SUKKUR: A young woman was termed `kari` and axed in Golimar area of Kandhkot on Sunday. Ali Mardan Arbani, who suspected his brother`s wife of having illicit relations with a neighbur, allegedly attacked her with a hatchet, killing her on the spot. The accused is reported to be absconding. Source: Dawn Date:5/30/2011
LAHORE: About six people, including a young girl, were killed in separate incidents across the city on Sunday. In the first incident, unidentified persons in the jurisdiction of Green Town Police strangled a 17-year-old girl to death after gang raping her. The deceased was identified as Rozeena Yousaf. Some locals of the Taufeeq Colony had […]
By Jahanzaib Haque The writer is web editor at The Express Tribune [email protected] Being the editor of a news website has one major perk — the gift (or curse) of being able to sort and meta-analyse the hordes of comments pouring in on articles. One topic in particular, where commentary borders on the unusual and […]
By Rauf Parekh IT is often said that truth is the first casualty of war. But it is a sad fact that most often women, too, are among the first casualties of war and are affected by it in more than one way. It is, however, rare that we come across an account of a […]
Hajrah Mumtaz IF televised coverage of last week’s assault on Karachi’s PNS Mehran airbase is anything to go by, it would seem that the industry still has lessons to learn in terms of covering such events in a responsible fashion, and keeping the safety of newsmen as well as others in mind. News crews rushed […]
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced on Sunday amnesty for the young Taliban, advising them to work for the betterment of the country. Addressing a youth convention organised by the PPP, he said no one would be allowed to insult the masses’ mandate given to the government for a five-year rule. He said the government […]
By: Jam Sajjad Hussain LAHORE — Violence and gangster characters in Punjabi movies turned an illiterate man to become a criminal of high rank which not only claimed his life but also that of his friends, an investigation report has revealed. The criminal attitude of Muhammad Altaf alias Kala Gujjar, son of Mohammad Younus and […]
By Mahnoor Sherazee KARACHI: Are we restricting our children’s cognitive development by teaching them in a foreign language in primary schools? Dawn columnist Zubeida Mustafa certainly believes so. After extensive research and a great deal of groundwork, Mustafa launched her book ‘Tyranny of Language in Education: The Problem and its Solution’ at the press club […]
By: Asma Ghani ISLAMABAD — There should be close cooperation between Pakistan and Iran to bridge up the communication gaps and there is a need to end reliance on foreign media and have direct communication with each other to counter the fabricated stories about both the countries spread by the western media. Adviser to Iran’s […]
Karachi: A rapist-cum-murderer, already serving a lengthy prison term for a woman’s murder, was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday. Rizwan Ali a relative of Shabana, forcibly entered the house of Mohammed Anwer in the night between November 12 and 13, 2006 within the remit of Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station and when he found that […]
HYDERABAD: There is always an underlying reason, either psychological or personal, for an individual to attempt suicide as the thought does not arise in a jiffy. It is always an incident that forces a person to take this extreme action, some in a violent fit of anger and others through a calculated move. Moreover, women […]
By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: With just a week to go before the budget session of the National Assembly, the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N on Saturday requisitioned an emergency session of the house to discuss the delay in formation of an independent commission to investigate the Abbottabad raid in which Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden […]
Karachi: A rapist-cum-murderer, already serving a lengthy prison term for a woman’s murder, was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday. Rizwan Ali a relative of Shabana, forcibly entered the house of Mohammed Anwer in the night between November 12 and 13, 2006 within the remit of Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station and when he found that […]
LAHORE: Two journalists traveling on their motorcycle on a Peshawar-to-Karachi journey arrived in the city on Friday. The young duo – Salman Shehzad and Wali Afridi – are on the motorcycle journey to protest the killings of their colleagues in conflict areas. They started their journey from Peshawar on May 26 and are scheduled to […]
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