Okara

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Okara

(ōkä`rə), city (1998 pop. 200,901), N central Pakistan. It is a market for food grains, oilseed, and cotton, with manufactures in textiles, hosiery, and carpets. The city has a national dairy farm and a livestock research center.

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Okara

a city in Pakistan, in Punjab Province. Population, 133,000 (1971). It is a transportation junction on the Lower Bari Doab Canal, between the Ravi and Sutlej rivers. Okara is the trade center of an agricultural region. The city has cotton-cloth, flour-milling, clothing, and salt-processing enterprises. It is also noted for the production of metal boxes.

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OKARA -- An Intermediate student of Okara grabbed first position in the annual examination of FA/FSc conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Sahiwal.

Okara students grab top positions in BISE Sahiwal

OKARA -- Gifts were distributed among 37 families of police martyrs during a ceremony in connection with Police Martyrs Day at Tyyab Shaheed Police Lines here Sunday.

Gifts distributed among 37 families of police martyrs

OKARA -- A man died late on Thursday when the roof of the room collapsed on him in his house at Abadi Baqir Daas on Gogera-Jandraka Road, Rescue 1122 said.

Man dies in roof collapse

The PML-N leader who left Lahore in the evening also addressed a public gathering in Okara on her way to the venue.

Maryam Nawaz on her way to Pakpattan for rally

Okara -- 2 people were killed while one other was injured in a road mishap on Renala road, Okara.

2 killed, one injured in road mishap

OKARA -- Wall of a house collapsed in windstorm in village 34 GD IN Okara city and 3 persons were buried alive in debris of wall on Thursday.

3 including elderly couple die, wall collapses in windstorm

AS is almost invariably the case with every visionary poet/artist, Gabriel Okara has his epitaph secreted somewhere in the inner temple of his own verse, liminal, perturbingly suggestive.

Bard Of The River Nun: Remembering Gabriel Okara

OKARA, once an important Mandi Town of Sahiwal District, has come a long way after its emergence as a District Headquarters.

Okara University playing a stellar role in upward emergence of District

OKARA -- As many as three people were killed and five others were injured in wee hours of Wednesday when the roof of a house collapsed in Okara.

Roof collapse kills three in Okara

OKARA -- A man was axed to death over a dispute in Okara, police said on Sunday.

Man axed to death in Okara

Okara city and it would continue in other cities of the

PTI govt determined to bring about green revolution: minister

OKARA -- Four people were killed and 35 injured when eight cars collided with each other due to dense fog in Okara on Friday morning.