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Bandit terror
Bandits killed at least four people in different incidents across Karachi on Wednesday.
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Sleepless in Karachi
“I can’t sleep at all. Back home, I used to work at a restaurant. That kept me busy. But now everything is ruined.”
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Shattering Noah’s Ark
All at once, hundreds of animals, birds and insects were left without shelter or food.
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Bund politics and army’s intervention
“Damn the politicians who are squabbling over their farmlands while we in Sukkur will probably drown.”
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3.2m hectares of crops destroyed in floods
Over 1,600 people have died while 15.4 million have been affected by the floods in Pakistan.
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Give the unsung heroes a break
Heroes hack at rocky hills and transport heavy boulders and rocks so villages, lands and people are safe from floods.
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Two bystanders killed in Karachi
The bystanders were killed during a shoot-out between police and robbers in Kharadar area.
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Decreasing water level eases situation at Guddu, Sukkur
Water level at Guddu Barrage has decreased by 65,000cusecs and at Sukkur Barrage by 92,000cusecs in the last 24 hours.
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KU signs MoU with Iranian varsity
Director ICCBS Prof Dr M Iqbal Choudhary signed the MoU.
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Brig Ahmed becomes new CBC president
Brigadier Anees Ahmed took oath as the new president of the organisation and Lt Col Zafar Iqbal.
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Death row convict gets time for appeal
The suspect, Raheemullah alias Naeem alias Ali Hasan, has been accused of being a member of a banned outfit.
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Sight of tree-tops signals residents that it’s time to go back
Residents of the kachcha areas of Sukkur have taken the hint and have started preparing for their return.
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It’s [k]not love for a day, but a lifetime
Thousands of Hindus in Karachi meet at the Laxmi Narayan Mandir every year.
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Student + collection box = food for thought
College students and soon-to-be professionals have geared up and have vowed to make a difference.
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We are all dacoits! Aren’t we?
The dacoits of Sindh rule the interior towns and villages. They gained ascendancy in 1984.
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NADRA distributing identities at camps
Survivors at relief camps can get a duplicate of their computerised national identity cards.
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Named after the flooded river after birth on dry land
The twins were born after the family fled to a relief camp set up outside IBA in Sukkur.
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Kotri Barrage in peak flood
Dozens of villages were submerged around Thatta with people scrambling to pile sandbags at strategic locations.
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Inviting the military
The startling call made by the MQM leader for the army to step in and remove corrupt politicians defies comprehension.
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Water level at Kotri Barrage crosses 900,000 cusecs
Several villages in Hyderabad are inundated as Kotri Barrage braces for the worst flood in 50 years.
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Low intensity blasts in Daharki scare patients
Unidentified men planted three time-bombs wrapped in plastic bags under the doctor’s table.
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Beggars can be choosers
Beggars have figured out a new way to extract money from the city’s philanthropists.
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Sinking silently
According to an assessment of the PDMA, the flood has directly affected about 20 districts of Sindh.
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Child dies of gastroenteritis in Karachi camp
Due to the provision of substandard health facilities, fatal diseases, such as cholera and typhoid, can spread.
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Thatta residents forced to set camp themselves
Flood survivors complained that the government is doing nothing for them.
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An evening with the dacoit
Gul Sher Jageerani has evaded the law for some 30 years.
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Police refuse to register rape case against SHO: NGO
The police refused to register a rape case against the SHO due to pressure allegedly from “higher police officials”.
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Brother of ANP MNA gunned down
Another Awami National Party (ANP) worker was gunned down near Caltex Petrol Pump, Civic Centre.
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Blood spills over land
At least two people were gunned down and around 14 including three policemen wounded in crossfire across Karachi.
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Karachi playing host to 29,000 IDPs
The city govt is presently hosting 29,147 flood survivors in 23 relief camps while six other camps are being set up.
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Flood survivors display interfaith harmony
As floods rage through Sindh, many Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs have taken shelter at temples and gurdwaras.
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Caught between duty and family
As flies swarm over rotting wheat at a godown in Kot Addu, two men argue over uneven aid distribution.
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High-rise homes or not, we’re outta here!
Many residents of the high-rise buildings near the Indus River bank have also evacuated their apartments.
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Sindh govt promises 6-month welfare
According to Mehdi, 29,147 flood survivors have reached Karachi from the flood-affected areas so far.
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City life woos some, others just want to go back
The Sindh police relief camp in Gadap Town looks impressive with 30 blocks and comprises 936 flats.
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Gramophones, 10 wives and the cacophony of death
‘Come September’ plays on an old gramophone that Naeem Soomro has dragged out to take to Karachi.
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Four die of gastroenteritis
Three children and a woman died of gastroenteritis in Thul on Sunday.
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‘We feel like VIPs at this camp’
“They're kind and we are being looked after properly,” a flood survivor who is currently living at a relief camp said.
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Sukkur residents decry 72 hours of no power
A three-day electricity breakdown in Sukkur drove residents to stage a sit-in at the Station Road on Sunday.
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‘21 people died in Sindh rains and floods so far’
“Around 0.3 million has fallen ill with various diseases," the minister said while addressing a press conference.
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MQM to back martial law-like steps: Altaf
MQM chief Altaf Hussain launched a blistering attack on politicians and feudal landlords on Sunday.
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Pressure on Kotri keeps Sindh on tenterhooks
A dyke built temporarily at the Ratodero-Khuzdar highway in Shahdadkot struggled to prevent floodwater.
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Altaf slams 'corrupt politicians shopping abroad'
MQM chief says if 'patriotic Generals' take martial law-like step against corrupt politicians, MQM will support them.
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Another day of murders
At least five more men were murdered and one injured on Saturday in the ongoing wave of target killings.
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Six flood survivors electrocuted
Six people were killed and a dozen others were injured when their tractor trolley hit a live high-tension wire.
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IDPs even lose their identity
With no identification documents to prove who they are, flood survivors are now just nameless citizens.
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Gastroenteritis claiming lives at camps
More than 500,000 people in relief camps around the Guddu and Sukkur barrages now fighting the threat of an epidemic.
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Salvation: holy men ‘protected’ by flood
Divinity triumphed over disaster, claimed the people of Ghouspur after seeing what they termed a miracle.
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WWF-P sets up five artificial wetlands
Two of the wetlands have been established in Nawabshah district and three in Sanghar.