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Daily Archives: January 17, 2007

Sonia Naz case adjourned due to lawyers’ strike

LAHORE: The proceedings of the Sonia Naz rape case could not be held because the lawyers of the city were on a strike on Tuesday. The case will now be taken up on January 27. On December 23, 2006 the rape victim could not be traced as an additional district and sessions judge Mohammad Yar […]


Senate body snarls at media exploitation of women

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Women Development has taken strong exception to exploitation of women on media specially in advertisements and directed the Ministry of Women Development to take necessary steps. The committee met at the Parliament House on Tuesday with Tahira Latif in the chair. The committee directed to take action in collaboration […]


Man sells daughter to pay for surgery

KARACIR, Feb 16: A man sold his 10-year-old daughter for $500 to pay for his eye operation, a police official said on Friday. The father, Noor Mohamrnad, had agreed to hand his daughter over to a fellow villager, Gul Mohammad Kalohi, once she reached puberty, said Abdul Hadi, District Police Officer for Badin, some 25Okm […]


PHC forms inquiry committee

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday formed an inquiry committee for the recovery of a woman and her two children, missing for the last two years after her husband married another woman. Noor Rehman, resident of Daudzai and the missing girl’s father, had filed a habeas corpus petition seeking recovery of her daughter […]


Uplift bodies revived

KARACHI, Jan 16: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim on Tuesday approved the revival of the Larkana and Sehwan development authorities. Their board of governors will be formed and officials selected soon. While addressing a public meeting in Larkana recently, the chief minister had announced the revival of the Larkana Development Authority and completion […]


Nazim for speedy disposal of revenue cases

MIRPURKHAS- District Nazim Dr Sughra Junejo has directed the Revenue officers to dispose of cases on merit and avoid issuing long dates so that people could get justice soon. She was speaking at open Kachehry held on Tuesday at the district Nazim secretariat lawn. On the complaint of citizens, she directed the TMO to remove […]


SHC dissatisfied with govt assurances: ‘Missing’ people

KARACHI, Jan 16: The Sindh High Court expressed its dissatisfaction with the assurances made in respect of the ‘missing’ people on behalf of the federal and provincial governments on Tuesday and asked the attorney-general and the advocate-general to appear personally on January 24. Former student Affan Leghari, who was picked up in December 2005, has […]


NDC participants briefed on Sindh uplift projects

KARACHI, Jan 16: Sindh Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said Sindh which used to live mostly on overdraft not only paid back its Rs11.4 billion loans but also turned into a surplus province. Recalling the ongoing swift pace of progress in different sectors, he referred to the 2006-07 budget in which out of total […]


Senate body snarls at media exploitation of women

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Women Development has taken strong exception to exploitation of women on media specially in advertisements and directed the Ministry of Women Development to take necessary steps. The committee met at the Parliament House on Tuesday with Tahira Latif in the chair. The committee directed to take action in collaboration […]


District uplift monitoring body restructured

HYDERABAD: District Nazim Hyderabad, Kanwar Naveed Jamil has restructured the District Works and Services Monitoring Committee and formed separate monitoring committees by dividing the district development works into six sectors with the objective of effective monitoring of the works being carried out in every nook and corner of the district. The district Nazim initiated the […]


Strict curbs on quick-fix drugs demanded: Govt, media apprised of hazards

KARACHI, Feb 16: The College of Family Medicine Pakistan has apprehended that government’s indifference to unlicensed sale and marketing of quick-fix medicines and ‘magic herbs’ may become a cause of harm to public health. Secretary General of the college Dr Aziz Khan Tank on Friday said that medicine market was flooded with the so-called quick-fix […]


Gagging the media is not the answer

In a move reminiscent of the autocratic era of General Ershad, Bangabhaban issued a verbal instruction through an unidentified official of the press information department to TV news channels and the press not to print any news, pictures and cartoons and editorials critical of the present government. We want to categorically state that gagging the […]


PHC forms inquiry committee

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday formed an inquiry committee for the recovery of a woman and her two children, missing for the last two years after her husband married another woman. Noor Rehman, resident of Daudzai and the missing girl’s father, had filed a habeas corpus petition seeking recovery of her daughter […]


Man sells daughter to pay for surgery

KARACIR, Feb 16: A man sold his 10-year-old daughter for $500 to pay for his eye operation, a police official said on Friday. The father, Noor Mohamrnad, had agreed to hand his daughter over to a fellow villager, Gul Mohammad Kalohi, once she reached puberty, said Abdul Hadi, District Police Officer for Badin, some 25Okm […]