ISLAMABAD, September 05 2006: Approval of Criminal Law Amendment (Protection of Women) Bill 2006 by NA select committee, which is expected to provide some relief to women and minorities, comes as disappointment for civil society activists who have been demanding repeal of Hudood law in totality. Prior to its approval the bill was read clause […]
SARGODHA, September 02 2006: The wife of an employee of highway department was found dead along with her two daughters in her house while her husband was missing with minor son. Watchman Ahmad Nawaz was living in a quarter of Highway Colony along with his wife Ghulam Fatima, son Hamza, 8, and daughters Ishrat, 5, […]
Consensus on 10 clauses: minister ISLAMABAD, August 31 2006: The select committee of the National Assembly on the Criminal Law Amendment (Protection of Women) Act 2006, tabled by the government in the National Assembly on Aug 21, met here on Wednesday (Aug 30) to review the bill clause by clause. Law Minister Wasi Zafar said […]
By Muhammad Zeeshan Azmat KARACHI, August 31 2006: her own family members killed a married woman in her forties who had come over from Larkana to avoid the taunts of the people of her native town. The murderers, who managed to make good their escape, had not been apprehended till the filing of this report. […]
LAHORE, August 30 2006: Both sides in Pakistan’s bitter controversy over its rape laws took to the streets over the weekend, either to accuse President Pervez Musharraf of betraying Islam or commend him as the saviour of women, an article appearing in the British newspaper The Telegraph said on Tuesday (Aug 29). The issue has […]
LAHORE, August 30 2006: Punjab Child Protection Bureau on Monday returned the three out of four girls, who had been found abandoned at the Data Ganj Bukhsh shrine on Aug 21, to their parents. According to an earlier handout issued by the bureau, the girls had claimed to be sisters who had been abandoned at […]
LAHORE, August 29 2006: The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has appealed to the nation to support its countrywide strike on September 1 to protest against the proposed amendments in the Hudood Ordinance and military operation in Balochistan. MMA leader Maulana Abdul Malik told a press conference on Monday that the alliance would force the government to […]
LAHORE, August 28 2006: An alleged rape victim has sobbed out her ordeal she had to face in the clutches of some ‘influential’ people of her locality. Narrating her catalogue of misfortunes at the Lahore Press Club on Sunday (Aug 27), the resident of Baghbanpura’s Multani Colony alleged that one of the perpetrators was none […]
PESHAWAR, August 27 2006: Additional District and Sessions judge Mohammad Rauf Khan, on Friday acquitted a girl and four other people charged under the Hudood law. The court accepted an application filed under section 265-K of Criminal Procedure Code, which empowers the trial court to acquit an accused person before conclusion of the trial when […]
PESHAWAR, August 27 2006: The amendment in Hudood laws would encourage adultery in society and would further increase obscenity, vulgarity and western culture in Pakistan and, therefore, women would resist such move, said MNA Razia Aziz of the MMA. She said this while addressing a demonstration against any amendment in the ordinance. The demonstration was […]
ISLAMABAD, August 27 2006: Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Saturday (Aug 26) held talks with MMA’s deputy parliamentary leader Hafiz Hussain Ahmed in a bid to persuade the alliance to work out an accord on the proposed women protection bill. The chief of the ruling PML had previously held talks with Maulana Fazlur Rahman on Wednesday […]
SUKKUR, August 26 2006: Three people, two of them women, were killed in what has been described as karo-kari murders in Buxapur and Sukkur on Thursday. Accused Hamal Jaffery killed his wife Ferozan, 18, in Usman Domki village after dubbing her kari. He and his brother later went to the house of Arib and shot […]
ISLAMABAD, August 25 2006: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) announced on Thursday (Aug 24) that it would launch a countrywide protest campaign against the government from Friday (Aug 25) (today) for changing the Hudood laws tabled in the National Assembly in the name of women’s protection bill and vowed to put a strong resistance to all […]
ISLAMABAD, August 25 2006: Muslim clerics in earthquake-hit Azad Kashmir have told aid agencies to fire all local women employees or face violent protests, officials and religious leaders said on Thursday (Aug 24). The threat, given to district officials and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Bagh on Tuesday, will dent hopes that the October 8 quake […]
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