Karachi
February 16, 2021
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday said that the Pakistan Coast Guards (PCG) have no power to prosecute a person guilty of offences under the Control of Narcotic Substances (CNS) Act.
The court directed the PCG director general, the Anti-Narcotics Force DG and the Sindh police chief to ensure that prosecution by the PCG under the CNS Act is stopped immediately. They were ordered to submit a compliance report within a month through the inspection team member.
The court also ordered that the investigation and prosecution of all the pending cases registered by the PCG under Section 21(1) of the CNS Act should be assumed transferred to other agencies authorised to deal with the menace of narcotics and its trafficking in accordance with the CNS Act.
Heads of LEAs deliberate ways to curb use of narcotics
Karachi
February 14, 2021
A top-level meeting of heads of law enforcement agencies was held at Jinnah Courts, the headquarters of the Pakistan Rangers (Sindh), on Saturday to discuss ways to prevent the use of narcotics.
The meeting, chaired by Director-General Sindh Rangers Major General Iftikhar Hassan Chaudhrym, was attended by Karachi’s additional inspector general of police, the additional IGP of the Counter Terrorism Department, the joint director general of the Intelligence Bureau, the director general of the Pakistan Coast Guards, the commander of the Anti-Narcotics Force, the collector customs and other senior officials of the Sindh police, Rangers and intelligence agencies.
Rashid rules out change in Prophethood law, policies on Kashmir, Israel
Top Story January 23, 2021
KARACHI: The Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has categorically ruled out any change in the law on the Finality of Prophethood (SAW) and added that there would neither be any compromise over Islamabad s stance on Kashmir nor on recognition of Israel.
Addressing a press conference here at a hotel on Friday, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed predicted that the Broadsheet Scandal would emerge as Panama-2 of Pakistan within next two to three months and claimed that $100 million property of Nawaz family would be exposed from the Broadsheet probe. Rasheed said the findings of the Broadsheet case would badly affect the Opposition in the next elections. He also dismissed the Opposition’s objections against the appointment of Justice (R) Shaikh Azmat Saeed as head of the Broadsheet inquiry and said “If
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