SUKKUR: A man and woman may have been killed on the pretext of karo kari in Shikarpur. The police are still looking for the body of the woman who was identified as Sabhai. They claim that her husband, Roshan Ali Jatoi, killed her and Shaman Jatoi. The couple and Shaman were residents of Ali Murad […]
By Sundus Rasheed / Faisal Moonzajer The problems and biases faced by both countries are similar and they share a common future. ISLAMABAD: Dressed in a well-fitted white jacket and a black pencil skirt, Parveen Rahmati is the proud recipient of the Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Refugee by the United Nations Refugee Agency […]
Has the popularity of Instagram changed the way we look at the art of photography, an art form that stretches back many centuries? Kolachi asks some young and established photographers for their take on the new application By A Abbas “I do use Instagram. It’s wonderful,” says Iqra Shoukat, a freelance photographer whose portfolio ranges […]
Shafilea Ahmed was killed by her parents, Iftikhar and Farzana, simply for being too “Westernised”. A British jury found both parents guilty of suffocating their 17-year-old daughter to death in 2003 and gave them life sentences, an appropriate punishment for a crime as heinous as any that can be imagined. The implications of this case […]
By Sarfaraz Memon SUKKUR: A police officer who paraded a couple, accused of adultery, naked to the police station was suspended on Saturday. Earlier on July 28, a team of police officials in the town of Gambat, led by Station House Officer (SHO) Khair Mohammad Samejo arrested a man and two women and charged them […]
SWABI – Arshad Ali Khan, a young journalist working for a local weekly, succumbed to his injuries in Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, on Saturday. Three days back, he got seriously injured when his maternal uncle and other relatives clashed with one another. Khan wanted to settle their dispute, but was erroneously shot. He got seriously […]
Salis bin Perwaiz Karachi: Seven people were killed in the city on Saturday – three of these murders linked to the apparently unstoppable extortionists of the metropolis. Three men gunned down the security guard and injured an employee at a tile shop in Gulbahar. The area’s SHO, Arif Usman said the assailants entered the shop, […]
By Malik Tahseen Raza MUZAFFARGARH: Kalsoom Mai, 40, lost her husband Ghulam Husain to the mighty Indus when the flood hit her village Sarkiwala in Alipur tehsil in 2010. The village is located just a kilometre east of Indus. After the flood, Kalsoom faced displacement, disease and acute poverty for months, but now her hard […]
KARACHI: Despite the general perception that young women medical professionals or nurses are among the groups of professionals vulnerable to ‘workplace violence’, public and private healthcare settings have largely no arrangements to prevent them from becoming targets. Through a legal enactment in March 2010, the federal government made provisions for the protection of women against […]
Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: Piqued by the Supreme Court’s striking down of the Contempt of Court Act 2012 (Coca), the coalition government seems locked in intense deliberations, weighing options to move a petition seeking review of the court order or promulgating a new law through an ordinance. An informed source dropped a hint on Saturday that […]
LAHORE: Civil Court Judge Mati-ur-Rehman on Saturday sent to jail Abid Chuadhary and Abdul Raqeeb, who are allegedly involved in London Olympics passport scam, on 14-day judicial remand. On Saturday, FIA officials produced Abid Chaudhary and Abdul Raqeeb of a travel agency before the civil court. FIA submitted that investigation against the accused had been […]
ISLAMABAD: A letter bearing the ‘signature’ of a Supreme Court official and received by the managing director of Pakistan Television (PTV), Yousuf Baig Mirza, has turned out to be fake. The letter dated July 25 and bearing number HRC-35997-G/2010 was ‘issued’ by the Human Rights Cell of the court to the MD to halt recruitments […]
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