PESHAWAR: A local court on Monday acquitted a man and a transvestite of the same sex marriage. Judicial magistrate Mohammad Ilyas pronounced acquittal on completion of arguments by the prosecution and the defence, saying the charge against the two, Malik Iqbal and Kashif alias Rani, couldn’t be proved. Mr Iqbal later told reporters that he […]
KARACHI: Board of Advanced Studies and Research, University of Karachi (KU) recently approved a PhD degree in commerce to be conferred upon Prof Dr Dilshad Zafar. Prof Zafar holds the privilege of being the first lady doctor from the KU in the field of commerce. Dr Zafar completed her thesis under the supervision of Prof […]
Karachi: Provincial minister Syed Faisal Sabzwari and MPA Muzammil Qureshi have strongly condemned the abduction, rape and brutal murder of six-year-old Fatima in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, saying that the culprits involved in this heinous and shameless act are the enemies of humanity. In a statement issued on Sunday, they said that the elements involved in subjecting minor […]
Ammar Shahbazi Karachi: At 7pm on May 6, six-year-old Faiza* was whisked away from outside her house in Rajput Colony, Mubina Town. Thirteen days later, her decomposed, headless body was found in Block 6 of Gulshan-e-Iqbal. According to medical reports, Faiza had been raped and then strangled to death. The body was found several days […]
KARACHI: Those who organise mushairas (poetry symposia) should have been there. They would have learnt a thing or two. It was sheer audio-cerebral delight listening to less than 10 poets, yes less than 10, reciting their poems at a mushaira held at T2F (The Second Floor) to celebrate it’s fifth anniversary on Saturday. Before inviting […]
Shazia Hasan KARACHI: Colleagues and fans of well-known Sindhi author, poet, journalist and intellectual Shamsher Al Haidery hailed his services and significant contribution to Sindhi literature at a programme held in honour of the towering personality at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, on Saturday evening. Besides giving speeches, guests at the well-attended ceremony organised […]
BAHAWALNAGAR: A man killed his wife and minor daughter for honour here in the limits of Maroot Police on Saturday. According to detail, Riaz, a resident of Chak 201/M suspected wife Mst Bashiran of having illicit relations with someone. Meanwhile, he axed his wife and two-year-old daughter Kaneezan to death when they were asleep. Deceased […]
SHIKARPUR: A woman and a man were killed on the pretext of karo-kari in Abdul Sattar Thaheem village near Garhi Yasin on Saturday. Nazir Thaheem shot dead his cousin Aasiya and a villager, Owais Brohi, over the suspicion that they had illicit relations. The police took the bodies to hospital and, after post-mortem, handed them […]
QUETTA: Two women were killed in Jaffarabad district on Saturday in the name of karo-kari, reports said. Jan Mohammad allegedly killed his wife in Dera Aallahyar. A man, whose name could not be known, allegedly axed his young sister in Chatin Pati area. Dawn
Karachi: The body of a missing girl was found in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal police limits on Friday. The body of eight-year-old Fatima, daughter of Ahmed Ali, was discovered in bushes in a plot in Block 6 of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, 15 days after she had gone missing from Mobina Town. When some residents of the area spotted the […]
Our correspondent LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has given approval to enhancing quota for women in government jobs from five per cent to 15 per cent whereas the age limit for women in all government jobs has also been increased for three years.The presence of a woman member in selection committee of all […]
LAHORE: The Legislative Watch Programme of Aurat Foundation for Women Empowerment urged the government on Friday to make necessary amendments in the honour killing laws and declare the act a non-compoundable offence. The demand was made at a provincial consultation meeting on “the proposed amendments in the honour killing law” organized by the Aurat Foundation. […]
NEW YORK: The Human Rights Watch has urged President Asif Ali Zardari not to sign a bill creating a national human rights commission until it is revised to authorise investigations of the military and the intelligence agencies for human rights violations. The National Human Rights Commission Act was passed by the National Assembly on May […]
OUR Fourth Estate offers such rich pickings that there is every temptation to convert this into a media column but sanity prevents that from happening. Well not really sanity, if you prefer honesty. Self-preservation is closer to the truth. But occasionally one succumbs to a rush of blood, an adrenaline surge. So here goes. Look […]
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