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KARACHI: Trader dies in LPG shop explosion
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 21: An LPG trader was killed and his two employees sustained severe burns when the cylinders placed in his shop on Abul Hassan Ispahani Road blew

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: City areas tense as SSP leaders laid to rest
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 21: A former leader of the outlawed Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan who suffered bullet wounds in a late Thursday night ambush, which left another

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Call to declare Thar special economic zone
By Shamim-ur-Rahman
KARACHI, Nov 21: The Thar Coal Energy Board has proposed that Thar be declared a special economic zone and treated as a strategic interest area to encourage

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Warrants out for arrest of two SPs, four others
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 21: A sessions court on Saturday ordered the issuance of warrants for the arrest of two superintendents of police and four other police officials

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Robbers kill father of five in Baldia
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 21: Robbers killed a man in Baldia Town within the remit of the Saeedabad police station on Saturday, police and the victim’s family said.

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Door-to-door collection of hides banned
 
KARACHI, Nov 21: The Sindh home department issued on Saturday a code of ethics for all political, religious, social and other organisations for collecting hides

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: PPP to stage rally across Sindh
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 21: The Pakistan People’s Party will organise a “Pakistan Khapay Rally” to show the party’s street power in the province.

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Fuuast results
 
KARACHI, Nov 21: The Federal Urdu University of Arts Science and Technology (Fuuast) on Saturday announced the results of BA part-I (external candidates)

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: BNP wants UN help for Balochistan self-rule
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 21: Rejecting the federal government’s proposed Balochistan package, the Balochistan National Party (Mengal) on Friday called for the right of

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: KU aptitude tests today
 
Karachi, Nov 21: The director of admissions, University of Karachi, has announced that the aptitude tests for admissions to BS (Hon) programme of the

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Quratulain Hyder’s fiction lauded at Urdu conference
By Peerzada Salman
KARACHI: The last day of the 2nd International Urdu Conference commenced on a rather controversial note. The co-organiser of the first session on the literary

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: SZIC probe body fails to meet
By Faiza Ilyas
KARACHI, Nov 21: A committee which has been set up to investigate the controversial promotion and appointment of the current director of the Sheikh Zayed

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
Frere’s flair
By Peerzada Salman
You can’t compare the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to that of Frere Hall. But what that genius Sadequain was trying to achieve, even in its supposedly

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: KESC slammed over technical losses
By Our Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 20: Participants of a seminar on Friday took strong exception to the Karachi Electric Supply Company’s campaign which describes all electricity

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Dawn's lifestyle show opens
By Our Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 20: The DAWN All About Lifestyles exhibition got off to a good start on Friday with a large number of visitors thronging the venue as soon as the

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Arrested ‘robbers’ killed in mysterious shoot-out
By Imran Ayub
KARACHI, Nov 20: The trigger-happy approach of the Karachi police was underlined in yet another incident when two suspected robbers, captured alive after an

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Call for more fishermen on FCS board
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 20: The Competitiveness Support Fund has called for giving more representation to fishermen on the board of directors of the Fishermen Cooperative

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Admissions
 
KARACHI, Nov 20: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi has extended the date for admission to colleges in class XI till December 7.

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Bandits kill policeman
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 20: A policeman was killed and the SHO of the Mubina Town police station suffered a bullet wound when armed bandits fired at them on University

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Pending CNICs
 
KARACHI, Nov 20: Taking notice of 15,000 cases of Machhar Colony residents pending at the National Database and Registration Authority offices, Deputy Chairman

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: ‘Quality of criticism depends on literary works’
By Peerzada Salman
KARACHI: It was a session that saw fervent speeches. The first subject under discussion on the penultimate day of the 2nd International Urdu Conference was

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
Paintings
 
AN exhibition of paintings by Inam Raja opened at the Galleria 919 at 5.30pm on Friday. The show will remain open till November 27, daily from 10.30am to

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Exhibition
 
KARACHI, Nov 20: An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Kamal Hyat opens at the Chawkandi art gallery at 5.30pm on Saturday.

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Agriculture secy, DCO summoned in sugar case
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 20: The Sindh High Court on Friday warned the provincial agriculture secretary of coercive process in case he again failed to appear in court in a

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Lawyers mourn victims of Peshawar blast
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 20: The legal fraternity on Friday observed a complete boycott of proceedings at the city courts and Malir district courts to protest against a

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Young man shot dead in Orangi
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 19: A young man was gunned down on Thursday in Orangi Town where he used to lead prayers at a local mosque, said police and witnesses.

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Dawn’s lifestyle show to open today
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 19: A three-day consumer products exhibition, DAWN All About Lifestyles 2009, opens at the Expo Centre in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Friday afternoon.

