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Unclogging the arteries: Traffic Police launch anti-encroachment drive
The campaign aims to clear encroachments and illegal parking.
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Education for all: Deaf Reach school opens in Nawabshah
The centre aims to provide education to the deaf to maximise their potential.
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Marine ecology: Vessels must be registered to curb illegal fishing, say experts
Speakers at WWF-P workshop stress the need to involve union councils to curb the practice.
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Got you: CID arrests six target killers
The suspects belong to political and militant groups as well as a Lyari gang.
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LG elections: MQM calls delimitations in districts Malir and South illegal
Lawyer argues the new local bodies’ laws were framed to defeat the MQM.
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Rearranging the hierarchy: Rauf Baloch to be the new ‘political’ face of PAC
Appointment has been made but it has yet to be decided what powers Rauf will have.
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Meet the new PAC man: Not just another Baloch
Rauf had joined the Ghaffar Zikri group after developing differences with Uzair Baloch.
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Time to breathe: Deadline to renew arms licences extended to Jan 31
People complain of forms shortage, claim officials selling forms illegally for Rs1,000.
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Clash of the titans: Sindh Assembly session today likely to be fiery
MQM members to wear black armbands in protest.
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Chehlum security: Sindh govt imposes ban on pillion riding
Ban to remain in place from December 23 to 24 in six cities of the province including Karachi.
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Inter-marriages: Rare disease causes family of 8 to lose sight
Babies are normal at birth, and the symptoms appear by the age of seven.
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Local govt elections: ECP snubs Sindh govt, sets Jan 18 as poll date
Poll body notifies the schedule as per SC ruling.
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Bad cop: Police department to weed out ‘black sheep’
Scrutiny of officials, deployed at police stations in all five districts in Karachi, has been initiated.
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Healthcare: Polio campaign in Gadap Town ends today
Dr Naz revealed that up to one million children will be administrated polio vaccine in the 4-day anti-polio campaign.
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Opposition demand: Sindh lawmakers to meet on Friday over LG issue
Speaker says govt setting new precedent by summoning session on opposition’s request.
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Taking a stand: ‘NADRA employees not to cooperate in arms licence registration’
The decision was made by the authority’s welfare association citing security concerns.
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First batch: 284 graduates ready to further the SIUT’s ‘humanitarian’ cause
The first batch of ‘physician assistants’ complete studies at SIUT’s institute of medical sciences.
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You’ve been served: Court bailiffs race against technology to deliver notices
The email and text alert service does not summon litigants, only informs them of hearings.
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Power of democracy: Govt may succumb to pressure against amendments to LG law
PPP leaders find MQM, PML-F coalition strange.
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Three-day celebrations: Devotees head for Bhit Shah to take part in Urs celebrations
Agha Siraj Durrani inaugurated the Urs by laying chaddar on the tomb of Bhitai.
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‘Justice’ prevails: Jirga in Larkana manages to end four-year-long feud
Legal expert feels jirgas become popular when people lose faith in lower judiciary.
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The last innings: Rising star Zulfiqar Bhatti dies on the pitch
According to young cricketer’s peers, his biggest dream was to play for the national side.
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Motive unclear: Roadside bomb kills maid, injures another
The injured woman is under treatment at the hospital under police custody.
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Hooliganism: Karachi Press Club slaps ban on PTI
Party workers not only harassed KPC members but also tortured a joint secretary of club.
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Weapons supplier: Suspect remanded for jail official’s murder
Sajjad admitted before the judge that the weapons used in Niazi’s murder were supplied by him.
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Recaptured: Indian prisoner who escaped Landhi jail held again
DSP Nasir Lodhi said that the accused revealed during initial interrogation that he was a drug addict.
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Karo-kari: Woman, man killed for ‘honour’
The police shifted the bodies to Civil Hospital, Jacobabad, for autopsies. The case has yet to be registered.
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Defence wants taxi driver case out of ATC
The police have stated in the charge-sheet that it was an ‘accidental’ murder.
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‘Illegal’ detention: Police recovers 21 ‘bonded’ labourers
The recovered persons and the landlord were produced before the court.
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More to come: Sukkur DIG directs police to continue ongoing operation
More than 4,000 arrests have been made in the last three months, says the DIG.
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Police high-handedness: NADRA workers upset as police arrest colleague
Crime branch police arrested a data-entry operator from his house on Monday.
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Prices of commodities are fixed without our consent, say retailers
Ccommissioner insisted that crackdown against profiteers will continue until all retailers adhere to the fixed prices.
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Celebrating culture: Get your Ajraks on for Sindh Festival in February
Horse, cattle and donkey races, basant, literature festivals all part of grand celebrations.
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Local government: MQM looks to other parties for support against ordinances
Party has PML-F, PML-N on board, PTI says it will not join ship as MQM protests are ‘half-hearted’.
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Opposition parties submit requisition for assembly session
Govt assures session will be called soon.
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Health workers under threat: Police foil attack on polio team
Alleged TTP commander in Sohrab Goth arrested.
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Karachi delimitation: MQM lawmakers walk out of National Assembly
Opposition parties in Sindh assembly also submit requisition to discuss amendments in local government bill.
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Sindh govt opposes move to deduct bills from tax pool
The four provinces and federal government agreed on a formula to share the cost of holding local government elections.
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Representative body: Progressive Lawyers Forum sweeps bar elections
Shafqat Raheem Rajput of PLF received 474 votes and was elected president of the Sukkur Bar Association.
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Settling matters: Court bailiff forgives Rangers’ officials for physical abuse
Imtiaz Khan, a bailiff in district Central, was allegedly beaten by in charge, other officials of Rangers wing 44.
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Rigging allegations: SHC issues notices to CM, ECP in voter verification case
CM had appealed the high court cancel tribunal’s order for verification of votes.
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State of desolation: Operating without registration, private schools face no penalties
Directive for registration was issued in April, with names of all 153 unregistered schools.
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All cards on the table: Banners of wanted criminals in Lyari go missing two days later
Residents hope this new method will rid neighbourhood of criminals.
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Voicing concerns: MQM terms Sindh LG Act 2013 a ‘black law’
Amendments made to law will divide people, says MQM.
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Down on luck: Three-foot-tall peon tries to make ends meet
Burhanul Haq Bukhari shares the difficulties he’s faced as a person of short stature.
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Electoral alliances: MQM, PML-F may join hands against PPP
JI, Sindhi nationalist parties put off by the coalition, look towards PTI and PPP.
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Parallel justice: Jirga sets free man accused of killing wife
Charges accused with mentally torturing spouse.
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Towards greener pastures: Two SMIU deans resign
Say their post was not being regularised, VC insists the professors left for better jobs.
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Sterner rules to be implemented for vehicle fitness certificates
Transporters accuse officials at the inspection centre of demanding bribes.
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Musharraf's name to remain on ECL until all cases cleared: SHC
Court dismisses petition to have his name put on the Exit Control List permanently.