Minister promises plastic bag ban violators won’t be spared
Islamabad
March 3, 2021
Islamabad : While leading a campaign for public awareness of the harmful impact of polythene bags on the environment and public health, state minister for climate change Zartaj Gul Wazir on Tuesday warned that the violators of the ban on single-use plastic bags in Islamabad wouldn’t be spared.
“Polythene bags have played havoc with the environment, natural ecosystems, and public health, so we can no longer afford and tolerate the manufacturing, sale, import, and use of the environmental nuisance. Those not shunning their use despite the adequate availability of affordable alternatives on the market are actually foes of the people and environment and we will go after them,” the minister told reporters after sending off the polythene bag ban enforcement teams to various business centres of the capital city.
Sindh at odds with Centre over police rotation policy
Top Story
March 2, 2021
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has taken notice of the pick-and-choose policy adopted by the Establishment Division in transferring and posting police officers after the publication of a story by The News. Shah has now instructed the provincial chief secretary to write to the Establishment Division for reviewing its decision.
Confronting the federal government’s Establishment Division for issuing transfer orders of six DIGs under a pick-and-choose policy, the Sindh government sources said that under the Rotation Policy, the first batch of seven top officers are supposed to be rotated followed by the next batch after a six months interval. The Establishment Division, according to provincial government sources, instead of going by the book went ahead with a preordained selective basis to transfer officers falling on serial numbers 3, 10, 13, 17 and 20. This manifests that certain of
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