Urdu Newsletter January 26 to 02 , February 2007
Summary Urdu Newsletter January 26 to 02 , February 2007 Date 1/26/2007 Download ppf newsletter vol 5 no 03.pdf
Daily Archives: January 26, 2007
3,100 women’s cases withdrawn due to ‘bureaucratic hurdles’
The cases were mostly related to child custody, dissolution of marriages and divorce in which women petitioners sought absolute privacy and did not want their information publicised. They now preferred to withdraw their cases and wanted to settle out of court. On average 256 cases were filed on a monthly basis in five district courts […]
Man kills wife for ‘honour’
Muhammad Salih Mangnejo shot dead his wife Mumal, 45, after declaring her Kari in the village of Din Muhammad Mangnejo in the limits of the Baradi Jatoi police station. Police shifted the body to a hospital for an autopsy and started an investigation Source: The News Date:1/26/2007
Hunger strike observed against Karo-Kari, tribal clashes
Pirbhat Women Development Society arranged the protest in connection with its protest plan in five districts. PPP leader Jam Saqi, human rights activist Nasreen Shakeel Pathan, Wahab Pandrani, Zeb Mallah, Ambreen Nawaz Sheikh, Bakhtawar Jam and others observed the hunger strike. They demanded of the government to take measures to stop honour killings. They said […]
Do not harass Bengalis with Pak nationality: Advisor
Talking to a delegation of Pakistani Bengalis Action Committee that called on him at his office Thursday, he said that the police would not raid any Bengali locality and Bengalis with Pakistani nationality would not be harassed. The delegation, led by ex-town nazim of Korangi, Sheikh Muhammad Feroz, complained of the maltreatment of Bengalis. They […]
HRCP for moratorium on death penalty
Launching a report on death penalty in Pakistan titled “Slow march to gallows” HRCP chairperson Asma Jehangir said on Thursday this could be done through a decision by President Gen Pervez Musharraf to systematically commute death sentences.The report has been released at a time when, according to the HRCP, more than 7,400 prisoners are on […]
Two employees of GRDO observe hunger strike
They said the GRDO and Action Aid International Pakistan signed an agreement in June 2005 to purchase lands in taluka Hyderabad rural for the rehabilitation of the farm labourers living in makeshift camps in Hyderabad suburbs after getting freed from bondage of different farm owners in lower Sindh. They said under the agreement the Action […]
Journalists walk out of Senate: Newsman’s kidnapping
They had also staged a walk out from the upper house on Monday against the kidnapping before the government reassured them that the interior ministry would come out with ‘a solid statement’ on the outcome of its investigations on Wednesday. However, the journalists were dismayed after Minister of State for Interior Zafar Iqbal Warriach said […]
Cinema owners threaten to go on strike
The meeting asked the government to allow screening of Indian films. It said the association had also made efforts in the past to convince the government to allow Indian films but to no avail.Association chairman Jehanzeb Baig told the meeting that a film delegation would meet President Pervez Musharraf soon to request him to allow […]
AlJazeera gaining viewer ship
According to TV cable operators in Defence, Clifton, PECHS, Tariq Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, North Nazimabad, Liquatabad and Gulistan-e-Johar, the AI jazeera channel’s English news service has relegated western satellite news channels to secondary places. One of the leading TV cable operators in a posh area said that a large number of subscribers called them up, demanding […]
Cinema owners threaten to go on strike
The meeting asked the government to allow screening of Indian films. It said the association had also made efforts in the past to convince the government to allow Indian films but to no avail.Association chairman Jehanzeb Baig told the meeting that a film delegation would meet President Pervez Musharraf soon to request him to allow […]
Journalists walk out of Senate: Newsman’s kidnapping
They had also staged a walk out from the upper house on Monday against the kidnapping before the government reassured them that the interior ministry would come out with ‘a solid statement’ on the outcome of its investigations on Wednesday. However, the journalists were dismayed after Minister of State for Interior Zafar Iqbal Warriach said […]
AlJazeera gaining viewer ship
According to TV cable operators in Defence, Clifton, PECHS, Tariq Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, North Nazimabad, Liquatabad and Gulistan-e-Johar, the AI jazeera channel’s English news service has relegated western satellite news channels to secondary places. One of the leading TV cable operators in a posh area said that a large number of subscribers called them up, demanding […]
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