Day: February 21, 2018

A four-member team of polio health workers, accompanied by Assistant Commissioner Sheikh Rafiq, was allegedly attacked by a school’s administration in Karachi’s Nazimabad area on Tuesday after the team attempted to vaccinate its students against polio. A first information report against the school was registered in the Nazimabad police station after the incident, with the assistant commissioner as the complainant. The institution was subsequently sealed. According to DawnNews, the health workers had visited the school earlier to administer the polio vaccine to students. However, the school had reportedly refused to allow…

Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Tuesday said the Supreme Court’s queries to better understand others’ perspective should not be construed as the court’s interference in the legislative process. The chief justice made those remarks while heading a three-member SC bench hearing a case about the media commission “Yesterday it was again asked how the judiciary could interfere with the legislative process,” the chief justice said, without naming anyone. “Parliament is supreme but there is also the Constitution above it,” he said, adding that no legislation could be done in…