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Six hurt in attack on journalist’s house
BAJAUR AGENCY: Six people were badly hurt when unknown miscreants hurled hand-grenades on the house of a local journalist in Tehsil Khar of the agency, political authorities said on Monday. Local people and authorities said that unknown assailants attacked the house of Syed Zafarullah Banori with sophisticated weapons and hand-grenades at midnight in the area […]
Torture of journalist in Naushahro Feroze: Rally, sit-in staged against PPP leader
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Hundreds of activists of various political parties held a rally and staged a sit-in here on Saturday on the call of the All Parties Alliance against torture on local journalist Ghulam Hussain Soomro by the PPP district general secretary, Karam Shah, three weeks ago. The rally was led by Convener of the All […]
Nizami vows to continue serving national interests
By: Sajid Zia LAHORE — The 70th birth anniversary of Nawa-i-Waqt was marked here with the cutting of a 70-pound cake by Editor Nawa-i-Waqt Majid Nizami while a large number of workers and others were in attendance at the function held at the office building Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, Majid Nizami prayed that Nawa-i-Waqt […]
Attack on journalist condemned
KHAIRPUR: The Central Chairman Sindhi Speakers Forum Ghaffar Mahar has condemned the brutal attack on MH Khan, a senior journalist in Hyderabad the other day. According to a press release issued on Saturday, condemned the attack saying the weapons used in it proved that the attackers wanted to kill him. Mahar asked the government to […]
Farah Dogar got two marks out of one!
ISLAMABAD: The two samples of Miss Farah Hameed Dogar’s answer sheets reveal another aspect of scandalous jacking up of her marks. The answer sheets were made part of the Islamabad High Court’s recent judgment to prove “irregularities” that were cited as the reason for the re-assessment of her papers. In one case pertaining to the […]
Human rights watchdog asks India to end torture in IHK
ISLAMABAD- Global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI) has said the government of India must take immediate steps to end all kinds of torture and other ill treatment, in accordance with the AI charter. The programme director of AI for Asia Pacific, Sam Zarifi in a letter to the Indian Home Minister, P Chidambaram said […]
Couple jailed for life in child kidnap case
By Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court on Monday sentenced a couple to life imprisonment on charges of kidnapping an eight-year-old boy for ransom. Judge Syed Hasan Shah Bukhari of ATC-I found the couple, Adnan Ahmed Khan and Naila, guilty of kidnapping the boy, Arsalan, for ransom in August 2008 in the remit of the […]
Man jailed for seven years in child rape case
KARACHI: A sessions court sentenced a man to seven years in prison for raping a minor girl in 2004. The court found Rafiq Ahmed guilty of sexually assaulting the five-year-old girl in the jurisdiction of the New Karachi police station in April 2004. Additional District and Sessions Judge (central) Ameena Nazeer Ansari pronounced her judgment […]
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