HARIPUR, Oct 19: The Additional Session Court Judge Haripur on Friday ordered the registration of FIR against an SHO, a sub-inspector and five constables for killing three people, including a pir, in an alleged false encounter. A police party, headed by Saddar Police Station SHO Babar Khan, had on October 1 allegedly killed Arif-ur-Rehman, pir […]
LAHORE, Oct 19: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Friday condemned the attack on Benazir Bhutto’s convoy in Karachi, describing it as one of the most horrible incidents of terrorism in the country’s history. The condemnation came through a statement issued here by HRCP Secretary-General Iqbal Haider. Earlier, Mr Haider was scheduled to hold […]
KARACHI, Oct 19: Shaikh Abdul Majeed, the father of the deceased Hafiz Shaikh Mohammed Azeem, filed on Friday a criminal petition in the court of district and sessions judge, Central, Abdul Maalik against the provincial police officer and others for their non-compliance with the court’s order to produce a charge-sheet within seven days. Mr Azeem […]
I GUESS we have to accept that we, the Pakistani people, are still stuck in the piree muridee mindset. How else to explain that the major metropolis of Karachi was cheerfully exposed to murder and mayhem despite tall talk about security? And for what? A political leader was returning to the city after a longish […]
Karachi:Within an hour of the Friday morning’s bomb blasts on Sharae Faisal, the cityÂ’s main hospitals reported that there were not enough beds and facilities to cope with the rising number of injured being brought in. Also, the speed with which patients were being handled left much to be desired. The lack of a proper […]
Karachi:Friday’s bomb blasts have made journalists across the city apprehensive about security that is promised to them to in their line of work. Many complained that the PPP’s security was not “up to the mark, as promised.” Journalists observed that the high level security expected at Sharah-e-Faisal was not enough to keep them safe, let […]
Karachi:“I will not come home tonight and sleep as I have a lot of work to do.” These were 42-year-old Arif Khan’s last words to his wife, Gulshan, who doesn’t sleep till her husband comes home. Arif Khan is the cameraman, who was killed while capturing footage of the October 18 blasts on Thursday: an […]
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