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KARACHI - Sindh Planning and Development (P&D) Department Additional Chief Secretary Muhammad Ishaque Lashari said on Wednesday that the Greater Karachi Water Supply Scheme - K-IV project - would be implemented in three phases. The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB)'s K-IV project aims at bringing additional 650 million gallons per day (MGD) or 1,200 cusecs of water to the city from Indus River. According to details, the project's phase-I with the capacity for drawing 130 MGD

ISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday agreed to extend for another three days the ongoing talks for setting new benchmarks for Pakistan to revive the $11.3 billion standby arrangement facility that is suspended since May last year.
The government had invited the IMF mission for talks to revive the suspended programme by finalising new benchmarks. However, both sides, led by Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and IMF Mission Chief for Pakistan Adnan

LAHORE - Three suspects were arrested in Shahdara for plotting terrorist activities in the provincial metropolis, official sources told Pakistan Today. One of the suspects was identified as Abubakar, a resident of Lahore, while the others were identified as Sher Dil and Saad Khan, residents of North Waziristan.
According to the sources all three had been under surveillance for a week. Sources claimed that the suspects were arrested in Shahdara by a special team late on Friday

KARACHI - The SHC on Wednesday dismissed three of its contractual employees from service, in pursuance of the Supreme Court orders regarding contractual staff. The removed officers included SHC Additional Registrar Muhammad Safdar, and readers Muhammad Hashim and Shafiq, and had already been served a one-month notice. The fate of three other contract employees would be decided by the SHC administration committee comprising senior judges.

QUETTA - Three people were killed in separate incidents of firing in Balochistan on Monday. According to police, unknown armed men riding a motorbike targeted Mir Alam, the son of a religious scholar of Zikri sect, in Turbat town of Kechh district.
As a result, he received multiple bullet injuries and succumbed to his injured before receiving medical attention.
The motive behind the killing is yet to be ascertained. Two persons were killed in an armed clash between two

Zohra Shehzad, the widow of Faizan Haider, one of the two men gunned down on 27 January at Mozang Chowk in Lahore by US citizen Raymond Davis, claims that her in-laws kept her out of the loop on purpose in the case against Davis. Subsequently, Zohra, who says she is three months pregnant, has moved to her parents' house and has vowed to not go back to her in-laws.
"They kept all the legal proceedings hidden from me. I wasn't even included as a complainant in the case against my

KARACHI - The Khokhrapar police on Monday claimed to have arrested three alleged kidnappers and also recovered three TT pistols from their possession.
The suspects identified as Akbar, Yar Mohammad and Badal were involved in kidnapping and murdering a teenage boy, whose body found near the Malir River, earlier on Monday.
Khokhrapar SHO Arbab Ali said that Akbar is the relative of the victim, who was a matriculation student.
The SHO added that Mohammad Hussain, 17, was

MAZAR-I-SHARIF/KHOST - A suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body at a sports field in northern Afghanistan Saturday killing three and wounding 38, a provincial governor said.
Abdulhaq Shafaq, the Faryab governor, said the attack took place in Shirin Tagab district during a buzkashi game, a traditional sport involving grabbing a dead goat or calf from the ground while riding a horse at full gallop.
"A suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body

KASUR - Additional District and Sessions Judge Jawad-ul-Hassan awarded death sentence, life imprisonment and Rs 400,000 fine to three double-murder accused. Muhammad Din, Jamil Ahmed and Mushtaq killled Sadiq and Munir in the Ganda Singh police area two years ago over an old enmity. The convicts will have to undergo eight months imprisonment if they fail to pay the fine.
HOUSE ROBBED OF CASH, VALUABLES: Robbers looted cash and gold ornaments from a house at Khara Road in the

ISLAMABAD - The three eunuchs, hired by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), got jobs on the basis of their qualification and all of them were lawyers with an LLB degree. According to the NADRA spokesperson, many eunuchs had applied for the jobs in the organization after which three of them were recruited on merit. He said one of these lawyers was posted to the Karachi office while the other two had been placed in the NADRA office in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reported a

LOS ANGELES - Rapper Jay-Z overshadowed Grammys front-runner Eminem as the music awards show got under way on Sunday, while two-time winner Lady Gaga made a grand red-carpet entrance encased in an egg. Jay-Z won three early awards including a pair for his duet with Alicia Keys on 'Empire State of Mind,' a love letter to New York that will compete for record of the year later in the ceremony.
The hip-hop star received six nominations in all. Eminem, who leads the field with 10

KARACHI - Three teenage boys were killed when a passenger bus hit their motorcycle near Akbar Road in Saddar on Sunday afternoon. Fourteen-year-old Adeel Waseem and Sami Javed and Taimur Ghulam Nabi, both 13 years old - were on their way to see their friend in Saddar when their motorcycle was hit by a speeding passenger bus, killing two of the boys on the spot.
The deceased and the injured were taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi where the third boy succumbed to his injuries due

HAFIZABAD: At least five people sustained serious injuries when an LPG shop caught fire while two of them were shifted to a Lahore hospital.
Reportedly, Ghulam Farid was busy in refilling LPG gas cylinder in his shop on Madhrianwala Road on Friday when a fire engulfed not only all the shops but also adjacent houses. As a result, Nadeem, Ghulam Farid and three children were injured and shifted to a local hospital. Rescue 1122 and the fire brigade staff put off the fire.

KARACHI - After much lobbying and swaying opinions through the media, officials of the Sindh Health Department on Thursday managed to get the provincial government to extend the Hepatitis Prevention and Control Programme for another three years - a project that will cost Rs 5 billion.
The last three-year term, worth Rs.2.70 billion, was set to expire soon, and the Health Department had recently started hepatitis screening of different areas to prove the efficiency of the

KARACHI - After much lobbying and swaying opinions through the media, officials of the Sindh Health Department on Thursday managed to get the provincial government to extend the Hepatitis Prevention and Control Programme for another three years - a project that will cost Rs 5 billion.
The last three-year term, worth Rs.2.70 billion, was set to expire soon, and the Health Department had recently started hepatitis screening of different areas to prove the efficiency of the

GUJRANWALA - Three low intensity bomb explosions rocked Gujranwala on Wednesday, with the targets being a police station, an office of a senior police official and the police barracks. The first bomb targeted the office of the Central Investigation Agency followed by one targeting the office of the regional police officer shortly before 7am.
The blasts damaged outer walls and created craters. The third blast, which was comparatively of greater intensity, rocked the residence of

QUETTA - Unidentified armed men kidnapped three people in Jaffarabad district on Monday. According to reports, six people were travelling to Usta Mohammad from Sukkar when unidentified armed men intercepted their vehicle at Rojan Jamali area of Dera Allayar and made them hostage at gunpoint.
Attackers took all six people with them and after a short drive released three of them including driver Bashir Ahmed, Manzoor Ahmed and Mohammad Yousuf. Later the kidnappers drove the rest of