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PILDAT says Feb 8 polls record lowest fairness score since 2013

  The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has issued a report detailing its assessment of the recently-concluded general election, expressing deep concerns over a decline in fairness scores compared to previous election cycles.

Licences of 25 Educational Institutions of Karachi were suspended for not following Govt Orders

Karachi : The licenses of 25 private education institutes in Karachi that were open on Monday, despite the Sindh government's order a day earlier to close in light of the corona virus outbreak, have been suspended. 

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, while presiding over a meeting of the Task Force on corona virus in Karachi on Sunday, had ordered to keep all educational institutions, including tuition and coaching centers, across the province closed till March 13, the deadline for completion of the isolation period of suspected patients of coronavirus. 

The CM had said strict action would be taken against those educational institutions who defied the order, which was important in the times of an emergency. 

A press release issued by the director general for private institutions of the provincial education and literacy department, Dr Mansoob Hussain Siddiqui, on Monday said that an inspection was carried out in parts of the city, including Korangi, Landhi, Gulshan-e-Hadid, Nazimabad and North Karachi, and around 25 schools were found to be open.

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