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KARACHI: Women police station opened
 
KARACHI, Nov 26: The first independent women police station with a 24-hour helpline “1213” established at the Saddar police station was inaugurated by National

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Young man shot dead by robbers
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 26: A young man was shot dead by armed robbers when he tried to run away from them in Korangi late on Thursday night, said police and witnesses.

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Two women found dead
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 26: Bodies of two women said to have lain in their respective houses for days were found on Thursday, police said.

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Third Aids control centre in Sindh planned
By Mukhtar Alam
KARACHI, Nov 26: With almost half of the country’s HIV patients living in Sindh, a third centre for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the virus

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Two acquitted in policeman’s murder case
By Ishaq Tanoli
KARACHI, Nov 26: An anti-terrorism court acquitted on Thursday two men in a case pertaining to the murder of a policeman.

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Teenage boy arrested for nine-year-old girl’s rape
By Imran Ayub
KARACHI, Nov 26: A teenage boy was arrested and booked on Thursday for raping a nine-year-old girl in a Korangi locality, said police and witnesses.

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: CM orders action against sugar hoarders
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 26: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed law-enforcement agencies and officials concerned to take action against hoarders and

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Road, two bridges inaugurated
 
KARACHI, Nov 26: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal inaugurated on Thursday a five-kilometre-long road, called 10,000 Road and connecting Surjani Town to the

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: HSP to set up plant tissue culture lab
 
KARACHI, Nov 26: The Horticulture Society of Pakistan plans to set up a tissue culture lab for ornamental flowers in Karachi. The foundation stone of the lab

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Eid prayer timings
 
KARACHI, Nov 26: The following are the Eidul Azha prayer timings to be observed in various mosques, Eidgah grounds, playgrounds and Imambargahs, etc:

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Exhibition
 
KARACHI, Nov 26: An exhibition of jewellery pieces designed by artist Iram Zia opens at the Canvas Gallery on Friday.

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Call for joint efforts to end violence against women
 
KARACHI, Nov 26: Speakers at a seminar have urged civil society, the media and other organisations to make collective efforts to bring an end to violence and

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Drug peddler jailed
 
KARACHI, Nov 26: A special court for the control of narcotic substances sentenced a drug peddler on Thursday to seven years in prison.

Friday, 27 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Experts say inefficient power plants, vehicles harming ecology, economy
By Mukhtar Alam
KARACHI, Nov 25: Experts on energy and the environment at a forum here on Wednesday said that thermal power plants, refineries and vehicles were the main

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Husband identifies woman’s body
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 25: The murder of a woman whose body was found in a gunny bag in Nazimabad on Tuesday remained shrouded in mystery despite the fact that her

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Traders blame high animal rates on taxes
By Faiza Ilyas
KARACHI, Nov 25: In the absence of any government initiative to resolve the decades-old issues plaguing the livestock sector in general and the sale and

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Suitor’s body found in Rizvia
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 25: The body of a young man was found in his partially burnt car in a Nazimabad locality within the remit of the Rizvia Society police station on

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Five jailed for life in kidnap for ransom case
By Ishaq Tanoli
KARACHI, Nov 25: An anti-terrorism court sentenced five men to life imprisonment on Wednesday in a kidnapping for ransom case.

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Man gets life for killing stepson
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 25: A sessions court sentenced a man to life imprisonment on Wednesday for killing his three-year-old stepson.

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Woman shot dead in Orangi
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 25: A 40-year-old woman was gunned down allegedly by her husband in Orangi Town on Wednesday, police said.

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: PN fleet, Log commanders assume charge
 
KARACHI, Nov 25: The recently appointed Fleet Commander of the Pakistan Navy has assumed his new responsibility at a change of command ceremony held at the PN

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Rally slams violence against women
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 25: Activists and supporters of several civil society organisations, including the Aurat Foundation, staged a rally outside the Karachi Press Club

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: SHC seeks report on legislation for trees preservation
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 25: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed a provincial law officer to submit a report on the status of enactment of law by a committee formed

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Cattle trader, college student shot dead by robbers
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 25: A young cattle trader and a BCom student were gunned down on Wednesday allegedly by bandits when the victims resisted two separate robbery

Thursday, 26 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: CM seeks report on 400 ‘illegal’ appointments
By Azizullah Sharif
KARACHI, Nov 24: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has ordered an inquiry into the recent appointment of non-teaching staff in city government-run schools

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Prolonged Sepa silence over ‘violations’ puzzles tribunal
By Mukhtar Alam
KARACHI, Nov 24: The Environmental Protection Tribunal (Sindh) on Tuesday took exception to some replies of the prosecution in a case pertaining to the alleged

