ISLAMABAD – The draft of the first ever National Forest Policy is ready to be sent to the Council of Common Interest (CCI) next week for getting formal approval, The Nation learnt reliably yesterday. The ministry of climate change prepared and finalised the draft with the consultation of provinces last month. All provinces and other […]
Civil society representatives and members of the Rural Workers Group (RWG) on Wednesday urged the Sindh government to bring the wages for brick kiln workers on par with Punjab’s. The wage rate for making 1000 bricks in Punjab is fixed at Rs 962 whereas in Sindh the rate for the same work is only Rs […]
KARACHI: ‘Kaisa Hoga 2016’, the annual magazine jointly published by Pakistan’s most credible media concern, the Jang Group, and The Economist (London), is now in the hands of the readers, and its contents comprising national and international affairs are under discussion. The contents of the magazine, which is published under a special licence from The […]
LAHORE: Punjab Home Department has refused to give information to five murder convicts about their mercy appeals made to the president. According to the documents available with The News, a resident of Nisar Colony Lahore, Sarah Bilal, had sought information about the mercy appeals made on the part of Zulfiqar Ali s/o Rashid Ali Khan, […]
KARACHI: After three days in captivity, the five falcons recently confiscated at the airport for being illegally imported from Dubai to Karachi were released on Wednesday in the Khirthar National Park near the Khar Centre in the presence of customs and wildlife department officials. The delay in the birds’ release in the wild reportedly occurred […]
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