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=> PESHAWAR: The police force and CD shops have come

PESHAWAR: The police force and CD shops have come under attack for at least 24 times by a single group during the past year in Mardan district only, sources confided to The News on Tuesday. The group had been gaining strength throughout the past year. The police authorities and intelligence agencies brought the matter into […]


=> LAHORE / ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: The Punjab government p

LAHORE / ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: The Punjab government put president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan under detention for a period of 30 days on Saturday, after he was stopped from flying out to Sukkur at the Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore, under an order of the Sindh government, issued earlier in […]


=> KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (

KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) demanded on Friday that President Pervez Musharraf resign, restore the sacked judges, release former chief justice (CJ) of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and his family and appoint a non-partisan and independent caretaker government and Election Commission (EC). HRCP Secretary General Iqbal Haider said this at a press […]


=> ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: The legal community mounted pro

ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: The legal community mounted protests and processions in the federal capital, the four provincial capitals and other cities and towns across the country on Thursday to mark the ‘Justice Iftikhar Day’ on a call given by the Sindh High Court Bar Association. The call had been endorsed by the Pakistan Bar Council. […]


=> NEW YORK-The United States and European democracie

NEW YORK-The United States and European democracies increasingly have accepted elections conducted in countries that have no respect for human rights for the sake of political expediency, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. The countries that claim the mantle of democracy, include Kenya and Pakistan, while others like Bahrain, Jordan, Nigeria, Russia and Thailand have […]


=> Child Rights Committee Larkana members and childre

Child Rights Committee Larkana members and children Wednesday observed protest demonstration for the protection of children under Juvenile Justice Ordinance 2000 and brutally beating Kishore of Hyderabad by a family a few days back. The CRC members including Apa Tahira Leghari Coordinator, Nazir Ahmed Siyal, Ammanullah, Advocate Abdul Rehman, Abdul Karim, Ali Hassan Khuhro, Manzoor […]


=> NEW YORK, Jan 30: US immigration authorities have

NEW YORK, Jan 30: US immigration authorities have returned the passport of prominent social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi and issued a new green card. Mr Edhi said on Wednesday that he would head home some time next week. He thanked Pakistan’s print and electronic media for highlighting his plight. According to a Pakistan Embassy official, […]


=> PESHAWAR (January 31 2008): Unidentified outlaws b

PESHAWAR (January 31 2008): Unidentified outlaws blew up two music centres at Mohallah Afridiabad in the jurisdiction of Pandhu police station in city, police said here on Wednesday. The centres owned by Sajjad and Malang Jan was badly damaged and valuables including electronic equipment and CDs were destroyed. The loud sound of explosion occurred as […]


=> RAWALPINDI- Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi ben

RAWALPINDI- Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Tuesday directed a woman, who had adopted a child, to present the baby in the court on the next hearing as a man who lost his son in Holy Family Hospital (HFH) last December for the custody of the child. The LHC Judge Syed Sajjad Hussain Shah […]


=> KARACHI, Jan 29: The Human Rights Commission of Pa

KARACHI, Jan 29: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has condemned President Pervez Musharraf’s verbal attack on senior journalist M. Ziauddin and demanded that an unconditional apology be extended to the journalist immediately. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, HRCP official Iqbal Haider criticized the yet another attack on the freedom of expression and […]


=> HYDERABAD, Jan 29: Activists of Child Rights Commi

HYDERABAD, Jan 29: Activists of Child Rights Committee staged a demonstration outside the press club on Tuesday against torture of a teenaged domestic servant, Kishore Meghwar, a couple of days ago. The committee’s office-bearer Kashif Bajeer condemned the violence and said that it was government’s duty to check excesses against children. He demanded exemplary punishment […]


=> ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has lodged a strong protest w

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has lodged a strong protest with the United States against the manhandling of Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi in New York by the immigration authorities. Taking strong exception to the incident, the Foreign Office Tuesday demanded of the US officials to let the noted social activist go. It said that hectic efforts were […]


=> LONDON (NNI) – British Prime Minister Cordon Brown

LONDON (NNI) – British Prime Minister Cordon Brown should tell visiting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that free and fair elections would be impossible without the full restoration of Pakistan’s judiciary, Human Rights Watch has said. Musharraf, in the United Kingdom on the last leg of his first foreign trip since the assassination of former Pakistani […]


=> LONDON (NNI) – British Prime Minister Cordon Brown

LONDON (NNI) – British Prime Minister Cordon Brown should tell visiting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that free and fair elections would be impossible without the full restoration of Pakistan’s judiciary, Human Rights Watch has said. Musharraf, in the United Kingdom on the last leg of his first foreign trip since the assassination of former Pakistani […]