Stocks lose 220 points on China equity rout
KARACHI: Stocks went into a tailspin on Monday in line with global markets as several negative developments shook equity investors...
The KSE-100 index took a plunge of 219
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PakistanGoodwill gesture: Pakistan frees 220 Indian fishermen
Pakistan on Sunday released 220 Indian fishermen held for trespassing into its territorial waters as a “goodwill gesture” to New Delhi, officials said...
“We released 220 Indian fishermen today as a goodwill gesture,” Deputy Superintendent of Karachi's Malir prison Hassan Sehto told AFP, adding that 219 others still remain in Pakistani custody...
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ArchivePakistan releases 220 Indian fishermen as goodwill gesture
KARACHI: As a goodwill gesture, the government released on Sunday 220 Indian fishermen who were arrested more than a year ago for crossing over into Pakistani waters...
The 220 fishermen were taken to the Cantonment Railway Station in seven vehicles where volunteers from the Edhi Foundation presented them with gifts while seeing them off as they boarded a Lahore-bound train...
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PakistanECP invokes Article 220 to seek help in delimitation
ISLAMABAD: In a rare exercise of its powers, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has invoked Article 220 of the Constitution to seek assistance of the federal and provincial authorities concerned in the delimitation of constituencies and revision of electoral rolls...
A senior ECP official told Dawn that traditional lethargy had forced the commission to invoke Article 220, which reads “it shall be the duty of all executive...
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WorldVisas issued to 220 Indian pilgrims to participate in Hindu temple celebrations in Sukkur
More than 220 Indian pilgrims are expected to visit Sukkur to attend religious celebrations, the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi announced on Wednesday...
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Archive220 centres for accelerated learning set up in Balochistan
QUETTA: The Balochistan Education Department, with the financial support of Unicef, has set up 220 centres under the Accelerated Learning Programme in different districts of the province...
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ArchiveFlour price set to rocket in Punjab amid high wheat price
LAHORE: With the federal government hinting, and the Punjab most probably following, at wheat release price of Rs1,950 per 40kg, the flour price is set to increase by a staggering 22...
73 per cent – from the current official price of Rs860 per 20 kilo to Rs1,100...
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ArchivePresident Alvi links price hike to global rise in fuel price, dollar’s rate
HYDERABAD: President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has said that price hike has become a global issue and prices of essential commodities increase with rise in prices of fuel and appreciation of dollar’s rate against rupee...
Steps were taken to lessen burden of taxation in budget, he said, adding that work on the Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway would begin soon...
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ArchiveLiving: The jogi artisans of Hyderabad
In Hyderabad, the Jogi, a Gujrati-speaking Hindu minority artisan community survives in miserable socio-economic conditions in a small, ghetto-like slum settlement near the central city area...
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ArchiveSectarian tension in Hyderabad localities subsides
HYDERABAD: Residents of Gujrati Para, Gulshan-i-Hamid and some other localities held a protest demonstration after Juma prayers against some statements made by the prayer leader of the Jama Masjid Rais, located in neighbouring Gulshan-i-Rais, a couple of days back...
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PakistanMurder, rape convict executed in Hyderabad
A man convicted of rape and murder was executed early Tuesday morning at the Hyderabad Central Prison...
This is the first execution to take place in Hyderabad since 2015, when two death-row prisoners convicted for the 1998 hijacking of a PIA Fokker were executed in Karachi and Hyderabad jails...
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ArchiveAnti-drugs rally held in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: A rally against drugs was taken out by a number of students of public and private schools and colleges along with scores of police officials on Thursday...
According to a Hyderabad police spokesperson, district police launched the anti-drug campaign from Nov 17 to 23 in collaboration with the Crime and Human Rights Cell set up at Hyderabad SSP office...
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ArchiveThree-day Sufi festival gets under way in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: A three-day festival titled ‘Sindh Sufi melo’ was inaugurated by by Sindh Senior Minister for Food and Parliamentary Affairs Nisar Ahmed Khuhro in Hyderabad Club on Sunday...
Senator Aajiz Dhamra, Auqaf Minister Ghulam Shah Jillani, PPP Hyderabad district president Saghir Qureshi and information secretary Ahsan Abro were among the prominent figures who were present...
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PakistanMQM-P activist Dr Naushad shot dead in Hyderabad
A sector in-charge of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Dr Naushad, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Hyderabad on Wednesday, DawnNews reported...
Residents of the area called police after spotting his body, which was subsequently shifted to Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad...
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ArchiveHyderabad GOC stresses importance of education, art
HYDERABAD: Education is an inevitably significant source of development whereas art plays a role in character-building of the youth of the country...
It was organised by the Institute of Art and Design (IAD), University of Sindh (SU), Jamshoro, in collaboration with Pakistan Army 18 Division, Hyderabad, on the institute’s premises...
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