By: Waseem Shamsi SUKKUR: A private court has decided that a couple, who married of their free will, should separate. The court also declared them karo-kari (adulterers). The jirga (court) was held in Mirzapur area of Kandhkot on Monday to decide the fate of Kaz Bano and her husband Gulzar Ahmed Shaikh. According to Gulzar, […]
PESHAWAR: Muzhda Subhan, a pre-medical group student of Jinnah College for Women (JCW), has set a record by securing 1,019 marks of total 1,100 marks and top position in FA/FSc examinations held under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Peshawar. The board announced the names of position-holders in a ceremony on Tuesday and detailed […]
By: Intikhab Amir PESHAWAR: The UK Department for International Development (DFID) would provide 40 million pounds to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to support its initiative of extending monthly stipends to girl students, officials told Dawn on Tuesday. The provincial government would distribute Rs1 billion stipends among girl students of Grade-VI to Grade-X, studying at public sector schools, […]
LAHORE: In the wake of a woman’s alleged stoning to death in Khanewal district and suo motu action taken by the Supreme Court, the Khanewal district police officer was made OSD and recommendation to transfer the Multan regional police officer was sent to the Punjab government on Tuesday. Inspector General of Punjab Police Mohammad Habibur […]
Committee to meet regularly from July 30 Following the financial scam involving anchors, a special committee was constituted on the directives of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) President Pervaiz Shaukat, headed by Secretary General Amin Yousaf and comprising APNEC Chairman Nasir Naqvi and senior journalist Nasir Zaidi. In this regard, the committee held its […]
By: Rabia Ali KARACHI: Almost a year ago, 22-year-old Hina had filled out the customary paperwork to receive a loan of Rs0.3 million from the Waseela-e-Haq scheme of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). The form identified her as an unemployed but educated young woman who was eager to start her own business. But Hina […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Monday said that the democratic government is a staunch supporter of media freedom and has scrapped the draconian laws introduced in the past to curb the media. He expressed these views during a presentation given to him by the ministry of information and broadcasting at the PM House. […]
By: Raheel Salman KARACHI: A kidnapping ring in Karachi is abducting women and ‘arranges’ their marriages in rural Sindh. This came to surface after a woman, Rifat Jahan, was found from a remote area near Faiz Ganj, in Khairpur district. Jahan’s husband, Mehmood Ali, had registered a case for his wife’s kidnapping on June 19 […]
By: Owais Jafri MULTAN: Mehmood Kot police have told three men accused of killing a girl by setting her on fire not to leave the town until investigation of the case was complete. Police said the men mentioned in the FIR were not arrested because Khadim Hussain, the principal suspect, had obtained an interim bail […]
Karachi: A mother of three children was killed in the Mochko police limits on Monday.Zulekha, 30, suffered bullet wounds when two men opened fire on her in her residence in the Nawab Colony and fled.Her neighbours took her to the Civil Hospital, where she breathed her last. SHO Mochko told The News that the woman […]
ISLAMABAD: Frustrated with a new twist given by police to the case of lynching of a poor woman in Khanewal, the Supreme Court gave the federal as well as Punjab governments on Monday three days to take appropriate action against the entire provincial police hierarchy or face an adverse order. “It is the duty of […]
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Monday quashed a case of illegal entry and stay in Pakistan against an Afghan couple, who fled their country after facing death threats over marriage. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Shahjehan Khan Akhunzada handed over the couple to local police directing them to keep […]
MITHI: A 50-year-old widow was killed by her son for having been involved in an illicit affair. Ms Meghan was axed to death by Pirbhu Bheel in Sanyasar village of Mithi taluka on Monday. Pirbhu was arrested after his brother Samto lodged a murder case against him. He has reportedly confessed to the crime. Dawn
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 […]
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