| May 15, 2008 | Thursday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 9, 1429 |
KARACHI: Traffic cops being exposed to dangerous levels of lead
KARACHI, May 14: A medical survey has found alarming levels of lead in the blood of police officials controlling traffic at some 400 intersections of the city, which may lead to fatal diseases along with “intellectual and behavioural deficits”....
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KARACHI: High court summons CCPO over KBCA complaint
KARACHI, May 14: A division bench of the Sindh High Court comprising Justice Azizullah M. Memon and Justice Khalid Ali Z. Kazi on Wednesday summoned the capital city police officer on...
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KARACHI: Three ‘robbers’ burnt to death by mob
KARACHI, May 14: Three suspected bandits were first ruthlessly beaten up by enraged people of the area and then set on fire on the main Nishtar Road as police stood by...
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KARACHI: Police set up pickets in Lyari
KARACHI, May 14: Police have started setting up pickets on high-rise buildings in sensitive localities of Lyari as part of a new strategy to bring an end to the long-drawn gang warfare and rid the areas of outlaws....
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KARACHI: Pappu charged with three murders
KARACHI, May 14: The additional district and sessions judge, South, Abdul Naeem Memon, on Wednesday indicted an alleged gangster of Lyari, Arshad Pappu, and his brother, Yasir Arafat, in three cases of murder....
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KARACHI: Pakistan-India clay connection
KARACHI: Curator Kaif Ghaznavi, a young ceramist from Lahore, seems to be all set to repeat her success. The NCA graduate’s show in Lahore last year in February, titled the Clay Clan, was quite a success....
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KARACHI: ‘Hamara Karachi’ events planned
KARACHI, May 14: Naib City Nazim Nasreen Jalil has said that the city government will hold various social, cultural and sports programmes during the “Hamara Karachi Festival”, to be held from May 15 to June 8....
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KARACHI: 47 caught cheating in Inter exams
KARACHI, May 14: Vigilance teams of the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, detected 47 cases of unfair means on the first day of the second year annual exams that started on Wednesday....
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KARACHI: Non-payment of dues irks ex-PIA man
KARACHI, May 14: A former official of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has been experiencing agony for the last three years due to non-payment of his dues and arrears....
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KARACHI: Visual arts exhibition
KARACHI, May 14: “Colombo-Karachi”, an exhibition of visual arts by artists from Sri Lanka, opens on Thursday at the artscene gallery at 6pm....
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KARACHI: Strike called off
KARACHI, May 14: The Karachi Goods Carrier Association on Wednesday called off a countrywide wheel-jam it had scheduled for May 17, citing successful talks with IG Dr Shoaib Suddle.—PPI...
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KARACHI: Justices of peace have little powers
KARACHI, May 14: Originated in England, the concept of justices of peace has evolved and developed over the past few centuries. It has been introduced in most countries to keep peace...
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KARACHI: Livestock traders, meat merchants end strike
KARACHI, May 14: Livestock traders ended their strike continuing for the last 10 days and meat merchants agreed to withdraw their strike call for Thursday after successful talks with the district coordination officer of Karachi....
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KARACHI: Honorary Game wardens removed
KARACHI, May 14: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has cancelled the appointments of 21 honorary district game wardens....
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KARACHI: SHC seeks explanation in loan recovery case
KARACHI, May 14: Justice Munib Ahmed Khan of the Sindh High Court summoned a State Bank official on Wednesday to appear in person and explain why a businessman was being allegedly pressured to pay off the loans obtained by his brother....
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KARACHI: Alliance Motors case hearing adjourned
KARACHI, May 14: The Accountability Court-II, Karachi, on Wednesday examined a prosecution witness in the NAB reference (No.28/2008) filed against Javed Iqbal Ansari and others in the Alliance Motors investment scam, and adjourned the matter till June 2....
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KARACHI: Four cops injured in accident
KARACHI, May 14: Four policemen were injured, two of them seriously, in an accident near Metropole intersection in the jurisdiction of Artillery Maidan police station on Wednesday morning....
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HYDERABAD: MQM-backed nazim resigns
HYDERABAD, May 14: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-backed City Taluka Nazim Javed Jabbar and an MPA selected to reserved seat Dr Saba Syed have tendered resignations citing personal reasons, party sources said on Tuesday....
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HYDERABAD: Registration of inactive NGOs to be cancelled
HYDERABAD, May 14: Sindh Minister for Social Welfare Ms Nargis N.D. Khan has said that the registration of 80 per cent inactive NGOs will be cancelled after making amendment to relevant law....
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MIRPURKHAS: Water shortage affects cotton, chilli sowing
MIRPURKHAS, May 14: Hundreds of farmers whose land is irrigated by the Vesro branch (canal) staged a demonstration and blocked the Sindhri road near Old Mirpur here on Wednesday to protest against acute water shortage in their area....
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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Fertiliser-laden trailer hijacked
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, May 14: A group of highwaymen took away a trailer loaded with DAP fertiliser at Jam Noorullah stop on the National Highway near Kandiaro on Tuesday....
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HYDERABAD: Traders warn of strike against loadshedding
HYDERABAD, May 14: The Anjuman Tajiran-i-City has threatened to observe shutter down strike if the Hesco does not put an end to prolonged load-shedding and ‘inflated and illegal’ detection bills....
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MIRPURKHAS: Students’ plea to Hesco
MIRPURKHAS, May 14: Students appearing in the Secondary School Certificate examinations have complained about frequent power breakdowns....
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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: 12 houses gutted
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, May 14: Five people sustained burn injuries and 12 houses were gutted while a dozen farm animals burnt alive when a fire broke out in village Allahdad Lashari near Lakha road on Wednesday....
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PESHAWAR: Confiscated vehicles generate new controversy
PESHAWAR, May 14: The issue of 106 confiscated vehicles has become a bone of contention between provincial departments of excise and taxation, and administration as the latter has been unable to provide details of these vehicles to the former....
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PESHAWAR: Industries in NWFP to get 25pc subsidy on power
PESHAWAR, May 14: The provincial government plans to exempt industrial estates from property tax and give them 25 per cent subsidy on electricity in the next budget with a view to encourage investors and develop local industries....
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PESHAWAR: Reform schools for juvenile prisoners urged
PESHAWAR, May 14: Participants at a workshop on Wednesday called upon the provincial government to enact a law for establishing borstals as there were around 269 juvenile offenders in different prisons across the province....
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TIMERGARA: Jirga says: ‘stone to death child’s killers’
TIMERGARA, May 14: A jirga of local elders has decided to stone the killers of a child to death and called upon the district administration to hand over the accused to...
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