HOW effective has the National Commission on the Status of Women been? Set up in 2000 as an autonomous body to review discriminatory laws and make suggestions for equalising socio-economic opportunities, its recommendations to repeal the Hudood Ordinances, for instance, were never given the due attention they deserved. Instead, a watered-down version of the women’s […]
BADIN – Journalists of Talhar and activists of PPP took out a procession in protest against the kidnapping of President Talhar Press Club Haji Khan Lashari and Vice president Ammar Singh here on Saturday. The procession converted into a rally, in front of the press club Talhar which was led by former MNA Badin Dr […]
MINGORA: Public transporters in Swat district on Saturday received threatening letters by unidentified people, believed to be Taliban militants, asking them to remove “obscene” photographs and stop playing music in their vehicles or their vehicles would be blown up. The threatening pamphlets were delivered at the Matta Bus Stand here and the short warning for […]
LAHORE: The grief-stricken parents of a nine-year-old girl allegedly raped by a landlord a month earlier are still seeking justice. A month after the rape, the victim is still in shock. She hardly speaks and looks no one in the eye. Born into an impoverished family and living in a dingy house in Kahna, Abida, […]
HYDERABAD, Sept 1: Rape survivor turned rights activist, Mukhtaran Mai, says on Saturday that women in other countries, too, face excesses sometimes but they are sure the perpetrators can never get away with it whereas in Pakistan the wronged women have to keep waiting for the elusive justice. Mukhtaran Mai who gained international acclaim after […]
SHABQADAR: A bomb blast damaged a net café in Shabqadar Bazaar in Charsadda district on Saturday evening. However, no loss of life was reported. The bomb that went off at 7.45 pm damaged the café owned by one Arif at Ihsanullah Market. Shabqadar Tehsil Nazim Muhammad Ashfaq while talking to The News alleged that the […]
CHARSADDA- Militants blew up a music centre in lhsanullah Market, on Saturday evening. The music centre was completely destroyed. However, no loss of life was reported. Owner of the shop told TheNation that he closed the centre at 8:00 pm, while the militants blew it up at 8:15 pm, just fifteen minutes after he left […]
LAKKI MARWAT, Sept 2: Police booked more than a dozen people on charges of watching obscene movies following a raid on an internet cafe here on Sunday, officials said. Police have launched a crackdown on internet cafes as part of a campaign to eradicate vulgarity and obscenity from the area. During the anti-obscenity drive a […]
STOCKHOLM, Sept 1: A leading Swedish newspaper on Saturday said the country should not apologise for the recent publication of a caricature of Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Dagens Nyheter said in an editorial that Sweden “has a duty from now on to defend its principles and present an open dialogue”. It said […]
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