DAWN - Local; May 09, 2008

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May 09, 2008	Friday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 3, 1429

KARACHI: City council upset over cut in OZT share KARACHI, May 8: Treasury members of the city council on Thursday criticised the Sindh government for reducing the share of the city government, town councils and union councils in octroi and zila tax (OZT) by 34 per cent....		KARACHI: Body set up to review ‘illegal’ appointments in KWSB KARACHI, May 8: A meeting of the newly formed board of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board held here on Thursday with Sindh Minister for Local Government Agha Siraj Durrani in...

KARACHI: Lyari gang warfare blamed for girl’s death KARACHI, May 8: An eight-year-old girl became the latest casualty of the Lyari gang warfare on Thursday morning when a stray bullet hit her while she was standing in the balcony of her apartment in the strife-torn area....		KARACHI: Lawyers to observe black day on 12th KARACHI, May 8: The legal fraternity has decided to observe May 12 as a day of protest and accused the government of resorting to delaying tactics in the restoration of deposed judges....

KARACHI: Govt sacks 93 re-employed officials KARACHI, May 8: The Sindh Government Services, General Administration and Coordination Department on Thursday issued a notification terminating the services of as many as 93 officials belonging to different pay scales who were re-employed on a contract basis after their retirement....		KARACHI: Activists dismayed over Mengal’s continued detention KARACHI, May 8: A large number of Balochistan National Party leaders and workers were disappointed on Thursday when they learnt that their party chief, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, would not be released....

HYDERABAD: Dec 27 riots: owners of torched vehicles still await compensation HYDERABAD, May 8: Exhausted by demonstrations, which have so far proved an exercise in futility, 64-year-old Haji Abdul Rauf, who lost his only source of income to post-Dec 27 violence, sounds...		PESHAWAR: 37,988 flour bags seized, 308 ‘smugglers’ held PESHAWAR, May 8: Police on Thursday seized from various areas 37,988 bags of flour meant to be smuggled to other districts of the province and to Afghanistan....

PESHAWAR: Doctors threaten to go on province-wide strike: Service structure, accommodation issues PESHAWAR, May 8: The Provincial Doctors Association has threatened to observe province-wide strike if government didn’t accept their demands within one week....		HYDERABAD: Loadshedding helps save 600mw: Hesco HYDERABAD, May 8: The Hyderabad Electricity Supply Company (Hesco) was saving 600 megawatt through loadshedding to meet shortfall in power generation, and could save up to 80 per cent power if...

KARACHI: Victim’s Parents pardon killer KARACHI, May 8: The parents of Arsalan, who was shot and killed on Wednesday by his maternal cousin after being mistaken for a thief, pardoned their nephew who accidentally caused the death of their only son.The...		KARACHI: ‘Disability is a human rights issue’ KARACHI, May 8: While pointing out that there was a global shift in labelling disability not as a medical issue but a socio-economic and rights-based one, speakers at a seminar held...

KARACHI: Need for thalassaemia prevention stressed KARACHI, May 8: As Mohammad Iqbal talked about his son Kashif Iqbal, who died of thalassaemia some years back, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house....		KARACHI: Signature drive KARACHI, May 8: The Children’s Museum for Peace and Human Rights along with partner organisations has obtained over 70,000 signatures on a petition to ask the government to join the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities....

KARACHI: ‘Karachi, Mumbai be made sister cities’ KARACHI, May 8: The acting city nazim, Nasreen Jalil, said that taking into account the features that Karachi and Mumbai had in common, the two cities should be declared ‘sister cities’....		KARACHI: Scrutiny of SSGC deals on the cards KARACHI, May 8: With the rising complaints of industrial and commercial consumers against the Sui Southern Gas Company, the government is considering scrutinising the SSGC’s procurement policy and taking cognizance of...

KARACHI: Exhibition of young miniaturists from NCA KARACHI, May 8: Ten young talented miniaturists, differing in style but all fresh graduates from the miniature department at the National College of Arts, Lahore, are exhibiting their works under one roof – at the Gandhara Art Gallery in Clifton....		KARACHI: US visa from Karachi under study: envoy KARACHI, May 8: The United States is closely studying the matter of issuing visas from Karachi together with other ways to give a boost to commercial and business ties between the two countries....

KARACHI: APC wants probe into violent incidents KARACHI, May 8: An all-parties conference (APC) held under the auspices of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Karachi, on Thursday, called for the arrest of all those involved in the violent incidents of May 12, in 2004 and 2007....		KARACHI: New ministers get portfolios KARACHI, May 8: The Sindh government has notified portfolios of the 20 ministers (13 of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and seven of the Pakistan People’s Party) who were sworn in on...

HYDERABAD: Foundation stone of flyover laid HYDERABAD, May 8: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of a flyover at Khwaja Gharib Nawaz Chowk....		MIRPURKHAS: Man jailed for 14 years MIRPURKHAS, May 8: District and Sessions Judge of Umerkot Khan Ubedullah Khan on Thursday sentenced Faqir Mohammad to 14 years rigorous imprisonment and imposed fine of Rs547,214 in attempted murder case.According...

LAKKI MARWAT: Nazim locks horns with minister over transfers LAKKI MARWAT, May 8: The acting district nazim has locked horns with the provincial government over the transfer of three local officials of Schools and Literacy Department....		GHALANAI: Taliban burn two ‘dens’ of drug pushers GHALANAI, May 8: Taliban set on fire two dens of heroin peddlers at Mianmandi bazaar, some eight kilometers from here, on Wednesday night after expiry of three days deadline set for the alleged drug pushers by them....

PESHAWAR: 35 absconders arrested PESHAWAR, May 8: Thirty-five absconders wanted to police in different cases have been arrested....		PESHAWAR: Man killed PESHAWAR, May 8: Unidentified armed men killed a man on Wednesday night near Army Stadium in the limits of Machini Gate police station....