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News for Sunday, 29 Jan 2012

World Wetlands Day on Feb 2

To undertake actions aimed at raising public awareness of the importance and benefits of wetlands in general and the Ramsar Convention in particular, the World Wetlands Day is going to...

Overhead bridges must to ensure pedestrians’ safety

The residents of the city appealed to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to install overhead bridges at different busy roads to ensure the safety of pedestrians. The residents have called...

ATC records statements of three witnesses

The Rawalpindi Anti Terrorism Court (ATC), hearing the Benazir Bhutto murder case, on Saturday recorded the statements of three witnesses and directed prosecution to produce six other witnesses at the...

Fazlullah behind targeted killings in Karachi: Malik

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that fugitive militant commander Fazlullah is sending terrorists from Gilgit to Karachi for targeted killings. Talking to reporters on Saturday, Malik said a group...

Body to monitor polluting sugar mills

The Sindh government has decided to form a committee that would monitor the sugar mills situated in Ghotki town and its adjoining areas for any environmental violation. Provincial Environment Minister Shaikh...

‘Central drug watchdog needed to avert another PIC-like fiasco’

The Pharma Bureau has urged the government to immediately form an independent central drug regulatory authority (DRA), adopting the refined model employed in other nations, to oversee the pharmaceutical industry. In...

Being disabled not the end of the road

As people with different kinds of disabilities make 10 percent of the country’s total population, it is imperative to recognise their right to employment, education and healthcare in Pakistan. Almost all...

Lo and behold! 2nd Watan Card tranche only for 260,000

After helping out more than one million flood-affected families in the first phase under the Watan Card scheme last year, the Sindh government has finally decided to release the second...

For many, a television show goes too far

One morning last week, television viewers were treated to a darkly comic sight: a posse of middle-class women roaming through a public park in Karachi, on the hunt for dating...

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