ROME, Nov 13: The father and two brothers-in-law of a young Pakistani woman were sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday for her murder last year in a so-called “honour killing,” a lawyer for the family said. The stabbed body of 21-year-old Hina Saleem was found buried in the garden of the family home […]
PESHAWAR, Nov 13: The Alliance for the Protection of Human Rights (APHR) on Tuesday announced that it would launch a campaign against the imposition of the state of emergency and for the restoration of the Constitution. The alliance, comprising civil society organisations, including the Aurat Foundation, Sungi, Strengthening Participatory Organisation, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, […]
ANY colour as long as it is black. The Fordian stance that the military regime is taking towards the media is thick with doublethink. The inherent contradiction in the government’s oft-declared love for freedom of speech and expression while clamping down on media establishments in the name of the national interest is not lost on […]
THERE have been conflicting accounts in the western press about President Musharraf’s press conference. The Washington Post highlighted his ‘grim expression’ throughout the press conference and mentioned his ‘evident irritation’ when he expressed the hope that his election announcement and his explanation for the continuance of emergency rule would end “the aspersions, distortions, rumours and […]
PESHAWAR: The Alliance for the Protection of Human Rights (APHR), a civil society organisation, demanded on Tuesday that the government lift the emergency, restore the Constitution and release all political prisoners. The APHR demands came when civil society organisations assembled at the Peshawar Press Club for consultations to formulate a strategy to mobilise diverse segments […]
DADU, Nov 13: Majority of children in rural Sindh have to work due to poverty and lack of educational facilities, said social worker Bakht Jamal Soomro, while speaking at a seminar on “Protection of the rights of vulnerable children” at the K.G High School here on Tuesday. He said there were 70 million children under […]
WASHINGTON: A dozen US human rights groups on Tuesday urged President George W Bush to cut off military aid to Pakistan if President Pervez Musharraf refuses to end emergency rule and release politicians, jurists and rights activists. In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the groups said Musharraf’s imposition of emergency flew in […]
KARACHI, Nov 13: A delegation of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan visited the Central Prison Karachi to meet the inmates, particularly the detained lawyers, on Tuesday. The delegation comprising HRCP Secretary-General Iqbal Haider, council members Uzma Noorani and Asad Iqbal Butt, programme coordinator Muhammad Ejaz Ahsan and Adnan I. Chaudhry Advocate met the detained […]
KARACHI, Nov 13: A delegation of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan visited the Central Prison Karachi to meet the inmates, particularly the detained lawyers, on Tuesday. The delegation comprising HRCP Secretary-General Iqbal Haider, council members Uzma Noorani and Asad Iqbal Butt, programme coordinator Muhammad Ejaz Ahsan and Adnan I. Chaudhry Advocate met the detained […]
During a surprise visit to New Karachi on Monday, the Nazim, Karachi, Syed Mustafa Kamal, met local people at Allahwali-the last stop of W-11 wagon where he heard their problems and said that issuance of a new route for the residents of Ahsanabad and Gulshan-e-Maymar would be finalised within a week after which all those […]
PESHAWAR (November 14 2007): Authorities on Tuesday imposed a curfew in a restive north-western area where militants loyal to a cleric are waging a campaign for Islamic law, the army said. The curfew in the scenic Swat valley was announced hours after army gunship helicopters pounded rebel positions in the mountains, blowing up an ammunition […]
KARACHI – Opposition members of City Council Tuesday walked out in protest when their resolution pertaining to the imposing of emergency in the country, removal of Supreme Court Judges, ban on private TV channels, arrest of political activists, was not accepted by the Convenor of the Council for discussion. City Council session was presided over […]
KARACHI, Nov 13: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed a non-governmental organisation (NGO) to pay Rs50,000 as costs for filing a frivolous petition. The amount would be deposited with the nazir within 15 days and would be utilised for lawyers’ library in the court, the order passed by a division bench comprising Justices Munib […]
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