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 […]
HAFIZABAD – Five persons abducted a young married woman from Hafizabad and took her to Lahore where four men raped her for four days. According to father-in-law of the victim, Haleema Bibi, five days ago, one Saddaf Bibi visited their house and asked Haleema to buy something from bazaar. Saddaf took Haleema with her and […]
SHERGARH – Eight accused including a woman allegedly kidnapped a young girl from the suburban village Hussain Garh situated in the limits of Shergarh Police and one of the accused raped her. Akhtar Ali, son of Faiz Ali, a resident of Hussain Garh, told that one Liaqat’s wife Razia Bibi used to visit their house. […]
JAMRUD- Suspected terrorists blew up a govt girls high school in Akaljan village of Jamrud in Khyber Agency on Sunday. No casualties were reported, as the building was empty at the time of the attack. Tribal sources said that the terrorists had placed explosives inside the school building, which went off in the wee hours […]
Javed Aziz Khan PESHAWAR: A high-level inquiry committee headed by a deputy inspector general (DIG) of police has recommended registration of cases against the police officers of Karak for their failure to protect the brother of the young rape victim, Uzma Ayub, and allowing a procession to be staged against the judiciary. The inquiry report […]
PESHAWAR: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Sunday expressed concern over the death of a seminary student who had gone missing from outside the Adiala Prison in Rawalpindi. In a statement, HRCP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter Vice-Chairperson Sher Muhammad Khan said that the relatives of the deceased Tehseenullah told a visiting team of the […]
MUSAKHAIL: A nomad shot his mother dead in Tehsil Rakhni of Barkhan district on Sunday. Police said a man forced his widowed mother to get married for the second time, which she refused, after which the son opened fire. The bullet wound proved fatal and she died on the spot.The victim, identified as Bibi Kalan, […]
DERA GHAZI KHAN: A man chopped off nose and lips of his wife on suspicion of illicit relations in tribal area of Dera Ghazi Khan on Sunday. According to family members of the woman, Qadir Bakhsh Baloch allegedly chopped off the nose and lips of his wife Salma at Darug village. Relatives of the victim […]
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