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Daily Archives: December 14, 2015

Delay in award of DTH licence causing huge loss to exchequer

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LAHORE: As authorities concerned have not awarded DTH (direct to home) — satellite-based television channel — licence for over the past 12 years million of dollars are going across the border annually without tax deduction through this illegal (DTH) business. The Pakistan Electronic Media Authority (Pemra) has deferred the award of the much awaited DTH […]


WWF Pakistan launches programme to tackle ghost fishing

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KARACHI: World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF)-Pakistan has initiated a programme to tackle the threat posed by ghost fishing considering it to be becoming a serious issue in Pakistan. It observed that various types of fishing gears were being used in Pakistan. Sometimes a part of the net is accidentally detached and continues to drift […]


RTI Commission issues show-cause notice to Haripur varsity

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ABBOTTABAD: The Right to Information (RTI) Commission has issued a show- cause notice to the University of Haripur administration over the failure to provide documents under Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (RTI) Act 2013 This show-cause was issued for inability of the university’s administration to produce the relevant documents related to the selection boards and some administrative responsibilities […]


Speakers discuss the ways to ensure safety on social media

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KARACHI: Growing instances of cyber-stalking and exploitation, tampering, defamation, morphing, visual surveillance and tracking in the country have made it necessary to take steps for the protection of rights of social media users. This was the opinion of participants at a panel discussion, titled “Social Media: New Dimension of Violence against Women,” held to commemorate […]


Sindhi Culture Day: All for one and one for all

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KARACHI/SUKKUR/HYDERABAD: For the past seven years, people across the province of Sindh have gathered on December 13 to celebrate their caps, clothes and culture. Mach Katcheries [campfire assemblies], musical programmes and rallies were held across Sindh to mark Sindhi Culture Day this year too. The day was first observed in 2009 in reaction to the […]


Pakistan bears the worst of climate change effects

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KARACHI: Massive flooding displacing millions, prolonged heat waves with temperatures averaging above 38 degrees centigrade, ravaging hurricanes and deluges caused by excessive rainfall. I am not painting a doomsday scenario but all these are extreme weather events that have taken place in various parts of the world including Pakistan in 2015. These are not exceptional […]


Rawal Lake: No progress on five planned water treatment facilities

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ISLAMABAD: Three months since an independent commission recommended setting up multiple sewage treatment plants on the catchment areas of the Rawal Lake, action has yet to be taken. Despite the recommendations of the Islamabad High Court’s Environmental Commission, no progress has been made on the construction of five sewage treatment plants and a sewage network […]