By: Rabia Ali KARACHI: Almost a year ago, 22-year-old Hina had filled out the customary paperwork to receive a loan of Rs0.3 million from the Waseela-e-Haq scheme of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). The form identified her as an unemployed but educated young woman who was eager to start her own business. But Hina […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Monday said that the democratic government is a staunch supporter of media freedom and has scrapped the draconian laws introduced in the past to curb the media. He expressed these views during a presentation given to him by the ministry of information and broadcasting at the PM House. […]
By: Raheel Salman KARACHI: A kidnapping ring in Karachi is abducting women and ‘arranges’ their marriages in rural Sindh. This came to surface after a woman, Rifat Jahan, was found from a remote area near Faiz Ganj, in Khairpur district. Jahan’s husband, Mehmood Ali, had registered a case for his wife’s kidnapping on June 19 […]
By: Owais Jafri MULTAN: Mehmood Kot police have told three men accused of killing a girl by setting her on fire not to leave the town until investigation of the case was complete. Police said the men mentioned in the FIR were not arrested because Khadim Hussain, the principal suspect, had obtained an interim bail […]
Karachi: A mother of three children was killed in the Mochko police limits on Monday.Zulekha, 30, suffered bullet wounds when two men opened fire on her in her residence in the Nawab Colony and fled.Her neighbours took her to the Civil Hospital, where she breathed her last. SHO Mochko told The News that the woman […]
ISLAMABAD: Frustrated with a new twist given by police to the case of lynching of a poor woman in Khanewal, the Supreme Court gave the federal as well as Punjab governments on Monday three days to take appropriate action against the entire provincial police hierarchy or face an adverse order. “It is the duty of […]
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Monday quashed a case of illegal entry and stay in Pakistan against an Afghan couple, who fled their country after facing death threats over marriage. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Shahjehan Khan Akhunzada handed over the couple to local police directing them to keep […]
MITHI: A 50-year-old widow was killed by her son for having been involved in an illicit affair. Ms Meghan was axed to death by Pirbhu Bheel in Sanyasar village of Mithi taluka on Monday. Pirbhu was arrested after his brother Samto lodged a murder case against him. He has reportedly confessed to the crime. Dawn
HAFIZABAD – A youth, who sold his mother for Rs30,000 one year ago, now has sold his 12-year-old sister for Rs20,000. The two persons who had bought the girl have been allegedly torturing, sexually assaulting and putting her to forced labour for months. However, the girl reached her mother’s house. Ansar, a resident of village […]
SUKKUR: A woman was shot dead by her husband after she was reportedly unable to prepare breakfast in time for him in Hasil Shar village, near Daharki, Ghotki district, on Saturday. Saddam Hussain Shar reportedly became angry when his wife, Manzooran, took time to make breakfast for him on Saturday morning. The Express Tribune
ABBOTABAD: The brother-in-law of a runaway Afghan woman has claimed that she was already married to him before her elopement. Mariyam Marjman Molouda, the Afghan woman, had tied the nuptial knot in Pakistan a month ago with a fellow Afghan named Hewad against the will of her family back home. The couple claimed to have […]
By Ayesha Hasan / Farkhonda Rajabe ISLAMABAD: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain recently met the management of Shamshad TV, one of the largest Afghan TV channels, and assured it that he would contact the the federal government as well as the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to allow for landing rights to […]
LAKKI MARWAT: District Police Officer (DPO) Umar Riaz on Sunday strongly rejected news reports regarding ban on women visiting markets alone for shopping in Tehsil Sarai Naruang of Lakki Marwat district and termed such reports baseless. Talking to reporters here, he said there is no ban on woman visiting market alone and shopping around in […]
GUJRANWALA: The Baghbanpura police recovered a 55-year-old woman who was confined by her brother at Pakistan Pan Shop Street on the Hafizabad Road on Sunday. Police received information that Saleem had illegally confined his sister Sabeela in a room to grab her property. Following the information, the police raided the house of Saleem and recovered […]
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