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 As the issue of the controversial dues of the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) outstanding against the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) still remains unresolved, the city suffered another day of losses worth about Rs5 billion due to power outages.

While, the secretary water and power has called the chiefs of the Pepco and the KESC to amicably settle the dispute, Karachiites braved yet another day of hours-long power cuts
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The Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases has started providing a new non-invasive cardiac therapy to patients who have tried the conventional methods of treatment with little success.

Senior heart physicians and surgeons told newsmen at a press briefing on Thursday that the new technique – known as angiogenesis in medical parlance – was considered a potential method to treat ischemic myocardium. They claimed that no such facility
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Two people were killed and two others injured on Thursday when a fast-moving bus hit their motorcycles near Karsaz on Sharea Faisal, police and witnesses said.

The road remained choked up with traffic for over an hour as enraged people put the bus on fire following the accident at around 11am.

Witnesses said the UTS 12 route bus, travelling from Merewether Tower to Khokhrapar, went out of the control of the driver due to over-spe
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A Sindh Archaeology Department team visited the pre-historic site of Lakhian-Jo-Daro near here on Thursday and handed over to the DCO a letter from the director general of Pakistan Archaeology Department seeking his help in removal of encroachment from the 5,000-year-old ruins.

The team’s leader Deputy Director Mazhar Ali Mirani handed over the letter to the DCO and requested him to help remove encroachments from the site and provide
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The Chinese embassy here on Thursday donated a stage subtitler, a 16mm film projector and 477 Chinese film archives to Ethnology Museum of Lok Virsa, symbolising the evergreen and lasting friendship between Pakistan and China.

The equipment was presented by Chinese Ambassador Lou Zhaohui and Cultural Councillor of Chinese embassy Shan Baoxiang to the Lok Virsa executive director, Uxi Mufti. Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Shahid Rafi, was a
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 Former Pakistan Bar Council chairman Ali Ahmad Kurd said on Thursday lawyers were willing to give President Pervez Musharraf a `safe exit’.

“Gen Musharraf should sneak out of the country in the dark of night or 160 million people will be after him,” Mr Kurd said while addressing the Lahore Bar Association (LBA).

He said if Gen Musharraf’s `brainless’ advisers believed they could get a stay orde
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Opposition parties in Pakistan have strong leads in elections, a spokesman for a party close to President Pervez Musharraf has conceded.

The PML-Q party would be consigned to the opposition if early results were confirmed, said spokesman Tariq Azeem.

Supporters of opposition parties including Nawaz Sharif's PML-N and the PPP of the late Benazir Bhutto have been celebrating in the streets.

Mr Musharraf insis
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THERE appears to be some apprehension in Islamabad that the number of polling stations in Sindh for the Feb 18 elections is 550 less than the number for the 2002 exercise. Is this another attempt at pre-poll rigging or something else?

There is no doubt that in this age of the print and electronic media, rigging at the polling stations is an important element of our electoral process — no rocket science involved there. However, after m
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Benazir Bhutto’s last political treatise Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West was launched here on Tuesday with the main leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) missing from the event organised at a local hotel.

A lonely Sherry Rehman was the main speaker at the posthumous launch which was otherwise attended by a large number of local and foreign journalists, diplomats and members of the civil society.

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There appears to be an inclination for close cooperation between the PPP and PML-N as was evident from the fact that Nawaz Sharif took pains to visit Mr Asif Zardari at Naudero and now Mr Zardari has visited Mr Sharif in Lahore. It is not a secret that Mr Zardari was doing the rounds with Mr Sharif before Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan.

At that time, according to sources, Mr Zardari tried to convince Mr Sharif that a rapprochement with
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 Security forces have launched a massive search along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border for the missing, reportedly kidnapped, Pakistani Ambassador to Kabul Tariq Azizuddin.

“The search operation has started in Tirah Valley, but we are not sure if Mr Azizuddin has been abducted by the Taliban,” Interior Ministry spokesman Brig (retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema said on Tuesday.

When asked if the government would agree if
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 Leaders of the All Pakistan Democratic Movement (APDM) have said that a silent revolution has started in the country, adding that the APDM will launch a civil disobedience movement to oust the rulers.

They said Pakistan is governed by ‘a permanent martial law body’ in the shape of the National Security Council (NSC) and urged the chief of the army staff to dissociate himself from the council.

They were speaking
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