ISLAMABAD (December 18 2007): Security forces apprehended 17 militants as part of the ongoing operation in Swat, the army said on Monday. The arrests came a few days after the army claimed it had cleared of militants almost all of the valley, killing hundreds of them in recent weeks. According to government reports, around 330 […]
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PARACHINAR, Dec 27: Twenty-seven people were killed and 42 others were injured in fresh clashes between rival groups in the troubled Kurram Agency on Thursday. According to local tribesmen, violence intensified after the arrival of a large number of militants from adjoining areas of North Waziristan and Hangu. They said that missiles and rockets were […]
Certain sections of the proposed draft bill titled Domestic Violence Against Women and Children (Prevention and Protection) Bill, 2007 have to be re-drafted before its submission to the Cabinet for approval, argued Justice (retd) Majida Rizvi and Justice (retd) Shaiq Usmani at a consultation meeting on the bill organised by the Aurat Foundation on Thursday. […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: A clash between police and protesters here on Monday left scores of rights activists, journalists and policemen injured. Police and eyewitnesses said around 400 to 500 protesters carrying placards and banners and shouting anti-government slogans, gathered at Aabpara Chowk in the afternoon and started marching towards the Judges Colony. They were demanding […]
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed shock and grief over the assassination of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson, Benazir Bhutto, on Thursday. The commission condemned the barbaric act, and demanded an inquiry by an international team of investigators. It held the Government of Pakistan and all the law-enforcing authorities under it, responsible for […]
By Salis bin Perwaiz & Kamran Mansoor KARACHI: The death of Benazir Bhutto engulfed Karachi in unprecedented violence that claimed the ten lives and led to the torching of more than 150 vehicles, burning of banks, petrol pumps, a hospital, houses and factories. The police, who along with the Rangers were largely missing from most […]
KHAR, Dec 28: A bomb exploded in a girls’ school here on Thursday evening, destroying two classrooms. According to the political administration of the Bajaur Agency, the bomb had been planted in a hall of the school. Parents have been receiving threatening letters in recent days asking them to stop sending their daughters to schools. […]
Telecommunication networks, including cellular-phone services and landline phones, remained suspended in the entire country for over four hours following the assassination of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto in a suicide attack Thursday evening in Rawalpindi. Immediately after news of her death spread, people tried to contact others through their cell-phones but they failed […]
KARACHI, Dec 27: Fear and chaos ruled the city as news spread about former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s death in an apparent suicide attack in Rawalpindi, with the ensuing violence in Karachi claiming at least five lives while more than 150 vehicles, some petrol pumps and a hospital were set ablaze. The city descended into […]
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