Means Of Transportation: ‘Qingqi rickshaws to be restored’
KARACHI: Sindh Transportation Minister Mumtaz Jakhrani and Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman have reached a consensus to regularise and restore Qingqi and CNG rickshaws as per the...
View ArticleRoad Accidents: Govt to compensate for death, injuries
KARACHI: The Sindh law department has drafted a bill to compensate for death and other injuries in cases of road accidents. The bill will be moved in the Sindh Assembly to make the law in order to...
View ArticleMedical Programmes: BMU to hold admission tests
KARACHI: The admission tests for Baqai Medical University (BMU) MBBS, BDS and pharmacy programmes will be held at its Super Highway campus on Saturday. The vice-chancellor, Prof Zahida Baqai, said that...
View ArticleThe Next Step: Students can apply for HSC certificates
KARACHI: Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced that students who cleared their Higher School Certificate (HSC) annual and supplementary examinations of the year 2012 can apply for...
View ArticlePaying for their crimes: Former minister, two others convicted in land scam
KARACHI: An accountability court sentenced on Thursday an incumbent Sindh lawmaker and others to jail after convicting them of a land scam pertaining to the irrigation and drainage system around River...
View ArticleBaldia factory fire: Three years, as many reports and the trial goes on
KARACHI: There are 17 unmarked graves on the outskirts of Karachi. They have not been identified three years after the harrowing incident that claimed the lives of 259 workers in a garment factory in...
View ArticleCost of education: Increase in school fees forces parents onto the streets
KARACHI: A 25 per cent increase in tuition fee by The Generation School in North Nazimabad has forced parents to take to the streets and demand the administration take back its decision. “How can a...
View ArticleAssessing the impact: Experts believe Green Line just another gimmick of...
KARACHI: There have been as many as 20 transport-related projects that the Sindh government started with great fanfare, ran them for a while and then let them erode into obscurity, claimed Ronald...
View ArticleOn the mend: Rashid Godil discharged from hospital
KARACHI: MNA Rashid Godil, the injured leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was discharged from the hospital on Friday afternoon, almost three weeks after surviving an attack near his home....
View ArticleShisha at cattle market: Puff goes the smoke, poof goes the law
KARACHI: The Sindh government passes a whole lot of resolutions. Most of the time, it ends up making a mockery of its own resolutions. A case in point is the ban on shisha in the province. Every few...
View ArticlePrison predicament — out of the frying pan, into the fire
KARACHI: Rameez, an under trial prisoner, tries to sleep the entire night in a single position. When he moves, he is met by smelly breath or dirty feet. “We sleep the way dead fish is laid out, very...
View ArticleFollow the rules: CM visits PPP lawmaker in jail
KARACHI: A day after MPA Syed Ali Nawaz Shah was sentenced to five years in prison by an accountability court, Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah paid a surprise visit to Karachi Central Jail to meet...
View ArticleFor transparent elections: PTI demands Rangers deployment at polling stations
KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) submitted a resolution in Sindh Assembly secretariat demanding that local government elections be held under the supervision of Rangers in the province by...
View ArticleLyari Expressway: CM wants progress, not problems
KARACHI: The Sindh government constituted on Friday a committee under the supervision of the Karachi commissioner to complete the Lyari Expressway project by removing encroachments. Representatives of...
View ArticleChanging the game: New KWSB MD appointed
KARACHI: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) got a new managing director on Friday September 11, when Misbahuddin Fareed took charge after relieving Sajjad Hussain Abbasi of the duty. Abbasi...
View ArticleBoiler explosions
LAHORE: This refers to the recent, tragic news of a boiler explosion in Gujranwala, resulting in the death of eight workers. The news of boiler explosions is now a matter of routine as we frequently...
View ArticleOverdue construction
KARACHI: The people of Malir, Karachi, are facing problems due to the ongoing construction on the Malir 15 flyover. The expected time for project completion was announced to be December 2014. The end,...
View ArticleTowards starvation: ‘Seventy-one per cent households in Sindh facing food...
KARACHI: Over 71 per cent of the households in Sindh are facing food insecurity, said a Planning and Development official, Dr Nida Khan. “We have failed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals,”...
View ArticleThe ugly truth: Opening the secret of child sexual abuse in the aftermath of...
KARACHI: When a child sexual abuse case surfaced in Kasur, the media was abuzz with activity and termed the incident a ‘scandal’. However, as time went by, the matter was swept under the carpet and the...
View ArticlePrecautions: KMC issues health advisory for Congo virus
KARACHI: Due to a large number of animals making their way to the cattle markets in Karachi, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s (KMC) health department has issued a health advisory fearing the...
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