Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
CCP issues show cause notices to two companies for deceptive marketing practices
DNA ISLAMABAD, 23 JUNE: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has issued Show Cause Notices to S.M. Food Makers Limited and Volka Food International Limited for deceptively copying the trademark/trade dress of various products of Ismail Industries Limited, , thus prima facie violating of Section 10 of the Competition Act. Ismail Industries Limited sent a formal complaint alleging that the S.M. Food Makers and Volka Food were fraudulently copying the trademark and packaging/labelling of its famous brands, Chili Mili, ABC Jelly, Yums, Chocolate Chip, Butter Scotch and Peanut Cookies. The CCP’s enquiry concludedRead More
Three laborers buried alive
DNA ATTOCK, JUNE 23 – Two persons were killed and One injured in incident on Tuesday in Tehsil Jand Attock. In incident three laborers buried alive as sand mine caves in over them in village Khandrala in Jand tehsil of Attock. The other laborers working in nearby come to rescue to trapped laborers and two of them were fined dead while other was retrived alive while his both legs got fractured. The dead were identified as Mohammad Shabbir and Mohammad Aslam while injured was identified as Fayyaz. DNA =============================
Five gamblers arrested
By DNA ATTOCK, JUNE 23 – Five gamblers were booked besides recovering bet money amounting Rs 19,000,Motorcycles, Cell phones and others from their possession and arrested during raids at their gambling dens in Attock on Tuesday. Spokesman of police informed that in a crackdown against the anti social elements Attock Police station sader got information that some people were busy in playing gambling in the area during course of action police arrested the Five gamblers identified as Akhtar Nawaz, Farast Khan, Raja Ghulam, Ghulam Rasool and Amir besides recovering RsRead More
Urgent action needed to safeguard futures of 600 million South Asian children
DNA Islamabad, 23 June 2020– The COVID-19 pandemic is unravelling decades of health, education and other advances for children across South Asia, and governments must take urgent action to prevent millions of families from slipping back into poverty, UNICEF said in a new report[1]released today. With the pandemic expanding rapidly across a region that contains a quarter of the world’s population, Lives Upended describes the disastrous immediate and longer-term consequences that the virus and the measures to curb it have had on 600 million children and the services they depend on. “The side-effectsRead More
Govt to present PK-8303 crash report in NA tomorrow
ISLAMABAD: Federal Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan will present the preliminary investigative report of the PK-8303 crash that claimed the lives of 97 people in the National Assembly tomorrow. The aviation minister will also present all reports on fatal plane crashes happened in past in the lower house of parliament on Wednesday. Federal Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan had yesterday presented the preliminary report on the PK-8303 crash, probed by Aircraft Accident and Investigation Board (AAIB), to Prime Minister Imran Khan. On Monday, Aviation Division of the country refuted variousRead More
Zubair Motiwala emphasizes on significance of expediting resolution of irritants pertinent to Af-Pak trade
DNA ISLAMABAD, JUNE 23 – While addressing a stakeholders’ consultation session on economic connectivity between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Zubair Motiwala emphasized greatly on the significance of expediting resolution of irritants pertinent to Af-Pak trade and transit regime, if reciprocal resolution to access Central Asian markets is sought by Pakistan. He was of the opinion that vision of H.E. Prime Minister Pakistan, Imran Khan to support bilateral and transit trade with Afghanistan, especially during challenging times of COVID -19 Pandemic, is highly commendable, however, the bottlenecks and delayed execution of strategiesRead More