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Three policemen booked in ‘encounter’ case
By Imran Ayub
KARACHI, Nov 19: A police officer and two constables were booked on Thursday for killing a 24-year-old man in the Dalmia area the previous night. The killing

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Stories well told
 
KARACHI: The veteran players of theatre group Katha have resurfaced in the metropolis after a lengthy sabbatical. Having recently staged Mein adakara banoon gi,

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Ban imposed on vehicles in Keamari oil area
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 19: The routes of two public transport vehicles passing through an area in Keamari where oil installations are located have been changed and a ban

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Forest dept fails to account for Rs103.58m
By Habib Khan Ghori
KARACHI, Nov 19: The Public Accounts Committee of the Sindh Assembly has taken serious notice of the forest and wildlife department’s failure to produce the

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: SHC issues notices in National Stadium property tax case
By Tahir Siddiqui
KARACHI, Nov 19: The Sindh High Court has put the director-general of the excise and taxation department, the station commander of the Karachi Cantonment and

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Non-bailable warrant out against minister
By Ishaq Tanoli
KARACHI, Nov 19: A sessions court on Thursday issued a non-bailable warrant for the arrest of a provincial minister in an attempted murder case.

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Of media’s Urdu language and nostalgia
By Peerzada Salman
KARACHI, Nov 19: The third day of the 2nd International Urdu Conference began on Thursday with a session entitled ‘Urdu language and literature and the media’.

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Shahbaz says political dispensation must continue
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 19: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has warned that if political dispensation in the country was wrapped up once again, its consequences could

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: ‘Gangster’ shot dead in Malir
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 18: A suspected member of a Lyari criminal gang was shot dead by gunmen in the Malir City area on Wednesday, police and witnesses said.

Thursday, 19 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: State appeal in Sheraton blast case deferred
 
KARACHI, Nov 18: A division bench of the Sindh High Court deferred on Wednesday an appeal filed by the state against the acquittal of the alleged mastermind of

Thursday, 19 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Council slams govt over deepening sugar crisis
By Latif Baloch
KARACHI, Nov 18: While the opposition benches failed to persuade the city council convener to let them table a resolution on the assassination of social

Thursday, 19 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Building collapse tragedy: Four suspects to be indicted on Dec 3
By Ishaq Tanoli
KARACHI, Nov 18: A sessions court on Wednesday supplied the copies of statements and other documents to four accused nominated in the Liaquatabad building

Thursday, 19 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Fiction and poetry analysed at Urdu conference
By Peerzada Salman
KARACHI, Nov 18: As the five-day Second International Urdu Conference being held in the city entered the second day on Wednesday, more luminaries representing

Thursday, 19 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: ‘Smokers cough early sign of pulmonary diseases’
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 18: Medical professionals speaking at health awareness programmes have sought effective enforcement of clean air laws and ban on smoking at public

Thursday, 19 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Need stressed for police reforms
By Habib Khan Ghori
KARACHI, Nov 18: Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid has highlighted the need for police reforms along with ensuring recruitment of the right man for the right job from

Thursday, 19 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Police hospital crippled by dual control
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 18: The dual control of the police and the health department over the police hospital is hampering its smooth functioning. Even if dissatisfied

Thursday, 19 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Mob attack leaves two policemen wounded
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 17: Several hundred people, including women and children, threw rocks on a police party and resorted to firing in the air to frustrate an operation

Wednesday, 18 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Faiz eulogised as Urdu conference opens
By Peerzada Salman
KARACHI, Nov 17: The second International Urdu Conference got under way on Tuesday evening at the Arts Council Karachi in a spirited fashion. The five-day event

Wednesday, 18 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Hundreds volunteer for cadaver organ donation
By Mukhtar Alam
KARACHI, Nov 17: Four health institutions of Karachi performed about 60 per cent of the total 1,633 living-related kidney transplants carried out in the country

Wednesday, 18 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: ‘Non-issues’ dominate city council proceedings
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 17: The city council proceedings on Tuesday were marred by noisy disturbances as both sides of the divide refused to listen to each other’s

Wednesday, 18 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Sugar sale restricted to ‘hideouts’
By Aamir Shafaat Khan
KARACHI, Nov 17: As neither the city government nor the traders had made public the list of the limited number of retailers supposed to be selling sugar at Rs40

Wednesday, 18 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Remand of seven ‘TTP militants’ extended
By Ishaq Tanoli
KARACHI, Nov 17: Seven suspected militants of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan were remanded in police custody till Nov 23 by a judicial magistrate on

Wednesday, 18 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: SHC wants heritage criterion explained
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 17: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed the provincial culture and tourism department to place on record the criterion set for decl-aring

Wednesday, 18 Nov, 2009
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