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Daily Archives: April 4, 2007

Five female abducted madrassa students recovered

KARACHI : Shekhupura police recovered five abducted female madrassa students on Friday, an Aaj TV channel report said. The five girl students were kidnapped from Lahore. An Aaj TV channel report said that when the five female students were not reached their homes, their parents contacted madrassa authorities and police. Police received an anonymous call […]


HRCP accuses FC of raiding Baloch houses

QUETTA: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) accused the Frontier Corps (FC) on Tuesday of setting Baloch houses on fire and looting jewellery and cash during a recent search operation in Dera Bugti. According to a press release on Tuesday, the HRCP alleged that the FC had left several hundred families homeless by setting […]


Journalist loses four relatives for arranging reporters’ visit to Wana

PESHAWAR: A tribal journalist, Din Mohammad, who helped media people visit Wana and its adjacent towns a few days ago suffered irreversible loss during the past three days, when foreign militants killed three of his uncles and 15-year-old brother one by one. The ill-fated reporter in Dera Ismail Khan had facilitated journalists from Peshawar, Tank […]


Missing girl returns home, narrates her ordeal

HYDERABAD: Nineteen-year-old Yusra Siddiqui, student of the Sindh University who had been missing since January 19, returned home in Shahdadpuri Mohalla here the other day. The girl claimed that she had been physically assaulted and tortured during the captivity. Yusra, who had been left at the gate of the Supreme Court in Islamabad during a […]


Strike call withdrawn

KARACHI, April 3: The Pakistan Film Exhibitors Association has withdrawn its call for a week-long strike which was scheduled to begin on Thursday after its leadership received assurances from some top government officials promising that their demands would be met. “Some top government officials have contacted me and our colleagues in the northern region (Punjab […]


Blasphemy accused in judicial custody

TOBA TEK SINGH, April 3: A local civil judge remanded a blasphemy accused in judicial custody on Tuesday. City police had registered a blasphemy case on Monday against five Christian youths and arrested one of them, Salamat Masih. Reports said Abdul Ghaffar of Bakhshi Park locality lodged a written complaint with the police, stating that […]