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Collective marriage ceremony of 55 couples in Khairpur.
October 3, 2008... Khairpur, October 03 (PPI) : A big collective marriage ceremony of 55 poor couples was held at Khairpur Sugar Mills on Thursday. The ceremony was arranged by industrialist and chairman of Khairpur Sugar Mills Mubeen Ahmed Jumani. Addressing the...

Three villagers including a 10-year boy shot dead near Khairpur.
October 3, 2008... Khairpur, October 03 (PPI) : Three villagers were shot dead and seven injured near Piryaloi town of Khairpur district over old enmity on Thursday. The clashes between Ulra and Odha tribes again started in Ulra Jagir of Katchha area of Indus...

Efforts underway to unite PML factions: Ghous Ali Shah.
October 3, 2008... Khairpur, October 03 (PPI) : President Pakistan Muslim League (N) Sindh and former Chief Minister Syed Ghous Ali Shah has said that conflicts among all groups of PML will be resolved to unite them at one platform very shortly. Talking to news...

Two pilgrims die as car overturns at Indus highway.
October 3, 2008... Kotri, Sindh, October 03 (PPI) : Two persons died and two others injured as their car they were travelling in, overturned at Indus highway on Friday morning. The deceased were identified as Mansoor Mustafa and Shakir. The injured include Zubair...

Youth succumbs to bullet injuries.
October 3, 2008... Kotri, Sindh, October 03 (PPI) : A youth, who had been injured in a clash between Shoro and Samon clans over a land dispute, succumbed to the bullet injuries in a Karachi hospital on Thursday. Mitho Shoro received a bullet in his body some days...

US-India nuclear deal opens way for similar deal with Pakistan: PM Gilani.
October 3, 2008... Multan, October 03 (PPI) : Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said Indias nuclear trade agreement with the United States should open the way for a similar deal for Pakistan. The US Congress approved the deal late on Wednesday ending a...

Prime Minister Gilani condemns Charsadda suicide attack.
October 3, 2008... Multan, October 03 (PPI) : Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has strongly condemned the suicide attack on ANP leader Asfandyar Wali Khan in Charsadda. Talking to the media persons here at the local Circuit House on Thursday he said the...

Textile package soon: PM Gilani.
October 3, 2008... Multan, October 03 (PPI) : Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has assured that Textile package would soon be introduced to take the industry out of crisis. He assured that proposal of relief in utility bills would considered. Exchanging...

All PML factions will soon get united: Ghous Ali Shah.
October 3, 2008... KOTDIJI, Sindh October 03 (PPI): All the PML factions will soon get united at one platform and we are still committed to our stand of judges restoration in pre-Nov 3 shape. This was stated by former Chief Minister and PML-N Sindh President Syed...

Man commits suicide over unemployment.
October 3, 2008... Johi, Sindh, October 03 (PPI) : A man committed suicide over an unemployment by taking a poisonous substance in Raju Gandho village near Johi.A 30-year-old man, Ishaq Birhamani, had dejected over lingering unemployed and poverty. He took a...

Bandits injure two constables, take away weapons.
October 3, 2008... Khairpur, October 03 (PPI) : Two police constables were injured and robbed weapons by armed bandits riding a motorcycle near Ahmed Pur on Friday. According to detail two constables of Ahmed Pur Police station Muharram Ali Bhambhro and...

Growers concerned at water shortage.
October 3, 2008... Matli, October 03 (PPI) : Growers of district Badin and its adjoining areas have expressed deep concern over water shortage, black-marketing of fertilizer and surging pesticide prices. Talking to PPI on Friday, they complained that there is an...

21 injured in different Mirpurkhas incidents.
October 3, 2008... Mirpurkhas, October 03 (PPI) : Twenty-one people including four children were critically injured in different incidents in Mirpurkhas on the eve of Eid. Seventeen people including Hashim, Qadir Baksh, Ali, Abid, Jamshed, Guddu, Kashif, Majeed,...

Prime Minister announces to develop Labour colony, build trauma and burn center in Multan.
October 3, 2008... Multan, October 03 (PPI) : Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has announced to develop a labour colony of 1000 plots to provide shelter to industrial workers while four colonies for low-paid people would be developed in Multan by the...

