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Daily Archives: January 10, 2007

CPNE, government agree to hold regular interaction

During the deliberations, it was agreed to hold regular interaction, on quarterly basis. Hence, the next meeting of CPNE office-bearers, with the senior officers of the ministry, will be held on February 6, 2007. Source: Business Recorder Date:1/10/2007


Afghan journalist beheaded in Hangu

Anwar Saleh, a resident of Khost, was a young poet and journalist, who was in Pakistan for personal work, said an officials from Khost’s Yaqqubi district.Journalists from southern Afghanistan strongly condemned the brutal killing, and demanded the Pakistani government immediately arrest the assailants. Source: Daily Times Date:1/10/2007


Four killed over Karo-Kari

JACOBABAD: Four persons, including a girl, were killed over Karo-Kari in Thul and Qambar Talukas on Tuesday. Two brothers were killed over a lingering Karo-Kari dispute in the village of Bahadurpur in the jurisdiction of the Dil Murad police station, Taluka Thul. Gulsher and Gul Meer, sons of Muhammad Gabol, were going to Jacobabad to […]


Security tightened for polls in Bajaur

KHAAR: The authorities have deployed paramilitary forces at polling stations as well as at public places in the Bajaur Agency ahead of Wednesday’s by-polls in the NA-44 constituency amid threats issued by a militant group to disrupt polling. Pamphlets purportedly distributed by the Jafar-i-Tayar Front on Tuesday warned voters not to visit polling stations. Polling […]


CM orders probe into ‘police encounter’

LARKANA: Sindh Chief Minister Dr. Arbab Ghulam Rahim, stressing that police were just performing their duty, ordered an inquiry into the killing in encounter of Imran Ali Supro who police alleged was a bandit and his relatives insisted was a poor carpenter. The chief minister who arrived in the city on Tuesday to inspect the […]


Chopping of nose, ears for love marriage

MULTAN: Three of a family, whose nose, ears and heels were cut in revenge for contracting a marriage with a girl of a high caste, have demanded of the high-ups to provide them with security and make arrangements for the plastic surgery of their chopped parts as they cannot afford treatment. Talking to this correspondent […]


A case of mistaken identity

KARACHI: With golden years of his life spent languishing in jail, a Bangladeshi prisoner in Pakistan faces the tricky task of proving his religious identity before he could be set free by the authorities. Abdul Hanan had been arrested by Lahore police while crossing the border and was booked under the Foreigners Act and thrown […]


Is this rule of law?

The piecemeal “tracing” of 25 out of 41 missing persons whose case a two-member bench of the Supreme Court is hearing provides a measure of the government’s reluctance to share information even with the apex court on the whereabouts of those who have gone “missing” over the years. This indeed is mind-boggling. It also negates […]


Woman ‘set on fire by in-laws’

KARACHI: A newly-married woman was allegedly set on fire by her husband’s brothers in Gadap. She is under treatment at the Civil Hospital in Karachi. Eighteen-year-old Noori is reported to be receiving threats from her in-laws to withdraw a case filed on her behalf. An FIR 6/2007 was registered at the Shah Latif Police Station […]


Ministry grooms 21,665 women councillors

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Women’s Development has so far trained 21,665 women councillors across the country under its Women’s Political School to effectively perform their duties as public representatives. The $4.5 million project has been funded by Norway and is being implemented by the Ministry of Women’s Development in collaboration with the UN Development Programme. […]


Ministry grooms 21,665 women councillors

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Women’s Development has so far trained 21,665 women councillors across the country under its Women’s Political School to effectively perform their duties as public representatives. The $4.5 million project has been funded by Norway and is being implemented by the Ministry of Women’s Development in collaboration with the UN Development Programme. […]


Woman ‘set on fire by in-laws’

KARACHI: A newly-married woman was allegedly set on fire by her husband’s brothers in Gadap. She is under treatment at the Civil Hospital in Karachi. Eighteen-year-old Noori is reported to be receiving threats from her in-laws to withdraw a case filed on her behalf. An FIR 6/2007 was registered at the Shah Latif Police Station […]