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Repeating rhetoric: Nothing new to offer minorities
Each year, funds are allocated for them but no work is done on the projects
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Rediscovering the city: No place like Karachi
The ‘I Am Karachi’ museum displays extraordinary moments captured by ordinary people in the city.
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Sindh jails to spend Rs52m on cameras, signal jammers
The development budget for prisons for 2015-2016 has seen a decrease
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Laying blame: Minister decries non-disbursement of funds by Centre
Says the province utilised a record 75 per cent of its development budget in the current fiscal year.
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The road to prosperity? Local govt to spend most funds on roads
Next largest slice of the pie allocated to water and sanitation schemes.
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Reflection on numbers: Sindh’s indifference towards human rights
No new development schemes have been proposed for the department in the upcoming year .
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Transgender persons in jail
The mistreatment of women, of transgender people, of differently-abled people points at a scathing lack of empathy
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The death of a fly
Without evidence, without fleshing out bones of the report, any ‘counterterrorism operations’ are utterly worthless
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Business activities resume as MQM cuts short strike
MQM chief had earlier called for a shutterdown strike to protest against a 'discriminatory' Sindh budget
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Safoora attack: Judge sends three accused on physical remand
The bus attack suspects were finally implicated on Saturday in the main case after a lapse of three weeks
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The peacemaker: Altaf extends hand of friendship to Nawaz, Zardari
MQM chief urges government to pay attention to plight of stranded 'Pakistanis' in Bangladesh
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Where does the axe fall? Sindh loses focus in budget
Govt misses allocations for safe drinking water, public transportation.
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Sindh to run deficit and cut development
Budget filled with populist measures designed to increase size of the public sector.
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Sindh Budget 2015-16: Province sets aside Rs16.5 billion for energy projects
Thar infrastructure schemes get most of the funds.
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Sindh Budget 2015-16: Tax on agriculture income 0.4% of Sindh’s estimated revenue
Indirect taxes, as a result, form 91.9% of total projected receipts.
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Sindh Budget 2015-16: Saving Rs1 on a recharge of Rs100
Sindh budget proposes to cut GST on telecom services to 18%.
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From Karachi to Mastung, students share gut-wrenching stories
Thirty young men and women project social issues on the screen at IDSP Film Festival, 2015.
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Ground-breaking: Sindh Basic Education Programme begins
The Sindh government and US Agency for International Development are working together to implement the SBEP
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Milestones: First Pakistani law university to offer PhD
SZABUL is the country's first law varsity recognised by Pakistan's Bar Council and the HEC.
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Raid: CTD arrests blast suspect
A bag containing improvised explosive devices weighing around 15 kilogrammes was also found in his possession
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Suspect commits suicide in police custody
Khairullah, 25, was arrested by the ACLC on Friday for motorcycle theft.
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Police action: Two robbers gunned down
The police were alerted by the neighbours and managed to arrive there
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The road to nowhere: Five years on, unfinished project scrapped from budget
Millions of rupees were being allocated to the inter-city bus project but no work had been done.
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Misplaced priorities: Preventive care finds little space in health budget
77% of the development budget has been allocated to the ongoing schemes.
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Education talk: Express Expo displays stalls of 40 institutes
Recruitment firms offering jobs collected contacts and curricula vitae of people.
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‘Developing a nation’: Education budget split into four heads, development funds go down by Rs0.7b
he claimed that the government is going to spend more on the department - Rs13.2 billion to be exact
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Law and order: 10,030 more police personnel to be hired this year
Public safety and order budget increased by 19.5%.
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Financing terrorism: CM forms task force to probe Rangers report
The Rangers report estimated the volume of the criminal economy to be over Rs230 billion a year
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Failed attempt: Four militants killed as Rao Anwar escapes another attack
Suspects opened fire when former Malir SSP's convoy tried to intercept them.
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Opposition rejects ‘anti-poor’ budget
Protests from opposition benches began soon after finance minister Murad Ali Shah started his speech
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Budget 2015-16: Sindh presents Rs739b budget
Sindh follows centre's direction, raises minimum wage from Rs12,000 to Rs13,000
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I Am Karachi Museum: A step towards 'owning' the city of lights
Some 320 students photograph sights around the city to document its incredible diversity and to promote tolerance
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Siblings drown in Karachi's Hawkes Bay
Deceased have been identified as 40-year-old Danish and 30-year-old Sadaf
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ASF arrests French national for carrying bullets through Karachi Airport
During the manual checking, ASF staff recovered five bullets of .22 caliber from his possesion
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Extra-judicially killed workers aren't flies: MQM demands Nawaz apologise to people of Karachi
MQM condemns premier's statement which was akin to making a mockery of extra-judicially killed people
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Local bodies' election: New delimitation lists of Larkana displayed
The elections are expected to be held in September
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Budget 2015-16: Construction of Cambridge schools to complete by 2016
CM had announced establishment of 25 schools affiliated with CIE
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Reshuffling the system: Education dept decides to change teachers’ appointments
Provincial govt set to cut education development budget to Rs10 billion
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Mobility for everyone: Need for accessible public transport stressed
For people with disabilities, commuting in Karachi is a near-impossible task
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Anti-Pakistan comments of Indian politicians spark protests
Political parties took to the streets in protest of India's 'terrorist activities' within Pakistan
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Improper safety measures: HESCO lineman dies from electrocution
Two officials are being investigated for their failure to take action prior to the incident
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Cross-border relations: ‘We are fighting the same battle for human rights’
It's a long, long fight. It's a little better now because the media has become more powerful and sensible, says Rai
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Budget 2015-16: Axe falls on development
Sindh to present Rs715-billion budget in the assembly session today
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Contempt of court: SHC reserves verdict against top cops
Farooq Naek, representing the IG, contended the case was not fit to be taken as contempt
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Rangers detain police constable in Karachi on suspicion of ties with gangsters
Constable was released five hours later when DSPs and SHOs of Orangi Town threatened to quit
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ATC orders MQM leader Amir Khan to be put behind bars till June 25
ATC approves Khan's request for B-class cell
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Allegations of using zakat, sacrificial hides' money for criminal activities are baseless: Altaf
MQM chief defends Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation, says it has used the money to serve humanity
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Powerful patrons: Crime economy nurtures Sindh top dignitaries
DG Rangers tells apex committee terrorism and illegal rackets generate over Rs230b a year.
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Taking responsibility: Be the change you want to see
Speakers at the conference advise people to stop relying on government
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Naegleria claims eighth victim in Karachi
The deadly brain-eating amoeba claimed its eighth life in Karachi within two months