Sports: Squash: Aamir upsets Pilley to enter Wolverhampton quarters.
October 3, 2008... Karachi, October 3 (PPI): Unseeded Aamir Atlas Khan caused the biggest upset in the opening round of the Wolverhampton Open when he despatched Cameron Pilley, the third seed from Australia, to reach the quarter-finals of the $30,000 PSA Tour...

Five persons die, 11 injured in bus-mini truck collision near Gharo town.
October 3, 2008... Thatta, Sindh, October 03 (PPI) : Five people were killed and eleven injured in a head on collision between a bus and a Mazda mini truck at national highway near Gharo town on Thursday. The Badin-bound passenger bus was coming from Karachi when...

Health: Talking cure for mental problems.
October 3, 2008... Karachi, October 03 (PPI) : Intensive psychoanalytic therapy, the talking cure rooted in the ideas of Freud, has all but disappeared in the age of drug treatments and managed care. But now researchers are reporting that the therapy can be...

One dies, four injured as the van overturns.
October 3, 2008... Thatta, Sindh, October 03 (PPI) : One Muhammad Usman died and four others sustained injuries when Suzuki van, they were travelling in, overturned at Ongar village near Thatta on Friday. The injured include Ahmed Ali, Zakarya, Nawaz and Bashir,...

Akhund031004 repeating with addition Six of a family die in pickup-trailer collision at Indus highway.
October 3, 2008... Jamshoro, Sindh, October 03 (PPI) : Six members of a family hailing from North Karachi died and ten others injured in head on collision between Suzuki pickup and a trailer near Manjhand town at Indus highway. The family was on pilgrimage to...

Naudero people celebrate Eid in a simple way being first after martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto.
October 3, 2008... Naudero, Sindh, October 03 (PPI) : The people of Larkana district, especially of Naudero, celebrated Eidul Fitr in a very simple way, as it was the first Eid after the martyrdom of their great leader and PPP chairperson Ms. Benazir Bhutto....

Sweet dishes distributed among street children on Eid day.
October 3, 2008... Karachi, October 03 (PPI) : The office bearers of Sahar Foundation accompanied by the students of public and private educational institutions distributed sweet dishes and toffees among the street children at Sohrab Goth, Baloch colony, Neelam...

Four-year baby drowns in canal.
October 3, 2008... Thatta, Sindh, October 03 (PPI) : A 4-year baby Saima daughter of social worker Bilawal Samo drowned in a local canal known as Barrage Mori, eight kilometers from here on Friday. The baby was playing at the bank of canal when she slipped into...

NAs (Free Army medical camp on Oct 15).
October 3, 2008... SKARDO, October 03 (PPI) A two-day free army medical camp would be started in ABADAN village of Ghangche district of Siachen areas from October 15, under the auspices of Siachen Brigade with the cooperation of 32-field Ambulance Unit Siksa....

(War on terror to continue till logical conclusion; Malik).
October 3, 2008... ISLAMABAD, October 03 (PPI) Advisor on Interior Rehman Malik has emphatically stated that war on terror would continue till it reaches its logical conclusion. In an interview, he said the Government has decided not to halt the operation till...

(Terrorists will not be allowed to take over control of the soil; Asfand).
October 3, 2008... CHARSADA, October 03 (PPI) ANP Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has said they will not allow terrorists and extremists to take over control of this soil. Talking to newsmen after a suicide bomber blew himself up in inside the ANPs chief Hujra,...

(Security situation; UN advises children, spouses of intl staff to relocate).
October 3, 2008... ISLAMABAD, October 03 (PPI) Following a number of security incidents in the recent past, including the bombing of the Marriot Hotel, have drawn attention to the prevailing security situation in the country and the potential security risks to...

PM (Political forces to be taken on board to formulate strategy to address security challenges; Gilani).
October 3, 2008... ISLAMABAD, October 03 (PPI) Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that political forces within and outside the parliament would be taken on board to formulate a comprehensive strategy to address the security challenges confronting the...

