KARACHI: The Transparency International (TI) Pakistan has said that the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has set an example of ‘good governance’ in the functioning of day-to-day affairs, especially in the procurements for development projects over the last one year. “There has been satisfactory reduction in corruption, mismanagement and irregularities, worth emulating of good governance,” […]
KHAIRPUR: General Secretary of the Sindh United Party (SUP), Syed Ghulam Shah, has said that agencies were involved in disappearances of nationalist workers. Talking to newsmen here on Sunday after offering condolences to the family of Hari leader Shah Mohammad Durrani, he said when the agencies were asked about it, “they make us to shuttle […]
KARACHI: Aisha Munir got married to Shakoor at the tender age of 12 on the basis of “Watta Satta” (exchange). Her sister-in-law got married to her uncle Shabbir Ahmed in exchange of her marriage. Aisha is now 15 and wants a divorce because she says the Rs 2,500 she earned every month for working as […]
PESHAWAR: Lawyers dealing with different cases have requested the Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) to expedite hearing of cases against women and children pending in the court for last many years. The move follows the recent appointment of two more judges to the Federal Shariat Court by President Gen Pervez Musharraf. Before […]
LAHORE: Azizgul is 10 years old, from the village of Houscha in western Afghanistan. This year the wheat crop failed again following a devastating drought. Her family was hungry. So, a little before Christmas, Azizgul’s mother ‘sold’ her to be married to a 13-year-old boy, said a report in The Observer on Sunday. “I need […]
LAHORE: Azizgul is 10 years old, from the village of Houscha in western Afghanistan. This year the wheat crop failed again following a devastating drought. Her family was hungry. So, a little before Christmas, Azizgul’s mother ‘sold’ her to be married to a 13-year-old boy, said a report in The Observer on Sunday. “I need […]
The protesters blocked traffic outside the press club here and torched copies of the said daily. Some policemen were wearing uniforms while the rest of them were in planclothes who reportedly misbehaved with Mr Hashmi and his subordinates, said a political activist who was in Jammu Kashmir’s office at that time.The Islamabad police had immediately […]
The protesters blocked traffic outside the press club here and torched copies of the said daily. Some policemen were wearing uniforms while the rest of them were in planclothes who reportedly misbehaved with Mr Hashmi and his subordinates, said a political activist who was in Jammu Kashmir’s office at that time.The Islamabad police had immediately […]
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