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 […]
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has given an approval to enhancing quota for women in government jobs from five to 15 per cent whereas the age limit for women has been increased for three years. The presence of a woman member in the selection committee of all provincial departments has been made compulsory. The chief […]
KARACHI: A sessions court handed down life imprisonment to three accused in a murder case on Thursday. Shamsul Haq and his relatives Jaffar Alam and Nelofar were found guilty of killing his wife, Rabia, over a domestic dispute in May 2006 within the remit of the Baghdadi police station. Additional district and sessions judge (south) […]
ISLAMABAD: Media Coordin-ator to Prime Minster, Khawaja Rizwan Alam on Wednesday termed the opposition parties’ demand for Yousuf Raza Gilani’s resignation “unjustified” and against the law. Talking to newsmen during his visit to Karachi Press Club (KPC), Khawaja Rizwan said the opposition parties should play their role in accordance with the country’s Constitution. He said […]
Karachi: The body of a young woman who gang-raped and then strangled to death was found in her residence in the New Karachi Industrial Area police limits on Wednesday. When Afzal, the husband of 25-year-old Rizwana Khatoon, returned home in Sector C-5/F in the evening he found his wife dead. He informed police, who carried […]
ISLAMABAD: Women police officers should be provided level-playing field by giving them appropriate training and empowering them. Niaz Ahmad Siddiqui, former IGP Punjab, said this on Wednesday while addressing a seminar ‘Women police as change agents and gender-based police reforms’ organised by Individualland Pakistan with the support of Royal Norwegian Embassy. He said: “The police […]
On Tuesday, TCF and its partners organised an event to recognize the contribution of key individuals, the principals of TCF schools, who made Aagahi a success. KARACHI: As the chairman of National Foods Limited, Abdul Majeed was interested in the idea of providing his unschooled staff with basic primary education. He thought that if the […]
By Muhammad Sadaqat Killing was ordered by a jirga; family secretly buried body in local graveyard. HARIPUR: A woman was killed and secretly buried by her family after she was declared kari by a jirga for allegedly having an extra-marital affair with her father-in-law, police said. The incident occurred in the Panian Afghan Camp, after […]
SUKKUR: A man strangled to death his wife over alleged illicit relations in Khanpur on Tuesday. Police said that in Soomar Panhyar village in Khanpur Town of Shikarpur, accused Ghulam Akbar strangled to death his wife over alleged illicit relations. Police shifted the body to a local hospital. The News
Sadia Qasim Shah PESHAWAR: The Provincial Commission on the Status of Women is a lame duck and should be empowered to manage its financial and administrative affairs for better functioning. This was stated by PCSW chairwoman Zubaida Khatoon during a function organised here to mark the commission’s second anniversary. PCSW members and women rights activists […]
WASHINGTON: Seventy-two journalists from around the world who died covering some of the worst conflicts in 2011 were honoured Monday in Washington as their names were added to a memorial wall. Among them were seven journalists killed in Pakistan and another seven killed in Iraq – the two countries with the highest death tolls last […]
* Commission urges government to stay hanging, announce moratorium on executions LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday noted with alarm that, despite an informal moratorium on executions, a man on death row is scheduled to be hanged in a Karachi prison on May 23. The HRCP has urged the government to […]
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