Tag: Protect

Commission tells govt to protect threatened journalists

The Saleem Shahzad murder investigation commission decided on Saturday to keep its proceedings in-camera, while the government was told to provide necessary security to...

Bangladesh plans special force to protect tigers

Bangladesh is setting up a special force to save the critically endangered Royal Bengal Tiger and other animals. The 300-member force will be deployed...

Agreement to protect Murree Forests signed

A crucial agreement for mapping and monitoring the Murree Forests Division (MFD) forests and to highlight encroachments on forest land was signed between the...

OGRA to protect stakeholders’ rights

LAHORE - Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) Chairman Tauqir Sadiq chaired a public hearing organized by OGRA on a petition by Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) on Wednesday and said that OGRA was determined to protect the rights of all stakeholders in accordance with the law and in the best public interest. The petition was filed to determine SNGPL's estimated revenue requirements/prescribed prices for the year fiscal year (FY) 2011-12. The hearing was attended by

‘Sindh govt to protect and promote heritage sites in its domain’

KARACHI - Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo said that the provincial government would take concrete steps to protect and promote all cultural sites and historical monuments

‘Protect your kidneys, save your heart’

KARACHI - Kidney diseases increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases for people with diabetes, hypertension and other heart diseases, healthcare experts revealed in a message on World Kidney Day that was observed on Thursday around the world.
They said that chronic kidney disease (CKD) could lead the patients to suffer cardiovascular diseases and in order to save the heart from diseases, one has to protect the kidneys.
Currently in Pakistan, one-third of patients on

Meesha gets court order to protect lyrics

LAHORE - Malik Ali Raza Awan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Lahore, the other day issued an injunction in respect of singing, recording, releasing, re-recording, performing and broadcasting (through audio or video), the song 'Bijli Aye Ya Na Aye, Dhol Bajega', in any manner whatsoever.
The order was passed in a suit for permanent injunction, instituted by Meesha Shafi against Syed Farhad Hamayun and the public at Large, as the author of the song.

Doing our best to protect Davis: Sanaullah

LAHORE - Pakistan said on Monday it was taking steps to keep Raymond Davis, imprisoned in a jail for shooting two Pakistanis, safe from harm. US officials have expressed fears about the safety of Raymond Davis as anti-US sentiments have flared after he shot and killed two Pakistanis in Lahore in what he said was an attempted robbery last month.
Surveillance cameras monitor the area where Davis has been locked in a cell isolated from other prisoners, the prison sources said. A

LDA set to protect officials involved in forgery

LAHORE - Everything seems in place for protecting Lahore Development Authority (LDA) officials involved in a mega forgery scam regarding stamp papers in the LDA Avenue-I Housing Scheme, Pakistan Today has learnt. The scam surfaced when Ishtiaq Chaudhry was serving as estate management director on deputation in LDA from 2009 to 2010. A LDA official told Pakistan Today that a number of property dealers, in connivance with LDA officials, issued fake stamp papers worth Rs 20,000 and

1,000 police protect JI, JuD rallies

LAHORE - Security forces remained on high alert during rallies organized by different political and religious parties on Kashmir day with the day passing by smoothly. Elite force personnel patrolled the rally's main routes with security beefed across the city to monitor suspicious movement.
The seven entry and exit pints of the city were closely monitored. Around 1000 security personnel were deputed on the main routes of the rallies arranged by the Jamat e Islami and banned

Every attempt to protect US national will be foiled: JI chief

LAHORE - Every attempt of the federal and Punjab government to protect the US national involved in killing three Pakistanis will be foiled, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hassan said on Saturday. He was talking to journalists after visiting the residences of three people killed by two US nationals a couple of days ago.
The JI chief said that if four people hiding at the US Consulate and the vehicle involved in killing Ibadur Rehman were not taken in custody within the next

PIMA calls for legislation to protect doctors

FAISALABAD - Following the frequent arrest and detention of doctors in connection with deaths of patients attributed to mistreatment and negligence, an Islamabad-based professional organization of doctors and physicians has called for a new legislation to protect doctors' rights.
Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) Chairman Dr Shafqat Javed and General Secretary Dr Mumtaz Hussain have demanded a legislation, delegating the authority to prosecute a doctor to a

Balochistan govt failed to protect minorities: Burney

QUETTA - Chairman of the Ansar Burney Trust International and former federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney has said that hundreds of Punjabi-speaking families, Muslims from Shia sect and Hindu families in Balochistan province were planning to migrate to safer areas fearing persecution. He said these people are fearful of extremists and fundamentalists who kidnap minority people for ransom or in some cases just brutally murder them. He was talking to journalists here on

HR activists vow to protect child rights

PESHAWAR - Human right activists, officials and technocrats unanimously resolved to make joint efforts for the protection of child rights at a two-day capacity-building workshop on "Making Child Rights a Reality" which concluded here on Thursday.
The workshop was arranged by children's complaint office of Federal Ombudsman's Secretariat. KP Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Barrister Arshad Abdullah and newly appointed provincial ombudsman Badshah Gul Wazir were the

CDA trying to protect wildlife in Margalla Hills, NA told

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Division on Wednesday told National Assembly in writing that Capital Development Authority (CDA) had taken various measures to protect wildlife in Margalla hills.
The CDA's measures regarding protection of wildlife include promulgation of Islamabad Wildlife Ordinance, Declaration of Margalla Hills National Park in 1980 and Framing of Islamabad Wildlife Rules 1983.
The CDA has established an independent directorate of zoo in CDA's environment wing for

Government of Punjab has failed to protect the its citizens, says...

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) Senior Central Leader Moonis Elahi said that the people of Punjab are the biggest victims of the 'target killings wave' which has now engulfed the whole country.
Referring to the statement made by the Sindh Home Minister on Monday and the recent report of the Human Watch Pakistan which cites the murders of 12 educators of Punjabi origin living in Baluchistan, Moonis Elahi expressed serious concern and dismay at the unfortunate rise in

Punjab govt compromises Bhogiwal Road’s merits to protect PML-N interests

LAHORE: The Punjab government, to protect the interests of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) local party leaders, has seriously compromised the merits of the under-construction Bhogiwal Road located in NA-123 constituency - considered as a bastion of the PML-N - by rejecting road expansion plans despite National Engineering Services Pakistan's (NESPAK) recommendations.
A senior official of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) told Pakistan Today that NESPAK's designs to