Karachi:Mauripur Union Council management threw bookshelves along with books from the rooftop which were destroyed after rains and scorching heat. The administration was disappointed over the lukewarm attitude of the readers and did not care the valuable books. Reportedly, the UC’s former management set up a reading room for the area people, but unfortunately they […]
KARACHI, Sept 20: The Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba on Thursday alleged that activists of the All Pakistan Muttahida Students Organisation kidnapped three of its workers and tortured them severely before releasing them. However, the APMSO said such claims were part of the IJT’s on-going blame-game.An IJT spokesman said three of its workers, students of Government Mono-Technic College […]
LAHORE, Sept 20: Nearly 1.5 million people are in bondage in the country despite a ban on bonded labour owing to lack of proper implementation of the law and economic benefit of the violators. This was stated during an interactive dialogue on “The situation of brick kiln workers” at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan […]
KASUR, Sept 20: Police on Thursday arrested three suspects who allegedly raped a Christian girl a few weeks ago in Kacha Paka Chak 43 in Sarai Mughal police precincts. The police arrested the suspects on the directives of Kasur superintendent of police (investigations) Syed Ali Mohsin who reinvestigated the case on court orders after the […]
KARACHI, Sept 20: The Judicial Magistrate-III, South, rejected the bail application of an accused person in the sodomy case of a 10-year-old boy on Thursday. The accused, Syed Mohammad Zeeshan, had surrendered himself before the court on September 6 after remaining an absconder for nearly three months following the cancellation of his interim pre-arrest bail […]
SAHIWAL: Three men allegedly raped two girls, abducted one of them and killed their brother in village 11/11-L here the other day. Javed, Sardar and Shafiq allegedly took Naseem Bibi and Samina Bibi to a room and raped them. They are also accused of killing the brother of the girls after he woke up because […]
ISLAMABAD-Women whether working temporarily or full-time face difficulties due to low, partial or irregular payment, harassment at workplace, lack of proper training and inadequate working space. Women workers may either be skilled, semi-skilled and even unskilled, belong to dissimilar strata of the society, besides their home responsibilities also struggle to support their families. A resident […]
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Reporters Without Borders voiced indignation at the authorities’ hounding of Munir Mengal, one of the managers of Baloch Voice television who was released by the Balochistan High Court on 12 September saying he was guilty of no crime, only to be rearrested by police. The inspector general of police in Balochistan told journalists in Quetta […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Thursday expressed concern over the harassment of DawnNews reporter Babar Hussain and demanded arrest of those involved in it. Hussain was reportedly picked up and interrogated by an intelligence agency early this week following his report on the recent suicide attack on SSG commandos in Tarbela. “The PPP […]
President National Labour Foundation, Rafique Ahmad, has said that the management of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is using different tactics to harass the employees and now the news report of the proposed downsizing is no less than a bombshell to the employees. In a press release issued on Thursday, he said before its […]
LONDON, Sept 20: A British citizen told a magistrate’s court here that during a year in captivity in Pakistan he suffered sleep deprivation and severe beatings, and that three fingernails were extracted from his left hand. Rangzieb Ahmed said on Wednesday that before being put aboard a plane to Heathrow this month, he was questioned […]
MANSEHRA, Sept 20: Hundreds of protesters ransacked a theatre here on Thursday for allegedly spreading obscenity. The protesters, led by Imam of Markazi Masjid Maulana Waqarul Haq Usman and union council No 3 nazim Tahir Shah, attacked the circus near the Fauji Foundation. The circus manager and workers managed to flee before the attack. The […]
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