ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) have formulated a joint strategy to safeguard the people from land frauds. According to the plan, all the housing schemes would have to submit land documents to the CDA and advertise about the same in one of the national dailies. They will also be […]
LAHORE: As many as 100 people, including 20 journalists, have registered their names with the registrar office to record their statements as witnesses in suo moto proceedings about police highhandedness on lawyers and journalists during a protest rally of lawyers against the suspension of chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Justice Syed Zahid Hussain of the […]
GUJRANWALA: A woman and two young girls were kidnapped by car riders near Chak Baig on Alipur Road on Friday. According to ruling party MPA Muhammad Ashraf Butt, woman Nurgis, 40, along with two young girls Uzma and Sumbal of Shaheenabad locality, went to Kot Bhawanidas village to a faith healer. The women were standing […]
SHEIKHUPURA: The Factory Area police registered on Friday a case against a faith healer and a Christian woman from Nabipur Virkan for desecrating the Holy Quran. Shamim Akhtar approached the healer to give her a talisman for good relations with her husband who had contracted a second marriage. The healer gave her a talisman and […]
THATTA: A young woman has appealed to President Gen Pervez Musharraf to save her and her relatives from excesses of the Sujawal TPO and the Chuhar Jamali SHO who, she alleges, are pressuring her to rejoin her former husband despite dissolution of their marriage ordered by a court. Talking to journalists outside the sessions court […]
PESHAWAR: A centre set up by the federal government for women in crisis about a year ago has failed to provide shelter and medical aid to the victim of violence. Sources told Dawn that the centre has no medical officer and a psychiatrist to provide treatment and counselling to women in distress. They said that […]
DASKA: Five men attacked a woman member of the Sialkot District Council and allegedly tortured her and cut her braid as ‘punishment’ for refusing to engage in “illicit relations” with one of them in Bambaanwala village, Daska tehsil on Friday. According to the first information report (FIR) registered in the case, Abdul Manaan, Abdul Rehman, […]
LAHORE: Robbers gang-raped a woman in Hingerwal and made off with cash, jewellery and valuables worth Rs200,000 on Friday. Three armed robbers barged into the house of Muhammad Sadiq in Jamal Colony and gang-raped his wife after collecting the booty and managed to escape. Hingerwal police have confirmed the incident. Source: Dawn Date:3/24/2007
KARACHI, March 13: Mr Ahmad Ali Khan’s death here on Tuesday removes from the scene one of the giants of Pakistan’s English journalism. With Dawn, whose editor he was for 28 years, his association began before partition in Delhi in 1946 with Mr Altaf Husain as editor, and ended in Karachi in 2004. In between […]
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