| May 26, 2008 | Monday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 20, 1429 |
KARACHI: ‘Land mafia flourishing in Taiser Town’
KARACHI, May 25: The land mafia has become active in Taiser Town and encroached upon land in the area but to one’s surprise the relevant authorities are taking no action to...
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KARACHI: Fire dept divided into five zones
KARACHI, May 25: The city government has restructured its fire department, dividing it into five zones, each to be headed by a senior station fire officer, in a surprise move as...
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KARACHI: ASI commits suicide in Lyari
KARACHI, May 25: A police officer recently posted in Lyari committed suicide on Sunday....
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KARACHI: Piped water still an unfulfilled dream
KARACHI: For the uninitiated, it is almost surreal: men and boys, stepping out of their homes into the unpaved and narrow alleys of Nursery Town, in Korangi 2-1/2, as the clock...
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KARACHI: ‘Women lawyers not taken seriously’
KARACHI, May 25: About 1,400 female lawyers, including roughly 500 apprentices, out of total 7,500 advocates are practising in the city but hardly a few of them fight criminal or other important cases....
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KARACHI: ‘Nawaz needs no clearance to visit Sindh’
KARACHI, May 25: Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri has said Mian Nawaz Sharif does not need to get clearance from the provincial government to visit Sindh as being a Pakistani and...
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KARACHI: Constitutional package criticized
KARACHI, May 25: Chairman of the Sindh National Front Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has criticized the constitutional package offered by the Pakistan People’s Party to drag the country out of the...
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KARACHI: Weather
KARACHI, May 25: The Met Office has forecast hot and windy weather for Karachi on Monday with the maximum temperature expected to range between 34ºC and 36ºC.—PPI...
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KARACHI: Pro-dictatorship elements killed Tariq: PML-N
KARACHI, May 25: A large number of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), leaders and workers attended the Soyem of the party’s Sindh vice-president Tariq Khan at his residence in Federal B’ Area on Sunday....
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KARACHI: Minister’s call for prompt disposal of workers’ cases
KARACHI, May 25: Sindh Minister for Labour Amir Nawab Khan on Sunday said that workers’ cases should be disposed of within seven days in accordance with the Industrial Relations Ordinance (IRO) 2002....
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KARACHI: FIR registered
KARACHI, May 25: The first information report (FIR) of PML-N leader Tariq Khan’s assassination was lodged by his family on Sunday....
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KARACHI: PMA seminar
KARACHI, May 25: A seminar titled “Tobacco Free Youth” to discuss tobacco-related disorders will be held here on May 29, according to an announcement made by the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Karachi chapter, on Sunday....
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KARACHI: K-IV water project yet to take off
Sources told Dawn that since the KWSB had already consumed its quota of 1,200 cusecs (600mgd) from the Indus source with the commissioning of the 100mgd K-III project in 2006, the...
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KARACHI: Waste disposal plan hits snag
KARACHI, May 25: The already delayed project of a door-to-door collection of city’s solid waste has suffered yet another setback as the Chinese firm, which had signed an agreement with the...
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HYDERABAD: ‘Baby declared dead while she was still breathing’
HYDERABAD, May 25: An aggrieved father has alleged that his new-born baby recently died in Memon Charitable Hospital, Tando Adam, due to negligence of its doctors and management and demanded an inquiry into the incident....
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HYDERABAD: Govt doing nothing to stop water theft, deplore farmers
HYDERABAD, May 25: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture has observed that the government has taken no action on repeated complaints about the theft of Sindh’s share of water by a particular province....
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LAHORE: Kidnap victim released
LAHORE, May 25: The Pakistan Railways has secured the release of two employes whose kidnapping led to a strike and suspension of train service in Sukkur division on May 21....
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DADU: Rain, winds disrupt Gorakh Festival
DADU, May 25: Heavy rain and strong winds with no arrangement made for water and electricity, forced the organisers of the Gorakh Festival to end the much-hyped programme even before it started on Saturday....
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DADU: 45 visitors stranded on Gorakh hill top
DADU, May 25: About 45 people, including social workers and journalists, were stranded at the top of Gorakh Hill Station as heavy rain and hill torrents on Saturday night blocked all paths and roads leading to the tourist spot....
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HYDERABAD: Tariq Khan’s murder condemned
HYDERABAD, May 25, A large number of workers of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) workers staged a demonstration in Tando Mohammad Khan on Sunday to condemn the killing of party leader Tariq Khan in Karachi....
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KHAIRPUR: Teacher killed
KHAIRPUR, May 25: The headmaster of a primary school was axed to death in Agra on Sunday....
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HYDERABAD: Cultural ties to be revived: German envoy
HYDERABAD, May 25: German Consul-General Hans Joachim Kiderlen has said that historical and cultural relations between Germany and Sindh will be revived through academic linkages between the University of Sindh and the universities of Germany....
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PESHAWAR: Habeas corpus petition likely to be moved for detained jirga
PESHAWAR, May 25: A group of lawyers from Fata was likely to file a habeas corpus petition against the detention of 49 members of a peace jirga from the Kurram tribal...
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GHALLANAI: WHO official kidnapped in Mohmand
GHALLANAI, May 25: Unidentified persons kidnapped an official of World Health Organisation in Mohmand Agency on Sunday....
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PESHAWAR: Govt, LGs may lock horns over 6,000 vacant posts
PESHAWAR, May 25: Filling of over 6,000 posts lying vacant in 1,600 health facilities of the NWFP is likely to be a bone of contention between the provincial health department and local governments (LGs), sources say....
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MIRAMSHAH: Nato jets violate Pakistan’s airspace
MIRAMSHAH, May 25: The fighter and unmanned planes of Nato forces in Afghanistan violated Pakistan’s airspace and intruded several kilometres inside North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday....
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MARDAN: PPP leader to contest election as independent
MARDAN, May 25: Leader Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Haji Yaqub Khan has revolted against party decision and has decided to contest by-election from NA-11 as an independent candidate after being denied ticket....
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MANSEHRA: Balakot villagers forced to flee: Area declared unsafe due to landsliding
MANSEHRA, May 25: The continued landsliding has turned many of the earthquake-ravaged Balakot villages into ‘ghost towns’ as thousands of survivor families have been forced to migrate to safer places....
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MANSEHRA: Four killed in clash in Kaladhaka
MANSEHRA, May 25: At least four persons were killed and more than 24 injured in a tribal feud over the ownership of a piece of land in Kaladhaka, a tribal area of Mansehra, on Sunday....
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KOHAT: Govt asked to free jirga members
KOHAT, May 25: Parachinar Reforms Committee has severely criticised the government for arresting members of peace jirga and expressed fear that it will further delay restoration and rehabilitation of the people in the area....
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PESHAWAR: Doctor, driver abducted
PESHAWAR, May 25: A senior doctor and his driver were kidnapped by unidentified persons near Mathani area while travelling from Peshawar to Southern Bannu district Saturday night....
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