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KARACHI: MPAs protest over big flour price gap in Sindh, Punjab
KARACHI, Feb 11: The fact that wheat flour in Sindh costs almost twice as much as it does in Punjab was bitterly criticised in the provincial assembly on Wednesday, when through... 
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KARACHI: MDA chief’s wife among five killed in violent acts
KARACHI, Feb 11: Five people, including the 40-year-old wife of the director-general of the Malir Development Authority, were killed on Wednesday in acts of violence in different parts of the city, witnesses and police said....
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KARACHI: PPP throws up mixed bag for Senate
KARACHI, Feb 11: The Pakistan People’s Party’s eight candidates from Sindh for the Senate’s upcoming elections – announced on Wednesday by the party’s parliamentary board with the country’s president and the...
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KARACHI: Plan to set up tax-free industrial zone in Sindh
KARACHI, Feb 11: A plan is in the works to establish a tax-free industrial zone in the interior of Sindh to give a boost to economic activity, where interested parties will...
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KARACHI: City council Opposition slams levy of new tax
KARACHI, Feb 11: The Leader of the Opposition in the City Council, Saeed Ghani, and members of the Awam Dost group have condemned the levying of a huge infrastructure tax on the citizens of Karachi....
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KARACHI: SHC issues notices in Thatta nazim’s petition against freeze of funds
KARACHI, Feb 11: The Sindh High Court issued notices to the provincial local government department, the district co-ordination officer of Thatta and other respondents in a petition moved by the district...
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KARACHI: Plan to expand hospital in Orangi okayed
KARACHI, Feb 11: The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) met here on Wednesday to consider development schemes relating to education, health, women’s development, transport and communication and a Union Council-based poverty reduction project worth Rs2.73...
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KARACHI: Security measures for Chehlum reviewed
KARACHI, Feb 11: Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to take strict security measures across the province during the Chehlum of Hazrat Imam Hussain....
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KARACHI: No let-up in SBC poll controversy
KARACHI, Feb 11: The Sindh Bar Council meeting scheduled for Feb 15 for election of a new vice-chairman has no legal sanction as a vice-chairman has already been elected, 23 SBC members said on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Plan for wheat procurement reviewed
KARACHI, Feb 11: The wheat procurement programme for 2009-10 came under review at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah at the Chief Minister House on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: MA exams
KARACHI, Feb 11: The examination department of University of Karachi on Wednesday announced that the...
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KARACHI: Exhibition
KARACHI, Feb 11: The works of the students of the department of Visual Studies, University of Karachi, will be displayed at Alliance Francaise from Feb 12 to 16....
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KARACHI: Opposition slams govt for deferring legislation
KARACHI, Feb 11: Members of the joint opposition in the Sindh Assembly decried what they claimed was the government’s sluggishness where lawmaking was concerned as well as the attitude of some members of the treasury....
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KARACHI: PW identifies two accused in child kidnap case
KARACHI, Feb 11: A prosecution witness in a child kidnap case identified two of the three accused during his testimony before an anti-terrorism court on Wednesday....
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HYDERABAD: Hyderabad to receive funds soon
HYDERABAD, Feb 11: Sindh Chief Secretary Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday assured Hyderabad District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil that the government would soon release funds to help the district complete work on ongoing development schemes in the city....
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THATTA: MPA wants Ghorabari college revived
THATTA, Feb 11: MPA Humera Alwani of Pakistan People’s Party has called for revival of intermediate college in Ghorabari and said that it will help impart higher education to at least...
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HYDERABAD: Mumtaz wants to supervise BB murder probe
HYDERABAD, Feb 11: Sindh National Front chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto on Wednesday demanded that investigation into Benazir Bhutto murder should be carried out under his supervision “because I am not only...
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HYDERABAD: Man shot dead over matrimonial dispute
HYDERABAD, Feb 11: An unskilled worker of the Jamshoro thermal powerhouse, Hazrat Iqbal Ahmed Pathan, was gunned down on Wednesday by two motorcyclists in an apparent incident of target-killing near the recreational centre of the powerhouse’ residential colony....
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HYDERABAD: Compensation for riot-hit people
HYDERABAD, Feb 11: The EDO Revenue, on the orders of Sindh High Court Hyderabad Bench, has called those affected during 1988 to 1990 riots to appear in the office situated in Shahbaz Building for verification of their claims....
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HYDERABAD: Protest
HYDERABAD, Feb 11: Two demonstrations, one by the National Labour Federation (NLF) and the other by Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign (PTUDC) were held by their activists outside the press club against the attack on mills workers....
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PESHAWAR: Senate election: realpolitik begins
PESHAWAR, Feb 11: The Pakistan People’s Party has allotted Senate tickets to its five candidates, contesting for three general seats and each one for the technocrat and woman seat....
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PESHAWAR: Experts see loopholes in govt report on child rights
PESHAWAR, Feb 11: Speakers at a consultation on Wednesday stated most of the issues related to children were provincial subjects under the constitution but the provincial governments had not been making appropriate legislation in this regard....
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PESHAWAR: Top doctors flout rules to work with donor agencies
PESHAWAR, Feb 11: Dozens of senior doctors of the health department have been working with international organisations in violation of rules set forth by the provincial government for deputation and appointment of civil servants in donor-driven projects and international organisations....
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BUNER: CEC orders recounting in Buner
BUNER, Feb 11: Chief Election Commissioner Justice Qazi Mohammad Farooq on Wednesday ordered recounting of votes cast during re-polling on 11 polling stations of NA-28 Buner constituency after a controversy was emerged about the results furnished by the presiding officers....
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MINGORA: Two shot dead for curfew violation
MINGORA, Feb 11: Two civilians were killed in firing by security forces for violating curfew in the Kabal tehsil and two security personnel were killed in clashes with militants in the restive Swat valley on Wednesday....
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LANDI KOTAL: LI activist killed, two arrested in Khyber
LANDI KOTAL, Feb 11: Security forces killed an activist of banned Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) and arrested two others at a checkpost in Khyber tribal region on Wednesday evening....
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