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ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Environment has transferred Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) Director General Asif Shujah to National Energy Conservation Centre (ENERCON). It is learnt that a few months ago, the ministry decided to send Asif Shujah on a forced leave after differences erupted between him and the higher authorities over some important issues.
"He has been transferred to ENERCON which is an attached department of the Ministry of Environment," said an

PESHAWAR - An accountability court on Wednesday sentenced a senior serving police officer and three customs officials to seven-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs 2 million to each. Dilawar Bangash, currently Dera Ismail Khan DPO, and three customs officials, Shah Nawaz, Rehmat and Munawar Khan, were convicted in a National Accountability Bureau reference on the charges of misappropriation of Rs 6.3 million.
The accountability court of Syed Afsar Shah, after hearing arguments,

LAHORE: Model Town Courts Judicial Magistrate Aneeq Choudhary on Friday sent US consulate employee Raymond Allen Davis to jail on judicial remand till February 25.
Earlier, prosecution produced the accused before court after the police wrapped up a double murder investigation during the 14-day physical remand into the shootings of two Pakistani nationals, Faizan and Faheem at Qurtaba Chowk on January 27. A case has been registered against Davis in Lyyton Road Police Station for

ISLAMABAD: The report of the National Assembly's (NA) Standing Committee on House and Library has been challenged in the Islamabad High Court over the scam in the NA Employees Cooperative Housing Society. Justice Riaz Ahmed on Friday heard a petition filed by former Islamabad deputy commissioner Chaudhry Asadullah Faiz.
The petitioner contended that the NA body's report was not based on facts and corruption charges against him in the report were baseless.
He asked the court

DASKA - Sambrial Special Judicial Magistrate Shehzad Qaisar has sent the accused driver, Khizar Hayyat, to Sialkot District Jail on a 14-day judicial remand for killing a Sambrial-based old woman Sughra Bibi on Saturday evening when the official convoy of Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa was returning to Lahore from Sialkot.
Sambrial police seized the official vehicle and arrested its accused driver, Khizar Hayyat. The police registered a case against the driver under Section

ISLAMABAD - The chairman of the implementation commission on the 18th Amendment, Raza Rabbani on Monday quashed rumours that employees would be sent to a surplus pool under the 18th Amendment.
Talking to reporters after the meeting of the commission, Rabbani said neither any employee would be retrenched nor anyone would be sent to the surplus pool and the government would ensure that no employee is affected due to the devolution of ministries under the 18th Amendment.
He

ISLAMABAD - The Jang Group of Publications was on Saturday served a legal notice by Mark Siegal on behalf of the Bhutto-Zardari family through Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell Attorney & Counselors, demanding a retraction and apology for the article published on February 2, 2011, entitled "Breaking News: Asif Zardari got married to Tanveer Zamani in Dubai".
"Unless such a retraction and apology is issued immediately, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP will initiate legal action on

LAHORE - The Model Town judicial magistrate on Wednesday handed over Naveed Iqbal, step brother of Supreme Court Justice Javed Iqbal and alleged murderer of his parents, and another accused Abbas on physical remand to the Factory Area Police until January 23. Naveed was arrested on Tuesday on charge of murdering his parents along with Abbas and Ameen over a monetary dispute.
On Wednesday, the Factory Area Police produced the accused before the judicial magistrate and sought their

ISLAMABAD - A spokesman of Ministry of Environment has refuted a news item regarding leave of Director General (Pak EPA) published in Pakistan Today and clarified that Asif Sujha Khan was never asked for any illegal acts and no body forced him for issuing any NOC for housing schemes.
The spokesman said the DG (Pak EPA) had proceeded on leave on his own and no hurdle was created in any mega project as the DG (Pak EPA) was fully authorized to exercise delegated powers.
He

ISLAMABAD - The ministry of environment had sent Environment Protection Agency (EPA) director general on forced leave for four months for not fulfilling what he believed their illegitimate demands.
Sources in the ministry told Pakistan Today that Asif Shujah was forced to take a long leave because he was not serving the verbal orders from the ministry asking him to carry out certain illegal acts.
A dispute erupted between the ministry and a land owner over Rs one million

KARACHI - Over 2,000 security personnel deployed with VVIPs of Sindh have been sent back to their head offices, while the personal details of more than 1,000 personnel of law enforcement agencies will be sent to intelligence agencies for vetting, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to the data of the Home Department, important personalities of Sindh enjoy the security of more than 8,000 police personnel and 4,000 personnel of other intelligence agencies. The assassination of

BRISBANE - The women's draw at the Brisbane International was thrown wide open on Tuesday after top seeds Samantha Stosur and Shahar Peer were bundled out in the second round by unheralded opponents.
World No.6 Stosur was beaten by fellow Australian Jarmila Groth 6-2, 6-4 in the tournament's biggest shock, while earlier in the day the Czech Republic's Lucie Safarova outlasted second seed Peer 3-6, 6-1, 7-5. With third seed Nadia Petrova losing on Monday, Frenchwoman Marion

LAHORE - Local judicial magistrate Irfan Basra on Monday sent Abdul Malik (Manager of Moonis Elahi) to jail on judicial remand till January 16. Abdul Malik was arrested by FIA during a raid at Moonis Elahi's office on the charges of transfer of Rs 20.2 million in the account of Mohsin Habib who is the main accused in National Insurance Corporation (NIC).
Mohsin Habib is son of Habib Ullah Warriach, who remained minister of state during the Mushrraf rule. During this period he

RAWALPINDI - An Anti-Terrorist Court on Wednesday denied the Federal Investigation Agency's request to extend the physical remand of former police chief of Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and former Superintendent Police Rawal Town Khurram Shahzad in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
The former police officials, who were arrested for alleged negligence of duty over the 2007 assassination of former prime minister, were produced before the court on Wednesday. The FIA had requested the ATC to

LAHORE - Judicial magistrate Irfan Basra on Tuesday handed over Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Chaudhry Moonis Elahi's business manager Abdul Malik to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on physical remand until January 4.
Malik was arrested on Monday during a raid at the Al-Tahoor Private Limited's office located in Garden Town.
He was arrested on charges of ties with a key accused of the National Insurance Company Limited

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday slammed the summoning of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief by the US, threatening to topple the incumbent government if the ISI chief was sent to the US.
Addressing a public gathering at Bhit Shah over telephone from London, the MQM chief said, "If the US summons someone from Pakistan, the Supreme Court of Pakistan must do the same." Talking to people from various districts of Sindh, he said the people

Lahore Bishop Alexander John Malik held a midnight vigil mass at the Cathedral Church of Resurrection. The brightly lit church was filled with several people who settled into silence as the service began at about eleven thirty at night.
The Bishop in his service said that the Christmas was a time for love and joy. He said, "The atmosphere of the world and especially Pakistan is full of violence, aggression and destruction. It is up to all of us, to fill ourselves with love so