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Four youths die as oil tanker crushes car
By Imran Ayub
KARACHI, Nov 24: Four youngsters, including two brothers, were killed when a fast-moving oil tanker, carrying thousands of litres of diesel, overturned and

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Woman’s body found in gunny bag
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 24: The body of a young woman, stuffed in a gunny bag, was found in an under-construction park within the remit of the Nazimabad police station on

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: CDGK to get 100 acres for bus terminal, SHC told
By Tahir Siddiqui
KARACHI, Nov 24: The Sindh High Court was on Tuesday informed that the provincial government would allot 100 acres to the city government to establish an

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Security tightened for PPP rallies
 
KARACHI, Nov 24: Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza has directed police officials to take tight security measures throughout the province on the 43rd

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: 14 colleges to hold masters classes
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 24: The Sindh education department has decided to start masters classes in 14 degree colleges of the province by according them the status of

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Bail plea of ex-official rejected in graft case
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 24: The provincial special anti-corruption court, Karachi, dismissed on Tuesday the pre-arrest bail application filed by a former director-general

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Ibad leaves for Haj
 
KARACHI, Nov 24: Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad on Tuesday left for Saudi Arabia to perform Haj.

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Judgment in Murtaza murder case reserved till Dec 5
By Ishaq Tanoli
KARACHI, Nov 24: A sessions court on Tuesday reserved its judgment in the murder case of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and his associates till Dec 5.

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Transport EDO removed
 
KARACHI, Nov 24: Taking notice of a slow pace of construction of overhead pedestrian bridges across the city, Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has removed the executive

Wednesday, 25 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Govt told to sell 2,200 tonnes of sugar at Rs40 a kilo
By Tahir Siddiqui
KARACHI, Nov 23: The Sindh High Court on Monday ordered the provincial government to associate a non-government organisation in the sale of 2,200 tonnes of

Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Recent dengue deaths cause alarm
By Mukhtar Alam
KARACHI, Nov 23: Two more dengue patients died at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital last week amid an alarming increase in the cases of the mosquito-borne disease,

Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Protesters set fire to bus as two die in accident
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 23: An employee of the Karachi Electric Supply Company and a student were killed in an accident in the Landhi area on Monday, police said.

Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Demand for consultation on fisheries policy
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 23: Expressing reservations about the new fisheries policy which has been announced by the government, participants of a rally have urged the

Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: St Joseph’s Miss Fikree passes away
By Mahim Maher
KARACHI, Nov 23: Shafiqa Fikree, the headmistress of St Joseph’s Convent High School’s Cambridge section, passed away early Monday after a brief illness. She

Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: NED vacation
 
KARACHI, Nov 23: The NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi will remain closed from December 1 to 31 on account of winter vacations. This was

Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Senate committee worried over incomplete Lyari Expressway
By Khawar Ghumman
ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: The Senate’s standing committee on communications on Monday expressed its serious concern over the slow pace of work on the Lyari Expressway

Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Judgment in kidnap case tomorrow
By Ishaq Tanoli
KARACHI, Nov 23: An anti-terrorism court reserved on Monday its verdict in a kidnapping for ransom case till Nov 25.

Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009
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Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: KESC chief says no money to run some power units
By Shamim-ur-Rahman
KARACHI, Nov 23: Karachi Electric Supply Company chief Tabish Gauhar conceded on Monday that the utility was unable to operate some of its power-generating

Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009
Dr Nabi Bukhsh Baloch: a nonagenarian scholar
By Rauf Parekh
Some personalities are so versatile and the fields of their achievements so varied and vast that it becomes much difficult to capture their personality in

Monday, 23 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Haleji Lake rehabilitation initiative lacks planning
By Faiza Ilyas
KARACHI, Nov 22: Having remained deprived of adequate supplies of water for over a decade, the stagnant waters of Haleji Lake has regained some life with

Monday, 23 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Demand for giving Sindh its due rights
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 22: Participants of a long march after covering 900 kilometres on foot in 46 days on arriving Karachi demanded that Sindh’s right over its

Monday, 23 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Focus on terrorism provides relief to other criminals
By Imran Ayub
KARACHI, Nov 22: Since the police department, like other law-enforcement agencies, has changed its priorities in controlling crimes in the city, there has been

Monday, 23 Nov, 2009
KARACHI: Woman dies in accident
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 22: A young woman was killed in a hit-and-run road accident in Korangi area on Sunday evening.

Monday, 23 Nov, 2009
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