ISLAMABAD, July 27 2006: The draft amendments to Hudood laws will be tabled in the National Assembly when it meets on Aug 4, informed sources told Dawn on July 25. They said the amendments were finalised at a Monday meeting chaired by President Gen Pervez Musharraf. The meeting was also attended by Prime Minister Shaukat […]
MULTAN, July 26 2006: Dozens of stick-wielding workers of religious parties tried to stop human rights activists from staging a demonstration for repeal of the Hudood laws but failed and the demonstration was held in Khanewal on July 25. When activists of the Pattan Development Organisation, the Women Councillors Network and the HRCP district core […]
HYDERABAD, July 25 2006: A man from Mirpurkhas has accused some sardars of the Sanghar district of ordering the murder of his sister in jirga. Speaking at a press conference at the press club here on July 24, Zafar Khan called upon the authorities to take legal action against them for the murder of his […]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, July 24 2006: Opposition leader in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rahman has said that there is no need for amendment to the Hudood Ordinance as it was in accordance with the Islamic injunctions. Talking to newsmen at his residence here on July 23, he said the government had contacted the MMA […]
KARACHI, July 24 2006: A woman was killed while three people lost their lives in separate incidents on July 22. Marvi, 50, was murdered when her husband along with his brothers and brothers-in-law axed her inside a house in Jamali Goth, in Sohrab Goth police locality. Asghar, the son of the deceased woman, said that […]
ISLAMABAD, July 24 2006: The human Rights activist and Vice Chairman, Ansar Burney Trust International, Syed Fahad Burney along with a team of 10 volunteers arrives Beirut on July 23 morning to take part in humanitarian activities in Lebanon and to distribute humanitarian aid to war effectees. Fahad Burney condemned the war between Israel and […]
ISLAMABAD, July 22 2006: An investigation police officer has allegedly raped a victim of gang rape at Sabzi Mandi Police Station in Islamabad. Faiza Najam, the victim, was kidnapped by seven armed men in her residence located in I-10/2 sector who took her to a deserted house and raped her, leaving her in a critical […]
KARACHI, July 21 2006: The city nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal inaugurated the city’s first filter plant in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, set up by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) in collaboration with a Canadian and a local firm here on July 20. Talking to the residents of the Civic View Apartments, the nazim, who is also […]
KARACHI, July 21 206: The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and the Shia Ulema Council announced on July 20 they would launch a protest campaign against the government’s endeavours to amend the Hudood Ordinance from Friday (July 21). Briefing the media at the MMA Sindh’s headquarters at Masjid-e-Quba, Maulana Asadullah Bhutto, the MMA president, said the decision […]
SHADADPUR, July 21 2006: Despite Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui’s warning that stern action would be taken against holders of Jirgas, the menace is successfully surviving. Bhongar Khoso, who has been asked by a Jirga to give his two minor daughters as fine for failing to return a loan of Rs 25,000, threatened on July […]
KHAIRPUR, July 21 2006: As many as 1,719 children were sexually abused in Pakistan in 2005, a seminar has been told here. SAHIL, a non-government organisation working against child abuse, organised the seminar titled “Child’s rights: facts and responsibilities”. Giving details of the seminar, SAHIL representative Shujaat Ahmed Siddiqui said that in 2004 the number […]
KARACHI, July 20 2006: A depressed man surrendered himself to the police after killing his ex-wife and infant son in Bukhtawar Goth near Cattle Colony within Sukhkhan police jurisdiction on Sunday, June 25. The 30-year-old Arshad Khan, who belongs to Peshawar, committed the heinous crime. He is the second eldest among his siblings. Since coming […]
KHAIRPUR, July 20 2006: A woman and her 10-day-old baby were killed in a village near here for marrying without the consent of the family, and police are not registering a case. The News has learnt from reliable sources that Shakila had married Mashooq Sial without the consent of her father, Abdul Ghafoor. Her uncle […]
HYDERABAD, July 20 2006: Teenager Naima Aziz Jumani on July 19 backed out of her earlier statement when produced before a judicial magistrate here on July 19. Recording her statement before the civil judge and judicial magistrate-VII, she accused Jamshed Mallah, who still claimed her his wife, of subjecting her to assault twice after kidnapping […]
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