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KARACHI - On the intervention of Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan and Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has "reverted to its previous level of load shedding rather than the newly announced duration of up to 14 hours".
According to an official announcement on Saturday, the governor and the chief minister took strict notice of the new load shedding duration and summoned the high officials of the KESC and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) and

GAZA CITY - An Israeli tank round killed a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday, bringing to 12 the overall toll from the deadliest 24 hours of violence since a devastating war more than two years ago.
A truce declared by Palestinian armed groups in the enclave unravelled even before it could take hold as militants fired dozens of mortar rounds and rockets into southern Israel and the military retaliated.
Hamas put security forces and emergency services in Gaza on

GAZA CITY - An Israeli tank round killed a Palestinian in Gaza early Saturday bringing to 12 the overall toll from the deadliest 24 hours of violence since a devastating war ended more than two years ago.
A truce declared by Palestinian armed groups unravelled even before it could take hold as militants fired dozens of mortar rounds and rockets into southern Israel and the military retaliated against Gaza.
The escalating tit-for-tat violence came despite calls for an end to

LAHORE - Unscheduled load shedding made a striking comeback on Thursday, as the city faced 12 hours of outages while rural areas witnessed blackouts of 16 hours, Pakistan Today has learnt. The power shortfall crossed 3,500MW irking citizens. Almost all city areas faced one hour closure after every one hour making routine life miserable.
In many areas, electricity was closed under the garb of technical repairs and was restored in the afternoon. Citizens said that sudden closures

PARIS - The crisis in Ivory Coast could be resolved in a matter of hours, French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet said on Tuesday.
"We are in a situation where everything could be resolved in the next few hours," Longuet told a news conference, after meeting with his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere.

LAHORE - The summer has not set in but once again PEPCO has failed to provide relief to the consumers and on Monday announced 6 to 12 hours of power cuts in urban and rural areas of the country.
Giving excuse of closure of gas by the SNGPL to PEPCO's five power plants, DG PEPCO Muhammad Khaild made the announcement. Talking to Pakistan Today, he said 5 power plants including Rocsh, Fauji Kabeerwala, Saif, Saphire and Orient have to be shut down, as Sui Northern Gas Pipelines

KARACHI - At least five more people including a trader's son were killed in separate violent incidents in various areas of the metropolis during the last 24 hours, police said.
The latest incident in the series took place in Liyari area of Miranaka, where a man was shot down.
According to details, some armed men opened fire at a car near SP Office in Liaquatabad area, killing 18-year Faraz Hasan Rizvi and injuring his father Mumtaz Hasan, a trader.
The deceased and the

LAHORE - The Punjab government has given a 24-hour ultimatum to young doctors to call off their strike or face action under the Compulsory Service Act, a cabinet meeting decided late on Friday.
Terming the services of doctors attached to the Health Department "essential", the government decided further that police be deployed at hospitals to ensure their smooth operation. "It has been decided to ensure that those who want to work should keep working and no one should be allowed

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Water and Power was told in a meeting chaired by Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah here on Monday that there would be no respite from grueling power outages during the hot summer months and people in urban areas would have to bear daily outages of at least 4 to 6 hours, while those in rural areas would be subjected to 6 to 8 hours of no power from April to September.
National Assembly members attending the meeting were not

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has increased load shedding to up to eight hours due to, what the company claims, shortage of gas for running its electricity generating plants, sources have informed Pakistan Today. Moreover, the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) would be receiving 60 percent less gas from one of its major gas fields, causing the KESC to face further shortage of gas and, consequently, multiplying the sufferings of the people of Karachi.
The

LONDON - The official recording of the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29 will be available to download within hours of the service finishing. Decca Records, part of the Universal Music label which also released the recordings of Prince Charles's wedding in 1981 and Princess Diana's funeral in 1997, will have a recording of the royal nuptials for sale on the net within hours and then release the official album of the marriage ceremony on May 5. The

PARIS - Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are near the rebel stronghold of Benghazi and everything will be over in 48 hours, Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam told France-based TV channel Euronews on Wednesday.
He also attacked French President Nicolas Sarkozy for having backed opposition rebels and accused him of having accepted Libyan funds for his election campaign. Asked about talks among world powers to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, Saif al-Islam said: "The military

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has begun subjecting the industrial sector to four hours of power breakdowns from Friday, on the premise of shortage of gas and subsequent low supply of electricity. The measure comes soon after citizens began witnessing a three to four hours increase in scheduled loadshedding in various areas.
Despite the closure of many markets, government and private offices, and educational institutions due to the strike in the city,

KARACHI - Despite the fact that the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has restricted power distributing companies from carrying out more than 80 hours of load shedding in a year, the residents of Karachi have to contend with 1,080 hours of power outages.
In violation of the 'Guaranteed Standard (GS) of Planned Long Duration Power Supply Interruption' of NEPRA, the KESC suspends power supply to its over two million consumers for over 1,080 hours a year with its

KARACHI: A series of small bomb blasts on upcountry railway tracks in different places in Sindh disrupted train services from Karachi to other parts of the country on Friday morning.
Six low-intensity blasts in Karachi, Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Ghotki and Panu Aqil damaged the tracks and brought train services to a complete halt for many hours. The train services were restored on Friday evening after railway engineers finished repairs.
Pakistan Railways officials said that

FAISALABAD - The police moved into action and recovered Rs 800,000 snatched from a disabled woman who was robbed while travelling in a rickshaw. According to details, Abida Parveen, a disabled old woman of Mohallah Fatehabad of Jhaal Khanuana Chowk, used to call a rickshaw driver Nazeer Ahmed whenever she needed to go out for any household chore.
On the day of the incident, she called Nazeer and told him that she wanted to take money to her brother in Kaleem Shaheeed Colony. She

ISLAMABAD - The website of the recently launched mobile phone brand M9 of China Mobile's subsidiary Zong collapsed due to heavy traffic on Friday, an informed source disclosed.
M9, a new offer from Zong, received a tremendous response in the first few hours and its website was unable to sustain the traffic and crashed.
The sudden collapse of the web portal was rectified after three hours. The web portal is at present booking mobile numbers based on lucky numbers promising