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 […]
PESHAWAR/KOHAT: Suspected militants blew up a state-run high school for girls at Badhber on the suburbs of provincial metropolis on Friday night, police said. An official of Badhber police station told Dawn that two powerful explosives were planted at different places in the school building. The devices went off late in the night, he added. […]
SUKKUR: A man shot his wife and niece dead in the pretext of Karo Kari here on Saturday. Accused Jabbar Samtiyo of village Nazar Muhammad Samtiyo shot dead his wife Noshad and niece Amira in the name of honour, the local police said. Source: The News
PESHAWAR/KOHAT: Suspected militants blew up a state-run high school for girls at Badhber on the suburbs of provincial metropolis on Friday night, police said. An official of Badhber police station told Dawn that two powerful explosives were planted at different places in the school building. The devices went off late in the night, he added. […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Friday condemned the killing of surgeon Dr Baqir Shah in Quetta. In a statement, the HRCP said it was deeply regrettable that Dr Shah, who had reported receiving death threats and had earlier been injured in an attack, was provided no protection by the authorities. It should […]
Saadia Reza KARACHI: Legal experts at a seminar on Friday called for change in the approach towards Karo-kari (honour killings) – from the registration of an FIR till the time when an accused is awarded punishment – and effective implementation of relevant laws to defeat the crime. The seminar on ‘Honour killings in Pakistan and […]
REFERRING to widespread gender discrimination in public sector organisations, a Planning Commission study has revealed that none of the ministries is setting aside 10 per cent of the jobs for women as required under the Constitution. Similarly, in case of rifts with other colleagues, women employees did not have the necessary support to fight back […]
Women are respectable in society and our religion Islam also taught us to care, adore, love and cherish them and to provide them with their social and moral rights. But behind the curtain, we men sexually harass them, mentally and physically torture them, abuse them, snatch their social and moral rights and we call ourselves […]
Sir: Pakistan has always undergone some kind of reform(s) whenever a government has changed. Mostly these reforms are focused towards the economy or energy productivity. From nationalisation to privatisation and from rental power plants to independent power plants, Pakistan has experienced quite a lot of changes. But what has not been reformed in Pakistan is […]
Sir: The drone strikes and insurgency in the tribal belt of Pakistan have left hundreds of orphans and widows behind. Their lives have been completely changed due to insurgency and displacement. There are such families in almost every village who have lost all their male members. Now the head of these families are either women […]
KARACHI: Another Hindu girl has been abducted, converted and forcibly married off in the Lyari area of the city, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) reported on Thursday. What makes this incident sound more appalling is the alleged involvement of a police constable in the forced conversion of the 15-year-old girl, who has been […]
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