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CDGK’s writ challenged: Milk prices set at Rs66 per litre
City cannot control price hike but can only issue challans: CDGK spokesman.
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Extortion mafia: CCPO asks for access to cell phone data, NADRA info
CCPO Saud Mirza, along with Sindh IGP, meets Korangi businessmen.
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Karachi transporters call strike on Monday
The Provincial Transport Minister warned that strict action will be taken against transporters if they go on strike.
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Agricultural income: Landowners urge the govt to withdraw tax
Agriculturalists have asked their elected representatives in parliament to oppose any move to levy taxes.
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Covering the issues: ‘Go digging before the land mafia lays foundation stones’
NED Professor highlights role of journalists to combat land mafia.
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Pillion riding: Court asks for crime stats to see if ban works
Petitioner alleges ban only helps private transporters .
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In memory: Reference for Dr Nabi Baloch
Dr Baloch was a prominent and active member of the SSUET Board of Governors.
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Census 2011: House listing starts in Pehalwan Goth
Security worries delay the count: census joint commissioner.
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Pakistan Medical Association: Rift created over elections, one group denies poll legitimacy
Sindh general secretary convenes provincial council meeting to decide on ‘separate’ polls.
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Unsettled issues: Young doctors meet at PMA office
The committee supported the demands of the young doctors and assured them of their support at every stage.
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Journalist’s murder: Five men remanded into SIU custody
They were arrested in a different case but confessed they had killed Wali Khan Babar.
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'HEC allowed Pakistan to compete with India in science, devolving it is a horrendous decision’
Supporters gather to show their support for the Higher Education Commission.
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Contempt of court: Blind student takes DUHS to court
She alleges the school deliberately misinformed her about the starting date of classes.
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Bad medicine: After 6 years at med school, young doctors are paid the same as drivers
Doctors complain their salaries don’t match the amount they invest in their education.
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Rainbow Centre attack: Traders protest, pull down shutters
Vendors demand increased security, say they had been receiving constant threats.
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CID nabs two ‘TTP militants’
One accused was leading TTP activities in Karachi and planning major attacks.
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Sindh Assembly progress report: 80 out of 168 MPAs don’t even bother to ask a single question
Khuhro says members attended sessions with ‘devotion’.
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Debating devolution : ‘Legal or not, the provinces aren’t capable of managing HEC’
Experts reel off the HEC’s achievements in efforts to retain it.
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Contract jobs: Education, food staffers protest
Protesters demanded that contract employees appointed in 2007 should get their jobs back
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Devolving education: Sindh ready for its own HEC: Minister
Says educational opportunities would be distributed more equally now.
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Spinning tales of wonder : Enshrouded trees keep the mosquitoes away
Spiders, driven by the flood, have spun huge webs over trees in Dadu village.
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Target killings : Don’t evade responsibility, SHC reprimands govt lawyers
AAG said terrorism is not just Sindh’s problem.
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World Health Day : ‘Humans at risk of returning to time before medical advances’
Doctors urge medical students to avoid prescribing antibiotics.
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Mining marbles : Businessmen go to court against fake FIRs
Court issues notices to Sindh prosecutor general.
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SHC bench order : Transfer 210 inmates back to central, Nara jails, officials told
Central jail superintendent urged to hurry up with repairs .
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Taken in: Reporter’s alleged killers arrested
Those arrested have confessed to killing reporter Wali Khan Babar on January 13.
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Mirza dares traders to name the extortionists
Says he applied for leave earlier and will go meet his daughter.
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Men lob grenade at Rainbow Centre, killing 1, injuring 20 others
5 victims were Awami National Party workers.
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Load-shedding to increase up to 14 hours
Electricity produced through oil furnaces will cause an increase the power tariff by four rupees.
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Missing utility bills: Hostel students turn hostile for gas, water, electricity
Medical students protest three days without basic amenities .
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Good samaritan: Citizen saves schools from possible demolition
Petition filed by a citizen bears fruit as SHC informed that city set aside money to repair threatened schools.
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NGO takes transport authority to court
Petition submitted against the Regional Transport Authority for its alleged failure to check on traffic violations.
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Polio campaign: Three areas in Karachi vulnerable, says CM
Three towns of Karachi and nine districts in the province are at high risk for polio.
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Antibiotics overuse: Germs, bacteria behind over half of our sicknesses
Hospitals need to have a policy on medicine use.
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Diesel price hike: Owners threaten to bring oil tankers to a standstill
Give the govt 10 days to either lower prices or allow them to increase fares.
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Milk prices: City government called to court — again
CDGK, which sets the prices of groceries, called in to court over a petition challenging higher milk prices.
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Transitions: Scholar Dr Nabi Bux Baloch, who compiled the first Sindhi-English dictionary, dies at 93
Former Sindh University VC earned a doctorate from Columbia University.
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Making better journalists: Think like the land mafia when you report on them, advises NGO Shehri
‘Reporting on trends, and not specific events, is better’.
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Extortion mafia ‘Govt failed to protect people so they went on strike’
Altaf Hussain has lauds traders for their “peaceful strike”.
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Economic downturn: Teen Hatti florists fight their ‘Queen of the Night’ handcuffs
Event managers say they pay them “just right”.
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Information portfolio: Sharjeel Inam Memon takes charge
This is the fourth time the portfolio has changed hands in a three-year period.
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Zulfiqar Mirza goes on ‘indefinite leave’
Chief minister takes charge of home ministry, denies rumours of Senate position for Mirza.
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Committee to monitor extortion activities to be formed
According to sources, the committee has been formed on direct instructions of President Asif Ali Zardari.
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Doctors' strike: More deaths, more protests
The protests that started in Punjab have had a ripple effect, with doctors in Karachi, Hyderabad joining in.
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‘We are helpless in front of seniors, politicians’
Police, people share grievances in discussion on the city’s problems.
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40 enslaved farm hands freed by circuit bench
High court police raided farm on SHC orders.
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Development : HESCO inaugurates five new panels
Five new 11 kilovolt panels were inaugurated at Hyderabad Electric Supply Company’s (Hesco) main grid station.
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In court: Murdered allama’s mother wants compensation
The petitioners said that Naqvi was standing in front of his house when some unidentified assailants shot him down.
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Local government : Former nazim files petition against delay in polls
Petitioner claims ordinances, amendment acts give ‘legal cover’ to delay.
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Anti-Car Lifting Cell: 19 car snatchers held with stolen vehicles
ACLC also found fake licence plates, govt stamps and weapons.