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UN polio suspension hits 22,000 children in Karachi
WHO activities were suspended last month, not yet approved to take part in the next campaign due in September.
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Crippling virus: Four new polio cases surface as WHO shuts offices in Karachi
WHO’s Karachi office remains shut in the wake of security concerns.
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Heed the signs: Irrigation dept comes under fire at PAC meeting
Officials appear helpless at being unable to control rampant water theft.
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In violation: SHC stops officer on deputation from working
The petition submitted that Bhutto’s posting was in violation of orders.
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Hearing adjourned: SHC declines govt’s plea for release of attached amount
He requested the court to recall its May 2012 order of attaching government coffers for failing to get a stay order.
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Employee beaten by landlord’s guards, then sent to prison
The landlord, Wali Jakhrani, is reportedly a cousin of former federal minister Aijaz Jakhrani.
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Team Pakistan sweeps debating competition in Mexico
Students beat contestants from 45 other countries in a mix of prepared and impromptu motions.
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Man kills sister in court, regrets he couldn’t get his hands on her husband
Javed is a lawyer and sneaked in the weapon in his black coat.
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Political killings: JSQM chief asks DIG why they haven’t arrested the killers yet
Four men were killed in Guddu, one in Larkana while a rally was ambushed in Jacobabad.
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Rapid transit finds ‘support’ from unlikely source
Private transporters welcome govt venture to ‘taste the transport business’.
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Onto the next one: Overcrowded, rickety buses for millions in Karachi
No new buses have been added to the public transport circuit since 2003.
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Thar’s dying peacocks: Wildlife dept can’t contain Ranikhet disease
Sindh Agricultural University doctors examine peacocks and prepare a report.
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Landhi to Saddar in 30 minutes, thanks to rapid transit
All set for work to begin on 22.4-km dedicated bus track for rapid transit system.
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WHO Karachi office closed but campaign to continue: Mission head
Campaign head, however, assures activities are not suspended even though offices remain shut since attacks last month.
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Target killing: Two Rangers gunned down in Karachi
The assailants managed to escape.
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Pipeline project: Water shortage at leather company to be overcome
Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan has released Rs38.4 million to the KWSB.
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Identity theft: Campaign against ‘ghost’ employees on the cards, says Memon
The information minister added that 12,064 employees were receiving double salaries.
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64 and counting: Farmers refuse to take the bait on their fourth hunger strike
Sehto began to campaign for farmers’ rights in 2004.
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Waheeda Shah case: Sindh, federal govts at odds over PPP candidate’s fate
‘The election committee is equal to an Election Tribunal and can disqualify Shah’.
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Salary delays: ‘Unpaid’ municipal workers baton charged, tear-gassed
Police stop protesters from marching towards Governor’s House.
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Frustrated beyond words: PAC expresses dismay over health dept’s performance
The committee decides to apprise President Zardari, Governor, CM of health department’s failure to come clean.
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Police shuffle: Range Crime Cell done away with ‘for the better’
Authorities dissolve special cell to strengthen investigative policing.
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Quaidabad seminary killing case: Malir court acquits FC men charged with killing student
Victim’s family reached a compromise with the accused.
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Electoral rolls: Number of voters drops in Sindh
Provincial commissioner hopes for fair elections.
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Nurses ‘poisoning’: Christians call for inquiry
Minority MPA lambasts incident.
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Local govt is here to stay: Soomro calls Nazim system ‘badboodar’
District councils to continue functioning under control of chairperson and councilors.
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Two Rangers intelligence officials gunned down
Inspector Bahar was part of the Rangers intelligence unit and was in Banaras for intelligence purposes.
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Waheeda Shah case: ECP argues that disqualification was legal
The ECP’s counsel was presenting his arguments in response to Shah’s lawyer۔
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Karachi should bypass the flyover to be truly modern
I was convinced that ‘chaos’ in the dead space underneath the flyover should be cleaned up, beautified.
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Demonstrations: Sacked cement employees hold protest
Employees sacked by the Thatta cement factory staged a rally to pressure authorities into accepting their demands.
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Milk prices: SHC puts commissioner on notice for August 7
The bench heard the arguments and ordered its office to issue a contempt of court notice.
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Return to the basics: Farmers encouraged to use water and inorganic fertiliser with care
Experts lament that most farmers opt for inorganic fertilisers, which has the potential to harm the soil۔
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As Sindh pays for benefits of workers in K-P and Balochistan, its own workers complain
The federal govt continues to retain control over Workers Welfare Fund۔
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Thar’s dying peacocks: Wildlife department denies reports of disease spreading, says ‘show us proof’
Peacock owners in district report deaths of their pets from the Newcastle Disease.
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Transgenders take to the streets against drones
The protestors were led by Sanam Fakir, who heads a welfare trust.
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Naegleria fowleri: ‘The health dept is using KWSB as a scapegoat’
KWSB MD said that sufficient quantities of chlorine were being mixed in the water at the filtration plants.
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Coffins on wheels?: ‘APCs were not substandard, they were not the right type’
Gangsters targeted vehicles’ vulnerable spots, says police official.
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26,000 'ghost employees' costing Sindh govt Rs6bn: Sharjeel Memon
Says computerisation of govt employees’ data would discourage this practice and enable identifying such employees.
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End extortion or we will expose those behind it: Altaf Hussain
Hussain says that everyone knows which influential organisation is involved in kidnappings of businessmen.
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Amid pedicures, cleansing for the soul in salon’s DIY prayer session
Christian women who miss Sunday Mass make up for it at work.
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Mafia turns beggar girls into ‘fake’ hostage in suspicious kidnapping case at DHA signal
Banker’s driver spends seven months in prison.
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Prisoner in withdrawal caught picking up drugs at Malir court
Police seized hashish from a prisoner who was heading back to jail after his hearing at the Malir court.
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Personal enmities: MQM, PPP activists among 11 killed
The Preedy police claim to have caught nine men, including alleged extortionists.
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Caught: Woman arrested for killing husband
Police have arrested a woman, Naheed, and her cousin, on charges of killing her husband Nizamuddin Mayo.
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On the offensive: ‘PPP’s electoral success is a slap on the faces of conspirators’
Sharjeel Inam Memon says people’s goodwill for Pakistan Peoples Party cannot not be countered by propaganda.
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Capacity utilisation: Primary school becomes home to tailors, vendors
The school also offered motorists parking spaces for Rs500.
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Sorting it out: Sindh allays Balochistan’s fears of water theft
Team formed to remove Balochistan government’s reservations over water theft by Sindh visited the Sukkur Barrage.
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Teachers determined despite losing support of 2,900 SU admin workers
Though the protest will continue, they are willing to resume teaching.
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Appeal for help: First Sindhi host on PTV in critical condition
Haidery’s condition is not stable as he has stopped eating and the medicines are not working.
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More than just a rescue needed under the bridge
In a bid to use ‘wasted’ space under the KPT flyover, the city has parked ambulances and fire trucks.
















































