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M.Waqar Bhatti
Karachi
The Rangers and the city administration warned criminal elements to bring an end to the bloodshed in Lyari or be prepared to face stern and indiscriminate action, while the Katchi community cried for help and demanded an army operation ...
 
 
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our correspondent
Karachi
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussian said on Friday that public complaints compelled him to take the “very difficult decision” of dissolving the Coordination Committee of the party.
Growing public complaints forced the ...
 
 
Salis bin Perwaiz
Karachi
A five-year-old girl and a six-year-old boy suffered injuries when unidentified men lobbed a small bomb into the Baitul Firdous School in Sector 8 of Orangi Town on Friday morning.
Peerabad’s Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
Two suspected militants were killed in a police encounter in Pakhtunabad as they were escaping after shooting a man dead, police said on Friday.
After the killing of the suspected terrorists, the bomb disposal squad was called in as ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
The Anti-Violent Crime Cell and the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee freed a civil contractor from the captivity of his kidnappers in Model colony on Friday.
CPLC chief Ahmed Chinoy said Ghulam Abbas was abducted on May 21 in the ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
Two men leaving for their hometown in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were gunned down in City Railway Colony as seven more people became the victims of gun attacks across Karachi on Friday.
In Mithadar, Moosa Gul, a hotel boy, and Taj Muneer, a ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
The Sindh governor has summoned the maiden session of the 14th House of the provincial Assembly on May 29 at 10am.
A spokesman for the Governor’s House confirmed that the provincial governor had signed the summary for convening the ...
 
 
Shahid Hussain
Karachi
The Pakistan government on Friday released 45 Indian fishermen, including three minor children and three disabled persons.
Ansar Burney and activists of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) received the freed fishermen, who later left ...
 
 
Azeem Samar
Karachi
The caretaker Sindh government has recommended devolving collection of taxes on urban immovable property to the level of union councils.
The suggestion came in a new concept paper prepared by the interim government on the ...
 
 
Anil Datta
Karachi
The two-day All-Pakistan Music Conference (APMC) got off to a fine start on the lawns of the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) Friday evening. The conference showcased the profuse musical talent all over the country, which has ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
The National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) is to stage a play about the present-day sleaze that has infected to global cricketing scenario.
The play, titled, “Match fixing in Qabrastan” by Imran Yousuf, was adjudged the best play ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board says that if the Karachi Municipal Corporation and other civic organisations pay their dues, it will help the water utility overcome its financial crisis.
KWSB officials claim that the KMC alone ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
The Pakistan People’s Party has slammed the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for not accepting its mandate in Sindh.
Former Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, during a press conference on Friday, criticised the PML-N for supporting ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
Eleven more dengue viral fever cases were detected in Karachi in the last four days, said Dengue Surveillance Cell on Friday.
According to a focal person for Sindh Dengue Surveillance Cell, a total of 141 dengue cases have been ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
An activist of a political party was arrested for his alleged involvement in target killings, shootouts with police and other crimes by the CID on Friday.
Korangi Industrial Area police said they also found a hand grenade and a TT ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
Five illegally constructed shops and a restaurant were demolished near the Ziauddin Hospital on Friday.
“These illegal constructions were built over a nullah and hindering the flow of sewage,” said Deputy Commissioner Central Dr Syed ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
The inauguration ceremony of Institute of Business Administration’s Abdul Razzak Tabba Academic Building was held at its premises on Friday.
The academic building has been constructed in collaboration with the Lucky Cement Limited ...
 
 

Karachi
Caretaker Minister for Women Development Anis Haroon said on Thursday the women along with the men would have to play an effective role towards the betterment of society and economic development of the country.
She was speaking as ...
 
 
Zaib Azkaar Hussain
Karachi
The prosecution concluded its final arguments in Shahzeb Khan murder case before the Anti-Terrorism Court-III on Friday, submitting that sufficient evidence has been produced to establish the guilt of the accused in this ...
 
 
Jamal Khurshid
Karachi
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday disposed of a petition accusing PPP leader Agha Siraj Durrani of rigging the election in provincial assembly constituency PS-9 Shikarpur, and directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to address ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
KMC Administrator, Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi, on Friday said that awareness campaigns, seminars, lectures and talk shows for the protection of citizens from the deadly Naegleria fowleri — a killer disease — should be held and pamphlets in ...
 
 
our correspondent
Karachi
The first Didi Nirmala Deshpande South Asian Peace and Justice Award for 2013 has been conferred on Sunila Abeysekera, leading women and human rights’ defender in Sri Lanka and South Asia, and a major player in the global women’s ...
 
 

Karachi
The chief of Sindh Boards Committee of Chairmen, President Anwaar Ahmed Zai, on Friday said that a total of 518 candidates had been caught cheating in the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) examinations across the five boards and ...
 
 
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi
In Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, matriculation and intermediate exams are held in March when the temperature is – at the most – moderate.
Unlike Sindh where tens of thousands of students take their papers in the sweltering summer ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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