By: Umer Farooq PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has directed police to provide protection to three women. It has also issued arrest warrants for three persons for laying down a marriage claim against the women under the outdated “ghang” custom. The move came days after introduction of the law, which announces punishment for those […]
By: Rizwan Shehzad KARACHI: The police failed to produce a minister’s servant, accused of abducting a teenage girl and then forcing her to convert to Islam, to the court on Wednesday. The case was fixed for hearing on Wednesday before the 13th judicial magistrate, South, Hatim Aziz Solangi, but the police failed to present the […]
By: Farooq Baloch KARACHI: The abrupt departure of Farooq Awan from the chairmanship of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has created a vacuum within the telecom regulatory body, which most likely, cannot be filled anytime soon. The rising political unrest in the federal capital and Supreme Court’s verdict on the rental power project case, on […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that following the Supreme Court (SC) order for the arrest of the prime minister, the threats to democratic dispensation have escalated enormously. The HRCP said in a statement on Tuesday: “It is difficult to measure the misfortune of the luckless people of Pakistan that their […]
Karachi: Twenty-five-year old Mehwish met with a violent death when her former husband came to her house to visit their three girls and, after spending the night with her, stabbed her with a kitchen knive on Wednesday morning. Tamuria police said that the former husband, Muhammad Faheem, had shown up at his ex-wife’s residence in […]
By: TAQI RAMZAN THIS refers to recent killings of Hazaras which is the worst blow to the community in history. We, Hazaras, now have to fear our shadows as there is no visible difference between a friend and a foe. It would not be surprising if a friend targets you. The same happened on Jan […]
BY: M.S. BHATTI AS regards the issuance of computerised national identity cards (CNIC) to senior citizens, the government had claimed it would issue lifelong CNICs to all senior citizens It was under this impression that I applied for the renewal of my expired CNIC, hoping that the new one will be valid for life. However, […]
MIRPURKHAS: A minor girl, who had gone missing on Jan 11, was found raped and murdered in Mir Allahbachayo Colony on Wednesday, police said. They said that the body of nine-year-old Nimra was found wrapped in a plastic bag in a playground behind the Government Comprehensive Higher Secondary School after some residents informed the Satellite […]
By: RIZWAN THE Pakistani public, which has gone crazy over the Turkish plays now being screened here, has not seen the best play called The Magnificent Century. It is about the political, military and love life of Suleiman the Magnificent. Almost the entire of Europe has been watching it for a year, with at least […]
ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) chief’s indefinite sit-in against the current government entered the fourth day today with a large crowd still sitting at Jinnah Avenue, while some participants reportedly misbehaved with women media persons. Reportedly, the crowd count was around 20,000 when Dr Tahirul Qadri began his speech. The protest site wore a populated look. […]
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