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Daily Archives: October 28, 2007

Rapist gets life term

RAWALPINDI, Oct 27: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Saturday handed down life imprisonment to a man and acquitted two others in a case of kidnap, rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Fatehjang last year. ATC-2 Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahot awarded life imprisonment to convict Mohammad Wajahat for kidnapping Sadia Bibi, a student […]


Groom’s father named as accused : Couple’s murder case

KARACHI, Oct 27: The investigation officer in the double murder case of the newly-wed couple on Saturday submitted a progress report to the judicial magistrate-12, Central, Abdul Zahoor Chandio, in which he nominated Shaikh Abdul Majeed, father of the late bridegroom Hafiz Shaikh Mohammad Azeem, as the main accused. Azeem Shaikh and his bride Beenish […]


11,000 children working in Sahiwal kilns: study

SAHIWAL, Oct 27: As many as 25,000 male and female kiln workers, 11,000 of them less than 16 year old, are working under inhuman conditions at 254 kilns in the district, says a study conducted by a non-governmental organisation. According to the data collected by Insan Dost Association (IDA), 90 per cent of the adult […]


‘Women need courage to get rights’

RAWALPINDI, Oct 28: Women should not consider themselves as weaker or inferior but should fight for their rights in the male dominated society with courage and determination. This was stated by Tami Kojima, wife of Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan, while speaking as chief guest at the inaugural session of a ten-day training workshop at Fatima […]


Journalist’s abduction allegation denied

QUETTA, Oct 27: Mir Shafiqur Rehman Mengal, leader of the ruling PML and son of federal state minister Mir Naseer Mengal, has denied that his brother was behind the abduction of a journalist in Khuzdar. Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, he said his brother Mir Ataur Rehman Mengal had been named in […]