By: Sajid Zia LAHORE — The Supreme Court was moved on Thursday against the presidential reference seeking revisiting of the 32-year-old Zulifiqar Ali Bhutto case decision. ZAB, it may be noted, was hanged in 1979 in the murder case of Nawab Muhammad Ahmad Khan Kasuri. The petition was in the Lahore Registry of the apex […]
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Q has rejected division of Sindh province but it has supported creation of Hazara and Southern Punjab provinces, said PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, here on Thursday. He further said Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is in contact with MQM and Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman with a view to bring the country out of crisis and […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Thursday expressed its deep shock and outrage over the barbaric murder of abducted human rights activist and HRCP Core Group coordinator for Pasni, Siddique Eido, whose tortured body was found in Ormara area. The Commission slammed the government for its failure to recover the activist and sought […]
Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: A constitutional petition, challenging the appointment and the promotion of acting Pemra Chairman Dr Abdul Jabbar, was filed in the Supreme Court (SC), praying for declaring his appointment as illegal. The petition was filed by Advocate Altaf Mehmood Malik under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution, requesting the court to take a […]
Authorities recover two bullet-riddled bodies in Jaki area. QUETTA: The bodies of two more Baloch missing persons were recovered on Thursday morning from the Coastal Highway in Jaki area, about 60 kilometres from Ormara town. One of the deceased was a human rights activist and a member of the Baloch Students Organisaton-Azad. According to assistant […]
By Zeeshan Mujahid KARACHI: Two eyewitnesses helped solve the murder of TV reporter Wali Babar by voluntarily telling the police about the car used by the killers and who fired at him. This came to the fore when Investigation Officer Inspector Noor Sabir submitted the charge sheet before Justice Maqbool Baqar of the High Court […]
* Youth Affairs Minister Faisal Sabzwari stresses the need to boost such type of activities By Asad Farooq KARACHI: The two-day ‘Youth Theatre Festival 2011’, organised by the Sindh Youth Affairs Department in collaboration with the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, concluded here on Thursday amid an award distribution ceremony. Speaking on the occasion as […]
ISLAMABAD: Enforcement teams of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority on Thursday raided over 50 cable television networks in various parts of the country in a bid to stop illegal airing of satellite and CD channels despite repeated warnings to them. A PEMRA press release issued on Thursday said that excessive CD channels on cable […]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Workers Federation held a rally to express solidarity with the Jang Group and Geo TV Network and protest the government ban on Geo Super and Aag TV. The rally started from the Bakhtiar Labor Hall was participated in by a large number of protestors who were holding banners and placards inscribed with […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Bar Council and Karachi Bar Association have demanded the government lift ban on Geo Super and Aag channels and announced that over 100 bar office-bearers and members will issue “Awami Licences” to these channels at City Courts on Tuesday. Sindh Bar Council Member Mehmoodul Hassan Karachi Bar association President Muhammad Aaqil and […]
QUETTA: Speakers in a ceremony held here on Thursday to launch the Scoping Research Study urged the parliamentarians to play their due role for implementing laws on domestic violence and violence against women in letter and spirit. The launching ceremony, organised by the Balochistan Foundation for Development, was largely attended by ministers, members of Balochistan […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan`s criminal justice system is totally male oriented with very deep patriarchal biases hindering provision of justice to rape victims. This was stated by representatives of different NGOs and human rights activists at a press conference here on Thursday. Their concerns followed the recent Supreme Court ruling in the Mukhtar Mai case. Representatives from […]
LARKANA: Police registered an FIR against a former SHO and four others on Thursday on the orders of the Sindh High Court, circuit court Larkana for kidnapping and raping a flood-affected girl. Ratodero Police booked former SHO of Waris Dino Machi police station and Saifullah Bughio, Ismaiel Tunio, Bachal Faqeer Tunio and Nazir Tunio on […]
DADU: Speakers at a seminar held in Mehar on Thursday claimed that number of women killed on the pretext of karo-kari had increased in remote areas of Sindh because of illiteracy. It was a common practice to hold underage marriages, which caused deaof women during delivery, they said. The seminar was organised by Goth Sudhar […]
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