President- (President Zardari offers Eid prayer at Aiwan-e-Sadr).
October 3, 2008... ISLAMABAD, October 03 (PPI) President Asif Ali Zardari offered Eid prayer at the Mosque of Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad on Wednesday. This is his first Eid as a new democratically elected head of the state. The President was joined in the prayers...

PM (Gilani offers Eid prayer at PM House).
October 3, 2008... ISLAMABAD, October 03 (PPI) Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza offered his Eid-ul-Fitr prayer at the Prime Minister House in Islamabad along with some of the cabinet ministers and diplomats of Islamic countries. Special prayers were offered for...

(Govt allows import of 2.5m tones wheat to supplement existing stock position).
October 3, 2008... Islamabad, September 30 (PPI) The Economy Monitoring Committee (EMC) met under the chair of Syed Naveed Qamar Federal Minister for Finance, Privatisation and Investment here Tuesday. Earlier MINFAL gave a presentation to EMC on wheat stock and...

(Govt, ADB sign loan agreement of $500m to accelerate economic transformation).
October 3, 2008... Islamabad, September 30 (PPI) The Government of Pakistan and Asian Development Bank (ADB) Tuesday signed a loan agreement of $500 million to accelerate economic transformation plan of the country. The agreement was signed on behalf of...

Diplomatic (Japan joins hands with UNHCR to assist internal displaced).
October 3, 2008... ISLAMABAD, September 30 (PPI) The government of Japan has decided to make a contribution of US$ 4,066,878 as a grant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for the execution of its project Emergency Assistance to Internal...

DIST- Local jeweller gunned down for not paying jagga tax.
October 3, 2008... SIALKOT, September 30 (PPI) A local jeweller Muhammad Irfan was gunned down at his house by as many as five notorious proclaimed offenders for not paying them the demanded Rs.1 million as Jagga Tax, in village Glotiyaan Khurd-Daska, here, late...

DIST- 90 prisoners released.
October 3, 2008... SIALKOT, September 30 (PPI) The Sialkot District & Session Judge Syed Hamid Shah has released as many as 90 prisoners involved in minor cases during his visit to Sialkot district jail, here, Tuesday. DSJ visited the Sialkot jail amid tight...

(Awareness drive on SMEs Cluster Development launched).
October 3, 2008... SIALKOT, September 30 (PPI) United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) have jointly launched a multi-phased awareness raising...

Diplomatic (US to work with Pakistan for stability, security, development: Envoy).
October 3, 2008... Lahore, September 30 (PPI)U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson addressed senior bureaucrats at the National Management College here Tuesday and emphasized that the United States will assist Pakistans new democratic government in the...

(Security plan chalk out for Chakwal).
October 3, 2008... CHAKWAL, September 30 (PPI) Special security plan was chalked out for the Eid-ul-Fitar, Police Commandos, Elite Force and Police Panther Motorcycle squad has been mobilized to coop up the situation and plan cloths Police officials was deployed...

(Fraudsters arrested for providing fake cheque).
October 3, 2008... CHAKWAL, September 30 (PPI) A fraudsters was booked by Choa Saiden Shah Police for providing a fake and bogus cheque to a person. Abdul Qayyum resident of village Lari Pathan told the Police that the accused Munawar Hussain son of Raja Gulab...

PM (Vice foreign minister of China calls on PM).
October 3, 2008... ISLAMABAD, September 30 (PPI) Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday said Pakistan enjoys excellent, time-tested, all-weather, multi-dimensional relations with China and both the countries have complete trust, mutual understanding and...

(Shawwal moon not sighted in Islamabad).
October 3, 2008... ISLAMABAD, September 30 (PPI) Shawwal moon has not been sighted in Islamabad. The regional Ruet-e-Hilal committee that met here Tuesday received no evidences of moon sighting in Islamabad and its surroundings. Reports from Peshawar and Lahore...

PM (PM chairs meeting on shipbuilding industry).
October 3, 2008... Islamabad ,September 30 (PPI) Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani while expressing governments resolve for the development of shipbuilding industry in Pakistan said that the setting up two shipyards at Karachi and Gwadar would go a long way...

