| June 14, 2008 | Saturday | Jamadi-us-Sani 09, 1429 |
KARACHI: Vital oil facility vulnerable to terrorism
KARACHI, June 13: When the threat of terrorism looms large as a real and present danger across the country, the oil installation area in Keamari – one of the gateways of...
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KARACHI: Agencies offered access to CDGK’s control system
KARACHI, June 13: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that use of the recently established city government’s command and control system will be extended to law-enforcement and intelligence agencies for the prevention of crimes and security purposes.....
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KARACHI: PPP leader supports small dams construction
KARACHI, June 13: Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Friday was given a briefing on small dams at Bilawal House....
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KARACHI: Violence against pregnant wives rampant: study
KARACHI, June 13: A large number of women who are verbally and physically abused at the hands of their aggressive husbands during their pregnancies run a far greater risk of having...
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KARACHI: Voluntary blood donation stressed
KARACHI, June 13: Like elsewhere across the globe, the World Blood Donor Day is being observed in the city as well on June 14 to promote the culture of voluntary blood donations....
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KARACHI: Truck runs over pedestrian
KARACHI, June 13: A middle-aged pedestrian was killed in a road accident in the small hours of Friday....
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KARACHI: Bandit killed
KARACHI, June 13: Police shot dead a bandit and arrested his associate in injured condition, while their third accomplice managed to flee in Defence....
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KARACHI: Sindh budget on Monday
KARACHI, June 13: The Sindh Assembly’s budget session has been summoned on Monday, it has been reliably learnt....
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KARACHI: ‘Fishermen’s issues to be taken up with Centre’
KARACHI, June 13: Sindh Minister for Fisheries Zahid Ali Bhurgari has said that the issue of deep-sea fishing would be taken up with the federal government....
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KARACHI: Allocation for education termed disappointing
KARACHI, June 13: Terming the proposed amount earmarked for the education sector in the next fiscal year’s federal budget ‘insufficient’ and ‘disappointing’, the college and university teachers’ representative bodies have urged...
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KARACHI: Attempts to sell church land flayed
KARACHI, June 13: Speakers at a demonstration organized by the Church of Pakistan, Diocese of Karachi, at the Press Club on Friday said that neither had any church property been sold nor would this be allowed....
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KARACHI: BCom Part-I results
KARACHI, June 13: The University of Karachi on Friday announced the results of BCom Part- I (external) annual examination 2007....
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KARACHI: Mukhtar chairs PIA board meeting
KARACHI, June 13: Commer-cial aviation environment and various other issues confronting the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) came under discussion at a meeting of its board of directors held here on Friday with Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar in the chair....r in the chair....
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KARACHI: SHC reduces fine amounts of convicts
KARACHI, June 13: A division bench of the Sindh High Court comprising Justice Dr Rana M. Shamim and Justice Ghulam Dastagir A. Shahani dismissed appeals filed by two convicts in a narcotics smuggling case but reduced the amount of fine....
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LARKANA: Last-moment flurry to utilise Zakat funds
LARKANA, June 13: Failure to constitute local committees in the absence of chairman District Zakat Committee has deprived people of money since fiscal 2004-05 to 2006-07....
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NAWABSHAH: Suspected polio case detected
NAWABSHAH, June 13: The authorities put a two-and-half-year-old girl in Sakrand under observation after her parents reported problems symptomatic of polio....
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THATTA: Villagers protest against landlord
THATTA, June 13: Dozens of villagers took out a procession in Ghorabari on Friday to protest against harassment caused to residents of Koreja Goth and Deh Piraa by an influential landlord....
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HYDERABAD: French envoy visits SU
HYDERABAD, June 13: French Consul-General in Karachi Pierre Seillan during a visit to the University of Sindh on Friday met the Vice-Chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui....
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HYDERABAD: Police recover bodies of slain man, woman
HYDERABAD, June 13: Jhakri police of Matiari district recovered two bodies, including that of a woman killed for karo-kari by her brothers who had also murdered the man their sister had been living with....
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MIRPURKHAS: Three perish as lightning strikes
MIRPURKHAS, June 13: Two people were killed in the Jati area of Thatta district and another perished in Umerkot when lightning struck them on Friday....
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HYDERABAD: Power protests gain momentum
HYDERABAD, June 13 Protests continued against power loadshedding, water shortage, and accumulation of drain water on roads on Friday in many city areas. Protesters lit bonfires and blocked roads to condemn the tepid attitude of civic bodies and Hesco....
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PESHAWAR: Thousands set out for Islamabad: Long march
PESHAWAR, June 13: Convoys of lawyers, political activists and civil society members set out for Islamabad from different parts of the province here on Friday morning to participate in the long march for restoration of deposed judges....
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GHALANAI: Tribesmen vow to defend country
GHALANAI, June 13: Hundreds of tribal people staged a protest demonstration against Nato forces’ unprovoked bombing in Mohmand Agency and called for ‘jihad’ against ‘infidel’ forces....
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PESHAWAR: Pakistan, Afghan chambers ink accords
PESHAWAR, June 13: The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) leaders on Friday signed a number of trade agreements with Afghan counterparts to improve trade activities between the two neighboring countries....
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PESHAWAR: Marching teachers to face action: governor
PESHAWAR, June 13: NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani on Friday said disciplinary action would be taken against university teachers who would take part in the long march of lawyers....
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PESHAWAR: Two including policeman killed
PESHAWAR, June 13: Two persons including a police constable were killed in separate incidents here on Friday....
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LAKKI MARWAT: ‘Deranged’ man commits suicide after injuring two
LAKKI MARWAT, June 13: A deranged young man committed suicide after he shot at and injured his grandfather and another relative, in Wanda Kalan village here on Thursday night....
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LAKKI MARWAT: Weapons seized, man held
LAKKI MARWAT, June 13: Darra Pezu police seized illicit weapons and explosive powder from a man near Tank Mor on Friday....
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KOHAT: Taliban offer to patrol Darra road
KOHAT, June 13: The local Taliban have asked the provincial government for permission to patrol the Indus Highway passing through Darra Adamkhel for safety of passengers and government and civil vehicles....
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HYDERABAD: Arrangements made for rain emergency
HYDERABAD, June 13: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that necessary arrangements have been made to meet rain emergency situation and a strategy has been evolved to drain out rainwater,...
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