By Ali Usman LAHORE: The Lahore Directorate of Human Rights and the provincial Human Rights Department are planning to jointly work against human rights violations, Daily Times has learnt. The Lahore directorate is the provincial headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Human Rights. Initially, officials from both the government departments will visit different police stations […]
HARIPUR: A local court on Thursday awarded two-month jail term and Rs2,000 fine each to five women family members of an Egyptian national for illegal stay in the country. The women were produced before the court of judicial magistrate cum civil judge Ziaur Rehman who after hearing arguments from the state counsel and counsels of […]
SUKKUR: Two women were killed on the pretext of karo-kari in Pir Bari village in the Khanpur Mahar area of Ghotki district on Thursday and Wednesday. Lal Din Bozdar shot his wife Naziran dead and buried her without performing her last rituals on Thursday. According to informed sources, Naziran was declared kari by her husband […]
LAHORE: Participants of the conference on ‘Women Leadership’ said that Pakistan is facing challenges in increasing the female participation in the mainstream economic activity. These views were expressed by them at the conference organised by the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) on Thursday. On this occasion a guide for women entrepreneurs “How to start […]
PESHAWAR: Unidentified assailants on Thursday blew up a girls’ school in South Waziristan Agency, where a full-scale army offensive is expected against Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud, officials said. The incident came three days after Taliban bombed two other schools, one in Peshawar and the other in Bajaur Agency. “A girls’ high school was blown up […]
LAHORE: Participants of the conference on ‘Women Leadership’ said that Pakistan is facing challenges in increasing the female participation in the mainstream economic activity. These views were expressed by them at the conference organised by the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) on Thursday. On this occasion a guide for women entrepreneurs “How to start […]
By Faryal Najeeb LAHORE: Director of Research at the Center for Women’s Enterprise, University of Bedfordshire, UK, M A Roomi has said that women have made more contribution to the world gross domestic product over the past decade than new technologies introduced across the globe and the emerging markets like India and China. Speaking at […]
ISLAMABAD: Dawn’s correspondent in Gujar Khan narrowly escaped an attempt on his life Thursday when a bullet fired by an unidentified gunman went through his ankle. A man appearing to be in his early 20s knocked at the door of Mr Asghar’s house in Ward No. 19 near the Gujar Khan grid station. When his […]
TOBA TEK SINGH: A journalist was shot dead by unknown people in Gojra on Wednesday night. Dr Muhammad Akram, a correspondent with a Faisalabad-based daily and a homoeopath, went to his clinic on Gojra-Toba Road but did not return home till late night. His son Shakil went launched a search and found the body of […]
LAHORE: Justice Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon of the Lahore High Court (LHC), while taking notice of the reported sale of a 16-year-old girl Ume Kulsoom from Faisalabad to a 62-year-old man, has summoned the people involved and a police official in the first week of July. The ‘sale’ was brought to the court’s notice during the […]
By Hassnain Ghayoor LAHORE: Abandoned by her parents, 14-year-old Mobeen Akbar got her jaw fractured late on Wednesday night in an attempt to flee the Child Protection Welfare Bureau (CPWB) where she claimed to have felt ‘suffocated’. CPWB Manager Nazja Zeb said Mobeen was hand-ed over to the institute on May 15 last by the […]
KARACHI: A young man Abass Ali and his wife Rasheeda have demanded authorities to provide them protection as the girl’s relatives are trying to kill them for the sake of ‘honour’. Ali is a landlord and a resident of a small village near Bhitshah, district Matiyari. He and Rasheeda loved each other for long time […]
A young woman was shot dead by her husband at their house located in Bhittai Colony, within the limits of Ibrahim Hyderi police station. The victim was identified as Fatima, 22, wife of Shahid Niazi. Police officials said that Niazi shot Fatima over a domestic dispute. The victim was said to be a mother of […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday ordered the release of a convict in Karo-Kari killing case after the deceased’s family reached a compromise with the accused. Muhammad Ramzan was charged with killing Rasool Bux on suspicion of having illicit relations with Sakina, within the limits of Thul police station in 1994. In September […]
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