KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Tribunal, set up to hear complaints about pollution, has yet to start functioning even though the much-delayed appointment of its chairman and members had been made over three months ago, it emerged on Tuesday. Since the environment has become a provincial subject after the 18th constitutional amendment, the Sindh government set […]
Karachi: The federal government has decided to appoint veteran journalist Azfar Bukhari as an adviser to promote higher education and the official notification in this connection is likely to be issued after Eid holidays. Bukhari has received various national and international awards, and also been praised by the Sindh Assembly through a unanimously passed resolution […]
ISLAMABAD – It has been six months now to the launch of National Action Plan (NAP) to eliminate terrorism but hate material continues to pile up on social media. Total blackout of terrorists on media, destroying of communication system of terrorist organizations and banning of hate material and propaganda to promote sectarianism, extremism and intolerance […]
PESHAWAR: Expediting efforts for computerising state records and moving towards e-governance, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to pack up its official website and replace it with a user-friendly, responsive and dynamic web portal. Directorate of Information and Technology officials confirmed the development to The Express Tribune. Project in charge Ghufran Javed said the portal’s security […]
LAHORE: “Missions like New Horizons – the first reconnaissance of an unknown planet for the very first time – inspire the youth and raise their curiosity about the solar system,” said Usman Maqsood Mirza, a member of The Lahore Astronomical Society (LAST). He was speaking to The Express Tribune about the NASA mission to explore […]
KARACHI: In what appears to be a targeted killing, a young employee of a private television channel was shot dead in a drive-by shooting early on Thursday. Noman Ali Rajput, an assistant vice-president at the company was serving as the acting head of its human resources department, since the arrest of its vice-president Ali Abdul […]
LAHORE: As the coal-powered plants in Rajasthan, India, have been ascribed as main source behind the recent deadly Karachi heat wave, the fears have risen for the impact of Thar coal projects on environment. According to Greenpeace International, a global enjoinment watchdog, coal-fired power plants are the biggest source of man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, […]
DADU: Several hundred people belonging to the media held a six-hour sit-in at the Dadu-Larkana section of the Indus Highway on Wednesday to lodge their strong protest over police failure to arrest a feudal lord and his armed guards who allegedly kidnapped four senior journalists in Johi a fortnight back and subjected them to inhuman […]
ISLAMABAD: Urging the Sindh government to share the draft of the right to information bill with the public, the Centre of Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) said that the bill should only be presented for cabinet approval after seeking input from all the stakeholders, including the media, civil society groups and citizens. “It is ironic […]
Islamabad: Calling for enactment of all pending bills and release of budgetary allocations, a group of civil society organisations has welcomed recent movement for enactment of pending child rights related legislation at the federal level, including the National Commission on the Rights of the Children (NCRC) Bill. The Child Right Movement (CRM) Pakistan — a […]
Police have completed the security audit and survey of 38 media houses and installed panic alert systems at 31 outlets to avert any untoward incident there. Following the directions of Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, various steps have been taken by Islamabad police to ensure fool proof security arrangements at media houses and […]
KARACHI: “Stop the sit-in in front of the SSP office. Otherwise we will kill the journalist.” This was the last message from the dacoits allegedly holding journalist Hakim Abro captive to the journalists of Ghotki district, who have set up a camp for the release of their colleague. For the last three months, journalists and […]
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan has directed Pakistan Environmental Protection Ageny (Pak-EPA) to address the environmental compliance of the Islamabad Expressway expansion project, which was inaugurated recently by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The minister took serious notice of the alleged violation of Section 12 of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act-1997 (PEPA-1997) […]
LAHORE: Pakistan Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique has expressed disappointment with the media’s role in trying to create a controversy about the Gujranwala train accident that cost 19 lives and urged the media not to politicise the event before the final verdict by a joint investigation committee. Addressing a press conference here at PR headquarters, […]
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