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ISLAMABAD - The Interior Ministry has formed a joint investigation team (JIT) to probe into the veracity of a news item carried in a section of the media regarding the conspiracy of Benazir Bhutto's murder.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said a judicial commission would also be appointed to probe the news item if the need arose.
The minister said the report on Benazir's murder had not been made public as yet. Once the report was presented to the PPP CEC, the future course

BRUSSELS - Ninety four journalists died in Pakistan owing to violence this year, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said on Friday, adding that country was the most dangerous place for media workers in 2010.
The Brussels-based organisation said in a report that the journalists and media personnel remained prime targets of political extremists, gangsters and terrorists while three journalists died in different accidents in last 12 months.
The IFJ said that 15

Aretha Franklin's representative has confirmed that the legendary singer is alive and well after she became the latest victim of an internet death hoax. She underwent surgery at a hospital in Detroit, Michigan earlier this month to treat an undisclosed ailment, with subsequent reports suggesting she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Her ailing health led to incorrect online reports stating she had passed away over the festive period, but her spokesperson has slammed the

ISLAMABAD - A two-member Supreme Court bench on Wednesday directed the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (PEPA) to submit a comprehensive report on the environmental hazards in Choa Saiden Shah.
The bench of Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa was hearing petition filed by around 0.25 million inhabitants of Choa Saiden Shah through their counsel Sajid Mehmood Sheikh against environmental hazards in the area.
Mehmood told the court that 1.5 lac

LAHORE - Pakistan was the most dangerous country in the world for journalists in 2010, said South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) General Secretary Najam Sethi, while presenting a report on attack on the press in South Asia.
Sethi presented his report, South Asia Media Monitor 2010, at a conference organised by SAMC and Media Commission Pakistan. Other high profile speakers including I A Rehman, Arif Nizami and Khalid Ahmad expressed their views on this report. Sethi said,

LAHORE - The Pakistan People's Party central executive committee (CEC) on Sunday postponed bringing out the report on the investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, deciding to take up the report at the CEC's next meeting, Law Minister Babar Awan said.
He said the president would announce the date of the next CEC meeting after holding consultations with party leaders. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will also be attending the next meeting, which will give a final

ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission formed on the Supreme Court's orders for the recovery of thousands of missing persons from across the country will submit a comprehensive report with the SC and the Interior Ministry by December 31.
Sources told Pakistan Today on Tuesday that the commission earlier had to submit its report on August 28. However, it could not do so for unknown reasons. The judicial commission was formed in March 2010 with Justice (r) Kamal Mansoor Alam, a former

LAHORE: EU-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which is expected to be signed in early 2011, will fuel poverty, inequality and environmental destruction. European and Indian advocacy groups term it "nontransparent" in their recently conducted study titled "Trade Invaders: How big business is driving the EU-India free trade negotiations".
The European Union and India initiated negotiations on multifaceted FTA in 2007, including trade in goods, deregulation of services, investment,

LAHORE: Hearing of a petition challenging the pardon granted by President Asif Ali Zardari to Interior Minister Rehman Malik was adjourned to December 24 by a full bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday. Earlier, Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik had requested adjournment on behalf of the federation, citing Rehman's pending adjudication in Supreme Court as an excuse.
Barrister Farooq Hassan, representing the petitioner, opposed the request saying the government was

ISLAMABAD: Seventy-two percent girls' schools in Pakistan don't have any protection against militancy, despite the government's claim for providing security to educational institutions, a Free and Fair Election Network report revealed. The report said that FAFEEN checked the security arrangements of 106 schools situated across the country and found that 72 percent girls' middle schools lacked security arrangements.
It said that the security arrangements for female students and

ISLAMABAD: Environment managers in Pakistan have so far taken no serious view of a United Nations report which stated that the recent devastating flood have released some 3,000 tons of hazardous chemical posing potential threat to human health.
The report entitled "Climate Change and POPs Inter-Linkages" is due to be released by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) early next year.
The report presented at the climate moot held in Cancun, Mexico, last month revealed

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Friday directed the federal law secretary to submit a detailed report until December 14 on a petition filed by Hafizabad District Bar President Khalid Tehami challenging a bogus cheque worth Rs 30 million presented by Federal Law Minister Senator Dr Babar Awan to the bar.
Petitioner's counsel Mushtaq Ahmed Mohal argued that the federal law minister gave the cheque in May, which got bounced when the bar

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday warned Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Waseem Ahmed for adopting a lenient approach while probing into alleged corruption and mishandling of Haj affairs, calling his conduct "disappointing".
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry expressed surprise over the DG's decision to entrust the investigations to a grade 16 officer. "This is a high profile case involving prestige of the country, but an FIA inspector has been

ISLAMABAD: The country's political parties, police, and parliament have emerged as the top three most corrupt institutions, with the judiciary showing improvement in curbing the menace of corruption, said the 2010 Global Corruption Barometer, a worldwide public opinion survey on corruption released on the International Anti-Corruption Day (Thursday) by Transparency International
The report said that 77 percent of the people believed that corruption in the country had increased

PARIS: The cholera outbreak ravaging Haiti began at a camp for UN peacekeepers from Nepal, according to an expert report submitted to the French foreign ministry, a source close to the matter told AFP Tuesday.
Respected French epidemiologist Professor Renaud Piarroux conducted a study in Haiti last month and concluded the epidemic began with an imported strain of the disease and broke out at the Nepalese base, the official said.
Foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero

KARACHI: The judicial commission, which was constituted by the Sindh government to investigate the Tori Bund breach that flooded many areas of the province during the recent disaster, submitted its report to the government on Wednesday.
The senior member of the commission, Justice (r) Zahid Qurban Alvi, handed over the sealed report to Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah at the Chief Minister's House. The other member of the commission, Justice (r) Ghulam Nabi Soomro, also

LAHORE: A three-man fact-finding committee has completed its initial report on the runaway Pakistan wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider.
An official of the board said that the committee has completed its initial findings and it will soon send it to the board for further action.
The official said that apart from the PCB the ICC is also holding an inquiry into the matter and the final decision rests with the board and the ICC.
Haider fled to Britain during the ODI series to