LAHORE: The chief justice of the Lahore High Court on Monday allowed the law ministry to inspect the record of the murder case against former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. An application was submitted to the LHC Registrar Abdus Sattar Asghar, stating that a presidential reference had been filed in the Supreme Court to revisit […]
Karachi: The security situation in the city has worsened this year, with at least 260 people being killed in incidents of target killings in its first quarter, says a quarterly report released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). Coincidentally, HRCP’s casualty figure for the first six months of 2010 was also 260. Meanwhile, […]
By Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD: Describing 2010 as a particularly bad year for minorities, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said the government did not even extend sympathies to the victims of faith-related killings. The HRCP’s ‘State of Human Rights in 2010’ report released on Thursday noted that there had been few positive developments […]
By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court has rejected the bail plea of two people accused of hacking and defacing the official website of the Supreme Court. “Those who have ridiculed the superior judiciary and judicial system of the country and circulated it around the world through hacking are not entitled to any […]
By Ali Hassan ISLAMABAD: Additional Sessions Judge Riffat Sultan Sheikh Monday adjourned a cyber crime case against two men accused of illegally terminating international traffic using unauthorized Voice over Internet Protocols (VoIP). The complaint into the case was Zonal Director Rawalpindi Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). A First Information Report (FIR) vide 17/ 10 dated 21-10-2010 […]
Asim Javed ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will take up today the application of a cable operator for lifting of his costly equipment by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) after he refused to obey its verbal orders to disrupt the broadcasts of Geo Super television network. Regional Manager Pemra Islamabad Muhammad Farooq […]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has congratulated Pervez Shaukat, President Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Vice Presidents Tariq Chaudhry and Asad Sahi, General Secretary Amin Yousuf and other office bearers on their success in the PFUJ elections. The president in a message felicitating the new office bearers of the PFUJ expressed the hope that […]
By Shoaib Ahmed LAHORE: The youngest rock band of the country comprising a brother-sister duo has rocked the rock music scene here. The two young souls — 10-year-old Ali, a drummer, and his 16-year-old sister, Zoya, a vocalist – are working on their debut album which is expected to be launched in a couple of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Lok Virsa on Monday unveiled a plaque at the National Monument Museum acknowledging the services of professionals for creation of the first thematic museum on Pakistan. The event acknowledged the valuable services of visualisers, resource persons, sculptors, artists, painters, creative and technical team who worked for the establishment of the museum. The museum […]
LAHORE — TheNation and Nawa-i-Waqt Chief Editor Majid Nizami on Monday hosted a reception for Nawa-i-Waqt columnists Dr Ajmal Niazi and Khalid Ahmed to congratulate them on being awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz and Pride of Performance, respectively. Deputy Managing Director Rameeza Nizami, TheNation Editor Salim Bokhari, former Nawa-i-Waqt columnist Abdul Qadir Hasan, and senior journalists of the […]
mtiaz Ali Karachi: The deteriorating security situation in Karachi has made it difficult for journalists to impartially report on incidents of violence, speakers at a media workshop at the Karachi Press Club said on Monday. The workshop, which was organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in collaboration with the Karachi Press […]
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a seminar on Monday stressed the need of more legislation to curb all sorts of violence against women which are even accepted as traditional norms in the society. Besides crimes, institutional factors such as male domination, patriarchal biases in criminal justice system and law enforcing agencies hamper the women access to justice. […]
LHC grants bail to alleged rapist after victim changes testimony. LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday granted pre-arrest bail to a man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, after the victim changed her testimony and told the court that the actual rapist was her father. The father was the complainant in the rape FIR, […]
By Sehrish Wasif ISLAMABAD: Senior journalists and women rights activists chided the media for reporting rape cases like any ordinary crime, at the launching ceremony of a report on the media’s role in sex crimes. Tasneem Ahmar, director of Uks, Dr Salman Tariq, gender advisor at United Nations, Huma Khawar, senior journalist, Quatrina Hosain, director […]
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