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Nadra reaches land mark of 60m CNICs

KARACHI – The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) is likely to issue the 60 millionth Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) this week. According to a NADRA official, this landmark achievement is a testimony to the authority’s commitment to the very cause of its formation CNIC. NADRA has so far received 59.97 million applications till […]


‘Blasts should not be excuse for rally ban’

LAHORE, Oct 22: The National Workers’ Party has demanded identification and accountability of the culprits responsible for the blasts during the Pakistan Peoples’ Party rally in Karachi instead of using the incident as an excuse to impose a ban on election rallies. The demand was voiced through a resolution adopted at the meeting of the […]


BB gives media the slip

KARACHI: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is not relying on government security and has her own strategy to protect her life. Sources close to her disclosed to Daily Times that she didn’t inform anyone where she was going before she left Bilawal House on Sunday. Neither journalists nor party officials were informed about her plan […]


CDGK to compile list of blast victims

The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is compiling a list of the PPP rally bomb blast victims of the October 18 scenario so that the disbursement of compensation to these people can be arranged as soon as possible. Informed sources told The News on Saturday that District Coordination Officer (DCO) Karachi, Javed Hanif has received […]


Trauma centre eludes city despite best efforts

Karachi:Within an hour of the Friday morning’s bomb blasts on Sharae Faisal, the cityÂ’s main hospitals reported that there were not enough beds and facilities to cope with the rising number of injured being brought in. Also, the speed with which patients were being handled left much to be desired. The lack of a proper […]


Syllabus of music course approved

HYDERABAD, Oct 10: The Music Chair of the Institute of Sindhology will initially offer four-month professional and general certificate courses which will lead to a diploma course in music. This was decided at a meeting of the chair held at the institute on Tuesday. The meeting approved the outline of curriculum prepared and presented by […]


Millions on billboards

Millions of rupees are being spent on billboard advertising in the city to welcome Ms Benazir Bhutto later this month. A survey carried out showed that at least twenty billboards of varying sizes have been erected on main streets in different parts of the city. Ms Bhutto is expected in the city on October 18 […]


Media, civil society better judges: Arbab

Karachi:Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, on Saturday said media and the civil society should themselves judge whether promulgation of national reconciliation ordinance was justified. He added, however “those who got their cases withdrawn through the ordinance should feel embarrassed.” The Sindh CM said “I have not read the ordinance and I don’t know […]


Sindh Adabi Board scheme for world class literature in cold storage

KARACHI: The Sindhi Adabi Board’s (SAB) schemes to translate world class literature in to three languages – English, Urdu and Sindhi — have failed to materialize and neither has it been able to get off the ground an FM Adabi Radio Channel nor bring 500,000 pages of Sindhi literature online as planned. The board has […]


Military estate, CDGK or cantt board: SHC wants to know who controls FTC flyover

*Advertising company claims to be stuck between paying two city agencies who both claim jurisdiction over the area and hence the revenue *All land from Cantt station to Jinnah hospital turning is military estate, says CDGK EDO Law KARACHI: All petitions in the FTC flyover case were clubbed together by a division bench of the […]


‘Heroinchees’ put CDGK in communication isolation

KARACHI (October 04 2007): Suspension of communication was witnessed when an organised gang of ‘heroinchees’ (drug addicts) twice stole telephone cable connecting the City District Government, Karachi (CDGK), with the rest of the world. “On two Saturdays (September 22 and 29), hundreds of feet of telephone cable was cut and stolen by an organised gang […]


Islamabad IGP, DC, SSP suspended on SC orders

ISLAMABAD: The government, on an order of the Supreme Court, on Monday suspended three top officials of the Islamabad administration in connection with weekend violence against lawyers, journalists and representatives of the civil society on Constitution Avenue in the capital. “As per the court direction, we have suspended Inspector-General of Islamabad Police (IGP) Syed Marwat […]


3 modern cinemas

KARACHI: Three modern cinema houses would be constructed in Karachi to provide quality entertainment to its citizens, City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal said while talking to the media at the Arts Council of Pakistan. He said that they would also try to revive the cinema houses that were closed or razed and that cultural activities […]


Media useful source of feedback: PM

ISLAMABAD PPI: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said the government welcomes criticism by the Media if the national interests are upheld and the code of conduct is fol­lowed in true spirit. Talking to a representative delegation of Sindh media in Islamabad Monday he said the government considers the views, news and analysis by the media […]