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KARACHI: Trainee medical technologists fear uncertain future
KARACHI, Jan 7: Sounding highly apprehensive about career opportunities as qualified medical technologists, more than 400 students at the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) institute foresee an uncertain future ahead... 
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KARACHI: Muharram procession taken out amid security
KARACHI, Jan 7: The 9th of Muharram procession started from Nishtar Park and, following its traditional route, ended at Imambargah Hussainian Iranian in Kharadar on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Oct 18 attacks: police have little to share with UN probe mission
KARACHI, Jan 7: As the United Nations prepares to send a mission to investigate the Dec 27 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Karachi police have nothing significant to share with the...
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KARACHI: Policemen to be booked for killing four traders from Chaman
KARACHI, Jan 7: The city police are likely to register a murder case against four officials of the Anti-Car Lifting Cell who killed four young men from Balochistan in an alleged shootout on Khalid bin Walid Road....
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KARACHI: Need to rid anti-polio campaign of ‘complacency’ in 2009
KARACHI, Jan 7: Two new cases of polio were reported in the city during a single week during December, after three months without a case, shattering the relative complacency of managers and volunteers associated with the effort to eradicate the disease....
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KARACHI: Spencer’s Eye Hospital in bad shape
KARACHI, Jan 7: The Spencer’s Eye Hospital building, located in a Lyari locality, is in dilapidated condition with the ceilings of several wards decaying and may collapse any time....
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KARACHI: Peace committees established at grass-roots level
KARACHI, Jan 7: Peace committees have been formed at the police station level throughout the province to maintain sectarian harmony and tranquility during the Ashura congregations, processions and other such public gatherings....
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KARACHI: Power bills
KARACHI, Jan 7: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has extended the due date of power bills from Jan 8 to Jan 10 in view of the Ashura holidays on Wednesday and Thursday....
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KARACHI: Training centre for women inaugurated
KARACHI, Jan 7: Sindh Labour Minister Amir Nawab Khan has announced that an employment exchange in every district of Sindh will be established to help people get jobs of their choice....
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KARACHI: Muharram food prices surging
KARACHI, Jan 7: The surging prices of consumer items have made observing certain rituals of Muharram, particularly offering foods and soft drinks, costlier than they were last year....
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KARACHI: BSEK exams date
KARACHI, Jan 7: The Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) has announced that the examinations of Adeeb, Aalim and Fazil courses will commence on Jan 15....
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KARACHI: Khar’s claims rejected
KARACHI, Jan 7: Senior Sindh Minister and a prominent leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Pir Mazharul Haq has rejected the allegations and claims made by Ghulam Mustafa Khar during...
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HYDERABAD: Fear causes low turnout at Majalis
HYDERABAD, Jan 7: Current wave of terror and different spy agency information about arrival of suicide bombers in the city seemed to have affected turnout of people, apart from mourners, in Majalis and mourning processions of Muharramul Harram....
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KHAIRPUR: Security beefed for mourning processions
KHAIRPUR, Jan 7: Strict security arrangements have been made in the city for Muharram 10, including monitoring of mourning processions and Majalis....
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SUKKUR: Thousands participate in Rohri procession
SUKKUR, Jan 7: Thousands of mourners from all over Sindh participated in a mourning procession in Rohri on Wednesday to pay homage to the martyrs of Karbala....
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HYDERABAD: Former nazim held
HYDERABAD, Jan 7: The Pinyari police detained a former taluka nazim and local leader of the JUP, Haji Moinuddin Sheikh, in connection with an alleged robbery....
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HYDERABAD: Rs100m grant approved for villages hit by breach: MPA
HYDERABAD, Jan 7: MPA Pir Amjad Hussain Shah Jilani has said that the chief minister has sanctioned Rs100 million for relief and rehabilitation of the people whose villages were inundated by...
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KOHAT: Forces in Kohat get ‘shoot at sight’ order: Ashura security
KOHAT, Jan 7: Security forces have been issued shoot at sight orders here for the suspected persons to avoid any untoward incident in the district during Ashura processions....
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MANSEHRA: Implementation of Water Vision Plan stressed
MANSEHRA, Jan 7: MPA Abdul Sattar Khan said that if the government wanted to cope with the energy crisis in the country, it should implement upon the Water Vision Plan that...
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PESHAWAR: Extremism major challenge to Muslims’ unity: Owais
PESHAWAR, Jan 7: NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani has said the nation is faced with serious challenges of extremism and terrorism....
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SWABI: Two brothers among three killed in Swabi
SWABI, Jan 7: A trivial issue took the lives of two brothers and another person in the...
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PESHAWAR: Kidnapped boy recovered, three held
PESHAWAR, Jan 7: Police on Wednesday said a minor boy kidnapped for ransom from a wedding party in the Chamkani area on Dec 27, had been recovered....
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PESHAWAR: PPP lawyers want their man as new AAG
PESHAWAR, Jan 7: Leaders of Peoples Lawyers Forum have expressed reservations over recent appointment of a senior lawyer affiliated with Awami National Party as additional advocate general stating that the said post had to be filled through one of their members....
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PESHAWAR: 9th Muharram processions remain peaceful
PESHAWAR, Jan 7: The procession of the 9th Muharram was taken out here on Wednesday and concluded peacefully amid strict security....
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PESHAWAR: Petrol pumps stop nighttime sale due to insecurity
PESHAWAR, Jan 7: Owing to the deteriorating law and order situation in the NWFP, the Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association has decided to keep all petrol pumps closed at nighttimes....
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MARDAN: Growers stop cane supply to sugar mill in Mardan
MARDAN, Jan 7: The growers have stopped supply of cane to local sugar mills due to its high price in the open market....
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MINGORA: Girl killed, six injured in Swat shelling
MINGORA, Jan 7: A girl was killed and six persons were injuries as fierce clashes erupted between security forces and militants in Koza Bandai and Dheri areas of tehsil Kabal in restive Swat valley on Wednesday....
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PESHAWAR: Health dept reform process in limbo
PESHAWAR, Jan 7: Dependence on several departments regarding plans and strategies and lack of interest on part of political leadership have been hampering the reform process started by the health department, experts say....
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