Beenish said that she was locked in a room for six days and raped by the four men. MUZAFFARGARH: An 18-year-old girl, who was allegedly gang raped in Muzaffargarh said that her rapists had attacked her again after she filed a case. According to police officials, a group of armed men allegedly abducted an 18-year-old […]
By Shabbir Mir The woman said that a political rivalry could have led to publishing of the news reports. GILGIT: An alleged gang-rape victim from a village near Skardu told the Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court (SAC) on Monday that she wasn’t subjected to rape, court sources said. Taking suo motu action last week after publication […]
LAHORE: Members of the civil society and people from different walks of life will be holding a protest near the Lahore Press Club (LPC) on Saturday against the highhandedness of police for beating a female curator of a renowned art gallery. The incident took place before Ramazan, when the SHO entered the Nairang Art Gallery […]
ISLAMABAD: President, Islamabad Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IWCCI) Samina Fazil on Monday said women entrepreneurs should diversify their businesses to excel and play important role in the national development. Fazil said that majority of business women are too much focused on few sectors while few would venture in other areas, which show lack […]
Sometimes we fool ourselves into believing that things have improved dramatically since the days of General Ziaul Haq, when culture and free expression in numerous forms were ruthlessly crushed. But there are reminders every now and then that the legacy of those times lives on. The latest such reminder came at the Nairang Art Gallery […]
By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: In what has been billed as a decision that may ignite fresh tensions between the executive and judiciary, the Supreme Court quashed on Monday the July 4 suspension order of Capt (retd) Zafar Ahmed Qureshi and reinstated him to the post of Additional Director General of Federal Investigation Agency. Mr Qureshi […]
By Shamim-ur-Rahman KARACHI: An ordinance reviving the Local Government system of 2001 in the entire Sindh province, signed by Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan late on Sunday night, has come into force and shall be deemed to have taken effect from July 9. The ordinance marks the demise of the controversial commissioner system which the […]
KARACHI: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday said that no arms license except issued by Nadra will be valid after August 31. “All arms licenses issued by the Ministry of Interior shall stand ceased with effect from September 1, 2011,” he said and advised the arms license holders to approach the nearest Nadra office for […]
PESHAWAR- Condemning the illegal police raid on a print media outlet in Peshawar and torture on journalists, the Khyber Union of Journalists (KHuJ) held a gathering at Peshawar Press Club on Monday followed by a protest demonstration. Hundreds of journalists and staff members both of the print and electronic media headed by President KhUJ Arshad […]
Peshawar–Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has strongly condemned the raid carried out by police on a newspaper office in Peshawar and manhandling of journalists. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon when some personnel from Faqirabad and Hashtnagri police stations arrived at the office of Daily Mashriq, a leading Urdu newspaper of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, […]
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