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KARACHI: Grand rally calls for OIC summit on West’s ‘plot’: Blasphemous sketches KARACHI, Feb 16: The Namoos-i-Risalat rally organized by the Jamaat Ahle Sunnat on Thursday, through a resolution, has appealed to the Organization of Islamic Countries to convene its emergency summit at Masjid-i-Nabavi, Saudi Arabia....		KARACHI: Schools, colleges closed for second day KARACHI, Feb 16: All educational institutions in public and private sectors up to university level will remain closed for the second day on Feb 17 throughout the province....
KARACHI: Transporters, traders to join in strike today KARACHI, Feb 16: Various transport associations, trade bodies and business concerns have extended their support to the Pasban’s call for strike on Friday in protest against the publication of blasphemous sketches by certain European newspapers....		KARACHI: Postmortem of Chinese engineers carried out KARACHI, Feb 16: Postmortem examination of the three Chinese engineers was carried at Aga Khan Hospital by a team of doctors of the Sindh government on Thursday....
KARACHI: Govt told to ascertain whereabouts of student KARACHI, Feb 16: Terming personal affidavit of federal interior secretary regarding whereabouts of IBA student as insufficient, Sindh High Court Thursday directed the federal government that whereabouts of the student be ascertained within two weeks....		KARACHI: Governor, CM laud peaceful rally KARACHI, Feb 16: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad and Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui have congratulated the Ahl-i-Sunnat leaders for holding a peaceful and historic rally in the city on Thursday against the publication of blasphemous sketches by the European press....
KARACHI: Altaf greets Ibad, Arbab KARACHI, Feb 16: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief, Altaf Hussain, has greeted all political and religious parties, Haq Parasts and Sindh administration for observing a peaceful protest demonstration against blasphemy....		KARACHI: Two shot dead in various incidents KARACHI, Feb 16: Two persons were shot dead in different incidents in the city on Thursday. Police said Zameer Gul was gunned down by unknown persons in Mehran Town in the Korangi Industrial Area....
KARACHI: Garbage lifting by private sector opposed KARACHI, Feb 16: Speakers at a meeting on Thursday demanded that concerns of the municipal workers should be addressed before completely handing over the solid waste management system to contractors otherwise workers would be forced to resort to other options....		KARACHI: Nazim defends sanitation system privatization KARACHI, Feb 16: The City Nazim, Mustafa Kamal, has defended the privatisation of garbage lifting and disposal system, saying it would help in lifting about 7,000 tons of garbage generated in the city daily....
KARACHI: Monitoring system for water courses soon KARACHI, Feb 16: The President’s National Programme for Improvement of Watercourses (NPIW) in Sindh has entered a new phase as Suparco joins hands with the Programme Monitoring Unit-PMU (Sindh) of the...		KARACHI: CS orders completion of uplift schemes by June KARACHI, Feb 16: Sindh Chief Secretary Fazalur Rehman on Thursday directed all departments to ensure completion of their respective development schemes, initiated under the Annual Development Programme, by the end of June....
KARACHI: Probe urged into alleged fraud in Greece KARACHI, Feb 16: The President of the Pakistan Community Ittehad, Javaid Aslam, on Thursday demanded of the government to form an inquiry committee to probe into allegations of corruption at the...		KARACHI: Training postponed KARACHI, Feb 16: The two-day training under the ‘Adopt a School Programme’ of the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF), which was scheduled to commence from Feb 16 has been cancelled....
KARACHI: Indian fishing boat seized KARACHI, Feb 16: The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) ship Vehdat apprehended one Indian fishing boat along with six crew members onboard on Feb 15 for fishing illegally in Pakistani waters....		KARACHI: Tree plantation KARACHI, Feb 16: A spring tree plantation Campaign 2006 is being jointly launched by the forest department, city government and the Pakistan Coast Guards, says a statement issued on Thursday....
KARACHI: Teachers oppose composite exams KARACHI, Feb 16: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers’ Association (SPLA) has demanded of the government to introduce a biannual examinations system for students of classes IX to XII and not to...		KARACHI: Exemplary peace marks protest against cartoons KARACHI, Feb 16: Apart from a few isolated incidents of burning of tyres, the mammoth rally held in the city on Thursday against the publication of blasphemous sketches by European press remained peaceful....
KARACHI: Hearing in blast case put off KARACHI, Feb 16: An anti-terrorism court adjourned on Thursday the hearing of a bomb blast case against four workers of the banned Jundullah group as the prosecution witness did not turn up....		KARACHI: Govt hand in gloves with extremists, claims PPP KARACHI, Feb 16: Leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and MNA Mir Aijaz Hussein Jakhrani said on Thursday that the violence in Lahore proved a nexus between the government and extremists....
KARACHI: Ibad for increase in Zakat fund KARACHI, Feb 16: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Thursday said that the ratio of Zakat fund was insufficient as compared to the population of the province especially Karachi....		KARACHI: Mill-owner taken away by Punjab police KARACHI, Feb 16: A local industrialist was whisked away reportedly by the Punjab police from his factory premises in Korangi Industrial Area on Thursday....
KARACHI: Bail granted KARACHI, Feb 16: District and Session Judge Central Nisar Ahmed Sheikh on Thursday granted bail to a man in a case pertaining to death of a man in an accident....		HYDERABAD: District govt plans flats for employees HYDERABAD, Feb 16: The district government has decided to build flats for public servants to provide them better residential facilities, according to District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil....
HYDERABAD: Scientists call for curbs on felling trees HYDERABAD, Feb 16: Eminent scholars and botanists have called for effective measures to check the cutting of plants and trees which are indispensable to life....		HYDERABAD: Protest against removal of professor HYDERABAD, Feb 16: Employees and paramedical staff of the Wali Bhai Rajputana charitable hospital staged protests on Thursday against removal of the honorary chairman of the administrative committee of the hospital, Prof Salahuddin Siddiqui....
HYDERABAD: Sindhi Adabi Board schemes launched HYDERABAD, Feb 16: Sindh Education Minister Dr Hamida Khuhro on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of development works of the Sindhi Adabi Board in Jamshoro....		LARKANA: Plan to set up judicial enclave in Larkana LARKANA, Feb 16: Under the access to justice programme launched in cooperation with the Asian Development Bank, a judicial enclave will be established in the city....
KHAIRPUR: Provision of clean water stressed KHAIRPUR, Feb 16: A roundtable meeting of political parties held here on Wednesday urged provision of clean drinking water to people....		MITHI: Demand for probe into misuse of funds MITHI, Feb 16: Residents of the Meenhal Bajir village of the Mithi taluka have complained to the prime minister and the Wapda chairman that a number of electrification schemes in...
NAWABSHAH: Two jailed for life in Hameedi murder case NAWABSHAH, Feb 16: The second additional district and sessions judge of Nawabshah on Wednesday jailed for life two persons in Shoaib Hameedi murder case....		SHIKARPUR: Man kidnapped SHIKARPUR, Feb 16: A man was kidnapped by some armed men near Shaheed Pir Shah graveyard in the Nabi Shah Wagan police area on Wednesday night....