KARACHI: The Army was called out in Sindh, including certain areas of Karachi, on Friday to control the law and order situation as 20 more people, including police officials and a five-year-old boy, were killed in the city, and hundreds were injured with riots and lawlessness continuing for the second consecutive day. The most gruesome […]
MINGORA: Eight people including former NWFP education minister and district Nazim Swat Miangul Asfandyar Amirzeb were killed in a bomb blast at Manglawar village near here on Friday. Asfandyar Amirzeb was son of former MNA Miangul Amirzeb and nephew of Miangul Aurangzeb, former governor of NWFP and Balochistan provinces and grandson of the former Swat […]
ISLAMABAD: At least 27 people were killed and many wounded in violence during a nationwide outpouring of grief and a protest strike over Benazir Bhutto’s assassination while army was deployed in 16 districts of Sindh and paramilitary forces elsewhere in the country. A complete general strike and funeral prayer congregations in all the country’s four […]
LARKANA, Dec 28: Overcome with grief and shock, thousands of people converged on Garhi Khuda Bux to bury former prime minister Benazir Bhutto next to her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in her family mausoleum on Friday. Earlier, the slain opposition leader’s body was flown to Sukkur from Rawalpindi in a C-130 plane. Her husband, Asif […]
GUJRANWALA, Dec 28: The police launched a crackdown on PPP workers late on Friday, arrested 150 of them and registered a case against another 1,000 for disturbing the law and order and attacking public and private properties. Police raids for the arrest of more workers were in progress when this report was filed at 10:30pm. […]
LAHORE: Cinemas across the country will remain closed for three days to mourn the death of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairwoman Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan Film Exhibitor’s Association (PFEA) chairman Jahanzaib Baig told Daily Times that Bhutto’s death was a tragic incident and the PFEA strongly condemned it. He urged the people to stand united and […]
LAHORE: Violent mobs roamed the city on Friday holding protests against the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, burning tyres, pelting stones at policemen, burning many government offices including the Fire BrigadeÂ’s and even looting two banks. Some protesters also held funeral prayers in absentia for the slain Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson. At Yateem Khana Chowk, […]
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 […]
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