| June 06, 2008 | Friday | Jamadi-us-Sani 01, 1429 |
|
KARACHI: CM wants environmental laws’ inadequacies removed
KARACHI, June 5: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed the relevant authorities to take measures to do away with the inadequacies of environmental laws on a priority basis... 
|
|
KARACHI: Infant dies in hut fire
KARACHI, June 5: A 45-day-old baby boy was burnt to death when a fire broke out in a hut in Gulistan-i-Jauhar....
|
|
||
KARACHI: Jewellers protest after robbery
KARACHI, June 5: Jewellers of a shopping centre at Shah Faisal Colony blocked on Thursday Sharea Faisal in protest against a looting spree by a gang of heavily armed bandits, who took away gold ornaments worth over Rs2 million....
|
|
KARACHI: Body told to continue probe into complaint against KSE
KARACHI, June 5: The Sindh High Court allowed the Competition Commission of Pakistan to proceed with its inquiry into a complaint lodged by the Islamabad and Lahore bourses against the Karachi...
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: India, Pakistan urged to end nuclear race
KARACHI, June 5: A leading Indian journalist and campaigner against nuclear proliferation on Thursday called upon the peace movements in India and Pakistan to force their governments to put the issue...
|
|
KARACHI: Verdict on Afaq’s bail plea reserved
KARACHI, June 5: The additional district and sessions judge-VI East, Abdul Razzaq, on Thursday recorded arguments from both sides on a bail application moved by the chief of the Mohajir Qaumi...
|
|
|
||
|
HYDERABAD: Rousing reception awaits lawyers’ caravan: PML-N
HYDERABAD, June 5: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) activists will accord a rousing reception to the lawyers and judges of Karachi who would pass the Hyderabad toll plaza on June 9 around 11am on their way to Multan....
|
|
PESHAWAR: Hekmatyar’s relative freed by Karzai reaches Peshawar
PESHAWAR, June 5: A senior leader of the Hizb-i-Islami, Afghanistan, Dr Ghairat Baheer, freed from the detention centre at the Bagram airbase this week, arrived in Peshawar on Thursday....
|
|
|
||
|
PESHAWAR: Polio drive to test Taliban’s commitment to peace deal
PESHAWAR, June 5: The much-trumpeted peace agreement between the Taliban and the provincial government faces litmus test during the coming special polio vaccination commencing on June 10....
|
|
KARACHI: Move to save mangroves likely
KARACHI, June 5: In what is being viewed as a significant move, the Sindh government has decided, in principle, to declare all mangroves in the Indus delta protected under reference of a 1958 notification on mangrove forests without changing their ownership....
|
|
|
||
KARACHI: KBA warns govt against validating Musharraf’s actions
KARACHI, June 5: Legal proceedings could not be held at the City Courts and the Malir District Court on Thursday due to lawyers’ boycott observed in line with the Pakistan Bar...
|
|
KARACHI: 2,350 caught cheating in HSC exams
KARACHI, June 5: The number of cases pertaining to the use of unfair means detected so far during the ongoing Higher Secondary Certificate (part I and II) science, general science and commerce groups’ annual examinations 2008, has reached 2,350....
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Prof Kashfi remembered
KARACHI, June 5: “The death of Prof Kashfi is a great loss to the Urdu literary world. He had a multi-dimensional personality, who wrote from personality sketches to religious writings....
|
|
KARACHI: Referendum in PSM on Thursday after lapse of 13 years
KARACHI, June 5: Well over 5,000 Pakistan Steel Mills workers will participate in a referendum to choose their collective bargaining agent (CBA) on June 12. They will be using their right...
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Weather
KARACHI, June 5: The Met Office has forecast warm and humid weather for Karachi on Friday with maximum temperature expected to range between 34ºC and 36ºC....
|
|
KARACHI: BCom Part-I result
KARACHI, June 5: The University of Karachi has announced the results of the BCom Part-I (regular) annual examination 2007....
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Security at courts being beefed up
KARACHI, June 5: The administration has decided to beef up security on and around court premises in the city and submit a comprehensive plan in this regard to the Sindh High Court....
|
|
KARACHI: Afreen Baig’s murder case
KARACHI, June 5: A prosecution witness, Qudsia Khatoon, testified in the murder case of TV artiste Afreen Baig. The additional district and sessions judge-III, South, Sultan Mohammad Awan, after recording the statement adjourned the hearing till June 14....
|
|
|
||
|
KARACHI: Dawn staffer passes away
KARACHI, June 5: Shujauddin, a Dawn staffer, passed away late on Thursday evening. He was 30....
|
|
DADU: Three kidnapped traders freed
DADU, June 5: Police claimed to have three kidnap victims released after an encounter late on Wednesday night at Suprio Bund, which serves as a borderline separating Dadu from Qambar-Shahdadkot districts....
|
|
|
||
|
MIRPURKHAS: Annual mango festival starts today
MIRPURKHAS, June 5: The district administration is holding the three-day 43rd National Mango and Summer Fruits Festival, which starts today in the newly-constructed centrally air-conditioned exhibition hall....
|
|
MIRPURKHAS: Unavailability of flour brings people on roads
MIRPURKHAS, June 5. The non-availability of wheat flour at Utility Stores was now forcing people including women to come on roads in protest against the official failure to make available the commodity....
|
|
|
||
|
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Job seekers’ protest
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, June 5: Over 200 youths, who have passed tests for the job of primary schoolteachers and received job offer letters, observed token hunger strike outside the press club here on Wednesday for the sixth day, demanding appointment letters....
|
|
HYDERABAD: Website launched on conference
HYDERABAD, June 5: A website on Shaikh Ayaz International Conference was launched to mark 2008 as International Languages Year on Thursday....
|
|
|
||
|
KHAIRPUR: Loadshedding: demo planned
KHAIRPUR, June 5: Activists of social welfare organisations, trade unions and civil society groups have condemned the 10 to 12-hour long loadshedding in Khairpur city on daily basis which has badly affected routine life and trade activities....
|
|
TIMERGARA: Jirga proposed to curb wheat smuggling
TIMERGARA, June 5: The zonal chapter of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Samar Bagh Lower Dir on Thursday decided to convene a jirga of all the political parties of the sub-division on June...
|
|
|
||
|
MANSEHRA: Rs6bn uplift project faces closure
MANSEHRA, June 5: The ANP-led provincial collation government has decided to wind up the Rs6 billion Barani Areas Development Project, initiated in 10 districts of the NWFP and a tribal agency, two years ahead of its scheduled time, it is learnt....
|
|
SWABI: Man kills wife, two daughters for ‘honour’
SWABI, June 5: A farmer killed in the name of honour his wife and two daughters in his house the Jalbai village, 22 kilometres from here, on Thursday....
|
|
|
||
|
SHANGLA: 4 die as vehicle falls into ravine
SHANGLA, June 5: Four people were feared dead, while three others sustained injuries as a Datsun pick up plunged into Kundia ravine on Thursday....
|
| |
|
|
||
