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Daily Archives: January 21, 2007

Karo Kari claims another life

Mahyum Khan Chandio married 18 year old Irshad Khatoon but just after one day to their marriage he accessed her of Karo kari charges. He shot dead the cousin of his wife Husbdar Chandio and injured her seriously. The injured woman was rushed to the local hospital for medical treatment. The police have arreted the […]


Legal rights for female home-based workers stressed

It further resolved that micro credit should be provided to such entrepreneurs on flexible conditions and these workers get registered in order to avail the privileges of the labour as defined by the labour laws. The workshop, a project of the Aurat Foundation was held jointly with its sub-committee focused on home-based female workers emancipation. […]


Woman killed for ‘defying family’

SAHIWAL: A woman was mercilessly put to death allegedly by her brothers for contracting a marriage of her own choosing, local police said on Saturday. According to the police Shamim Akhtar, a resident of Tulle Bulle village, had tied the knot with Khizar Hayat in defiance of her family wishes. The couple was blessed with […]


Woman recovered

LARKANA,Jan 20: The district and sessions court of Qambar-Shahdadkot on Saturday allowed Ms Sultana Chandio to live with her parents after police found her in Dewra village on Friday. Ms Sultana’s mother Sahib Khatoon had moved the court suspecting that her daughter had been killed and the court asked police to locate her. Qambar police […]


Bride hurt, teenaged cousin shot dead

LARKANA, Jan 20: A man seriously injured his bride on the first day of their marriage and shot dead her 13-year-old cousin on the pretext of karo-kari near Shahdadkot on Saturday. The bridegroom Mian Bakhsh alias Meenhoon Khan Chandio fired on his bride Irshad Khatoon and assuming her dead rushed out the home to kill […]


Profile in Politics:Law & order

Since law and order is a provincial subject, let us take the province of the Punjab as a case study. Addressing a high profile meeting on law and order recently the Chief Minister Ch Pervaiz Elahi had to strike a note of warning to the police elite of the province that “a substantial increase was […]


Villagers to get ownership rights

The minister said, while speaking at a sanads distribution ceremony in Malanhore Veena village near Mithi on Saturday that though a large number of rural populace had been living in villages for centuries but most of them had no documents to prove they owned the land on which they had their homes.The revenue department under […]


City govt wants traffic police control

The federal government had established the National Road Safety Secretariat under the Ministry of Communication to control the increasing number of road accidents and enhance the importance of Road Safety Programme. He cited the presence of pushcarts and other vendors on roads, boarding of passengers on buses in the middle of roads and violation of […]


Cabinet to consider anti-dowry law in two weeks

Date 21, Jan , 07 While discussing an assurance by the Leader of the House in the Senate Wasim Sajjad on behalf of the religious affairs minister, the secretary said initial approval from the prime minister had been obtained. Discussing an assurance by Health Minister Muhammad Nasir Khan regarding illegal medical colleges, the health secretary […]


Cabinet to consider anti-dowry law in two weeks

Date 21, Jan , 07 While discussing an assurance by the Leader of the House in the Senate Wasim Sajjad on behalf of the religious affairs minister, the secretary said initial approval from the prime minister had been obtained. Discussing an assurance by Health Minister Muhammad Nasir Khan regarding illegal medical colleges, the health secretary […]


British envoys call on nazim

Mustafa Kamal briefed the envoys about ongoing development projects in the city stating that first time in the history of Karachi the development process has been initiated with such a speed. “All the towns and union councils have been released development funds on equal basis and without any discrimination. “The development works are underway round […]


Sindh sets up ‘focal group’ to frame rules for public procurement

Addressing workshop on ‘Sindh Procurement Reforms’, Mahr on behalf of Chief Secretary Sindh announced names of focal group members. They were Shafiq Mausvi DG Works and Services Department, Ms Naheed Shah of S&GAD, Aziz Uqaili Add. Secretary Finance, Capt Majid Khan Add Health Secretary, Ms Uzma Sadaf procurement specialist of World Bank, Adil Geelani of […]


Sukkur Council session adjourned amid uproar

SUKKUR: The session of the District Council Sukkur was adjourned amid uproar by the Nazims of the Awam Dost panel on Saturday. Reports said as soon as the council session started under the chairmanship of convener Abdullah Ghumro, the Nazims of the Awam Dost panel, led by Nazim UC-5 Yousuf Jagirani, stood up and started […]


Growers protest against Motorway police

Hundreds of the growers and cultivators of Khairpur, Gambat and Khuhra towns agitated strongly against the Motorway Police. They alleged the Motorway Police was imposing heavy fines on the sugarcane loaded vehicles, which was illegal and annoying as there was no other way to transport the cane to the sugar mills. The protesters were chanting […]