Peshawar:Showing grave concern over the increasing level of child labour in Pakistan, the speakers at a workshop pointed out that weak implementation of relevant laws besides poverty and lack of education were the root causes of this social menace and called for joint efforts from all stakeholders to eliminate this curse. A one-day workshop titled […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan still has seven million child labour whereas 24,407 juveniles under 18 have died as a result of crime and other forms of violence since 2003. This horrifying data was revealed in a document of Population Welfare Ministry obtained by TheNation. The document further says that the number of street children in Pakistan […]
LAHORE: A full bench of the Lahore High Court has admitted identical petitions challenging the PEMRA (Amended) Ordinance 2007 and summoned Attorney General of Pakistan for assistance on October 8.The full bench headed by Justice Muhammad Muzammal Khan passed this order while hearing two identical petitions filed on behalf of the Peoples’ Lawyers Forum (Punjab) […]
MINGORA: As many as forty video shops were destroyed when explosives planted inside two adjacent CD and video markets went off simultaneously here on Friday morning. However, no loss to life was caused as the incident occurred at 4 am when no one was in the market. Eyewitnesses told The News that over two-dozen shops […]
BANNU, Sept 7: Suspected militants have beheaded two women they accused of indulging in immoral activities. The bodies of the women, who had been kidnapped a day earlier by armed people, were found in the Baran Dam area in the troubled Frontier Region of Bannu on Friday. Witnesses said a note in Pashto was found […]
MUZAFFARGARH, Sept 7: A man has cut the nose of his wife allegedly to implicate his opponents in Pati Ghulam Ali area of Kot Addu tehsil on Friday. Zaffar Iqbal allegedly took his wife Rani to a forest where his friends were also waiting for them. They give her a cup of tea that contained […]
KARACHI, Sept 7: Police seem to lack the will to pursue the gang-rape case that took place at a government hospital in Landhi on Thursday as no efforts have been made to arrest the suspects. A Civil Hospital nurse was gang-raped allegedly by four ward boys of the Landhi Medical Complex, where she had gone […]
THE gang rape of a young nurse at a hospital in Karachi on Thursday by four ward attendants tells us no place is safe from grisly attacks. The nurse who works at Civil Hospital had gone to a government hospital in her residential locality for some treatment when she was assaulted by four ward men. […]
LALAMUSA: A man and his wife were shot dead over their love marriage in Mohallah Sardarpur here on Friday. Reportedly, Amanat Ali and Saiqa contracted a love marriage after fleeing from their houses some one year ago. When Saiqa’s parents found their daughter missing, they got a kidnapping case registered against Amanat. Consequently, the Sadar […]
Noted cartoonist and journalist I H Zaidi was paid glowing tributes for his vision and imagination in developing his caricatures and cartoons, features and humorist sketches, compiled in the form of book, titled ‘Zaidi Kay Cartoon’ that was launched on Friday at the Arts Council of Pakistan. Speakers, who threw light on the creativity of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Sub-Committee on Interior directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to get its regulations strictly implemented by mobile phone companies. The Committee meeting, presided by Senator Gulshan Saeed expressed serious concern over large-scale proliferation of unauthorised mobile SIMs in the country and their alleged link to crimes. The Sub-Committee also directed that no […]
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