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KARACHI: Traders shut down Mandi in protest against ‘extortion’
KARACHI, Jan 16: The trade of fruit and vegetables at the city’s main wholesale market on Super Highway remained completely suspended on Friday in response to a strike called by traders...
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KARACHI: City govt barred from taking action against plastic bag dealers
KARACHI, Jan 16: The Sindh High Court on Friday restrained the city district government from taking action against polythene bag manufacturers and dealers till Jan 22 when a petition moved by them would come up for hearing....
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KARACHI: Doubts cast over suspects’ link with Taliban: Sohrab Goth ‘shoot-out’
KARACHI, Jan 16: Contrary to police claims that the suspects involved in Thursday’s shoot-out at the Mohmand building in Sohrab Goth were pro-Taliban elements, police officials are said to have identified...
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KARACHI: Newborn found dead
KARACHI, Jan 16: The body of a newborn was found in a drain in the limits of the Kalri police station on Friday....
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KARACHI: No criminal probe yet into last year’s ‘arson’ cases
KARACHI, Jan 16: An inquiry committee, set up by the Sindh governor to ascertain the causes of rising fire incidents in the city, has suspected arson to be behind the blazes...
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KARACHI: Registration of 55 private schools suspended
KARACHI, Jan 16: The Sindh directorate of private educational institutions has suspended the registration of 55 private schools for an indefinite period on charges of flouting the education department steering committee’s decision concerning the winter vacations....
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KARACHI: Visitors briefed on PN projects
KARACHI, Jan 16: A 75-member delegation of parliamentarians, lawyers, businessmen and civil bureaucracy visited the Pakistan Navy Dockyard on Friday and witnessed the process of ship-building....
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KARACHI: 11 PhD degrees awarded
KARACHI, Jan 16: The University of Karachi has awarded 11 PhD degrees in various disciplines....
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KARACHI: Minister orders action against extortionists
KARACHI, Jan 16: Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfikar Ali Mirza on Friday issued instructions for the deployment of efficient police officials and personnel in all the industrial zones and busy markets,...
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KARACHI: Lyari interchange
KARACHI, Jan 16: Minister for Ports and Shipping Nabil Gabol has issued directives to the National Highway Authority for the construction of the Lyari Expressway’s interchange at Lyari....
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KARACHI: No penalties imposed in anti-polythene bag drive
KARACHI, Jan 16: The city district government Karachi’s magistrates on Friday failed to take action against the manufacturers and marketers of polythene bags in line with an earlier decision of the...
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KARACHI: Lady doctor injured in mugging attempt
KARACHI, Jan 16: A lady doctor was shot at and wounded in a cellphone snatching attempt in the limits of Zaman Town police station on Friday night....
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KARACHI: Notices issued to jail superintendent, AG in Arshad Pappu case
KARACHI, Jan 16: The Sindh High Court on Friday issued a notice to the superintendent of the central prison and the advocate-general of Sindh on a petition against solitary confinement of Arshad Pappu, who has been under trial since 2006....
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KARACHI: Publications seized
KARACHI, Jan 16: The Sindh government seized publications of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa Pakistan for containing material, which is “objectionable, provocative, fanning sectarianism and intended to outrage the religious feelings of Muslims and is also prejudicial to sectarian harmony and national integration.”...
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KARACHI: March 9 final round of movement: Kurd
KARACHI, Jan 16: President of the Supreme Court Bar Association Ali Ahmed Kurd said on Friday that the second long march scheduled for March 9 would prove to be the final round of indefatigable movement of lawyers....
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KARACHI: Karachiites pay tribute to Intizar Husain
KARACHI, Jan 16: Responding to the accolades showered on him by speakers at a function held in his honour at the Arts Council on Friday, noted writer Intizar Husain said he was overwhelmed by the respect and affection shown for him....
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DADU: Tribute paid to Ustad Bukhari
DADU, Jan 16: The 79 birth anniversary of renowned Sindhi poet Ustad Bukhari was celebrated by his family members at their residence in Gharibabad Mohalla here on Friday....
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HYDERABAD: SHO ordered to record petitioner’s statement
HYDERABAD, Jan 16: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, on Friday directed the station-house officer of Tando Mohammad Khan to record statement of Munawwar Ali Noonari, brother of the Sindh...
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HYDERABAD: Sacked employees threaten protest
HYDERABAD, Jan 16: Sacked employees of various organisations including the SSGC, the OGDC, IB, PSO, CAA, State Life, NHA, UBL, PTCL, Steel Mills, Port Qasim and the PIA, at a convention...
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HYDERABAD: Khairpur UCs being ignored: Nazim
HYDERABAD, Jan 16: The Pakistan People’s Party government has done nothing to resolve the problems of Khairpur district UCs headed by Awam Dost Nazims, said a nazim....
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HYDERABAD: Police clueless about youth’s disappearance
HYDERABAD, Jan 16: Despite the passage of around five months, the Hyderabad police are still in the dark about the whereabouts of a student of a private university, Maqsood Samejo, who went missing from Bhittai Nagar on August 27, 2008....
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HYDERABAD: New building at SU opened
HYDERABAD, Jan 16: The Sindh University has completed construction of an additional building comprising four laboratories and classrooms for the Centre for Pure and Applied Geology at Allama I.I....
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JACOBABAD: Man shot dead
JACOBABAD, Jan 16: Bandits killed a man and injured his brother in their house at Gulsher Mohalla in Kandhkot....
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HYDERABAD: Demos held against Israeli raids
HYDERABAD, Jan 16: Demonstrations were held in different parts of Sindh against the massacre of Palestinian people by the Israeli forces with speakers calling on all Muslim nations to unite on one platform and challenge the Israeli aggression....
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TIMERGARA: TNSM chief denies backing BISP
TIMERGARA, Jan 16: Chief of Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) Maulana Sufi Mohammad has denied a report published in a section of the press that TNSM’s Swat committee supported the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP)....
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SWABI: Minister vows to fight for girls’ education
SWABI, Jan 16: NWFP Minister for Education Sardar Hussain Babak has rejected the Swat militants’ call for closure of girls’ schools and said that no one will be allowed at any...
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BANNU: Two bombs detonated in controlled explosions
BANNU, Jan 16: Security forces on Friday detonated two bombs in controlled explosions on Dera-Bannu Road, officials and residents said....
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PESHAWAR: Legislators enjoy poetry interlude
PESHAWAR, Jan 16: As a light drizzle pattered on the roof of the provincial assembly building, a light mood prevailed inside the NWFP legislature as lawmakers from the opposition and treasury benches exchanged couplets to amuse the house on Friday....
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KARACHI: Weather
KARACHI, Jan 16: The meteorological office has forecast partly cloudy/cloudy weather with chances of rain for the city on Saturday....
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