ISLAMABAD: Ahmer Bilal Soofi, advocate Supreme Court is proceeding to Geneva to attend the session of Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, says a press release issued here on Thursday. Soofi has been elected member of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee for a period of 3 years. He is also made the Chairman of the […]
Ikram Sehgal The new way of making war, the projection of “soft power,” is cynical in that it involves millions of people in the persuasion effort. The lords of this new media war are the communication and image experts closely tied to political power, producing a sophisticated kind of communication in comparison with classic state […]
Nilofar Ahmed IT is said that Hazrat Aisha was six years old when her nikah was performed with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Makkah, and nine years old when she moved in to live with her husband in Madina after Hijra. This piece of misinformation has led to the wrong view that child marriage has the […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: The body of a girl branded as kari and buried without offering proper funeral rites by her bother, was exhumed by police in the presence of a team of doctors and a magistrate from a graveyard in Mir Hassan Mari village on Thursday. According to villagers, Khalida, 18, daughter of Pathan Khan Mari, […]
ISLAMABAD: Renowned poet of Urdu and Farsi Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib remembered on his 143th death anniversary on Wednesday. Mirza Asadullah who is renowned with a pen-name Ghalib, was born on 27 December 1796 in Agra, the former capital of the Mughal Empire, now part of India’s state of Uttar Pradesh during the terminal period […]
QUETTA: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights has urged the Parliament and the judiciary to play their role to resolve the missing persons issue. The committee met with Senator Afrasiab Khatak in chair here on Wednesday. The meeting was attended by Senators Surayya Amiruddin, Farhat Abbas and Hafiz Rashid Ahmed, Home Secretary Balochistan Nasibullah […]
M. Waqar Bhatti Karachi: Anti-riot police fired teargas shells and baton-charged lady health workers (LHWs) who held a march from the Karachi Press Club to the Governor’s House on Wednesday. The march was held in protest against non-payment of their salaries and the government’s reluctance in regularising their jobs. Several lady health workers were injured […]
Karachi: The Mehmoodabad police on Wednesday interrogated doctors, owners of various clinics and maternity homes in its jurisdiction to resolve the mystery surrounding the dumping of five fetuses, but remained clueless. A meeting with doctors and health practitioners of the area, however, could not be held after senior police officers and personnel were summoned to […]
Karachi: The Office of the Affiliation Committee issued a notification for the affiliation of Hashmi Media Institute (HMI) for the introduction of M. A. Mass Communication program (under semester system) upon approval of the recommendations of the Affiliation Committee by the Vice-Chancellor, on behalf of the Academic Council / Syndicate, University of Karachi. The Institute […]
Karachi: Two witnesses failed to identify a dreaded suspect nominated in several rape and robbery cases before a sessions court on Tuesday. Mohammad Ali Hajiano and Umair Khan have been charged with committing robberies and raping women within the remit of Gizri and Defence police stations in 2008-09. Complainant Kamal’s wife and his daughter failed […]
IN COLD BLOOD: 1 is the number of women killed in the name of honour in Islamabad last year. ISLAMABAD: A total of 8,539 cases of violence against women were reported in 2011, an increase of about seven per cent over 2010. According to the fourth Annual Statistics of Violence against Women launched by the […]
M. Waqar Bhatti Karachi: The discovery of five foetuses from a garbage dump in a city neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon sent shockwaves among locals of the area, who called the police and demanded strict action against those involved in this grizzly incident. Initially, locals thought that these were either bodies of babies unwanted by their […]
ISLAMABAD: A man was arrested for trying to rape an 11-year-old girl in New Shakrial, police said on Tuesday. The accused, a gardener in the Capital Development Authority, had escaped from his house after what the police said attempting to rape the girl. However, he was arrested from his father’s house and booked in a […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan People’s Party MNA Ms Farah Naz Isphani has filed an adjournment motion in the National Assembly Secretariat, seeking immediate debate on the recent shocking cases that have rocked the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) in recent months with several faculty and staff members accused of preying upon vulnerable female students or juniors. […]
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