Karachi: The Administrative Judge (AJ) of anti-terrorism courts in Karachi on Wednesday remanded two suspects, arrested for rape and murder of an eight years old girl, to police custody for investigation. Bashir and Abdul Majeed were arrested by the police for their alleged involvement in the rape and murder of girl (A) on December 12. […]
Hamid Mir, a senior anchor for the Geo News television network, received threatening SMS messages on 20 December 2011 after discussing topics on his talk show that were critical of the Pakistani security establishment. According to press reports, Mir received messages on his mobile phone in which he was ridiculed and threatened. He sent an […]
By: Salis bin Perwaiz KARACHI: The Jauharabad police raided a house in Goharabad on Tuesday and arrested two men who were about to sexually assault a 10-year-old girl. The suspects also confessed to having raped and killed a six-year-old girl, Alishba, on December 12. Some residents, after having seen two suspicious people accompany a girl […]
KARACHI: Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested two suspected killers of an eight-year-old girl. Speaking at a press conference, SSP-Central Asim Qaimkhani said the eight-year-old girl was kidnapped within the remit of the Jauharabad police station on Dec 14. He said that after sexual assault the suspect killed the girl and dumped her body […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday expressed deep sorrow over the death of 55 young men from Quetta`s Hazara community when a boat carrying 250 people, 170 of them from Pakistan, capsized off Indonesia. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the commission called upon Islamabad to help the families learn about […]
By: Elf Habib The glitz and glamour splashed by the renowned media accolades like the Oscars, Cannes and Emmys as well as the pageant of local Lux laurels have long faded and the year itself is ending but no awards unfortunately have so far been instituted or conferred upon our TV anchors despite their ceaseless […]
By: Imtiaz Ali KARACHI: The members of the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution, urging the government to make honour killing (karo-kari) a non-compoundable offence and prosecute the killers under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Home Minister Manzoor Wassan revealed that a new secret force on the pattern of […]
ISLAMABAD: At least 675 women and girls were murdered during the first nine months of the year for allegedly defaming their family’s honour, a leading human rights group said on Tuesday. The statistics highlight the scale of violence suffered by many women in Pakistan, where there is no law against domestic violence. Despite some progress […]
By: Sumera Khan ISLAMABAD: Malala Yousafzai stood up against all odds. In defiance of the Taliban in Swat, she decided to acquire education and helped her peers to do the same. The thirteen-year-old’s dauntless struggle is to now be officially recognised. Malala, who was recently honoured with the first National Peace Award for Youth, is […]
By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Geo TV’s most prominent television anchor, and one of the most prominent journalists in Pakistan, has just circulated a detailed email message of threats he has been receiving. Hamid Mir’s open, public response to the threats is a textbook case of how to handle the steady stream of intimidation […]
Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: Forty-three women have been killed under the brutal custom of Karo-kari in Sindh during the first three weeks of this month while the year’s toll has already reached 577, the Sindh Assembly was informed on Monday. The issue was raised by lawmaker Nusrat Bano Seher Abbasi of the Pakistan Muslim League […]
KARACHI: As part of the 4th Women in Business Conference Series (WIBCON) for the professional women, an ‘International Women Leaders Summit’ is being organised on Wednesday, 25th January 2012 in Karachi. This was announced by Aamir Niazi, Director Pakistan Society for Training and Development (PSTD) while speaking at a press conference at a local hotel […]
Karachi: Prof Dr Rehana Firdous has been appointed as the first female Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Karachi (KU). A notification issued on Monday said that Dr Firdous was appointed as Dean on November 14. She received her PhD degree from the University of London in 1990 on the […]
SUKKUR: A man axed his wife to death in Sukkur on Monday. Police said Allah Bakhsh axed his wife Shaharbano to death over the charge of illicit relations. Police said the accused later threw the body in the Indus River and fled. They said the local divers were searching for the body, while raids were […]
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