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KARACHI: Slums susceptible to disaster without planning
KARACHI, Jan 9: As the government announced investigations into Thursday’s midnight fire that swept through dozens of homes in a North Karachi shanty town claiming 40 lives (mainly children), experts have... 
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KARACHI: DNA samples of victims handed over to police
KARACHI, Jan 9: The medical authorities have handed over DNA samples obtained from victims of the blaze in North Karachi to the police to assist in their identification, while the bodies...
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KARACHI: Survivors deal with scars of tragedy
KARACHI, Jan 9: Lal Mohammad lost 22 members of his family in Thursday night’s inferno that claimed 40 lives in North Karachi’s Sector 5-L....
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KARACHI: Bar seeks writs against three SHC judges
KARACHI, Jan 9: The Sindh High Court Bar Association challenged on Friday all appointments and reappointments in the superior judiciary after Nov 2, 2007, as ‘unlawful’ for having been made without...
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KARACHI: Residents heave a sigh of relief as Lyari gangsters patch up
KARACHI, Jan 9: Two rival gangs in Lyari buried the hatchet by pledging not to attack each other in the area of their influence after behind-the-scenes negotiations conducted with them by...
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KARACHI: Compensation for heirs
KARACHI, Jan 9: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has announced a compensation of Rs100,000 each for the heirs of 40 persons who died in the North Karachi fire....
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KARACHI: Symposium on molecular medicine
KARACHI, Jan 9: A four-day international symposium and training course on molecular medicine and drug research will begin from January 12 at the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), Karachi University....
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KARACHI: Jail authorities told to shift gold trader to hospital
KARACHI, Jan 9: An additional district and sessions judge (south) on Friday directed the jail authorities to shift Kamran Tessori, a well-known gold trader, to hospital for necessary medical treatment....
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KARACHI: Ashura observed amid tight security
KARACHI, Jan 9: Yaum-i-Ashura, the 10th of Muharram, was observed in the city with religious sanctity and solemnity....
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KARACHI: ‘40,000 getting skills under youth programme’
KARACHI, Jan 9: Forty thousand youths are being given training in Sindh under the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Youth Development Programme in the first phase while over 19,000 more will be given training in the second phase this year....
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KARACHI: Seminar on forensic research
KARACHI, Jan 9: A seminar on crime scene investigation and forensic studies will be held at the Karachi University on Saturday (today)....
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KARACHI: Exhibition at Canvas
KARACHI, Jan 9: An exhibition of mixed-media works by Naima Dadabhoy opens on Saturday at the Canvas gallery at 5pm....
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ISLAMABAD: Registration of murder case against ACLC team ordered
ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Karachi police to register a murder case under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code against four officials of the Anti-Car...
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KARACHI: Home dept told to file comments in Unnar’s detention case
KARACHI, Jan 9: A Sindh High Court division bench directed the home department on Friday to file its comments on a petition moved against the detention of former revenue minister Altaf...
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KARACHI: Forex scam: final charge-sheet on 24th
KARACHI, Jan 9: A district and sessions judge directed the Federal Investigation Agency on Friday to submit a final charge-sheet till Jan 24 against three suspects allegedly involved in a money laundering case....
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KARACHI: Govt urged to help Palestinians
KARACHI, Jan 9: An All Party Conference has condemned the Israeli brutalities in the Gaza strip and the reported use of phosphorus bombs against the Palestinians....
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KARACHI: Israeli aggression in Gaza condemned
KARACHI, Jan 9: The Citizens Against Zionist Aggression (CAZA) group has strongly condemned the “unabated terror being let loose on Gaza by Israel”, and has called upon all professionals, including lawyers,...
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HYDERABAD: ‘Govt to eliminate poverty’
HYDERABAD, Jan 9: Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that the murder case of Benazir Bhutto will be investigated by the UNO and the murderers will be awarded exemplary punishment....
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HYDERABAD: SNF leader calls for mid-term polls
HYDERABAD, Jan 9: The Sindh National Front has said that the country will disintegrate if mid-term elections are not held because the present rulers are inefficient, incompetent and weak....
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HYDERABAD: Notices to 21 defaulting farmers’ bodies issued
HYDERABAD, Jan 9: The management of the National Programme for Improvement of Watercourses (NPIW) and the revenue department have issued notices to 21 farmers’ associations in Hyderabad district reportedly for not...
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HYDERABAD: Women condemn Israeli aggression
HYDERABAD, Jan 9: Activists of the Sindh Women Councillors Network staged a demonstration in front of the press club against the genocide of Palestinians....
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MIRPURKHAS: JI slams ‘presidential form of govt’
MIRPURKHAS, Jan 9: The imposition of presidential form of government instead of the parliamentary is the cause of crisis facing the country, said Jamaat-i-Islami Secretary-General Syed Munawwar Hassan during a one-day training programme of the JI workers on Thursday....
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HYDERABAD: Youm-i-Ashur passes off peacefully in Sindh
HYDERABAD, Jan 9: Youm-i-Ashur was observed with religious zeal throughout Sindh on Thursday amid tight security by police and Rangers. No untoward incident was reported from any part of the province....
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KOHAT: Army opens fire on angry protesters in Hangu
KOHAT, Jan 9: The army opened fire in ‘self-defence’ on thousands of angry protesters, who marched into Hangu from Kohat on Friday evening and surrounding areas to take out Ashura procession by force amid curfew in the city....
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PESHAWAR: Protesters demand end to Israeli aggression
PESHAWAR, Jan 9: Various political parties on Friday took out protest processions and staged demonstrations in different parts of the city against the killing of innocent Palestinians by the Israeli forces....
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PESHAWAR: Senior officials get more promotion opportunities
PESHAWAR, Jan 9: The NWFP government has upgraded three posts each of provincial secretaries and commissioners from grade 20 to grade 21, creating more promotion opportunities for senior officer serving in the province....
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PESHAWAR: Khyber admin officials put on notice by PHC: Detentions under FCR
PESHAWAR, Jan 9: The Peshawar High Court on Friday put on notice the political agent and assistant political agent of Khyber Agency in writ petitions filed by three persons challenging their alleged illegal detention under the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR)....
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NOWSHERA: Displaced person attempts self-immolation
NOWSHERA, Jan 9: A man from Bajaur Agency attempted self-immolation at the Jalozai relief camp for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) due to ‘non-provision’ of proper food and health facilities to his family....
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KARAK/LANDI KOTAL: Factory-owner, son of ANP leader kidnapped
KARAK/LANDI KOTAL, Jan 9: A son of the Awami National Party’s district president was kidnapped in Karak on Wednesday night and a marble factory owner was abducted in Jamrud on Thursday....
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KARAK: Flour smuggling bid foiled
KARAK, Jan 9: Police ceased a truck loaded with flour being smuggled to Afghanistan via the Gurguri-Tall road here on Friday. The driver was arrested....
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