Oil(OGDC BOARD INVITES EOI FOR APPOINTMENT OF FINANCIAL ADVISOR FOR BUY-BACK OF SHARES).
October 3, 2008... Islamabad , September 30 (PPI) The Oil & Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) Board has authorized to invite Expression of Interest (EOI) for appointment of Financial Advisor and Arranger from Commercial/ Investment Banks/ Brokerage Houses...

PG: Availability of skilled birth attendants at rural health.
October 3, 2008... centers being ensured: Minister $$$30092008 AS LHR-01 National LAHORE, Sept 30-(PI): Minister Population Welfare Punjab Neelam Jabbar Ch. has said that availability of skilled birth attendants at all levels of rural and urban healthcare welfare...

COM: Pervaiz Malik elected new President LABARD.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : The Governing Body of the Lahore Businessmen Association for Rehabilitation of Disabled (LABARD) Tuesday unanimously elected former MNA Mohammad Pervaiz Malik as its President. The Governing Body also elected...

Wapda: Chief Engineer LESCO hands over pension documents to retiring employees.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Chief Executive LESCO, Muhammad Akram Arian handed over complete pension documents to its employees and presented gifts to those who retired recently from service after attaining the superannuation age. Briefly...

COM: Improvement in Pak-India relations to help strengthen economies of both countries: Chairman LCCI.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : The Chairman LCCI Standing Committee for Pak-India Business Promotion Aftab Ahmad Vohra has expressed the optimism that the improvement in relations between Pakistan and India would help strengthen the economies of...

Sport: Pakistan Premier Soccer League 2008: Pakistan Navy announce squad.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Pakistan Navy have announced squad for the Phase-II of Pakistan Premier Soccer League 2008 which will resume on 8 October 2008. The marathon 182-match event, whose 80 matches are already been completed, will decide...

Sport: EID Message from Pakistan Football Federation: Faisal urges nation not to forget weaker segments of society.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Pakistan Football Federation (PFF)s President Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat has greeted the nation on the auspicious occasion of Eid ul Fitr saying it is a special benevolence of Allah Almighty that he has...

PG: Minister Auqaf Punjab distributes Eid Package among employees.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Punjab Minister for Auqaf and Religious Affairs Haji Ehsan Uddin Qureshi distributed Eid Package among employees, announced by Chief Minister. He gave away cash awards to the officials of scale 1 to 9 of WASA and...

Sport: Condolence on death of mother of Nazir Junior.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : PVCAs CEO Ashiq Qureshi, Olympian Khawaja Aslam, K.M. Bilal, K.M. Owais, Khawaja Shahid Majeed, PRSBs Vice President Saeed Iqbal Khan, Sports Officer Rashad Mahmood But, PRO Manzoor Ali Arif, former PCB Curator...

POL: Let us pledge to make Pakistan strong : PPP leaders Eid message.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Peoples Labor Federation Pakistans central president Abdul Qadir Shaheen and secretary information Muhammad Salim Mughal in their Eid message to labourers have said that we all should renew pledge to make Pakistan...

Qureshi condoles with families of Muzaffargarh bus mishap victims.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Foreign Minister of Pakistan Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, expressing grief and sorrow over last night bus-oil tanker horrible accident near Muzaffargarh, which claimed more than 40 lives of passengers and many...

Distt (Sialkot): POs kill jeweller on refusal to pay Jagga Tax.
October 3, 2008... SIALKOT , September 30 (PPI) : A local jeweller Muhammad Irfan was gunned down at his house by as many as five notorious proclaimed offenders (POs) for not paying them the demanded Rs.1 million as Jagga Tax, in village Glotiyaan Khurd-Daska,...

Distt (Sialkot): 90 prisoners released from Sialkot jail.
October 3, 2008... SIALKOT , September 30 (PPI) : The District & Session Judge Syed Hamid Shah has released as many as 90 prisoners involved in minor cases during his visit to district jail, here, Tuesday. DSJ visited the Sialkot jail amid tight security and he...

PG: Principal Govt Higher Secondary School Khudian dismissed.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Secretary School Education Punjab, Nadeem Ashraf has dismissed Riaz Ahmad, Principal Government Higher Secondary School, Khudian Khas, district Kasur from service on the charge of misconduct. According to the...

