MIRPURKHAS: Unknown motorcyclists shot dead Zubair Ahmad Mujahid, a senior journalist, here late Friday night. He was going home on his motorcycle when the assailants opened fire on him at Hyderabad Road near Marhaba Lawn. Police shifted his body to the civil hospital for post-mortem. Several local journalists gathered at the hospital late night. Source: […]
THE heads and other representatives of several media bodies, including CPNE, APNS and PFUJ, met with government officials on Thursday to take into account the current standoff between the two sides. The caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting was also present. He gave certain welcome words of assurance and emphasised his opposition to physical action […]
Expressing serious concern at Munir Malik’s illness in jail and the hardships being caused to superior court judges and their families under unlawful detention, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for an immediate lifting of bar to the judges’ and lawyers’ liberty. In a statement issued by Hina Jilani of the HRCP, […]
(New York, November 22, 2007) — The Pakistani government should immediately release Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, his family and other deposed Supreme Court judges held under house arrest since November 3, Human Rights Watch said today. Chaudhry and his family have not been allowed out of their home in Islamabad’s Judges’ Colony, where senior […]
LAHORE, Nov 23: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed shock and grief over the killing of Ballach Marri and serious concern over senior lawyer Munir Malik’s illness in jail and hardships being faced by judges of superior courts and their families under unlawful and unacknowledged detention. In a statement issued here on […]
KARACHI (November 24 2007): Sindh Government on Friday decided to withdraw cases instituted against journalists, cameramen, photographers and members of the civil society after November 5. The decision was taken by Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat- ul- Ebad Khan and Caretaker Chief Minister former Justice Abdul Qadir Halepota on the recommendation and request of Caretaker Home […]
Sindh High Court has reserved order in contempt application against the former chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim. President Karachi Bar Association Iftikhar Javed Qazi had filed contempt application against Dr. Arbab Ghulam Rahim for delivering contemptuous statements to the media on suo moto proceedings initiated by SHC over May 12 mayhem. The applicant and his […]
As many as 4,624 cases of abuse against women were reported from January to August 2007 across the country. This was revealed by Madadgar Helpline for children and women suffering from violence and abuse in a press release issued on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to be observed […]
RAWALPINDI, Nov 24: People’s right to live free of violence and discrimination is being violated on a massive and systematic scale all over the world. Women are the prime victim of such violence which destroys families and communities besides stunting social and economic progress. On the eve of International day for the Elimination of Violence […]
KARACHI, Nov 24: A 45-year-old woman was shot dead on Saturday in Qaimkhani Colony allegedly by her two sons for remarrying, police and witness said. The Mochko police said suspects Tariq, 25, and Shabbir, sons of the late Jahanzeb, fled after killing their mother, Nasreen, who had remarried five months ago. The body was shifted […]
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