Nightmare onboard Allama Iqbal Express
Train driver’s fault or negligence of control room?
By Faraz Khan
KARACHI: Although Railways officials are blaming the driver of the Allama Iqbal Express for ignoring the red signal and causing the train’s collision with a goods train near Jumma Goth junction that killed... 
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Railway traffic suspended
KARACHI: The train tragedy near the Jumma Goth junction in Karachi suspended the train traffic to Karachi. Two trains coming from Punjab to Karachi, Tezgam and Tezrau, were stopped at the Hyderabad Railway Station. Some trains including Pakistan Express, Shalimar Express, Karakoram Express, Zikria...
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Political leaders come into action
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Karachi chapter leader Najmi Alam and Sindh chief minister’s advisers Rashid Rabbani and Waqar Mahdi visited the injured passengers at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Sindh Minister for Health Dr Sagheer Ahmed also visited the JPMC and supervised the treatment...
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Lawyers observe ‘black day’
Staff Report
KARACHI: The community of lawyers observed ‘Black Day’ on Tuesday with renewed vigour and commitment for an independent judiciary and boycotted the court proceedings across Sindh including the Sindh High Court.
Work remained suspended at SHC and only a few cases of...
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II Chundrigar Road
Section 144 goes in just hours
KARACHI: A notification ahead of Section 144 at II Chundrigar Road was withdrawn due to pressure from political parties. Due to security concerns, the Sindh Home Department on Monday had announced imposing Section 144 at II Chundrigar Road whereby vehicle...
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CID arrests four robbers
KARACHI: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Sindh police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested four alleged criminals, including their group leader, who are affiliated with a political party, and seized weapons from their possession.
CID Operations SSP Fayyaz Khan said that the ring...
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Security guard killed by colleague
Staff Report
KARACHI: A security guard of a residential apartment was shot dead by his colleague on Tuesday at Safoora Chowk in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
Quoting the colleague, Sikandar Hashim, the Shahrah-e-Faisal police said that Sikandar and Riaz Farooq were on duty in Rafi Bungalows...
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CBC executive officer, counsel put on notice
KARACHI: A division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) comprising acting Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi on Tuesday issued a show cause notice to counsel for Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) Karachi Ashraf Ali Butt and executive officer of the board on charges of wilful disrespect...
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Relief goods dispatched to tribal areas
Staff Report
KARACHI: Women’s welfare clubs, which are running under the aegis of Karachi Corps Headquarter and other welfare institutions, have donated medicines, ration, warm clothes and other basic goods for tribal areas’ displaced people who have been affected due to military operation.
The...
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Shanaakht Festival returns
KARACHI: The Shanaakht Festival 2009, which celebrates the lives of extraordinary individuals who struggled to create this nation, would be held from Nov 9 to 11 this year.
As per a release issued on Tuesday, the festival would feature never-before-seen photographs of dashing young men of Pakistan...
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A killer drain and a neglected colony’s plight
Text and photos by Amar Guriro
KARACHI: A major sewage drain, which passes through the middle of the city’s biggest slum settlement, Machhar Colony, has not only engulfed several children, but is also the cause of various deadly diseases among the residents of this ill-fated colony, thus...
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