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KARACHI: Ordinance to check prices enforced
KARACHI, June 10: The Governor, Ishratul Ibad, on Saturday promulgated the Sindh Essential Commodities Price Control and Prevention of Profiteering and Hoarding Ordinance, 2006. The ordinance shall come into force with immediate effect.... 
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KARACHI: Tribunal urged to see another aspect of blast
KARACHI, June 10: The Nishtar Park blast inquiry tribunal was urged on Saturday to examine whether ‘something thrown from the stage’ caused the explosion....
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KARACHI: Major power breakdown in many areas
KARACHI, June 10: The outdated and weak distribution system of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation broke down in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Saturday suspending power supply to a major portion of the city at around noon....
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KARACHI: Electoral rolls to be published by 2007
KARACHI, June 10: The countrywide fresh computerised electoral rolls would be published by May 30, 2007. This was stated by the Provincial Election Commissioner, Sindh, Chaudhry Qamar-uz-Zaman while talking to APP here on Saturday at a workshop....
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HYDERABAD: Steps urged for reopening 6,000 schools in Sindh
HYDERABAD, June 10: Speakers at a seminar held here on Friday stressed the need for public-private partnership for reopening about 6,000 closed schools and improving conditions in primary, secondary and higher-secondary schools in Sindh....
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HARIPUR: 200 compensation cases pending
HARIPUR, June 10: About 200 workers of the Haripur district, who have moved the Payment of Wages Authority and Commissioner Workman Compensation against their employers for violation of labour laws, are facing indefinite delay in decision of their cases....
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KARACHI: ATC declares Mengal proclaimed offender
KARACHI, June 10: An anti-terrorism court declared on Saturday former Balochistan chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal a proclaimed offender in the army personnel hostage-taking case....
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KARACHI: 1,600 posts of doctors in rural areas vacant
KARACHI, June 10: Despite the fact that there are more than 15,000 doctors associated with the provincial health department, almost 1,600 posts for physicians/surgeons are lying vacant in public sector facilities in rural areas....
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KARACHI: Need stressed to make new bylaws for disabled
KARACHI, June 10: Sindh Chief Minister’s Adviser on Local Government Waseem Akhtar regretting non-availability of proper data about the number of disabled people in the country said that only authentic statistics could lead to proper planning for the disabled....
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KARACHI: Violators of party rules to face action: Qaim
KARACHI, June 10: Strict disciplinary action would be taken against those who had staged a demonstration outside the Bilawal House in protest against the PPP leadership’s decision with regard to various party posts in Thatta district....
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KARACHI: JSQM leader found dead
KARACHI, June 10: Bullet-riddled body of a local leader of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz was found in an apartment in Gulistan-i-Jauhar here on Saturday.Police said neighbours of Abdul Hakim Nautiar in...
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KARACHI: Early closure of business criticized
KARACHI, June 10: The Sindh governor’s order for the early closure of markets and shops in Karachi is a result of KESC-Muttahida nexus and amounts to economic murder of Karachiites....
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KARACHI: Anti-encroachment police station planned
KARACHI, June 10: A meeting held on Saturday, with the Chief Secretary, Fazalur Rehman, in the chair, discussed a plan of setting up an anti-encroachment police station and expanding its area of operation under the city government....
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KARACHI: Dow varsity signs MoU with PCSIR
KARACHI, June 10: The Dow University of Health Sciences - Karachi has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for joint research and development schemes....
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KARACHI: Steps urged for betterment of special people
KARACHI, June 10: Sindh Minister for Women Development Dr Saeeda Malik has emphasised the need of support groups to help in the work for betterment of special people....
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KARACHI: Nasreen for creative activities
KARACHI, June 10: Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil has stressed the need for coordinated efforts to promote academic and creative activities for mental development of children in Karachi....
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PESHAWAR: Benazir urges lawyers to launch drive
PESHAWAR, June 10: Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto has asked the lawyers’ fraternity to launch a movement to force the withdrawal of military from the presidency to the barracks....
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GILGIT: Allowance for N. Areas employees not restored
GILGIT, June 10: Over 2,2000 government employees in the Northern Areas were eagerly awaiting restoration of the Gilgit Compensatory Allowance in the budget 2006-07 but it did not figure out in the budget....
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