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Daily Archives: February 25, 2007

Two arrested in gang-rape case: Five still at large

LARKANA, Feb 24: The Larkana investigation police on Saturday arrested two people nominated in the case involving the gang rape of three women in a village 10km off here. However, Rajib Khuhawar and five other unidentified nominated accused are still at large. Sheroo Bagri, a farmer, told this correspondent that eight men barged into his […]


Journalists’ woes worry foreign counterparts

ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) President Christopher Warren and UK’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Chief Chris Morley on Saturday expressed their concern over the growing incidents of violence against journalists in Pakistan. Speaking at a roundtable conference on “State of Press Freedom in Pakistan”, organised jointly by the IFJ and the […]


Media delegation calls on information minister: Journalists in tribal areas will get govt protection: Durrani

Media delegation calls on information minister: Journalists in tribal areas will get govt protection: Durrani * ‘Wage board award issue to be resolved within weeks’ ISLAMABAD: “The government is ready to provide protection to journalists if they want to travel to the tribal areas,” said Federal Information Minister Muhamamd Ali Durrani on Saturday. He said […]


Man awarded 16-month RI for abusing minor boy

PESHAWAR, Feb 24: A man was sentenced here on Saturday to 16-month rigorous imprisonment for sexually abusing a child. Additional district and sessions judge Jamaluddin Khan ruled that the evidence on record had proved that the accused, Ijaz Khan, had committed the crime. Chamkani police officials, who had arrested Ijaz Khan on September 18, 2005, […]


Journalists to be vaccinated for Hepatitis ‘B’

KARACHI- Manzoor A. Memon, Additional Secretary, Health, and Government of Sindh have said that the members of the Karachi Press Club will be vaccinated for Hepatitis ‘B’ from the special funds allocated by the Federal Government for vaccination of Hepatitis ‘B’. This he stated during the inauguration of the Blood Screening Camp organized by KPC […]


Two women hacked to death

ISLAMABAD: Two women have been hacked to death by close relatives who suspected them of flirting with neighbours, in a so-called honour killing, police said on Saturday. Farida, 18, and Hameeda, 20, were asleep when the men attacked them with axes, smashing their heads in Sindh on Thursday morning, police officer Ghulam Nabi said. “The […]


Two fall victim to honour killing

TIMERGARA, Feb 25: A young man and a girl were killed on suspicion of having illicit relations in the Doag Darra village of the Upper Dir district on Sunday, residents and police sources said. They said that Ihsanullah was attacked when he was returning home, while the girl was gunned down three hours later. They […]


Woman injured in gang-rape attempt

HARIPUR, Feb 25: A woman was injured in an alleged attempt of gang rape by six people in the village of Bandi Sehran, some 9km from here, on Sunday. The 41-year-old woman, widow of an ex-army man of Galam Pind, told reporters at the Kotnajibullah Hospital that she was weeding her mustard farm when the […]