ISLAMABAD: The city police have solved the rape-cum-murder case involving a six-year-old girl and arrested the alleged killer. A spokesman said on Sunday that Secretariat police found the girl’s body from a nullah near Quaid-i-Azam University on Friday. She was identified as GZ and her father, a resident of Rawalpindi’s Gawalmandi area, had already lodged […]
SUKKUR: The Sindh High Court, Sukkur division bench, has issued notices to former MNA Rao Yasin, the Okara DPO and the SHOs of Depalpur and Rohri, to appear before the court on June 19 on a petition filed by a woman, alleging forced marriage and torture. The single bench, comprising Justice Khadim Hussain Shaikh, issued […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Bait-ul-Maal (PBM) and the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education have distributed cheques of Rs 5,000 each to 1,000 women IDPs living in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The government has allocated an amount of Rs 500 million for 100,000 displaced families at various relief camps while 45,000 families have […]
By Bhagwandas KARACHI: The pattern of women being consistently under-represented in the country’s mainstream workforce also holds true for the judiciary, where women constitute a mere 14 per cent of the province’s judges from the lowest to the highest tier. The reasons range from socio-cultural restrictions and a patriarchal societal mindset to on-the-job pressures such […]
By Abdus Salam BANNU: Girl students outshined boys in the annual examination of secondary school certificate according to the results announced by Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Bannu. Saliha Javed got first position and Palwasha Shahab bagged second position in BISE Bannu, announced Controller Examination Ikramullah Manzoor here in a pres conference. Board Secretary […]
Myra Imran Islamabad: The women populace of the country have been included as a vital component of some major social welfare programmes in the Federal Budget 2009-10. For the first time in the country’s history, the budget speech was delivered by a woman – Minister of State for Finance & Economic Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Baitul Mal (PBM) and Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education here on Saturday distributed cheques of Rs5,000 each among 1,000 IDPs women living in the twin cities. The government has allocated an amount of Rs500 million for 100,000 displaced families at various relief camps, while the cheques have been distributed among […]
By Bhagwandas KARACHI: The pattern of women being consistently under-represented in the country’s mainstream workforce also holds true for the judiciary, where women constitute a mere 14 per cent of the province’s judges from the lowest to the highest tier. The reasons range from socio-cultural restrictions and a patriarchal societal mindset to on-the-job pressures such […]
LAHORE: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Chairperson Asma Jahangir expressed on Friday deep pain and anguish at the continuing suicide bombings that persist in causing a heavy loss of human life. The latest incident of target bombing took the life of noted religions scholar Dr Sarfaraz Naeemi, head of the Jamia Naeemia in Lahore, […]
SUKKUR: A man killed his wife and her alleged paramour early on Friday in Dilshad Cinema Muhalla, “A” section police limits, Kandhkot. According to reports, accused Sher Mohammad Naseerani suspected that his wife Muradan, 25, was having an illicit relation with one Rahim Bux Naseerani. On Friday, the accused with his accomplices axed the wife […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: The sessions judge Naushahro Feroze has directed the SHO Tharushah to provide protection to a newly —wed couple, here on Friday. In his order, the session judge directed the SHO of Tharushah police station to provide protection to Sabra Kaka, who married at her free will by solemnizing Nikah with Wali Mohammad Siyal. […]
KARACHI: A sessions court on Friday sentenced two brothers to life imprisonment in a 2001 robbery-cum-murder case. The court found the two brothers, Muhammad Shafi and Fida Hussain, guilty of stabbing Nayyar Sultana to death at her house in PECHS where they committed a robbery. The court also directed the convicts to pay Rs100,000 each […]
KHAIRPUR: A widow, Waziran Solangi, presented her eight-year-old daughter, Saima, for sale for Rs 40,000 in Kumb here on Friday. People gathered around her, asking her the reason for selling her daughter. She told them that after the death of her husband, she borrowed Rs 2,000 from Lal Gul Gopang of village Mir Muhammad Solangi. […]
By Shakeel Anjum Islamabad: An eight-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and killed near the shrine of Bari Imam in Nurpur Shahan on the outskirts of the capital late Thursday night, police sources said. Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Spokesman Dr. Waseem Khwaja, quoting the postmortem report, confirmed the rape of the minor girl before […]
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