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KARACHI: Lawyers demand arrest of May 12 carnage culprits
KARACHI, May 12: The legal fraternity of the city on Monday observed a ‘black day’ in protest against the failure of the government to arrest elements involved in the May 12,...
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KARACHI: Kamal extends olive branch to Sindh govt
KARACHI, May 12: Extending an olive branch to the provincial government, Karachi Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has expressed his willingness to work with anyone for the welfare of the city....
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KARACHI: Silos project in cold storage for decades
KARACHI, May 12: Initiated as one of the modern grain storage facilities in the country, the Sindh government’s project to build 16 silos near the Super Highway remains incomplete even after the passage of 23 years....
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KARACHI: Parties seek expulsion of May 12 culprits from Sindh govt
KARACHI, May 12: Various political parties on Monday organised rallies and meetings to express solidarity with the victims of the May 12, 2007 carnage and observed the day as a “black day”....
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KARACHI: Qaim promises impartial probe
KARACHI, May 12: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that nobody can forget the incidents of May 12, 2007, and declared that the government would impartially investigate the...
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KARACHI: Gangster, passerby killed in crossfire
KARACHI, May 12: An associate of Rehman Dakait and a passerby were killed in crossfire between two gangs in Lyari late Sunday night....
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KARACHI: ‘Law against tree felling soon’
KARACHI, May 12: Sindh Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ayaz Soomro has said a bill will soon be tabled in the provincial assembly against chopping of trees....
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KARACHI: Creek battalion commissioned in Sujawal
KARACHI, May 12: Pakistan Navy has commissioned “Creek Battalion” at Sujawal for deployment and sustained operations in the creek areas, including the Sir Creek area....
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KARACHI: E-policing to be made effective: minister
KARACHI, May 12: Sindh Minister for Information Technology Mohammed Raza Haroon on Monday said that crime rate could be brought down considerably through effective and accessible liaison between people and police....
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KARACHI: City Council meets today
KARACHI, May 12: The City Council will meet at 3:30pm on Tuesday in the Council Hall, KMC Building....
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KARACHI: Transporters plan strike
KARACHI, May 12: The All Pakistan Transporters Conference, held at the Hawkesbay Truck stand on Monday, announced a countrywide wheel-jam on May 17 against a hike in oil prices, increasing incidents of robberies on highways and hijacking of goods vehicles....
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KARACHI: HSC exams begin today
KARACHI, May 12: The Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, on Monday announced that the HSC part I and II annual examinations 2008 would begin on Tuesday....
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KARACHI: Police officers summoned for ignoring distress call
KARACHI, May 12: The Sindh High Court on Monday summoned the Bin Qasim Town police officials to answer an allegation that they had refused to provide any protection to villagers against armed land-grabbers....
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KARACHI: Eight SPs transferred
KARACHI, May 12: Eight superintendents of police were transferred and posted in different capacities, most of them as town SPs, on Monday night....
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KARACHI: Headless body found
KARACHI, May 12: The headless body of a young man was found in a desolated area in the limits of the Gulshan-i-Maymar police station on Monday morning....
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KARACHI: Conservation accord signed
KARACHI, May 12: The Sindh livestock and fisheries department has singed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the WWF-Pakistan for a long-term technical and institutional support with regard to conservation of...
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KARACHI: Meat prices rise as strike continues
KARACHI, May 12: Meat prices continue to rise as the strike by livestock traders against the city government’s tax drive entered ninth day on Monday....
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KARACHI: KWSB to dismantle Muslimabad hydrants
KARACHI, May 12: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) has decided to dismantle two hydrants, both located in Muslimabad, in pursuance of a Sindh High Court decision....
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HYDERABAD: Farm sector can rescue world, says expert: Food crisis
HYDERABAD, May 12: Former vice chancellor, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam and Rector, Al-Khair University, Professor Abdul Qadir Ansari, has said that the entire world was in the grip of food crisis...
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NAWABSHAH: Infant dies in police raid on village
NAWABSHAH, May 12: An infant reportedly died during a raid by Daulatpur police in Ambri Dahiri village on Sunday....
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NAWABSHAH: Man, woman axed to death
NAWABSHAH, May 12: A man and woman were killed on the pretext of karo-kari near Qazi Ahmed on Monday....
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HYDERABAD: Cartel threatening small cable operators: official
HYDERABAD, May 12: A group of cable operators having monopoly in the city want to purge a smaller group by threatening to go on strike if their licenses are not cancelled,...
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HYDERABAD: Seminar on Germany’s ties with Sindh
HYDERABAD, May 12: The Institute of Sindhology in collaboration with German consulate, Karachi, is organizing a seminar on “Cultural relations between Sindh and Germany: past and present” on May 24....
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JACOBABAD: Brutal business of child kidnapping
JACOBABAD, May 12: Kidnappers snatched 20 minor children, majority of them under five years of age, from Jacobabad, Kandhkot and Kashmore over last two years, brutally killed five after their parents...
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PESHAWAR: May 12 observed as black day in NWFP
PESHAWAR, May 12: The lawyers, political parties and civil society groups throughout the NWFP boycotted courts, held meetings and rallies on Monday to mark the killing of scores of innocent people in Karachi on May 12, last year, as black day....
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PESHAWAR: Project to rehabilitate victims of violence
PESHAWAR, May 12: A two-year rehabilitation project for the victims of social violence in Peshawar and Dir districts is being launched next month....
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PESHAWAR: Rs60m Peshawar traffic plan approved
PESHAWAR, May 12: NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has given a go-ahead to the newly-formulated Rs60 million traffic plan for Peshawar city to overcome the ever increasing traffic problems....
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PESHAWAR: Peshawar jolted
PESHAWAR, May 12: An earthquake of moderate intensity measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale was recorded here on Monday....
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PESHAWAR: Pylon blown up in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, May 12: People across the provincial metropolis faced prolonged power breakdowns on Sunday night and on Monday as the electricity transmission and distribution system collapsed when unidentified miscreants blew up...
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TIMERGARA: Three brothers, cousin found dead in Dir
TIMERGARA, May 12: Four members of a family, three of them brothers, were shot dead by unidentified attackers in village Dherai Kad, some 15 kilometres from here on Sunday night, police and residents told Dawn....
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