ISLAMABAD: Unabated violence in the Pakistani port city of Karachi continued as at least 12 people, including the chief of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, were killed during last 36 hours.

Malik Shahid Hamid, the 47 year old managing director of KESC became the latest victim of terrorist attack as four unidentified gunmen sprayed his car with a volley of bullets on his way to his office on Saturday morning. He succumbed to his injuries.

Beggars held

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has arrested some 19,700 beggars across the kingdom in one year of its anti-begging campaign, the daily Arab News said today. ``A source at the ministry of labour and social affairs explained that of the total figure, 9,000 were men while 10,700 were women, 15,000 were non-Saudis while 4,700 were Saudis,'' the English-language newspaper said.

Mexican polls

MEXICO CITY: Sruggling for answers to an economic crisis, Mexicans vote today in historic elections that may break the grip of the world's longest-ruling political party on the Mexican Congress and on its capital. President Ernesto Zedillo's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) could also lose the lower house of Congress and up to three of six state governors races, according to surveys.

Doc to be sued

LONDON: A doctor involved in the first test tube birth is being sued by the university that employed him for taking lucrative private jobs at the expense of research. The Nottingham University issued a writ for unspecified damages, alleging that Simon Fishel was remunerated for private work in various countries.

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