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Irresponsible management: Deadly KBR nullah yet to be cleared
KARACHI: Residents of Buffer Zone, surrounding the KBR nullah, are waiting for the rain to wreak havoc in the area, just it did in 2013 when an ill-fated family drowned in the garbage-filled drain....
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Settlements: Sardari blood worth seven times more than common tribesman’s
SUKKUR: A jirga held in Ghotki on Sunday, to resolve a bloody dispute between Pitafi and Leghari tribesmen, imposed a fine of Rs7.91 million upon the Leghari tribesmen on charges of killing the nephew...
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Feeling helpless: Revenue minister ‘powerless’ in face of corrupt mafia
KARACHI: Sindh revenue minister Makhdoom Jameeluz Zaman is helpless. He has no power to take action against the corrupt mafia in his department, he admits. The minister was addressing a press...
View ArticleNeglected Nathiagali
PESHAWAR: Nathiagali is one of the few hill stations developed by the British colonial rulers. No substantial development has been done by the government of Pakistan in a majority of hill stations,...
View ArticleOld habits die hard
RAWALPINDI: The judicial commission’s report is not relevant to the ground realities. Rigging has occurred in elections in Punjab since the early 1950s, under the feudal democratic system, but it is...
View ArticleSurpassing foreign rulers
JOHI: With the PPP co-chairman holding meetings of his party, regarding the reshuffling in the Sindh cabinet, in Dubai, it seems as if Karachi has lost its status as the capital of Sindh. Our...
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The ballad of bad elections
Around 782 days of this government; 126 days of dharnas and DJs; 86 days of the inquiry. And 246 pages of the eventual judicial commission report. Even as the result became clear, closure was hard to...
View ArticleTowards local governance
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is now in the second phase of instituting local governments (LG), holding by-elections for special and general seats of local councils, with the process expected to be...
View ArticleEmbezzling money: NAB files corruption case against 4 LERP officials
KARACHI: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed a corruption case against four officials of Lyari Expressway Resettlement Project (Lerp) and Revenue Department. The suspects — Standard Chartered...
View ArticleCountering terrorism: Rangers detain two MQM suspects for 90 day
KARACHI: The Rangers informed an anti-terrorism court about the 90-day preventive detention of two suspects affiliated with Muttahida Qaumi Movement. The two suspects, Muhammad Ali and Waqar, were...
View ArticleTTP chief, others declared proclaimed offenders in SSU bus attack case
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) declared on Tuesday the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief, former spokesperson and other members proclaimed offenders for plotting and executing a bomb...
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Fraudster caught: Man who duped people into paying for fake jobs held by FIA
KARACHI: A man who hoodwinked people into paying him millions of rupees after promising them jobs has been caught by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). Zeeshan Habib’s arrest was declared by the...
View ArticleA camouflaged source of terror funding?
The government would do well to heed and that too urgently, the warning contained in the 50-page report prepared in December 2014, by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on the socioeconomic...
View ArticleBusted: Alleged gangster arrested at airport
KARACHI: An alleged member of a Lyari-based gang was reportedly apprehended in a raid at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi. Sources said that the gangster, identified as Hanif Hassan, was arrested...
View ArticleSent packing: Anti-corruption officers shuffled
KARACHI: After taking charge of his department, the new chairperson of the anti-corruption department, Mumtaz Ali Shah, transferred around two dozen officers appointed on political grounds and sent...
View ArticleDisease prevention : DUHS hosts seminar on Hepatitis
KARACHI: Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) held a public awareness seminar on Tuesday to mark World Hepatitis Day. Hepatitis has emerged as a major global health problem and needs urgent...
View ArticleDate extended : Postgrad exams delayed due to monsoon
JAMSHORO: University of Sindh annual examination controller Ghulam Murtaza Siyal said that the annual post graduate exams of MA, MSc, MCom 2014 have been postponed due to the monsoon rains in the...
View ArticleSlum situation: In lieu of whole settlement, CDA to accept 250 plots
ISLAMABAD: City managers are attempting to mitigate the fallout of an operation in the Afghan Basti in Sector I-11 by holding negotiations with its dwellers to vacate some of the land under adverse...
View ArticlePolice encounter in Orangi Town leaves five suspected militants dead
KARACHI: At least five suspected militants were killed in an alleged encounter in Orangi Town, Karachi late on Wednesday night. Separately, two gangsters were killed during an encounter in Lyari. The...
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Fake appointments: Sindh govt to register FIRs against ‘corrupt’ education...
KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to register FIRs against the education and treasury officers involved in the appointment of 4,000 fake teachers in Sindh. The cases would be registered against...
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