department to reopen all the closed schools in the district within a...
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HYDERABAD: Kidnapping of girls and father: three held
HYDERABAD, Jan 4: The Bhitai Nagar police have arrested three suspects in kidnapping of four sisters and their father, whose whereabouts remained unknown....
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PESHAWAR: BISE employees’ bodies to be declared illegal
PESHAWAR, Jan 4: The government has decided to purge the boards of intermediate and secondary education of the ‘spoilers’ entrenched in the teachers and employees’ associations....
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MINGORA: Beheaded bodies of police, FC men recovered
MINGORA, Jan 4: The beheaded bodies of a Frontier Corps personnel and a policeman were found at two main squares of Mingora on Sunday....
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LANDI KOTAL: Khyber operation extended to Bara
LANDI KOTAL, Jan 4: The military operation in Khyber region was extended to Bara subdivision on Sunday with the demolition of a house and arrest of outlaws in Shalobar locality, officials said....
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