POL: Qazi urges greater unity, harmony on Eid.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad has congratulated the nation on Eid. In his Eid message, Qazi said the nation is celebrating Eid at a time when its liberty and sovereignty is at stake. The whole country is...

Sister in law of Qazi Hussain Ahmed passes away.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Mrs Maulana Mohammad Abdul Quddus, sister-in-law of Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad, breathed her last at Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar on Monday. Qazi Hussain Ahmad rushed to her funeral and she was...

POL: Punjab people getting relief due to CM policies: Saima Shehzadi.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : PML-N Lahore (Women Wing) Leader Saima Shahzadi Khan has said that like Mian Shahbaz Sharif other chief ministers should also provide relief to the people. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, she said, that...

U.S. to work with Pakistan for Stability, Security, Development: Ambassador Patterson - U.S. Envoy Addresses Senior Bureaucrats at the National Management College.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson addressed senior bureaucrats at the National Management College here today and emphasized that the United States will assist Pakistans new democratic government in the...

POL: Include poor in Eid festivities: Pervez Malik.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Central Finance Secretary Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and former MNA Muhammad Pervez Malik has called upon well to do people to share Eid festivities with destitute and havenots by helping them. In a statement...

Distt (Sialkot): Foolproof security arrangements on Eid-ul-Fitr.
October 3, 2008... SIALKOT , September 30 (PPI) : The Sialkot district police have successfully started implementation on a foolproof Eid Security Plan to ensure peace and maintain law and order situation in Sialkot district on the eve of Eidul Fitr, in active...

Distt (Sialkot): UNIDO, SCCI & TDAP launch multi-phased awareness raising program jointly.
October 3, 2008... SIALKOT , September 30 (PPI) : United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) have jointly launched a multi-phased awareness raising...

Distt (Sialkot): Chinese, Japanese companies, Overseas Pakistanis show interest to invest in SIA project.
October 3, 2008... SIALKOT , September 30 (PPI) : After the recent investment by Italian investors in project of Sialkot International Airport (SIA), the several Chinese and Japanese companies and a big number of the Overseas Pakistanis have shown keen interest...

CMs message on Eid-ul-Fitr.
October 3, 2008... LAHORE , September 30 (PPI) : Punjab Chief Minister, Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has felicitated the nation on the auspicious occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr and said that we should bow before Allah Almighty for having blessed us with the sacred month...

How to curb aerial firing root causes need to be eliminated first.
October 3, 2008... Peshawar , September 30 (PPI) Every year the government and semi-government agencies in Pakistan launch a crusade against the bad and dangerous menace of aerial firing persuading the general people not to fire shots in the air during the...

Hindko naatia mushaira held in Peshawar.
October 3, 2008... Peshawar , September 30 (PPI) Gandhara Hindko Board, a literary, cultural and social welfare organization working for the preservation and promotion of Hindko language and culture, organized a naatia mushaira (poetry recital session) here on...

AWO held a walk against aerial firing on Eidul Fitr.
October 3, 2008... Peshawar , September 30 (PPI) Ahsas welfare Organisation (AWO) held a walk against aerial firing on Eidul Fitr, District Nazim, and Haji Ghulam Ali, SP cantt Abdul Qadir, ASP Qaiser Khan and SHO Saleem Aman participated in it. The walk...

10th polio case in Peshawar confirmed positive.
October 3, 2008... Peshawar , September 30 (PPI) The out break of polio virus in the capital city has been continued as another case of polio has been confirmed in Peshawar on Tuesday when a 14 months old Abdul wahab of Regi Lalma was declared polio positive. The...

NWFP govt committees provide education to women,CM.
October 3, 2008... Peshawar , September 30 (PPI) NWFP chief minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that the provincial government was committed to provide education to women in every nock and corner of the province, adding every possible facility would be...

Govt evolves comprehensive policy for giving relief ,CM.
October 3, 2008... Peshawar , September 30 (PPI) NWFP chief minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that his government has evolved a comprehensive policy for giving relief to the downtrodden segment of the society. The chief minister also appealed to the well...

