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KARACHI: DNA tests of Mazar workforce planned
KARACHI, May 16: The senate’s standing committee on housing, works and the environment on Friday recommended that DNA tests of the Mazar-i-Quaid’s entire workforce should be carried out to find the... 
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KARACHI: ‘Saudi visa issue to be resolved soon’
KARACHI, May 16: A Saudi consulate official has said that the new visa condition issue will be resolved within two weeks as the matter is under the consideration of the foreign affairs ministry of Saudi Arabia....
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KARACHI: Demolition within precincts of Empress Market stayed
KARACHI, May 16: A division bench of the Sindh High Court comprising Chief Justice Azizullah M. Memon and Justice Khalid Ali Z. Kazi on Friday issued an interim order putting on...
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KARACHI: Cellphone robbers kill trader
KARACHI, May 16: A young man was killed in Orangi Town on Friday when he offered resistance to armed bandits who were trying to snatch his cellphone....
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KARACHI: Arrest of Suspects sparks protest: Bandits killing
KARACHI, May 16: Police have picked up more than a dozen residents of Eidgah area on suspicion of their involvement in the death of three dacoits, who were set ablaze by a mob on Nishtar Road a couple of days ago....
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KARACHI: Outages as Bin Qasim units shut down
KARACHI, May 16: As the mercury rose to 33.2 degrees Celsius with 69 per cent humidity on Friday, the Karachi Electric Supply Company resorted to several rounds of prolonged outages to...
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KARACHI: ‘Action against illegal slums shortly’
KARACHI, May 16: A comprehensive policy is being formulated to check the mushroom growth of illegal katchi abadis....
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KARACHI: 27 ST activists remanded in police custody
KARACHI, May 16: The civil judge and judicial magistrate, South, Zeeshan Akthar, on Friday remanded 27 activists of the Sunni Tehrik in police custody till May 29....
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KARACHI: CJ tells officers to improve high court working
KARACHI, May 16: Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court Azizullah M. Memon held a meeting of SHC officers on Friday to consider measures to streamline and improve the working of...
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KARACHI: Rallies held to condemn Bajaur raid
KARACHI, May 16: Rallies and demonstrations were held outside various mosques in the city after Juma prayers to condemn the Thursday attack in Bajaur Agency reportedly by a US drone in...
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KARACHI: Demand for tripartite conference on workers’ rights
KARACHI, May 16: Trade unionists and human rights activists at a consultation programme on Friday demanded that a tripartite conference be called so that a just labour policy securing workers’ rights could be formulated....
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KARACHI: Rasa’s poetical works launched
KARACHI, May 16: A compilation of Rasa Chughtai’s complete poetical works “Teray aaney ka initizar raha” was launched on Friday at a function held at the Arts Council of Pakistan....
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KARACHI: Milk-sellers on strike
KARACHI, May 16: Milk supplies to the city were disrupted on Friday as many retailers observed a strike in response to the call given by the All Karachi Milk Retailers Association....
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HYDERABAD: JSSF denies involvement in student’s murder
HYDERABAD, May 16: Jeay Sindh Students Federation (JSSF) has categorically denied its direct or indirect involvement in the murder of Sindh University student Abdul Nabi Brohi on May 14....
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HYDERABAD: Notices issued to MUET VC, dean
HYDERABAD, May 16: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Friday issued notices to vice-chancellor, dean of the Faculty of Engineering, chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering...
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HYDERABAD: Mills workers to go on strike
HYDERABAD, May 16: A number of sacked workers of Faran Sugar Mills in Shaikh Bhirkio, Tando Mohammad Khan, left for Garhi Khuda Bux, Larkana, on Friday, where they will stage hunger...
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MIRPURKHAS: No report yet on fertilisers
MIRPURKHAS, May 16: The EDO agriculture of Mirpurkhas has not received a laboratory test report of samples of spurious fertiliser seized a few days ago by the authorities hence an FIR could not be lodged against its owner....
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SANGHAR: PML-F alleges victimisation
SANGHAR, May 16: Workers of Pakistan Muslim League (F) have claimed that the ruling party is victimising them due to their political differences....
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LANDI KOTAL: TV sets, CDs burnt in Landi Kotal: Moral brigade in action
LANDI KOTAL, May 16: Activists of a newly formed moral brigade – the Ulema Committee – burnt television sets, record players, cassettes and CDs on Friday, which had been seized from local markets and quarters of paramilitary personnel during raids....
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PESHAWAR: Tribunal orders publication of ad in newspaper: MNA’s non-appearance in court
PESHAWAR, May 16: An election tribunal of the Peshawar High Court on Friday ordered publication of an advertisement in a newspaper for the appearance of an MNA, Akhundzada Chittan, in connection with election petitions seeking his disqualification....
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MIRAMSHAH: Four injured in blast
MIRAMSHAH, May 16: Four people were wounded when a live (undefused) shell of a rocket launcher went off at the main bus stand here in North Waziristan Agency on Friday.— Correspondent...
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MINGORA: Prayer leader among two killed in Swat
MINGORA, May 16: Two persons including a prayer leader were killed and one other was injured in separate incidents in Kabal tesil of Swat valley on Friday....
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