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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD: Despite hard work on the part of numerous legislators and human rights activists, a steady number of ‘honour killing’ cases continue to be reported. Earlier the killings were mostly isolated to northern Sindh, southern Punjab and some parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, but now the capital police are registering cases regularly […]
Mohammad Jamil Over the past two centuries the media have contributed to the promotion of democracy and making it stable throughout the world. In early 17th century, when printing machine was invented, the only role of the print media was to inform the people. Symbolically, media are considered as the fourth pillar of the state; […]
KARACHI: A seemingly underage girl, Hawa Bibi, who claimed that she converted to Islam to marry her current husband, has asked the government to protect her and her in-laws from her parents, who had registered a case against them. Wearing a pretty Baloch dress, Hawa said during a press conference at the Karachi Press Club […]
By: Muhammad Sadaqat ABBOTABAD: A runaway Afghan couple who got married in Pakistan against the will of their families now fears being killed at the hands of an Afghan jirga for violating tribal customs. The man is in protective custody of the Abbottabad police, while the woman has been sent to Darul Aman by a […]
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