The Supreme Court was informed on November 12 that Islamabad Police had, over the last one year, submitted to trial courts the cases of 32 persons suspected of involvement in 16 attempts on the lives of journalists or of assaulting them, reports Dawn. A report on behalf of the Deputy Inspector General of Police operations in Islamabad stated that out of 16 cases registered by police from September 13 last year to September 12 this year, four were still under investigation. The report was furnished in compliance with a directive by a three-judge Supreme Court bench after it took up suo motu a complaint of harassment moved by the Press Association of the Supreme Court (PAS) on behalf of a journalist. At the last hearing on September 13, the Supreme Court had asked the chief of Islamabad Police whether or not the reported attacks on journalists had been investigated and the culprits brought to book. The IGP had told the court that some of the cases remained unsolved on account of insufficient evidence. But the court ordered the IGP to furnish a comprehensive report about all reported attacks on journalists over the past one year.