by the violence in Karachi between December 27 and 31 in the aftermath of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. The city government has established its complaint centre on the ground floor at the civic centre, and at the DCO’s camp office, the old Commissioner’s House, Club Road. Hundreds of applications were received since Saturday and […]
KARACHI, Jan 5: Civil society and non-governmental organisations have demanded that the government formulate laws prescribing a time limit of six months during which courts must decide rape cases, since protracted hearings not only intensify the victims’ suffering but also work in favour of the accused. Referring to the 2002 amendments to the law regarding […]
KARACHI, jan 5: A division bench of the Sindh High Court suspended on Saturday the letter of instructions submitted by the Film Censors Board and directed it to allow the screening of a film earlier banned by the board. The bench, comprising justice Nadeem Azhar Siddiqui and justice Dr Rana Mohammad Shamim, conducted an urgent […]
KARACHI (January 06 2008): Najeeb Ahmed and Muhammad Imtiaz Khan Faran were elected as President and Secretary of Karachi Press Club respectively for the session of 2007-08 in the annual general elections held here on Saturday Saeed Sarbazi (Business Recorder) was elected as vice president while Aamir Latif treasurer, and Muhammad Anwar Khan Joint Secretary […]
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Saturday condemned PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif’s “undemocratic” behavior with the correspondent of Business Plus TV, saying “these people do not retire from talking of freedom of the press, but their political height is only due to the electronic and print media”. “Nawaz’s misbehavior with the journalist […]
KARACHI, Jan 5: A brother of rape victim Kainat Soomro was picked up by the Dadu police on Jan 2 on charges of rioting, the family of 20-year-old Sabir Soomro has said. Kainat was gang-raped on Jan 10, 2007. Her father Ghulam Nabi Soomro, ex-president of the transporters’ union, managed to lodge a case against […]
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