By: Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI: The prayer leader of a mosque was arrested on the charge of trying to strangle his wife and chopping her ear, police and the victim’s family said on Tuesday. The four-member family lived in a room on the premises of Girja Road mosque. Ms Tahira married the cleric eight years back […]
By: Nabeel Anwar Dhakku CHAKWAL: A father is alleged to have led a gang of 24 men of his clan to rape his daughter and divorced wife for defying his choice of the groom for their daughter. Police have registered a case against the father, Dilbar Khan, the clansmen of Jabbi Kotehra village in tehsil […]
By: Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: Apparently irked by the practice of using portraits of top functionaries in government advertisements, the Supreme Court sought on Tuesday explanation from the ministries of information and information technology the wisdom behind using public money for self-aggrandisement. “Under what law advertisements for personal promotion or publicity of political individuals are issued?” […]
SHEIKHUPURA: Nanrang Mandi police have arrested three people who allegedly raped five women in village Noon on Sunday. Police said eight people were involved in the alleged rape case, of them three – Zaheer, Tassaduqu and Shahzad – had been arrested and remanded into custody. Police said the alleged rapists had taken the women into […]
By: Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: An international human rights organisation based in the US has voiced its concern over use of “contempt of court powers” by the judges in Pakistan to stop criticism of judiciary in the media. “Pakistani judges should cease using their contempt of court powers to prevent the media from airing programming critical […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Tuesday for planting a bomb under the car of Hamid Mir, a television anchor, and warned him of a second assassination bid. Mr Mir was criticised by the Taliban last month in the wake of the shooting of teenage activist Malala Yousufzai. “Life and death is in the hands […]
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