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Daily Archives: February 6, 2007

Fresh probe into police torture case

LARKANA, Feb 6: The SSP crime, Sukkur, Abdul Ahad Sangri, on Tuesday restarted inquiry into an incident of chopping off sensitive part of a cook, Hazoor Bakhsh Malik, in the lock up of the Market police station.The SSP was accompanied by SP, investigation, Larkana, Nisar Channa, and the DSP, crime, Sukkur. Mr Sangri visited the […]


Liaquat library in deplorable condition

KARACHI, Feb 5: The standards of a majority of the libraries run by the Sindh Directorate of Culture are in continuous decline for want of funds and attention. These are the findings of a report prepared by the directorate. The directorate runs 14 libraries in Sindh including the Liaquat Memorial Library of Karachi and a […]


Orakzai orders early recovery of journalist

PESHAWAR: NWFP Governor Lt-Gen (Retd) Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai has directed the political authorities of the Khyber Agency to recover kidnapped journalist Sohail Qalander and his colleague Niaz Muhammad without any further delay. He issued stern directions in this regard during a meeting with Secretary Law and Order Fata Arbab Muhammad Arif and Political Agent […]


90pc work on mega projects completed

KARACHI, Feb 5: The City District Government of Karachi has completed 90 percent work on mega projects costing Rs21 billion in eight months and Karachi will soon emerge as a modern and beautiful city. This was stated by Project DirectorTaameer-e-Karachi programme Rauf Akhtar Farooqi. He said the programme’s total outlay stands at Rs29 billion and […]


Women, the Quran and human rights

AN exhaustive research study by a Pakistani scholar, human rights and peace activist and lawyer, Dr Niaz A. Shah, titled Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law, published recently, establishes that the statutory Islamic laws of Pakistan are based on an out-of-context interpretation of the Quran as well as international human rights standards. It […]


Hearing of missing persons’ case resumes today

ISLAMABAD (February 06 2007): A full bench of the Supreme Court (SC), headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, will resume hearing of the missing persons’ case on Tuesday. The relatives of the missing persons have accused intelligence agencies of abducting their family members for alleged links with al Qaeda and various […]


Jail superintendent denies torturing UTP to death

KARACHI: The Superintendent, District Jail, Malir, Syed Shakir Ali, has denied allegations that an under-trial prisoner, Ali Nawaz, was killed by the jail staff for refusing to grease their palms, claiming the UTP was severely ill when he was brought to the jail and he was being treated at the jail hospital, said a statement […]


Kainaat Soomro continues hunger strike

SUKKUR: Kainaat Soomro along with her parents, sisters and brothers observed a token hunger strike in front of the Larkana press club on the third consecutive day against the non-arrest of her gang rape culprits. Kainaat, resident of Veenjhar Para, Mehar, had been gang-raped recently after being kidnapped while coming from School to home. She […]


Police officials suspended for illegally detaining girl

HYDERABAD, Feb 6: Regional Police Officer (RPO) Sultan Salahuddin Babar Khattak on the orders of the Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court suspended on Tuesday taluka police officer (TPO) of Tando Bago Inspector Bashir Ahmed Mangi and senior investigating officer Sub-Inspector Abdul Ghafoor Khaskheli for illegally detaining a 19-year-old girl Ms. Naseeban in […]