June 07, 2007	Thursday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 21, 1428

NAWABSHAH, June 6: Nawabshah District Bar Association (DBA) on Wednesday condemned blocking of transmission of two private TV channels and demanded that the government should immediately withdraw the amended Pemra ordinance.

The lawyers said at a general body meeting of the bar presided over by DBA President Ali Mohammed Dahiri that the governments tended to attack freedom of press whenever they got weaker.

They vowed to support media community and said that the ordinance should not be presented in the National Assembly. If the government did not restore transmission and took back the ordinance they would not only move the higher courts but would also observe strikes, they warned.

ELECTROCUTED: Nineteen-year-old Ms Munni, wife of Punhal Gorchani, was electrocuted when she was ironing clothes at home in the Loung Khan Gorchani village near Daur on Wednesday.

ROBBERY: Two armed men robbed Mohammed Ali, a mobile card seller, of cash and prepaid cards worth Rs200,000 at the flyover in B-section police station’s area on Wednesday.

An action committee of the mobile phone sellers demanded that the DPO should take notice of growing card snatching incidents in the city and take action against the criminals.