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Daily Archives: April 30, 2012

Couple among three killed for ‘honour’ separately in RY Khan

RAHIM YAR KHAN – A man stabbed his daughter and son-in-law to death while another killed his wife in separate ‘honouring killing’ incidents here in different areas on Sunday. In the first incident, Rana Anwar, a resident of old Sadiqabad city, some 20-kilometres from here, killed his daughter Iqra and her husband Fiaz. His daughter […]


Photographic exhibition on music artists enthralls visitors

KARACHI: Rangoonwala Community Centre (RCC) recently organised a photographic exhibition entitled ‘Jam Session Photo Exhibition’, featuring the photographs of various music artists at the RCC VM Art Gallery. Forty snaps of Jazz players who performed in various countries were put on display in the photo exhibition organised in collaboration with the American Consulate’s Cultural Wing. […]


KPC office-bearers concerned over injuries to cameramen

KARACHI: The office-bearers of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) have expressed concern at the injuries sustained by television cameramen in the firing in Lyari. The KPC president, Tahir Hassan Khan, said that two cameramen of television channels were injured in the firing and taken to hospital. In a statement, Khan and KPC Secretary Moosa Kaleem […]


Women police stations still waiting for authority to fight crime

Rabia Ali KARACHI: When the East Zone Women police station was established in 2009, 35 excited officers roamed around the small office, believing that they would arrest hardened criminals and solve heinous mysteries – but only three remain today. The reason being that no such powers were granted to the stations and one by one, […]


‘Honour’ crime: Man kills daughter, husband BAHAWALPUR: A man confessed on Sunday to killing his daughter and her husband in Sadiqabad for contracting marriage without his consent. Rana Anwar told The Express Tribune that his daughter Iqra had married thier neighbor, Faiz, without his permission a few months ago and run away. He said that […]


No PPP PM will write Swiss letter: Gilani

LAHORE: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said no prime minister from the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) would write a letter to the Swiss authorities to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Zardari. Speaking to lawyers at his Lahore residence on Sunday, he said only parliament could decide if he would continue to remain the prime […]


Body of kidnapped ICRC official found

Saleem Shahid QUETTA: The body of a kidnapped British official of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Dr Khalil Rasjed Dale, was found in an orchard near the Airport Road on Sunday morning. “The beheaded body of Dr Dale, kidnapped on Jan 5, was in a plastic bag dumped in the apple orchard,” […]