The Capital Development Authority, in its drive against illegally constructions, razed a shop, seven rooms and five illegally built boundary walls. The CDA also started an anti-encroachment operation in G-6, G-7 and Sitara Market and demolished dozens of stalls and impounded 12 loaded trucks.
On Lehtrar Road, they abolished one illegally constructed shop, 4 walls and two rooms. The CDA staff also demolished two rooms in E-11, Bari Imam, and four walls.
Fizzy drinks as hazardous to health as tobacco: Sugar-packed fizzy drinks are just as dangerous to health as smoking cigarettes, health experts claimed.
Health experts want hard-hitting public awareness campaigns to attack what they say are manufacturers’ misleading promotions that distract from the health risks. Emerging science on the addictiveness of sugar, especially combined with the known addictive properties of caffeine in many sugary beverages, should heighten awareness of the health threat similar to the understanding about the addictiveness of tobacco products,” the Daily Express quoted public health expert Dr Lori Dorfman as saying.
Dr Dorfman from the University of California and colleagues want soft drinks companies to stop explicitly targeting young people to increase sales. Drinking just two cans of fizzy pop a day has been shown to cause severe long-term liver damage, a condition normally the result of chronic alcohol abuse. It can lead to victims needing a transplant because the liver cannot process the huge amount of sugar. Too many soft drinks can potentially cause diabetes and heart damage as well as being a major contributor to obesity.
Diet drinks in particular have been shown to pile on the pounds because, even though they have fewer calories than regular fizzy pop, they can trigger the appetite to eat more. Those who binge on diet soft drinks every day have been shown to have 70 percent bigger waists after a decade.
10 outlaws nabbed: The Islamabad police nabbed at least 10 outlaws and recovered 220 bottles of liquor from them while recovery of only 120 bottles was shown in record.
A suspected truck was stopped by Industrial Area police in I-9 Markaz, recovered expensive wire and arrested Hussain, Tauseef, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Jalil, Nasir Ahmad and Muhammad Maroof who were on board the truck.
On the other hand, the duty officer of Aabpara recovered 196 bottles of liquor from Shahbaz Pervaiz. The police misappropriated 100n bottles and registered the case of only 96 bottles against him. In another incident, CIA police recovered 24 bottles from Gulfam and registered a case against him.
CDA’s anti-encroachment campaign launched
