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Daily Archives: August 29, 2012

Environmental damage: Supreme Court wants to know what government has done about pollution

KARACHI: The Supreme Court has ordered all civic and environmental agencies to file reports about what they have done to control environmental pollution. On Tuesday, the counsel for the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (SITE) asked for more time to comment. Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Amir Hani Muslim adjourned the hearing to an unspecified […]


Journalists’ petition against TV channel owners: Lawyers request Supreme Court to shift proceedings from Quetta

LAHORE: Senior lawyers have requested the Supreme Court not to hold proceedings on a petition filed by journalists against TV channel owners, and the distribution of money and plots among journalists by property tycoon Malik Riaz, in the Quetta Registry of the apex court because of security reasons. The apex court had issued notices to […]


Media Security: Misappropriation of funds denied

ISLAMABAD: Dispelling impressions about the use of secret funds by the ministry of information, secretary information Rashid Ahmed told the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Tuesday that his ministry did not spend any funds that were not mentioned in the finance bill. He was responding to a remark by a member of the standing committee […]


Two women shot dead

LALAMUSA: A mother of two minors and a teenager girl were reportedly shot dead at their homes on account of domestic feuds in two separate incidents. In the first incident, an enraged husband Tanveer Ahmad allegedly shot dead his wife Sehrish, a mother of two, in Sara-e-Alamgir Town and fled away after committing the crime. […]


National Assembly body asked to help implement code of ethics in print media

ISLAMABAD: The Press Council of Pakistan on Tuesday urged the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting to help enforce and implement the ethical code of practice in print media. The committee met Tuesday to deliberate the functions of the Press Council of Pakistan The code of practice was framed by the council to […]