ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission (JC) approved on Saturday confirmation of the four existing additional judges of the Balochistan High Court and recommended the appointment of another three to complete the strength of the court to eight. A meeting of the commission, presided over by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, unanimously approved the names of additional […]
By Ahmad Fraz Khan LAHORE: Facing a choice of either joining the federal government or see some 25 MNAs deserting the party, the PML-Q has, in principle, decided to join the federal government in the first stage, and later the cabinet. According to party insiders, the PPP has been approaching the Chaudhrys through former law […]
By Sajid Chaudhry ISLAMABAD: Consolidated (federal and all four provincial governments) budget deficit is estimated at Rs 950 billion in the forthcoming fiscal year 2011-12, official sources informed Daily Times on Saturday. The equivalent amount of deficit would be arranged through local and foreign borrowing. “The local borrowing is to be done through bank borrowing […]
GUJRAT: Federal Information Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan says officials of the police and customs departments have been appointed to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority and it needs young professionals with journalistic background to boost up the image of the country. Addressing ‘Meet-the-press’ programme at the Gujrat Press Club on Saturday, Awan said: “Such […]
Two major stage actors died in the course of a couple of weeks. Mastana and Babboo Baraal were the mainstay of popular theatre of the country. Both were comedians and had the fame to draw audiences if their name was displayed on the advertisements and hoardings of the plays to be staged in any of […]
By Saleem Shahid QUETTA: A man tortured his 12-year-old daughter to death in Nawan Killi, a locality on the outskirts of Quetta, police said. They said on Saturday that Abdul Khaliq Kakar took Nadia Bibi into a room of his house and severely beaten her up with a stick. Neighbours hearing the cries of the […]
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Women Wing Sindh Information Secretary, Sharmila Farooqui, said here on Saturday that the government is committed to provide full protection and justice to needy women in Karachi and other parts of the country, besides providing legal assistance to rape victim Mukhtaran Mai in her decision to file a review petition […]
* Aitzaz says plea will contain full critique of court’s judgement LAHORE: Mukhtaran Mai, a gang rape victim, will file a review petition in the Supreme Court against its April 21 verdict of acquitting five of the six accused in the case. The apex court had, upheld the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) verdict in the […]
Karachi: A suspect was remanded on Saturday in police custody till Monday for allegedly strangling a girl to death while attempting to rape her. Kaleem Ahmed, who allegedly took a teenaged girl to some place and attempted to rape her. However, when she started screaming he developed fear and put some cloth on her mouth, […]
Sana Bucha Rape, like hate, is a strong word. It’s taboo to use it in some parts of the country, while the word ‘sexual assault’ is used in its place, to somehow lessen its effect. But the effect of rape cannot be lessened. For all the tens of thousands of women who have been subjected […]
There is a structural contradiction within the ‘justice’-delivery apparatus By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar The Supreme Court’s decision to acquit five of the six men that were involved in the gang-rape of the now world-renowned Mukhtaran Mai has quite understandably elicited widespread outrage. This latest pronouncement of our country’s most powerful institution of ‘justice’ will no […]
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