ISLAMABAD: The Subcommittee on Women Development, constituted by the Senate Standing Committee on Women Development, finalised on Thursday its recommendations on womenÃs right of inheritance, and the evil practices of Vani and Sawara. The meeting, presided over by Senator Sardar Jamal Khan Leghari, was given a detailed briefing by senior officers of the ministries of […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has failed to provide basic human rights to women prisoners as about 90 percent of women suffer jailers’ bad behaviour, malnutrition, health services and legal aid deprivation, hygienic problems and deprivation of children education. Sources told Business Recorder here on Thursday that women in jails are a marginalised group with regard to […]
* Police believe ‘media trial’ affecting investigations KARACHI/SUKKUR: The FIR lodged after Naseema Labano’s gang rape on January 27 appears to have a number of discrepancies, including differing versions of the way she went home after the incident. The FIR (No. 07-2007) was filed by Naseema’s father Hamzo at 6:30 p.m. on Jan 27. It […]
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ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: The government rushed four bills – three of them key laws – through the National Assembly on Thursday in a record for a single day, pulling off a feat to keep quorum in a house plagued by absenteeism and opposition boycotts. The drafts passed included a Law Reforms Bill that seeks quick […]
KARACHI: The intellectual and economic development of a country depends on immaculate planning in every sector of society, especially a carefully planned strategy to prevent the ‘Population Explosion’ that retards the rate of progress. The word of caution was voiced by Prof Pirzada Qasim, Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi while delivering his inaugural […]
KARACHI, Feb 15: Ahmed Pervez, brother-in-law of Tanvir Ahmed, assistant editor of Dawn, died on Thursday night. His funeral prayers will be offered at the Seaview (Clifton) mosque after Juma prayers. He will be buried in the Sakhi Hasan graveyard. Source: Dawn Date:2/16/2007
KARACHI: A meeting of the All Pakistan Newspapers’ Society’s periodicals press committee expressed condolences on Thursday over the sudden death of The Post Editor Adnan Shahid, the son of the Khabrain Group of Publications chief Zia Shahid. The committee’s convener Dr Waqar Yousaf Azeemi presided over the meeting at the APNS office in Karachi. Adnan […]
KARACHI/HYDERABAD: The case of an alleged rape victim, Kainat Soomro, took a bizarre twist on Thursday as the accused presented marriage documents. Kainat, a student of Class VIII at the Government Girls High School, Mehar, was allegedly kidnapped from a general store in a Mehar market, a town in the Dadu district, in the second […]
KHAIRPUR: Two persons, including a woman, were on Thursday killed on charges of Karo-Kari in the village of Nazru Shar on Thursday midnight. Police reports said that Nazar Hussain Shar gunned down his wife Sharifan and a youth Qaiser Shar in the Nazru Shar village in the limits of Mirpur Mathelo police station. Later, he […]
KHAIRPUR, Feb 16: The court of civil judge and first judicial magistrate on Friday pressed charges against 12 people including chief of Shaikh community for holding a jirga, which declared two men and women karo-kari and forced the karo men to give their two minor daughters in marriage to the kari women’s family as fine. […]
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