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Daily Archives: October 25, 2010

Hospital staff accused of assaulting 17-year-old

3 Civil Hospital ward boys allegedly kidnapped and raped a patient’s daughter. GUJRANWALA: In the civil hospital, three ward servants have been accused of raping a patient’s daughter and police officials have registered a case. Jandiala Bagh Wala resident 70-year-old Saifullah was admitted to the hospital for an eye operation on Friday. Saifullah’s 17-year-old daughter […]


Man kills brother and wife

LARKANA: A man killed his wife and brother on the pretext of karo-kari in a village in the Drigh area of Qambar-Shahdadkot on Saturday night. Ghulam Abbas Shaikh first shot his wife Bakhtawar, 20, dead, then he went to a village shop and gunned down his brother Faiz Mohammed, 25. Ghulam Abbas suspected that his […]


Honour killings resurface after return of DPs

SUKKUR: With people displaced by the flood returning to their homes, incidents of honour killings have started taking place in upper Sindh. There are reports that 12 people were killed on the pretext of karo-kari in the region over the past three weeks. Police figures suggest no incidents of honour killings was reported from Kashmore, […]


Khipro schoolgirl’s gang-rape: Victim’s uncle raises questions over probe

By Mohammad Hussain Khan HYDERABAD: The uncle of much publicised Khipro gang-rape schoolgirl has expressed dissatisfaction over police investigation and said the FIR should have included provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA). The girl, a student of class IX, was allegedly drugged, criminally assaulted, filmed and her video posted on the Internet in Khipro last […]


A media group doing baseless propaganda against govt: Kaira

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira, while commenting over issuance of show-cause notices to some members of PPP’s Central Executive Committee (CEC), said on Sunday that issuing show-cause notices to the members for indiscipline is right of the party and a routine procedural matter. Party has issued only show-cause notices to […]


Information minister should speak the truth: Jang Group

KARACHI: Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira should speak the truth, asserted a spokesman of the Jang Group here on Sunday while commenting on the statement by the minister that the government has neither stopped ads nor imposed any restriction on the Group. The spokesman said the government advertisements to the Jang Group were mostly stopped. […]


Umar Cheema again chased by spooks

By Shakeel Anjum ISLAMABAD: Unknown attackers who last month abducted, tortured and humiliated Umar Cheema, a senior investigative journalist of The News, have again started chasing him and the latest harassment of this kind occurred on Friday night. Cheema was heading home with his family at around 10 pm when some suspects, again in a […]


Talat joins DawnNews

KARACHI: Prominent journalist and TV host Talat Hussain has joined DawnNews, awhere he will be hosting a primetime news and current affairs show from mid-November. Mr Hussain brings with him a vast experience in the field of journalism. “It is a privilege for me to join DawnNews,” he said. The Editor of DawnNews, Mubashir Zaidi, […]


Girl, woman killed on pretext of karo-kari

SUKKUR: A man shot dead his daughter after declaring her kari in Ghulam Rasool Khoso village near Thull. Shah Beg Katohar had been suspecting his daughter Farzana of having illicit relations with a man. He opened fire and killed her while she was preparing meal for family members on Wednesday. In another incident, a young […]