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Daily Archives: July 23, 2012

12-year-old girl sold by brother seeks justice

HAFIZABAD – A youth, who sold his mother for Rs30,000 one year ago, now has sold his 12-year-old sister for Rs20,000. The two persons who had bought the girl have been allegedly torturing, sexually assaulting and putting her to forced labour for months. However, the girl reached her mother’s house. Ansar, a resident of village […]


The Last Meal: Man kills wife over late breakfast

SUKKUR: A woman was shot dead by her husband after she was reportedly unable to prepare breakfast in time for him in Hasil Shar village, near Daharki, Ghotki district, on Saturday. Saddam Hussain Shar reportedly became angry when his wife, Manzooran, took time to make breakfast for him on Saturday morning. The Express Tribune


The Paint Bucket sells art online

By Momina Sibtain LAHORE: While the world moves into exploring virtual spaces and advertising and exhibiting online, Pakistan is still relatively far behind in using the virtual world to its full potential. As the art scene grows tenfold across the country, our schools and colleges have started urging their students to push their creative boundaries […]


Runaway couple: Afghan woman married to ‘brother-in-law’, says family

ABBOTABAD: The brother-in-law of a runaway Afghan woman has claimed that she was already married to him before her elopement. Mariyam Marjman Molouda, the Afghan woman, had tied the nuptial knot in Pakistan a month ago with a fellow Afghan named Hewad against the will of her family back home. The couple claimed to have […]


The future of Pak-Afghan media cooperation

By Ayesha Hasan / Farkhonda Rajabe ISLAMABAD: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain recently met the management of Shamshad TV, one of the largest Afghan TV channels, and assured it that he would contact the the federal government as well as the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to allow for landing rights to […]


T2F screens ‘Haal’ on Gen Zia era

KARACHI: The Second Floor (T2F) recently screened a film entitled ‘Haal’, co-written and directed by London-based filmmaker Assad Zulfiqar Khan, at its premises. Haal, on life in the Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s years, tells from the perspective of a Khatak dancer and a journalist. The film explores how the junta used Islam to cudgel the media and […]


Reports of ban on women shopping in Lakki Marwat rejected

LAKKI MARWAT: District Police Officer (DPO) Umar Riaz on Sunday strongly rejected news reports regarding ban on women visiting markets alone for shopping in Tehsil Sarai Naruang of Lakki Marwat district and termed such reports baseless. Talking to reporters here, he said there is no ban on woman visiting market alone and shopping around in […]


Police recover woman confined by brother

GUJRANWALA: The Baghbanpura police recovered a 55-year-old woman who was confined by her brother at Pakistan Pan Shop Street on the Hafizabad Road on Sunday. Police received information that Saleem had illegally confined his sister Sabeela in a room to grab her property. Following the information, the police raided the house of Saleem and recovered […]


Woman stabbed to death

Karachi: The unidentified body of a woman with multiple stab wounds was found from the Hub Chowki’s Hassan Peer. Sub-inspector Hameed of Hub Chowki police station said that the law enforcers were informed about the murder by a constable in the area and the body was sent to the Civil Hospital Karachi’s mortuary. “She looks […]


Ansar Burney gets ‘Diamond Award’

LONDON: The British Federal Minister (UK’s Secretary of State) Rt. Hon. Cheryl Gillan, MP, on Saturday presented ‘International Human Rights Award’ to Ansar Burney on Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee reception in London. The ‘Diamond Award’ was presented to Burney at London on his services in the field of human rights, anti-human trafficking, anti-slavery […]


‘Pehchan Ramazan’ song becomes a rage

KARACHI: With an illustrious career of hosting Ramazan transmission for eleven years and captivating the hearts of hundreds of millions of viewers the world over in his singular style, the new song of Dr Amir Liaqat Hussain ‘Pehchan Ramazan’ has scaled new heights of popularity. It has been a tradition with Dr Amir Liaqat that […]


Body of beheaded woman found

QUETTA: Police recovered the beheaded body of a woman in Sakran area on Sunday. Police said that on a tip off, they reached the site and took the body of woman into custody which was dumped in an open area by unknown men after beheading it. The body was shifted to a nearby hospital. Police […]


CEC to take oath today

ISLAMABAD: The newly-appointed Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of Pakistan, Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim, will take oath of office today (Monday, July 23). Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will administer oath to the new CEC at a ceremony to be held at the Supreme Court building. The Election Commission had officially communicated to the Registrar […]


Police looking for relatives of Tanzanian woman

Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI: Police and intelligence agencies are trying to trace the relatives of a Tanzanian woman of Pakistan origin who has been languishing in Adiala Jail for the last two years. A source close to the investigation said they wanted to hand over the woman to their relatives or deport her. However, he added, […]