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‘CCBs performance unsatisfactoryÂ’

SWABI, Feb 5: Majority of the 550 Citizens Community Boards (CCBs) in the district have failed to achieve their objective of developing community through executing welfare projects for people. “The CCBs are only involved in construction of roads and streets, and ignoring public welfare schemes,” sources told Dawn here on Monday. An official said the […]


Offal from residential areas removed, says nazim

KARACHI: City Nazim Mustafa Kamal has claimed that 99 per cent of the total number of offal and wastes of animals, sacrificed during the three days of Eidul Azha, have been removed from residential localities and buried scientifically at the dumping sites established at town level. Speaking at a press conference at his office on […]


Special arrangements for cleanliness on Eid

KARACHI :Almost all the towns of the city have made special arrangements to deal with the cleansing and sanitary conditions on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha and declared emergency for lifting offal of the animals. According to the details special arrangements have been made in Gulberg Town for lifting offal on the occasion. The nazim has […]


Hearing of Dadu taluka nazim bail plea on Jan 16

HYDERABAD: Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit bench here on Wednesday fixed hearing of bail application of Taluka Nazim Dadu Naban Khan Lund in the murder case of Gul Mohammad Jatoi, a jail police guard, for January 16 as state counsel sought time to study the case papers. The bail application was filed by Allah Bachayo […]


Nazim asks officials to finalise master plan: Garment City project

KARACHI: City Nazim Mustafa Kamal has directed the authorities concerned to finalise the master plan for the proposed Garment City project soon. Chairing a high-level meeting at his office, the nazim said that the project in question was one of the major projects of the city, which should be launched on priority basis to boost […]


EDO to supervise offal disposal

KARACHI: The disposal of offal will be taken care of by the CDGK, said City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal while visiting different areas of city to review the pace of work on under-construction roads and development projects on Sunday along with officials concerned and engineers. “The task of sanitation and removing and disposing of offal […]


Local govt infrastructure in quake zone being restored

ABBOTTABAD: The massive challenge of restoring local government capacity across the earthquake-zone is gathering momentum — thanks to a an international initiative. Hundreds of government buildings were severely damaged or destroyed when last year’s disaster tore through the NWFP and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, crippling administration infrastructure in an area already poorly resourced. The 18-month […]


BHC orders Nazims to launch cleanliness drive

QUETTA: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court here on Wednesday ordered the Nazims of City, Chiltan and Zarghoon Towns to start cleanliness drive in the city and submit report on March 12 next.The bench also recommended that the Balochistan government should take strict action against the use of polythene bags. It also recommended […]


10 booked for violating vani law

MIANWALI: As many as 10 people were booked for violating vani law at Jalalpur village, some 40 kilometres from here. Reports said Riazuddin, son of Malik Din, contracted court marriage with Shaheen Bibi, daughter of Abdur Rehman, of the same village a month back. The girls’s parents reported the matter to a customary Jirga of […]


Rallies held in Quetta against government

QUETTA: Two separate demonstrations were held outside the Quetta Press Club on Saturday to highlight two different issues. The first rally was organised by the Baloch Student Organisation while the other one was held by the Balochistan Jamaat-i-Islami’s women’s wing. Addressing the BSO supporters and other nationalists, BSO secretary-general Zakir Majid Baloch condemned the on-going […]


PML duo’s ploy against Toba naib nazim

TOBA TEK SINGH,: A ruling PML group of Chaudhry Amjad Ali Warraich, an MNA from Gojra, and former district nazim Chaudhry Ashfaq on Friday picked away 10 councillors of the union council No 81, Pirmahal, to make a display of numerical strength against UC nazim Chaudhry Sultan Ahmad on Dec 18.Chaudhry Sultan, who had also […]


City to host health moot

KARACHI – World Health Update 2007, the mega event on health issues is being held on January 26-28, 2007 in Expo Center Karachi in which over 9000 surgeons and experts would participate where all the three faculties including medical, dental and nursing would work together first time in the country. Patron Dr Muhammad Ali Shah […]


Taluka Naib Nazim faces legal action

KHAIRPUR: A Taluka Naib Nazim and 15 others have been booked in a case for illegally cutting trees. An employee of the irrigation department of the Thari Mirwah Taluka, Shah Nawaz Channo, had registered a complaint with the police that Naib Nazim Thari Mirwah Taluka Mehfooz Ahmed Kubber and others cut precious trees at both […]


Ex-nazim, nephew killed

NAROWAL:Unidentified people killed on Tuesday a former union council (UC) nazim and his 11-month-old nephew and injured his son and two cousins in Chanderke Mangolay village in the jurisdiction of Baddo Malhi Police Station. Former UC nazim Ehsanullah Mahar, along with his son, Arshad, cousins Nasir Ahmed and Fazl Rasool, and 11-month-old nephew Abdullah Shehar […]