‘Honour’ crime: Man kills daughter, husband BAHAWALPUR: A man confessed on Sunday to killing his daughter and her husband in Sadiqabad for contracting marriage without his consent. Rana Anwar told The Express Tribune that his daughter Iqra had married thier neighbor, Faiz, without his permission a few months ago and run away. He said that […]
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Girl shot in rape bid
SARGODHA: A man sexually assaulted and shot a girl at Satellite Town here the other day. A salesman in a local medicine distribution company Babar Khan, a resident of Din Colony allegedly shot and injured his colleague who refused to surrender herself to him for the fulfilment of his sexual desires when she was alone […]
Girls’ primary school blown up in Landikotal
LANDIKOTAL: Unidentified terrorists on Friday blew up a makeshift girls’ school at Sheikhmal Khel Tehsil, sources said. Bahadur Khan Shinwari, the building’s owner, said female students had been shifted to the place after the destruction of government school. No casualties were reported, sources said. Security forces cordoned off the area and collected evidences from the […]
MOOD STREET
Journalistic delights Ammara Ahmad It appears from a distance that newspaper journalists are listless and idle ideologues, lost in the saga of a by-gone era. This will seem very true if you visit the office in day-time. But in the night, the picture is very different and happening. Most journalists are creatures of the night, […]
Women MPAs leading debates in PA
Karachi: The four-year performance of the Sindh Assembly demonstrates that the women MPAs have been leading in the house in terms of their active participation in discussions. A comparative list of the performance of the MPAs showed that NPP’s Arif Mustafa Jatoi submitted 1,179 questions followed by the MQM’s Heer Soho with 1,330 questions, the […]
A voice for peace, and for the ‘ordinary people’
It’s hard to write about Sunny, as friends knew Murtaza Razvi, in the past tense. Our association spanned over 25 years and although we didn’t meet or communicate very often, it was comforting to know he was there, part of our larger family of forward-thinking, progressive-minded, secular, humane, literature-loving and above all utterly decent human […]
‘Misbehaviour’ with journalists protested
ABDULLAH MADANI LOWER DIR – The members of Timergara Press Club on Friday announced to boycott covering all kinds of activities of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and People’s Students Federation in Dir Lower for their ‘misbehaviour’ with senior journalists. The announcement was made during an urgently called meeting of the press club, which was held […]
24 cases of honour-killing in February: Fafen
Islamabad: Cases of honour-killings were more widespread in February this year against the preceding month as 24 cases were reported in 16 districts against 19 recorded in 12 districts in January, says a report compiled by Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen). The report, which was released on Friday, said that despite government’s efforts to […]
Uzma Ayub case: Family to move apex court in murder case
Umer Farooq PESHAWAR: The family of alleged rape victim Uzma Ayub will move the Supreme Court against the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) verdict to bail out four men who were accused of murdering Uzma’s brother Alamzeb Khattak. Alamzeb was shot dead on December 9, 2011, while escorting his sister for a hearing of her rape […]
SC’s Human Rights Cell DG resigns
ISLAMABAD: The director general of the Supreme Court’s Human Rights Cell has resigned from his post. Sources told Daily Times that DG Saifur Rehman, a BS-22 officer, submitted his resignation over personal reasons. Saifur Rehman was a PCO judge in the high court, and removed in view of the July 31, 2009, decision. However, Chief […]
Girls’ school blown up in Shabqadar
CHARSADDA: The militants blew up yet another school on Friday bringing the number of destroyed schools in Charsadda district to 16. “The militants blew up the Daman Girls Primary School in the limits of Khwajawas Police Station in Shabqadar tehsil early in the day,” a police official said.He added the incident happened despite the fact […]
Report on efforts to recover kidnapped girl sought
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on April 27 directed the provincial police chief to submit a progress report on the efforts made to recover a girl who was kidnapped five years ago at the age of seven in a village in Jacobabad. The apex court had taken a suo motu notice three years ago, where it […]
Media a vehicle to project academia’s products
KARACHI – Media is a vehicle to project the products which the academia produces. Media, academic and policy-makers constitutes a strategic triangle, the outcome of which is a balanced and well-built country with a knowledge-based society, these views were expressed by Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Qaisar and others during their address at the panel […]
How to combat acid violence
Sahar Bandial Horrific memories have a staying power, easily rekindled upon the appropriate trigger. The tragic end of Fakhra Younus in Rome last month was one such trigger. It took me back to the summer afternoon, some years ago, at the Mayo Hospital in Lahore: a dark room with a hospital bed covered by a […]