Tag: Mining

ISLAMABAD - A constitutional petition seeking declaration to all agreements executed, all exploration and mining licenses awarded to the various companies in District Chagai of Balochistan without consent and prior permission of Sanjrani tribe, as illegal and void ab-initio, was filed in the Supreme Court on Monday.
The petition was filed by Qazi Siraj Sanjrani and Muhammad Raheel Ahmed Khan through Ahmad Raza Qasuri under Article 184(3) of the Constitution making the federal

LAHORE - A contempt of court petition has been filed in the Supreme Court's Lahore Registry against Tethyan Copper Company for launching a wrong propaganda about its gold mining business in Chagai district, Balochistan, and hiding facts about the quantity of gold reserves in Balochsitan's Reko-Diq mines.
The petition was filed by Watan Party President Shaukat Khan through Barrister Zafar Ullah Khan, stating that Tethyan Copper Company has started a wrong propaganda through

KARACHI: The provincial government has instructed the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) to develop legal and regulatory environmental standards on the pattern of international laws for large-scale coal mining operations at Thar coalfields in compliance with the World Bank's guidelines, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources said that the provincial environmental watchdog must frame the environmental laws before development work at Thar coalfields and other coal reserves of