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Daily Archives: January 28, 2017

Rights bodies present amendments to fix laws on minorities

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Karachi : Amendments proposed by AGHS Legal Aid Cell and HRCP are based on intensive research on federal and provincial laws which discriminate against religious minorities The AGHS Legal Aid Cell and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan proposed on Friday amendments to the laws relating to religious minorities in Pakistan. The initiative was launched at the […]


Missing IT engineer was victim of enforced disappearance: JIT report

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ISLAMABAD: Nearly a year after he was picked up from Sector F-10, law enforcement personnel on Friday finally told the court that a missing software engineer appeared to be the victim of an ‘enforced disappearance’. This was stated in a report submitted by a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) investigating, probing the disappearance of IT Engineer Sajid […]


Pemra issues show cause to Bol; SHC grants stay to channel

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ISLAMABAD: The Pak­is­tan Electronic Media Regu­la­tory Authority (Pemra) issued show cause notice to Labbaik Pvt Ltd (Bol News channel) on Friday for defying its order to discontinue the programme, Aisay Nahi Chalay Ga, and to keep Amir Liaquat, its host, off the air. The regulator, through an order issued on Thursday, had taken exception to […]


Textile mill in SITE sealed for using coal-fired power plant

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Sepa says textile mill’s power plant was producing heavy smoke and poisonous gases The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency sealed a textile mill in SITE Industrial Area on Friday for causing air pollution as it was using a coal-fired power plant to generate its own electricity without environmental watchdog’s permission. A Sepa official said the owners […]