IT is a matter of grave concern for the literary community and art lovers of Sindh that Tariq Alam Abro, a leading novelist and short story writer of the province, is seriously ill and hospitalised at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Civil Hospital, Karachi. He is suffering from kidney failure and a serious […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan resigned from the cabinet on Wednesday to plead the presidential reference sent to the Supreme Court for revisiting the execution of PPP founder Z.A. Bhutto after he was sentenced to death by the Lahore High Court in 1978 and the verdict was upheld by the […]
By Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: Journalists have filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court (SC) regarding hajj scam, making Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) a party and the apex court has been requested to take action against FIA under Article 204 because the agency was guilty of contempt of court. SC Advocate Hashmat Ali Habib filed […]
Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: Following a tete-a-tete between the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, and Information Minister, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, regarding Geo Super’s closure, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Faisal Karim Kundi, on Wednesday referred the case to the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on […]
KARACHI: Despite payment of $15,000 fee, provision of required information and completion of hearing, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulator Authority (Pemra) has not allowed uplinking of Geo Super from Pakistan. The Pakistani sports fans are still deprived of watching the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches and other national and international sports competitions on their favourite […]
KARACHI: Despite its political and financial stability, India lags behind all other South Asian countries in making laws to protect the rights of home-based workers, said Sapna Joshi. Joshi, who is the executive director of Home Net, an organisation working for the legal and social protection of home-based, women workers, is visiting Karachi, along with […]
ISLAMABAD: The government’s Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is designating $750 million, nearly half from US coffers, to create jobs and alleviate poverty by providing women with funds for food, health and training in the tribal belt. Pakistan is also home to some of the lowest social indicators in the world. Unemployment is rife, education […]
KHARAN: Two of the four policemen, who allegedly raped a female medical technician at Washak District Headquarters Hospital (DHQH), were arrested on Wednesday. “Four policemen forcibly entered the residential quarter of a female medical technician, located within DHQH Washak and gang-raped her,” police said adding that two of the four had been arrested and identified […]
Rabia Ali Karachi: A week ago, when cases of child abuse were unheard of in the remote Bhakkar Goth, people carried on with their daily routines and parents would leave their children alone at home while they were out working. But following the horrifying incident in which seven-year-old *S was brutally raped by her landlord’s […]
Karachi: A young schoolteacher was cut down by an unknown assassin’s bullet in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Wednesday. SHO Asif Jakhrani said Sana, 24, was a teacher at a private school in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. She left the school with her friend in her Alto car on Wednesday and dropped her at her house opposite Bisma Apartments. She then […]
SUKKUR: A man has been arrested for presiding over a jirga which declared a couple karo-kari and also ordered their murder. Ghulam Sarwar Unnar of Waryam Unnar village in Mirpur Mathelo had lodged an FIR with the Belo Mirpur police against Mohammad Hassan and nine others for holding the jirga. He alleged in his complaint […]
PESHAWAR: The high court on Wednesday directed the provincial government to implement forthwith a court judgment delivered over a year ago regarding making necessary changes in nikahnama (marriage certificate) for simplifying provisions about dower and dowry. A two-member bench comprising Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Yahya Afridi took exception to the non-compliance of the […]
KARACHI: Despite its political and financial stability, India lags behind all other South Asian countries in making laws to protect the rights of home-based workers, said Sapna Joshi. Joshi, who is the executive director of Home Net, an organisation working for the legal and social protection of home-based, women workers, is visiting Karachi, along with […]
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