| June 07, 2008 | Saturday | Jamadi-us-Sani 02, 1429 |
KARACHI: Traders defy market closure schedule
KARACHI, June 6: Despite the assurances by KESC high-ups that domestic consumers will not be subjected to load-shedding after midnight, people spent yet another suffocating night suffering a prolonged outage....
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KARACHI: Govt warned against disrupting march
KARACHI, June 6: Leaders of the lawyers’ movement for the reinstatement of the deposed judges have declared that lawyers will embark on a long march to Islamabad on June 9 to...
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KARACHI: Six acquitted in KPT land scam case
KARACHI, June 6: An accountability court on Friday acquitted six persons nominated as accused along with some government officials in a case pertaining to the misappropriation of the Karachi Port Trust’s land due to a lack of incriminating evidence....
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LARKANA: Six die as village attacked from two sides
LARKANA, June 6: Six people, including an infant, were killed and three others were injured when a triangular gunfight among police and two rival groups of villagers broke out near Warah in Qambar-Shahdadkot district on Friday....
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PESHAWAR: NWFP to restore cooperative societies
PESHAWAR, June 6: The Frontier Provincial Cooperative Bank and cooperative societies would be restored after fulfilling all the formalities, said NWFP Minister for Livestock and Dairy Development, Hidayatullah Khan on Friday....
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KARACHI: Price control body formed
KARACHI, June 6: The Sindh cabinet on Friday decided in principle to set up district peace committees and price control committees. The objective of the committees is to improve and sustain...
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KARACHI: Accused gets bail in ‘fraud’ case
KARACHI, June 6: The Sindh High Court granted bail on Friday to an accused standing trial for defrauding two girls by manipulating their admission to the Sindh Medical College on fake documents....
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KARACHI: Demand for transfer of rape case to Karachi
KARACHI, June 6: Members of civil society on Friday urged the relevant authorities to refer the Kainat Soomro gang-rape case, which had been transferred to Dadu, back to Karachi....
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KARACHI: Subcontinental shibboleths
KARACHI: One is not often able to say of a play that the presentation was as skilful as the script was sparkling. Yet this praise is well-deserved by Ismet ki do Kahanian, which opens today (Saturday) at the Karachi Arts Council....
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KARACHI: Environment tribunal resumes work today
KARACHI, June 6: With the appointment of a new chairperson, the Environmental Protection Tribunal, Karachi, will start formal proceedings of some of the already admitted cases from Saturday after a lapse of over seven months, said an official on Friday....
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KARACHI: Protest in Lyari
KARACHI, June 6: Residents of Baghdadi and Shah Beg Lane union councils on Friday took to the streets against prolonged power failures and acute water shortage in their areas....
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THATTA: Indus Delta is dying of thirst: MPA
THATTA, June 6: PPP MPA Humera Alwani has warned that if 35 million acre feet (MAF) water is not released to downstream Kotri, drought-like situation in the coastal area would destroy...
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HYDERABAD: ATC issues warrants against ex-minister
HYDERABAD, June 6: Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Akhlaq Hussain Larik on Friday issued non-bailable warrants against former Sindh minister Dr Sohrab Sarki, PML-Q leader Malik Changez, former SHO of Budhapur police station...
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HYDERABAD: Hesco workers stage rallies across Sindh
HYDERABAD, June 6: Emplo-yees of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) took out rallies across Sindh cities in protest against price hike, unemployment, terrorism, and lawlessness. They also demanded upgrading cadres of employees on the pattern of clerks....
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GHALANAI: Mohmand Agency to have peace body
GHALANAI, June 6: The people of the Mohmand Agency have announced to form a peace committee that will work for stopping attacks on government employees and installations....
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KOHAT: Kohat CD shop owners to close business
KOHAT, June 6: Following Wednesday’s blast and threats from the local Taliban to shut their business, the owners of music centres in the district’s main bazaar here have decided to close...
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HARIPUR: Held jirga members to be freed today
HARIPUR, June, 6: The 49 members of a peace jirga of Kurram region, arrested recently, would be released from the Haripur Prison on Saturday following their verbal assurance for resumption of dialogue on Friday....
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