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Prize bonds heist: SHC grants bail to convicted NBP employee
Court Nazir asked to verify property value, the bench directed its office to fix the matter for hearing.
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Cause for concern: Eroding embankments at the rice canal regulator pose serious threats
Regulator was constructed in 1945 and has worked very smoothly until recently.
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Draft for Police Act 2014: Civil activists stress need for overhauling policing standards
A number of NGOs and civil rights groups have devised a draft policy for reforms in the police department.
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Bucking trends: PPP leader advises PTI against agitation
Said that the parliament was the proper forum to take up any issues of national importance.
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Paying tribute: Procession to mark Youm-e-Ali ends peacefully
The procession was halted for two hours as families of target killing victims staged a sit-in on MA Jinnah Road.
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For better or worse?: World Bank approves $76.4m to improve farming in province
The money will be spent under the Sindh Agricultural Growth project and benefit 112,000 farmers.
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Taking charge: Sindh’s first-ever female section officer appointed
Fahmida Abbasi is eager to pave way for more women to take prominent police posts.
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WorldCall office in Karachi set ablaze
WorldCall had received several threats earlier, Daily Express quoted the cable service’s employees as saying.
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Five more polio-hit children detected
Number of sufferers inches ever closer to 100-mark.
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Mind that turn: All roads leading to MA Jinnah blocked on Sunday
Traffic police have planned alternative routes as main Saddar road will be blocked for Youm-e-Ali.
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Take it back: Tankers association end strike on governor’s promise to rescind new tax
The Apotca had stopped supplying petrol to fuel stations, forcing authorities to intervene.
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Protest continues: PMA demands arrest of assailants
Dr Ghulam Fareed Khuhawar was abducted from Warah and has yet to be recovered.
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Public nuisance: When KMC is renting out footpaths, how can encroachments go away?
Shehri takes a 360-degree view of Karachi’s shrinking public spaces.
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Denying statements: Sindh govt says 25 RO plants in Badin, Thatta working
The report said that there were 25 RO plants in Badin and Thatta districts and all were found operational.
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‘MQM only want a revolution if it gives power to the people’
Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui also criticised PPP for being biased against MQM-dominated areas.
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Violence round-up: Man killed ‘accidentally’ as security guard cleans gun
A total of three lives lost in the city on Saturday.
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Designed with love: In a first, this bags designer thinks inside a box
Female entrepreneur runs successful business of box clutches, other purses.
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Not welcome: Sindhi nationalists, writers, poets join hands to protest arrival of IDPs
Sindh Bachayo Committee writes to UN to request the IDPs be settled in K-P.
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The plot thickens: Darul Aman incharge arrested for ‘involvement’ in disappearance of women
The inmates had ‘escaped’ from the shelter home and police suspect they were helped by insiders.
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Buried alive
Focus of govt should be on preventing such incidents in the first place, making sure NGOs follow guidelines.
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Zardari takes notice of Sindh health ministry dispute
PPP co-chairperson tasks Dr Asim Hussain to resolve the dispute between the health minister and the health secretary.
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Work in progress: Rights of candidates, election expenses, transparency rules missing from new LG law
HRCP holds workshop to reveal pitfalls of SLGA 2013.
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Missing person: Court orders recovery of man detained by Rangers
IG, DG Rangers to file comments by July 25.
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‘No IDPs have entered Karachi’
Baloch says govt and army have managed to help evacuate many people from North Waziristan.
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Taking their time: ATC reserves verdict on Sulaiman Lashari case transfer plea
The defendant’s counsel claims that the case should go to regular court since he has been declared a minor.
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SHC suspends transfer orders of naval accounts controller
Bench issues notices to defendants to file comments through DAG by August 11.
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For the women: Throw away old traditions if they harm society, stress reproductive health experts
Media persons from all over the country share the condition of women in their provinces.
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Survival of the fittest: Admissions for 1,700 medical seats start from September 10
Iqbal Durrani says that students will be able to get their application forms from Sept 3.
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Security measures: LEAs on high alert for Youm-e-Ali procession
Government has imposed a ban on pillion riding, cellular services suspended on Sunday.
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Man fails to duck in time, dies in crossfire
Amjad Bhurgari's relatives stage a sit-in along with the dead body outside the SSP's office.
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Buried alive: Bodies of three labourers still in well in Tharparkar
For the last three days the villagers have been trying to excavate the bodies, but to no avail.
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Raids and encounters: Man allegedly behind Kamra Base attack killed
A group of heavily armed men had stormed the PAF Minhas airbase in August 2012.
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Divided we rise?: After health, government to bifurcate education dept
Senior minister for education urges international
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Mobile phone services to be suspended in Karachi on Sunday
Services will be suspended from 4am to 11pm for security reasons.
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Accountability drive: NAB appoints new DG in Sindh
NAB Chairman issues directives for the appointment of Ahmed as the head of NAB in Sindh.
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Inquiry: CM’s team investigates illegal appointments
CM’s coordinator for inspection and inquiries Haji Muzaffar Shujra asked officials to submit a report within a week.
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Former MNA takes family dispute to court
Babul Khan Jakhrani claims the two men are trying to implicate him in fake cases.
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‘Mein Karachi’: Youth Festival to start August 10 at Arts Council
There will be photography, drama, painting, singing, debate, quiz, essay writing competitions in English and Urdu.
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Dialogue: MPA invites reaction to statement on ‘women’s little hard work’
Kulsoom Chandio spoke at the discussion on Sindh Home Based Workers Policy, 2014.
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Fighting for their honour: Four gang rape survivors demand justice
The women were raped by seven dacoits who also took away all their cash and belongings.
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File your reports: SHC issues notices to police, Darul Aman authorities on missing women
Three women had disappeared from the shelter, one of whom was being hunted by a criminal.
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Six feet under: Three men buried alive in a well in Tharparkar
They were working from the inside and the concrete well rings ruptured.
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Brighter futures: Solar lamps provide beacon of hope for female entrepreneurs
Fatima Tandai has sold around Rs50,000 worth of lamps in the last two months.
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Attempt foiled: Matrimonial spat ends in kidnapping attempt of child
The dispute has been going on for the past three years.
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Election tribunals: ECP to explain legality of tribunals’ tenure extension again
Petitioners say exercise allegedly undertaken without consulting provincial chief justices.
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Sindh to step up efforts against cop killers with joint operations by Rangers, police
Preparations for Youm-e-Ali finalised, 16,000 security officials to be deployed at key locations, pillion riding ban.
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Used syringes
Out of 300 people tested at a medical camp in the outskirt of Malir, 52 were found suffering from hepatitis B and C.
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‘Good’ governance!
Iqbal Mehmood was peremptorily sacked because he refused to sign off on reportedly second-hand APCs,
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Power struggle: Health minister, secretary continue bickering as department splits
Sindh govt has given the orders to bifurcate the department as soon as possible.
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Encounters and arrests: Three suspects killed, over three dozen others arrested
CPLC and AVCC rescue 20-year-old woman who was kidnapped from Faisalabad.