KARACHI: A woman was shot dead and her body was set on fire in her house in the Bhitaiabad area on Wednesday, police said. They said that the incident occurred at Dhani Bukhsh Goth in Bhitaiabad within the remit of the Sachal police station, where 37-year-old Zahida was allegedly shot dead by her sister’s husband, […]
LAHORE: A PIA steward severely tortured a Pakistani-British woman in the aircraft and snatched her camera and other valuable goods. Other passengers protested at the attitude of the staff and raised slogans against the airline. Flight PK 302 landed two hours late from Karachi here on Tuesday but parked at the international jetty because of […]
Karachi: The Sindh Assembly was informed on Tuesday that the Kamber-Shahdadkot district police had been detaining six women and two infants for the last 10 days illegally. MQM’s Zareen Majeed, on a point of order, said that the Naseerabad police had raided Bityun village near Wagan town and detained six women along with two infants. […]
By Hafeez Tunio KARACHI: The morbid case of a patient who turned black — and then pink — because he was inadvertently given carbon dioxide instead of oxygen illustrated the growing issues with the supply of drugs to hospitals in Karachi. The anecdote was narrated by Sports Minister Dr Mohammad Ali Shah in the Sindh […]
KARACHI: The National Peace Award winner for service to promote education in the troubled Swat valley of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Malala Yousufzai received huge applause from Sindh Assembly, which she attended on Tuesday. With entering the Sindh Assembly Governor’s Gallery, the Speaker Nisar Khohro welcomed the visiting teenage girl while the legislators did it by thumping […]
Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI: A sessions court on Tuesday put off the hearing of two pre-arrest bail applications filed by as many suspects booked in a controversial case. The suspects – Mohammad Rizwan and Azhar – had been granted pre-arrest bail and directed to appear in court on Jan 3 for confirmation of the bail or […]
Faiz Ahmed Faiz Recently a lady journalist asked me about my opinion about Indian journalists, and I told her that instead of asking me she should ask several people selected at random about their opinion (without disclosing that she is a journalist). I am afraid the majority of the opinions may not be very palatable […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed that the security forces during a raid on their hideouts in Karamna area in Landikotal subdivision of Khyber Agency had detained three women and taken them along. TTP spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan called The News from somewhere in the tribal areas and confirmed that senior militant commander Qari Kamran was […]
Qurban Ali Khushik DADU: The family of the teenage girl drawn in a matrimonial dispute and declared kari by an influential of the area and a close relative, had to finally leave their native village on fears she may be killed according to landlord’s threats. Mehmood Shahani and his family left Hoat Khan Shahani village […]
By Muhammad Sadaqat This is the second incident in which a woman has been stripped in Hazara. ABBOTABAD: A married woman was allegedly disrobed and thrashed in a remote village in Havelian on Sunday evening. The offenders lodged an FIR against the victim’s brother on Monday, accusing him of injuring one of their relatives. Police […]
SUKKUR: A man shot dead his sister-in-law and his second cousin over illicit relations in Obaro on Sunday. The Obaro police said Qaim Chachar shot dead his sister-in-law Latifa and second cousin Allah Dino Chachar in a nearby village and fled from the place of the incident. The police said the accused, after witnessing the […]
KARACHI: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan chairperson Zohra Yousuf has expressed concern over growing problems faced by the religious minorities in the country. She was speaking at a press conference held at the Karachi Press Club on Friday to present a report of the ‘HRCP working group on communities vulnerable because of their beliefs’.She said […]
ISLAMABAD: Human Rights Watch (HRW), an American-based international human rights organisation operating across the world, is against the Islamic provisions of the Constitution of Pakistan, the Toheen-e-Risalat Act, and is working to bring about a change in them. Mi Dayan Hasan, the director of HRW’s Pakistan chapter, while talking to The News, said that his […]
By: Mahnoor Sherazee KARACHI: In a ward at the Burns Centre, 19-year-old Erum, softly stroked her severely burnt right arm. The sleeve of her blue and yellow cotton kameez was ripped to make room for the thick bandages covering her arm. Erum sustained 24% acid burns while trying to protect her guest, Zareen, from an […]
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