KARACHI: A girl was murdered and a man was shot dead while three persons lost their lives in separate accidents on Friday. A newly-married girl was murdered when her father, brothers and other relatives, who had reached from Mansehra (NWFP), stabbed her in her house in Future Colony, Landhi within Sharafi Goth police jurisdiction. Area […]
KHAIRPUR: A married woman was gang-raped by 14 men near Mehrabpur on Wednesday evening. Shahzadi, 45, was abducted from Peero Nangori village and allegedly raped by 14 men in a cotton field. The Mebrabpur police have registered a case against 20 men including Nawab, Pervez, Ashraf, Muzaffar, Ali Bux, Manzoor Ali, Anwar, Allah Bux, Alam, […]
RAWALPINDI: A retired army officer, who turned out to be a proclaimed offender (PO), was arrested by the Industrial Area police on Wednesday for torturing his wife, and sent him to Adiala jail, police said. Industrial Area DSP Jameel Hashmir, who is leading the investigation into the case, said that the second wife of Azhar […]
ISLAMABAD, November 01, 2006: Malik Mohammad Ismail Khan, veteran journalist and Resident Editor of Pakistan Press International (PPI) was brutally murdered in wee hours of Tuesday, sending a wave of shock and panic in the federal capital. His dead body was found with his partially mutilated skull and a depressed eye on the left few […]
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: A civil society organisation has emphasised maximum community participation in efforts to protect the rights of children without families in the earthquake devastated areas of Azad Kashmir and the NWFP. In a report, Save the Children Alliance says lack of economic opportunities often forces families to put their children in labour. This […]
MULTAN, Oct 29: A cleric, his two brothers and a friend allegedly raped a girl here on Sunday. A resident of Lohari Gate told police that she was alone in her house and her mother was away for shopping when Hafiz Muhammad Idrees, his two brothers and a friend entered her room after breaking the […]
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: The local police have arrested a man for allegedly raping a colleague along with his friends at a bank situated in the heavily-guarded Diplomatic Enclave. The victim, identified in the FIR as (A.H.), lodged a complaint with SSP Sikandar Hayat stating that the accused Ch Muhammad Yousuf, a PRO, rang her up […]
KARACHI: A man killed his wife over a child-custody dispute in Lyari and four other people were killed in separate incidents on Saturday, including two men who were shot during robberies. A sweeper named Moti Lal was arrested red-handed in Bhangi Para, Chakiwara, after he stabbed his 32-year-old wife, Jamna Bai. Bai left her husband’s […]
PESHAWAR, Oct 24: The number of women killed in the name of honour by their close male relatives is on the rise in Swabi distirct. Women relatives of the victims told Dawn that there had been a rise in the number of honour-related cases despite the fact that more girls are getting education and awareness […]
SAHIWAL: The woman who was set ablaze by in-laws succumbed to her injuries in hospital on Saturday while the police arrested her husband Shahzad Ahmed along with his father, sister and brother. Reports said Shamim Akhtar and her father-in-law Muhammad Husain exchanged hot words over a family dispute on Oct 3. Later, her sister-in-law Donia, […]
LAHORE: Fazaldad Institute in collaboration with Friedrich Nauman Foundation is organising a workshop on “Human Rights and the Media” here at a local hotel on Wednesday, November 15 2006. Senior media personnel including owners, editors, anchors and senior journalists from print and electronic media will be participating. The overall objective of the workshop is to […]
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: A female factory worker was allegedly raped by her colleague and his two accomplices, the police said here on Friday. The prime accused, a driver in a beverages, company offered a ride to his colleague when she was waiting for bus at Kak Bridge. The accused took the woman to a deserted […]
By our correspondent SUKKUR: A woman was shot dead by her husband on the pretext of Karo-Kari in village Jamal Brohi, in Sultankot police station jurisdiction, district Shikarpur, on late Thursday night. According to reports, accused Mir Hazar Jaffery suspected his wife Zariat Khatoon had illicit relations with his cousin Sharbat Jaffery. He opened fire […]
HYDERABAD, October 19 (PPI): President of Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith Sindh Amir Abdullah Farooqui has said the increasing incidents of killing innocent people in name of Kari Kari were the worst kind of lawlessness which should be controlled to save the society going back to barbarian age. In a statement issued here Thursday Amir Farooqui […]
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