Eid Day message from NWFP Chief Minister.
October 3, 2008... Peshawar , September 30 (PPI) NWFP chief minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has appealed to the people of the province to strike unity among their ranks to foil the designs of the enemies of the nation and overcome the problems and challenges. In...

Electricity supply from Iran disrupted.
October 3, 2008... QUETTA , September 30 (PPI) : Major parts of Mekran went without electricity due to suspension of supply from Iran Tuesday. According to details, supply of electricity to major parts of Mekran area suspended as 132 kv transmission line...

4 security men killed in land mine explosion.
October 3, 2008... DERA MURAD JAMALI , September 30 (PPI) : Four security forces personnel were killed and 5 others sustained serious injuries. According to sources a security forces vehicle going for operation struck with a land mine near Sui. Four security...

QESCO makes foolproof arrangements for supply of electricity.
October 3, 2008... QUETTA , September 30 (PPI) : Quetta Electric Supply Company has made elaborate arrangements for round the clock supply of electricity during eid holidays. QESCO Spokesman said here Tuesday that phone No 118 has been declared as Central...

8 injured in hand grenade attack, firing.
October 3, 2008... DERA MURAD JAMALI , September 30 (PPI) : Eight persons including 2 minor children were injured five serious when armed men attacked their house with hand grenade and opened fire near Dera Allah Yar. According to detials, armed men forced their...

Yar Muhammad Rind speaks.
October 3, 2008... NASIRABAD , September 30 (PPI) : Opposition leader in Balochistan Assembly and Chief of Rind tribe Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind while expressing grace concern over state operation in tribal areas of Balochistan has expressed his surprise that civil...

KU declares MA (Final) results.
October 3, 2008... Karachi, September 30 (PPI) : The University of Karachi Tuesday announced the results of MA (Final) external annual examination 2007. According to statistics of results, a total of 85 candidates appeared in the examination in English out of...

KESC clears dues of over Rs3 billion.
October 3, 2008... Karachi, September 30 (PPI) : Within the first 10 days of takeover, the new management of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has paid Rs1billion to WAPDA and over Rs2 billion to SSGC, says a release here on Wednesday. This is a positive...

400 LHVs not paid salaries.
October 3, 2008... Matli, Sindh, September 30 (PPI) : Around 400 lady health visitors of taluka Matli have expressed deep concern over the non-release of their salaries for last three months by the health department Badin. Talking to the journalists here on...

Asian Development provide $500 million loan to stabilize Pakistan economy.
October 3, 2008... Islamabad, September 30 (PPI) : Asian Development Bank will provide Pakistan $500 million loan to stabilize its economy and enhance living standard of poor families affected by unprecedented international food and fuel price hike. An agreement...

Kaniz Fatima Memorial Cricket Tourney concludes.
October 3, 2008... KARACHI, September 30 (PPI) : The final of 4th Kaniz Fatima Memorial Ramazan Cricket Tournament concluded Tuesday at Defence Authority Cricket Ground in DHA Phase-VI. It was played between Kim Fashion and Aqeel Combined. Kim Fashion won after a...

Khuhro asks PPP workers to celebrate Eid with simplicity.
October 3, 2008... Karachi, September 30 (PPI) : Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has appealed to PPP office-bearers and activists to celebrate Eid with simplicity as this is the first Eid after the assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. He asked...

Two gunned down near Sultankot.
October 3, 2008... SHIKARPUR, September 30 (PPI) : Two villagers Lal Bux, son of Meer Muhammad Sundrani, and Ali Muhammad, son of Muhammad Moosa Sundrani, were killed in an armed clash between two rival groups of Sundrani tribe in village Seo Sundrani in the...

Khatoon-e-Pakistan Education & Welfare Board express satisfaction on withdrawal of Sindh Government notification to transfer school, college to NGO.
October 3, 2008... Karachi, September 30 (PPI) : Khatoon-e-Pakistan Education & Welfare Board registered owner/ lessee of land on which Khatoon-e-Pakistan Girls School and College are constructed in Karachi, through its Chairman Liaquat Merchant expressed...