ATTOCK, May 20: A young diabetic prisoner is fighting for life at the Attock jail hospital as he could not be shifted to the District Headquarters (DHQ) hospital due to non-availability of police guard, sources at the jail administration told Dawn, requesting not to be named. The 26-year-old diabetic under-trail prisoner, Rowaiz Khan, resident of […]
LAHORE: Police arrested a wife and her husband — a woman who underwent gender reassignment surgery 16 years ago — and accused them of lying about the husband’s gender to a court. The case, which casts a rare public spotlight on the taboo subject of transsexualism in the country, came to the attention of the […]
ISLAMABAD May 18, 2007:Unidentified assailants, allegedly members of intelligence agencies, beat up SANA News Agency Editor-in-Chief Shakeel Ahmad Turabi on Friday. The injured journalist was initially taken to KRL Hospital before being shifted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, where is he under observation. In a complaint registered to the Margalla Police Station, Turabi […]
PESHAWAR: The Individual-land, a non-government organisation, in its support for tribal journalists has stated, “Tribal journalists are usually pressured both by the government and the militants. All parties to the conflict in Waziristan insist that their dead are martyrs. The media are under pressure to refer to dead soldiers as ‘martyrs’ and the militants as […]
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