KESC steps on the load shedding pedal
KARACHI: Despite the advent of the winter season when it is expected that there would be a decline in power outages in the city, the Karachi Electric Supply Company has not only doubled the duration of unannounced load shedding, but also issued exaggerated bills to its consumers.
Various areas... 
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Massive blaze guts factory in Landhi
By Faraz Khan
KARACHI: An inferno burned down a used clothes recycling factory in the Landhi Export Processing Zone on Friday.
The fire, which broke out around 12:10 pm on Friday, was still burning strong even after continued efforts of more than nine hours and it destroyed the...
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Warrant against PTA chairman suspended
KARACHI: A division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Irfan Saadat Khan on Friday suspended an arrest warrant issued against the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority chairman till November 18.
The...
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Man held for killing employer
KARACHI: The police on Friday have arrested an accused, who had allegedly killed his employer two months ago, and recovered the decomposed body of the victim. The body was concealed in a drum in the victim’s own factory in old Dhobi Ghat, Usmanabad.
As per details, Khawaja Mohammad Naeem, 59,...
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Retired army captain gunned down
KARACHI: A retired captain of the Pakistan Army was killed by unidentified people on Friday night in Sharifabad police station limits.
As per details, Naseerullah, 42, was gunned down outside his relatives’ house in Block-A of Sharifabad.
DSP Raza Hussain Shah, after initial investigation,...
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Security agency’s licence cancelled
KARACHI: The Sindh Home Department has cancelled the licence of a private security agency, whose 38 employees were arrested last month on the suspicion of being militants. They were arrested by the Sharafi Goth police being involved in illegal activities and violating the Sindh Private Security Agencies...
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KBCA to hire contract demolition workers
KARACHI: The Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) has decided to hire people for the demolition of illegally constructed building structures on a contract basis, on the pretext of extra workload on the KBCA demolition squad team. KBCA Chief Controller Manzoor Qadir decided this during a meeting...
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Lyari uplift package focuses on health and education
By Irfan Aligi
KARACHI: The pace of uplift and improvement of Lyari Town under the Lyari Development Package (LDP) is being constantly witnessed, and efforts for the completion of ongoing development schemes within the precincts of Lyari Town Municipal Administration have been geared up.
In...
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Students of army schools donate for SWA IDPs
KARACHI: The students of the Army Public Schools and Colleges in Karachi and Malir Garrisons made a respectable delivery to aid the internally displaced persons (Mehsud tribesmen) in the South Waziristan Agency on Friday. Students contributed voluntarily, mainly out of their own pocket money, and donated...
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From the streets of Karachi to the hills of Helmand
* A militant narrates his tale of how a student who failed his exams twice joined the world of the Taliban
By Fawad Ali Shah
KARACHI: Hamza was 18 years old when he was enticed to visit Afghanistan for the “Jihad” against the “Crusaders”.
For the next three years he continuously...
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Stars and Stripes
A man enters his house in the city’s second biggest slum settlement, Machhar Colony. He is using a curtain that looks similar to the USA flag. Printed on the flag is also the phrase, ‘Sweet dreams’. The colony is the poorest settlement in the city without any proper sanitation system or basic facilities,...
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