KARACHI, Jan 10: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Thursday announced that it will collect information about workers of political parties and citizens arrested or wanted on allegations about their involvement in the Dec 27-related violence. In a statement issued on Thursday, HRCP’s secretary-general Iqbal Haider and vice-chairperson Zohra Yusuf expressed grave concern […]
PESHAWAR, Jan 9: Owners of various video centres in the city on Wednesday received threatening letters, asking them to close their businesses. The owner of a video centre in the Sufaid Dheri area said that militants identifying themselves as local Taliban had asked him to stop dealing in CDs and video cassettes business. They threatened […]
PESHAWAR, Jan 6: As many as two barber shops and three video CD centres were blown up while a watchman there was shot at early Sunday morning in two separate incidents in the outskirts of the city. The first bomb explosion destroyed a barber shop and a video shop in the Sheikh Mohammadi village. Another […]
BUNER, Jan 6: A powerful explosion destroyed a video shop and partially damaged nine others here in the Jure Salarzai area in the early hours of Sunday. Witnesses said that a explosive device had been planted close to the Asif Video Centre in the Azizur Rehman Market, which exploded with a big bang. Nine other […]
KARACHI, Jan 4: Additional district and sessions judge, East, Rana Zaki Shamsi on Friday indicted the moazzin of a mosque on charges of killing a 12-year-old boy in a mosque in Shah Faisal Colony. Hafiz Manzoor Ahmed, who was accused of the crime, pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the case. The judge summoned […]
LAHORE, Feb 3: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has voiced concern over lack of legislation in public interest, especially the government’s apathy towards the approval of the Senior Citizens Bill pending for the past many years. “The government is not at all serious in the welfare of the people,” HRCP Director I.A. Rehman […]
LANDI KOTAL, Feb 3: Two workers of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have gone missing in the Khyber tribal region, according to officials. The Islamabad-based communication officer of the ICRC, Sitara Jabeen, told Dawn on Sunday that the workers who were going to the Torkham checkpoint, near the Afghan border, had disappeared […]
LAHORE, Jan 3: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned the extension in detention of Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan and called for his release. It also called for the release of detained judges, lawyers and civil society activists. Condemning the extension in Ahsan’s detention for another month in a statement […]
LAHORE – Lawyers of Lahore Bar Association (LBA) on Thursday took out a protest rally from Aiwan-e-Adl to Data Darbar to condemn the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, for the restoration of judiciary and against the curbs on media. Hundreds of lawyers joined by activists of civil society organizations and students thronged the Lower […]
KARACHI: Senator (retd) Iqbal Haider, secretary general of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), has condemned the extension of what he termed illegal detention of Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Mr. Ali Ahmed Kurd, member of the Pakistan Bar Council, and the continued illegal detention of Mr. Justice […]
KOHAT, Jan 2: Unknown militants blew up a CD centre at the old bus stand in Kohat city late Tuesday night, police said. The bomb was planted inside the shop which exploded with a huge bang around 9.25 pm. Police sources said it had been a time device which completely destroyed the Shabana music centre […]
PESHAWAR: Frontier lawyers on Tuesday manhandled Advocate Fawad Hussain Chaudhry, nephew of former Lahore High Court chief justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, for appearing before the Peshawar High Court (PHC) election tribunal despite the local lawyers’ continuing boycott of the judges serving under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO). Dozens of lawyers were waiting outside the courtroom […]
LAHORE, Jan 1: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for immediate disbandment of “vigilante squads maintained by the establishment for its favourite political party”. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, the HRCP said on Monday night (Dec 31) a most deplorable incident took place in the Gulberg area. A few young […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: The elections scheduled for January 8 are most likely to be put off for weeks because, official sources said, holding polls in various constituencies would not be possible on that day owing to the situation arising out of the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto. They said that recompilation of the destroyed […]
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