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KARACHI: Policemen set to face torture charges: Custodial death case
KARACHI, Jan 14: Four police officials, including a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), who were booked over a month ago for killing a 30-year-old murder suspect in their custody, are likely... 
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KARACHI: IO cross-examined in Afaq Ahmed case
KARACHI, Jan 14: An additional district and sessions judge (Malir) recorded on Wednesday the statement of the investigation officer of a murder case registered against the leaders of Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi)....
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KARACHI: City govt plans another drive against plastic bags
KARACHI, Jan 14: The city government has planned another campaign against plastic bags amid persisting confusion over the thickness of polythene bags....
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KARACHI: Need for quick resolution of labour issues stressed
KARACHI, Jan 14: Speakers at a conference on Wednesday stressed that both employees and employers were integral parts of the industry and unless both protected each other’s interests, the economy could not progress in a true sense....
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KARACHI: Autopsy report awaited in cook’s ‘murder’ case
KARACHI, Jan 14: Police are waiting for the final post-mortem report and record of cellular phone of a young domestic cook, who was found hanging from a tree in his employers’...
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KARACHI: NGOs may get two govt educational institutions
KARACHI, Jan 14: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has said that the government will fully support two non-governmental organizations in order to allow them to turn the Khatoon-i-Pakistan School and Rana...
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KARACHI: ‘Underpassproject for Lea Market approved’
KARACHI, Jan 14: The Karachi Port Trust has approved an underpass project for Lea Market area which will facilitate residents of both Lyari and Saddar towns....
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KARACHI: Deposed CJ due on 17th
KARACHI, Jan 14: Lawyers will accord a warm welcome to the deposed chief justice of Supreme Court, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, upon his arrival at the airport on Jan 17....
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KARACHI: Arab leaders urged to adopt strong stance against Israel
KARACHI, Jan 14: Profound and sincere efforts are the need of the hour to deal with the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, for no human being can remain indifferent to the throttling of humanity....
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KARACHI: Self-assessment Programme for colleges
KARACHI, Jan 14: The vice-chancellor of Karachi University, Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui, has constituted a committee for the introduction of a quality assurance programme in colleges affiliated with the university....
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KARACHI: CM briefed on Thar coal, power project
KARACHI, Jan 14: A four-member delegation of the World Bank mission for proposed Thar Coal and Power Assistance called on Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah at the Chief Minister’s House on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Petitions of Sessi medical officers disposed of
KARACHI, Jan 14: A division bench of the Sindh High Court disposed of as having borne fruit writ petitions moved by 22 medical officers employed by the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (Sessi)....
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KARACHI: City receives light rain
KARACHI, Jan 14: Many areas of the city received light rain on Wednesday, which continued intermittently till late in the evening....
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KARACHI: Children march against Israel
KARACHI, Jan 14: Thousands of schoolchildren marched on roads against the Israeli offensive in Gaza in a protest demonstration organised by the Jamaat-i-Islami on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: ‘Bureaucracy not taking PAC seriously’
KARACHI, Jan 14: The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the Sindh Assembly, Jam Tamachi, has said that the bureaucracy did not take the proceedings of the committee seriously because...
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KARACHI: Public hearing on solid waste project deferred
KARACHI, Jan 14: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency has postponed a public hearing scheduled for Thursday on a much-needed solid waste management project for an indefinite period on the request of the city government....
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KARACHI: Screening of classic film
KARACHI, Jan 14: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday adjourned till Jan 18 the hearing of a constitution petition seeking permission to screen/exhibit a pre-independence classic film....
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HYDERABAD: Hepatitis spreading at alarming rate
HYDERABAD, Jan 14: The number of hepatitis B & C patients in the province stood at 1.5 million and 1.7 million, respectively which was alarmingly high and needs to be tackled on war-footing, said Sindh Health Secretary Mohammad Hussain Syed....
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MIRPURKHAS: UC nazim dies
MIRPURKHAS, Jan 14: Balochabad union council nazim Imtiaz Ali Panhwar died in a private hospital in Karachi on Tuesday night after protracted illness. He was of 58....
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HYDERABAD: Exhibition of students’ projects
HYDERABAD, Jan 14: Students of the departments of communication design, textile design and fine art displayed their theses and projects on Thar coal, solar energy, archaeology, Moenjodaro, Rani Kot fort, modern...
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HYDERABAD: Trade bodies seek removal of Hesco chief
HYDERABAD, Jan 14: The Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry and various trade organisations have demanded transfer of the Hesco chief and an end to loadshedding....
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KARACHI: Shaikh Ayaz’s widow dies
KARACHI, Jan 14: Iqbal Begum, the widow of Shaikh Ayaz, the most prominent Sindhi poet of 20th century, has died in Shikarpur after suffering cardiac arrest. She was 70....
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HYDERABAD: Teachers demand promotion
HYDERABAD, Jan 14: A delay of several years in issuing promotion orders of teachers on the basis of seniority has deprived hundreds of teachers of their legal rights, says PPP MNA from Jamshoro district, Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur....
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HYDERABAD: Protest against Israeli aggression
HYDERABAD, Jan 14: A large number of activists of Pakistan Human Rights Development Organisation, including women held a demonstration outside the press club here on Wednesday to condemn the massacre of Palestinians by Zionist forces....
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PESHAWAR: Volunteers repulse Taliban attack
PESHAWAR, Jan 14: The volunteers of a local peace committee foiled an attempt of the militants to assassinate leader of the committee at Mera village of Adezai union council near Indus Highway in the small hours of Wednesday....
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NOWSHERA: CD shops blown up in Nowshera, Kohat
NOWSHERA, Jan 14: A group of armed militants blew up fourteen shops, most of them CDs centres, in a series of explosions at three main markets of sensitive Hakeemabad area in Nowshera cantonment in the small hours of Wednesday....
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PESHAWAR: House shirks debate on financial scam
PESHAWAR, Jan 14: The Frontier Assembly swept under the carpet a question relating to a financial scam involving more than Rs22 million and provided a safe exit to the accused contractor...
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CHITRAL: Lowari tunnel festivities snowballed
CHITRAL, Jan 14: The programmes of festivities scheduled to celebrate completion of the first phase of Lowari rail tunnel were to be cancelled due to snowfall here on Wednesday....
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KOHAT: Jirga summoned to restore Hangu peace
KOHAT, Jan 14: The administration has summoned a jirga of the elders of rival groups of Hangu on Thursday to sort out differences between them and restore lasting peace in the district....
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ALPURI: Postmaster quits over militants’ threats
ALPURI, Jan 14: The acting postmaster of Shangla quit his job after receiving threats from Taliban causing severe hardships for the local people, who couldn’t receive or send their mails and parcels anymore....
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