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April 07, 2008 Monday Rabi-ul-Awwal 29, 1429 KARACHI: PPP to constitute new tribunal for Oct 18 probe KARACHI, April 6: The Pakistan People’s Party is considering appointing a new inquiry tribunal to investigate the October 18 Karsaz blasts at the homecoming procession of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, said a senior parliamentarian of the party on Sunday.... KARACHI: All MPAs to be taken along, says Khuhro KARACHI, April 6: Nisar Ahmad Khuhro, who has been technically elected unopposed as speaker of the Sindh Assembly while Shehla Raza has been unofficially elected unopposed as deputy speaker, stated that... KARACHI: Rally seeks international law to prevent blasphemy KARACHI, April 6: Thousands of people turned up at the Mazar-i-Quaid to take part in the “Shan-i-Mustafa March” organised by the Jamaat-i-Islami on Sunday.... HYDERABAD: Nationalists divided over PPP-MQM understanding HYDERABAD, April 6: Most Sindhi nationalist parties, including the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party and the Jeay Sindh National Party, described the Pakistan People’s Party’s decision to give Muttahida Qaumi Movement a... THATTA: PPP workers take over PML-Q office THATTA, April 6: Dozens of Pakistan People’s Party workers stormed the offices of Pakistan Muslim League-Q on the National Highway late on Saturday night and occupied the office after ejecting PML-Q’s office-bearers from the building.... KARACHI: Muhafiz Force fails to deliver KARACHI, April 6: Established in an effort to emulate Lahore’s Mujahid Force, Karachi’s Muhafiz Force is in its eighth month of operation but lags far behind its role model in terms of effectiveness and human/technical resources.... KARACHI: Doctor freed on payment of ransom KARACHI, April 6: A senior doctor and faculty member of the Dow University of Health Sciences, who had been kidnapped a few days earlier, was released on payment of half a... KARACHI: Couple gunned down KARACHI, April 6: A middle-aged couple were shot dead in their Shah Latif Town area house on Sunday. Police said a 45-year-old man and his 40-year-old wife were shot dead in their house in Umer Marvi Goth late in the evening.... KARACHI: Country losing reptiles to illegal trade KARACHI, April 6: Snake charmer tribes, with influential connections in Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab, are swiftly robbing the country of its wealth of reptiles, which are smuggled to different countries where they fetch a hefty price.... KARACHI: Four remanded in kidnapping for ransom case KARACHI, April 6: Adminis-trative Judge of the Anti-terrorism Courts, Karachi, Khawaja Naveed Ahmed on Saturday remanded four persons nominated as accused in a kidnapping for ransom case into police custody till April 18.... KARACHI: KU to remain closed today KARACHI, April 6: The University of Karachi will remain closed on Monday, according to an announcement made by a spokesman for the university on Sunday evening.... KARACHI: City to get 2,500 CNG buses KARACHI, April 6: The city government has decided to launch the “CNG Bus Project” on a public-private partnership basis for the introduction of an environment-friendly public transport system.... KARACHI: Arbab unlikely to get extra security KARACHI, April 6: The authorities seem unwilling to pay heed to Dr Arbab Rahim’s request for extra security after he escaped the wrath of enraged crowd at the inaugural session of... KARACHI: Labour laws in conformity with ILO charter urged KARACHI, April 6: Labour leaders have urged the newly-elected legislators to make all labour laws in conformity with the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) signed and ratified by the country.... MIRPURKHAS: Protests in Mirpurkhas, Dadu MIRPURKHAS, April 6: Scores of people who had applied for auto-rickshaws under the President’s Rozgar Scheme took out a protection here on Sunday. They were claiming that over 50 people, despite depositing instalments, had not been given atuo-rickshaws.... JACOBABAD/SUKKUR: Woman, four sons killed over land dispute JACOBABAD/SUKKUR, April 6: A woman and her four sons, three of them minor, were killed and two others injured in an attack on their house in Gulab Palal village of Garhi Khairo taluka early Sunday morning.... NAWABSHAH: Renaming of Nawabshah to be challenged in court NAWABSHAH, April 6: Scions of Syed Nawab Shah have decided to launch a mass campaign against a call for renaming the Nawabshah district made in a recent Sindh Assembly resolution.... 10-year-old run over by vehicle, killed SUKKUR, April 6: A 10-year-old boy came under the wheels of the former RPO Sukkur’s vehicle in Gambat on Sunday and died on the spot.... HYDERABAD: WAF chapter HYDERABAD, April 6: The Women Action Forum has established its Hyderabad chapter to launch a collective struggle for the rights of women in the interior of Sindh.... PESHAWAR: Gas consumers complain of overcharging PESHAWAR, April 6: The natural gas consumers on Sunday complained of over billing, saying that charges levied in the bills for the month of February were much higher than their average monthly bills.... GHALLANAI: Checkpost attacked in Mohmand Agency GHALLANAI, April 6: Unidentified miscreants attacked Dhand checkpost, some four kilometres east from here, in the small hours of Sunday.... PESHAWAR: Mangal Bagh issues own fare list PESHAWAR, April 6: The chief of Bara-based organisation Laskar-i-Islam, Mangal Bagh, has issued his own fare list to the local transporters on his letterhead which showed an increase of one rupee on stop-to-stop basis.... PESHAWAR: Hoti to get confidence vote on April 10 PESHAWAR, April 6: NWFP Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti is likely to take vote of confidence from the assembly on Thursday next, officials said....

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