ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that a total of 242 persons are still missing, 170 of them from Balochistan. Seventy of the missing persons are from Sindh, 42 from Punjab and 22 from NWFP. The families of several of the missing people allege that their relatives are being kept in […]
NAROWAL: A 22-year-old alleged rape victim has threatened to commit suicide if police did not arrest the accused who abducted and raped her for over three months.`S’ from Rehmat Colony told reporters on Saturday that Arif, Shahzad, Shaukat and Sadiq had abducted her from Jassar Bypass Road with the help of Ishrat Bibi, who had […]
KHAIRPUR: International Human Rights Day was observed worldwide on Sunday, but gang rape victim Shahzadi of the Yusuf Nangore village continued to wait for justice, while the influential rapists roamed scot-free, humiliating the law of the country. None of the human rights organisations, on the other hand, took up Shahzadi’s case, who shivers with fear […]
KARACHI: The International Poverty and Human Rights Day is being observed on December 10 (today). The day marks the anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.As part of the World Programme for Human Rights Education from 2005-2007, this year is devoted to human rights education in […]
LAHORE: The Punjab government’s commitment to safeguard human rights can be gauged from the way it handled the Punjab Human Rights Commission after the fashion of the military government.Before the formation of the present political set-up in the province, the then law minister, Rana Ijaz, had formed the commission – an official body supposed to […]
KARACHI: The Shia Ulema Council, Karachi chapter, on Saturday described the women protection law as being repugnant to injunctions of Islam in so far as the question of rape and connected matters were concerned, and maintained that the law was bound to encourage obscenity and vulgarity.City chief of the SUC Allama Naazir Abbas Taqvi, addressing […]
DADU: The Rukhan police picked up a rape victim Memona Kausar 22, along with her father and brother on Thursday when they were going to file an application against two influential men in the court of the district and sessions judge, Dadu. Brother of the victim girl, Asif Awan, told newsmen that seven days ago, […]
NAWABSHAH: A man was killed on the pretext of Karo-Kari in the village of Mir Jan Muhammad Talpur near here. Pandhi Khaskheli, father of Zameer Ali, registered a case with the Taluka police that Moosa Khaskheli and Essa Khaskheli, friends of his son, entered his home, shot dead Zameer and fled. The accused had suspected […]
President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday rejected criticism that the Women’s Protection Bill was ‘un-Islamic’. He also rejected the notion that the Hudood Ordinances was, in any way, a divine law. He told the Women’s Convention 2006 that the laws handed down by Allah could not be changed because they were eternal, but any ordinance framed […]
ISLAMABAD: President General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday rejected criticism of the Women’s Protection Bill as “un-Islamic” and rejected the notion of the Hudood Ordinances as divine law.“The Hudood Allah cannot be changed as they are divine, but the Hudood Ordinance is man-made and it can be changed,” Gen Musharraf said in an address to the […]
SUKKUR: A Jirga which was held in the village of Chandan near Thul on Tuesday resolved a Karo-Kari dispute between Buriro and Khoso tribesmen. Sardar Umer Daraz Bhangar, Mumtaz Buriro and UC Nazim Misri Pir Ahmed Ali Khoso jointly presided over the Jirga, while hundreds of Khoso and Buriro tribesmen attended. After hearing both the […]
MIANWALI: Mufti Hussain Ali of Jamia Akbria has refused to issue a Fatwa for the dissolution of two girls’ Nikahs which were solemnised in their childhood in compensation for an act of their father. Muhammad Nawaz Khan, a resident of Musakhel, had two young daughters when Fateh Khatoon of the same area eloped with him […]
Date: December 06-08, 2006 Location: Karachi A three-day workshop on “Violence Against Women” was organized by the PPF at Gwadar, Balochistan commencing December 6, 2006. Twenty-eight participants, including 14 women, attended the workshop. Detailed discussions were held at the workshop on gender-based violence against women and ways to reduce the incidents. It was observed that […]
TOBA TEK SINGH: A poor tenant of Chak 331 GB Salimpur, Ghulam Shabbir, and his family told the DPO on Monday when he visited their house that Chuttiana police were not registering a dacoity-cum-rape case occurred in their house two days ago.They apprised DPO Raja Munawar Husain that eight gunmen forced their entry into their […]
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