KARACHI, Nov 15: The APNS Executive Committee has suspended membership of daily Khabrain as it found that its management was prima facie guilty of misconduct by providing fake, false and forged NOCs to mislead the society, a press release of the APNS said.

Mohammad Aslam Kazi, Secretary General of the APNS, announced on Saturday that the executive committee at its meeting held on November 15, under the chairmanship of its President, Arif Nizami, adopted a resolution on the reported conduct of daily Khabrain wherein it produced misleading documents during an inquiry into a previous violation.

The committee decided to take action under Article 12(b) read with Article 15 and suspended Khabrain with immediate effect. The committee has directed the secretary general to issue a show-cause notice to the publication.

The committee considered the report of Scrutiny-cum-Enrolment Committee and accorded full membership to Kainat (Karachi) and Kohistan International (Quetta).

The executive committee considered the complaint by Ausaf that PID was not releasing advertisements to certain publications owing to the editorial policy of these newspaper.