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Daily Archives: May 22, 2007

Council passes budget

THATTA, May 21: District Council Thatta passed its revised budget of Rs1,851.053 million for 2006-07, on Monday under the chairmanship of Naib Nazim, Iqbal Khan Chandio. Councillor Ms Hamida Qureshi presented the budget. Zila Nazim Syed Shafqat Shah Shirazi told the house that it was being presented to overcome the shortfall of Rs110 million in […]


Three blasphemy accused seek help from president, PM

JAMSHORO: Three men on Monday sought help from the president and the prime minister in saving them from injustice in a “fake” blasphemy case. They also urged the acting chief justice of the Supreme Court to take suo moto action in the case. Police arrested Sitar Masih on April 14 after public pressure developed, following […]


Man shoots at sister over matrimonial dispute

NAUSHAHROFEROZE, May 21: A man critically injured his sister over a matrimonial dispute in Haji Moledino Rajpar village near Mehrabpur on Monday. Sohrab Rajpur opened fire on his sister Shabbiran, wife of Roshan Rajpur, in her house. She sustained chest injuries and was taken to the Kandiaro taluka hospital where authorities say that her condition […]


Police rescue vani girl

MIANWALI, May 21: Mianwali police have rescued a 12-year-old girl who was to be married to a 35-year-old man as vani or match for crime. Eight years ago, Muhammad Ramzan of Chak No 20/DB married her cousin Waziran Bibi. After some time, the couple developed differences and Ramzan divorced Waziran. Later, he married Sarwar but […]


Senior Journalist Barkat Ali Gadhi attacked

LARKANA-May 18, 2007: Five men, armed with knives and batons, attacked and injured Senior Journalist, Barkat Ali Gadhi of the Daily ‘Nau Sijj.’ As a result, the journalist fainted after which the culprits fled. According to details, Gadhi was hospitalised, and on recovery, gave a statement identifying two of the culprits as Karim Bakhsh Jatoi […]


Information centre in Swabi

PESHAWAR, May 21: The NWFP Essential Institutional Reforms Operationalisation Programme (EIROP) is establishing the District Citizen Information Centres (DCICs) in each district of the province to improve governance and service delivery at the local level. The fifth DCIC of the province is being set up under the programme in the Swabi district for which a […]