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HRCP voices concern over incidents of kidnapping

QUETTA: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over the growing incidents of kidnapping for ransom in Balochistan and called upon the government to take action against those responsible. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, HRCP vice chairman Tahir Hussain said that with each passing day the law and order situation […]


Woman strangled

DADU: A young woman was strangled in the village of Kaloo Loond near here on Sunday. The body of 20-year-old Kaiman was brought to the Civil Hospital of Dadu by her father Essa for autopsy. Talking to reporters, Mr Essa accused the woman’s husband Sikandar and father in-law Urs of killing her because of a […]


Online journalists

Sir: This is with reference to a news item, ‘CPJ calls for protecting online journalists’ (Daily Times, February 23, 2012). As per the report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged that a global coalition against censorship is needed to protect online journalists and bloggers who are being targeted by repressive governments. I agree […]


Sold and tortured at the tender age of seven

Sidrah Roghay Karachi: Sold for a mere 9,500 rupees for a year by her own mother to a woman in Karachi, Abida aged seven, suffered immense physical torture for at least three weeks, before police rescued her in a raid on an apartment building in the Gulberg area of the city. After hearing repeated screams […]


PPP set to muzzle media ahead of general election

By Asmat Zubair & Muhammad Saleh Zaafir KARACHI: The beleaguered PPP government in its final days, just like former dictator Pervez Musharraf, is all set to launch a war against the media in order to manipulate the forthcoming general elections by issuing new regulations through the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to ‘regulate’ the […]


`Midwife` sent to lock-up in foetuses case

KARACHI: A suspected midwife was on Friday remanded in police custody for one day in the five foetuses case. The suspect, Nuzhat Aslam, said to be posing as a lady doctor, was arrested on Thursday at her clinic in Chakra Goth in connection with the case of five foetuses found in a garbage dump in […]


Hira Mandi through French eyes

Peerzada Salman KARACHI: A book titled Hira Mandi by Claudine Le Tourneur d’Ison was launched at the Alliance Francaise Karachi on Friday. The book, on life in and around Lahore’s famous red light area also known as Hira Mandi, is an English translation by Priyanka Jhijaria of the original French version. At the launch, the […]


Gender equality: WDI report says Pakistan lags behind

Islamabad: Pakistan has been lagging behind in the region in terms of promoting gender equality, especially in education particularly in terms of enrolment of girls to boys’ ratio at primary and secondary education’s, according World Development Indicators report 2012 launched by the World Bank. Analysis of the report titled “Gender Equality and Development” covering the […]


An insider’s perspective on the effects of child marriage

Karachi: Five girls, all of whom were married off at the age of 13, were specially invited from remote areas of Sindh to share their stories in a programme held by the Rehnuma Family Planning Association Pakistan (RFPAP) on Thursday. Though they appeared fragile and vulnerable, they gave a hard time to the speakers at […]


Suspected midwife held in five foetuses case

KARACHI: Police on Thursday arrested a suspected midwife, said to be posing as a lady doctor, in the case of the five foetuses found in a garbage dump in Manzoor Colony on Feb 14. The foetuses, two in jars and three in plastic bags, were found in a garbage dump in Sector E, Street 11, […]


As women MPAs join hands for law on wife-beaters, male bureaucrat wags petty finger

By Rabia Ali KARACHI: The additional law secretary was hard to please. What was supposed to be a consultation among parliamentarians and activists on an upcoming bill against domestic violence, turned out to be a heated discussion as Aslam Sheikh frowned, raised his eyebrows and his objections. “We will not allow [through] anything derogatory against […]


Journalists condemn Zaid Hamid’s allegations against SAFMA

LAHORE: Leading media professionals, executive bodies of the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), South Asia Media Commission (SAMC), South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), editors and press club representatives across the country condemned the accusations that Zaid Hamid was levelling through social networking sites against the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), a mainstream […]


Bill not restricted to married couples’

Karachi: Women representatives of the Sindh Assembly clarified that the landmark domestic violence bill passed by the Senate on Monday was not just restricted to cases between husband and wife, but also extends to other immediate family members such as brothers, fathers and sons. A consultative meeting of women MPAs and members of civil society […]


Media accused of creating rift between Pakistan, Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: Instead of playing a constructive role in bringing peoples of Pakistan and Afghanistan closer, media was creating differences between the two nations. Journalists from Pakistan and Afghanistan castigated the counterproductive role of a certain segment of media at an interactive session arranged at the National Press Club on Wednesday. A delegation of Afghan journalists […]