HYDERABAD, Feb 1: Indian-born US filmmaker and freelance journalist Sarah Singh arrived here on Thursday, visited the Institute of Sindhology, interviewed veteran intellectual Ibrahim Joyo and left for Bhit Shah. The activities were part of her work on a documentary on the cultural and archaeological history of India and Pakistan she is planning to exhibit […]
KARACHI, Feb 1: A Women Political School has been set up to train and provide guidelines to nazims on how to behave with women councillors and to treat them as an equal partner. The programme will provide guidelines on how to assist them in planning and budgeting their development schemes in their respective constituencies. The […]
KARACHI, Feb 1: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has ordered investigation into the reported gang-rape of a girl near Obaro. Taking notice of the report, he ordered the Sindh chief secretary and the IG to arrest immediately all those involved in the crime. The governor also assured the affected family that justice would be done […]
According to the prosecution, 80-year-old Noor Elahi had raped a 10-year-old girl in Sohawa village on November 23, 2006. The accused had confessed to his crime. Source: The News Date:2/1/2007
KARACHI, Feb 1: A rights group providing legal aid to vulnerable segments of society expressed serious concern over the increase in violence against women and trafficking cases in Karachi and demanded that the governor of Sindh protect a woman from being trafficked abroad. According to a press statement issued by Madadgaar Helpline, its chief Zia […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: Dozens of journalists of the twin cities on Thursday blocked one of the busiest roads of the capital at Zero Point for more than seven hours after the authorities concerned failed to take action against a senior police official who allegedly ordered baton charge on mediapersons covering Marriott Hotel blast. Journalists from […]
The absence of a proper infrastructure in place was greatly affecting the district government’s performance, he said while speaking to journalists after laying foundation-stone for building temporary police offices. He said that due to financial constraints the district government was establishing in minimum possible expenses temporary offices of district police and their subordinate officers to […]
PESHAWAR, Jan 31: Feeling a mix of anger and helplessness, the Khyber Union of Journalists held a demonstration in front of the Governor’s House on Wednesday in protest against the government’s failure to recover a journalist kidnapped about a month ago. The protesting journalists were joined by the Alliance of Human Rights Organisations and the […]
He was suffering from lung cancer for the last one-and-a-half years. He died peacefully in his sleep,” Akbar’s son Qazi Sajjad told Daily Times Wednesday. Akbar is said to have played a key role in the setting up of the All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) in the 1970s. Akbar was born in Hyderabad on August […]
DAVOS: Microsoft chief Bill Gates has assured that he would visit Pakistan soon. “I have heard and read a lot about Pakistan and I am keen to be there at an early opportunity,” he said in a chat with an English daily. He was in Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting. Responding […]
She recorded that her husband has apologised and assured that the incident would not recur so the case be withdrawn. The court, after hearing her plea, reserved the judgment till Feb 10. Tasneem Khan, who had been physically abused by her husband and received bruises, on Jan 16, called Madadgar-15 for help. The Darahkshan police […]
The bench of the apex court comprising Justice Rana Bhagwan Das was hearing a suo motu court reference inside the chamber. The reference was taken by the chief justice on an application moved by Liaquat Rajput, father of the girl. In pursuance of the directives to the inspector general of Sindh police, deputy inspector-general, the […]
The Regional Manager of the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) Akhtar Hussain Baloch said influential waderas (feudal lords) of village Habib Chouhan, Obavro (District Ghotki) forced an innocent girl to walk naked in the area. After the heinous act she was raped by two persons on the Waderas orders […]
Police said that the couple, both in their early 40s, were killed on Sunday in the central Punjabi village of Donga Bonga when relatives of the woman threw a barrage of rocks at them.Speaking by telephone from Multan, local police chief Zafar Bohkhari described the incident as “a case of honour killing”, adding, that police […]
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