LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed alarm at growing intolerance and abuse of belief, continued incidents of disappearance and illegal detention of citizens in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In a statement issued at the conclusion of HRCP Council meeting on Sunday, sectarian violence and general breakdown of law and order in the […]
MAILSI – A condolence to pay tribute to senior journalist Ikramul Haq Rabbani was held at Mailsi Press Club here the other day. Rabbani had died of kidney failure a couple weeks ago. Press Club members including Aslam Khan Yousafzai, Sanaullah Qureshi, Hamayun Akhtar, Yousaf Chohan, Naveedul Hassan Qutbi, Abdul Razaq Qureshi, Tahir Abbas Sahoo […]
KARACHI: A 16-year-old girl, who allegedly killed a friend of her fiancé on Saturday for allegedly blackmailing her, was arrested on Sunday, police said. “We have arrested the girl in Machhar Colony and recovered the pistol she used in the killing of Manthar,” said DSP of Korangi Qasim Ghauri. The 16-year-old suspect, Yasmin, daughter of […]
THIS is with reference to your report on “Seven killed for ‘honour’ in three districts” (April 3). I was speechless after reading about the young victims of the unforgiving psyche of karo-kari; almost all the seven killed were between 17 and 27 years old. How heartless could the murderers be! All the three districts (Nawabshah, […]
Malala Yousafzai, the brave 14-year-old schoolgirl who was shot at point blank range by Taliban militants in October last year, has become an international symbol of resistance, courage and hope. Her refusal to bow down to the forces of oppression and orthodoxy has seen her go from strength to strength, so much so that the […]
LAHORE: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious concern over “systematic attempts to exclude candidates from elections and to sabotage people’s ability to elect candidates of their choice.” In a statement issued on Saturday, HRCP Executive Council explained that the latest process of scrutiny of candidates is a “witch hunt aimed at harassing […]
Mansoor Khan KARACHI – A man threw acid on his wife, three children and other relatives over a petty issue at Nusrat Bhutto Colony within the remits of Shahrah-e-Noorjahan police station. Police said that Asghar Ali scuffled with his wife Ruqqaiya over some petty issue. He got infuriated and threw acid and wounded his wife […]
UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani education activist, ‘a daughter of the United Nations’ when he spoke to her on Friday to mark the 1,000-day milestone in the run-up to a Millennium Development Goal to reduce poverty by the end of 2015. In a Skype conversation from Madrid, where the […]
NOWSHERA: An Afghan national allegedly stabbed to death his wife and mother-in-law in Kund Park in the limits of Nizampur Police Station on Saturday, police sources said. The sources said that Akhtar Muhammad along with his brother Dost Muhammad and three other accomplices killed his wife Meraj Bibi and mother-in-law and fled the scene. The […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed concern on Saturday over ‘systematic attempts’ to exclude candidates from the electoral process and sabotage people’s ability to elect candidates of their choice or call them to account for their mistakes. In a statement issued by the HRCP’s executive council at the conclusion of its meeting, […]
Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI: A sessions court on Saturday acquitted three men in a case pertaining to the gang rape of a young woman on the premises of the Mazar-e-Quaid for want of evidence. The then assistant manager security of the mausoleum, an accountant and a personal assistant to the resident engineer of the Quaid-i-Azam Management […]
A man shot dead his wife and cousin in the name of honour here in Landi Sarak area, police said on Friday. According to police, the accused Akhtar, along with his two brothers allegedly opened fire on his wife Shad Bibi and cousin Ismail, killing both of them on the spot. The accused after committing […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has noted with alarm a horde of undesirable developments across the country that it feared would circumvent people’s democratic rights and strengthen obscurantist elements. In a statement issued on Friday, the Commission said: “Just when the citizens were hoping that the lead-up to the general elections would […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has noted with alarm a horde of undesirable developments across the country that it feared would circumvent people’s democratic rights and strengthen obscurantist elements. In a statement issued on Friday, the Commission said: “Just when the citizens were hoping that the lead-up to the general elections would […]
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