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Four booked under blasphemy act

Khairpur, July 01 2006: Faiz Gunj police has booked four people accused of committing blasphemy on July 30. According to details, Ali Muhammad Arain had lodged an FIR that Mohammad Ayub Arain, Moloo Arain, Akbar Ali Arain, Mohammad Bashir Arain forced his son to convert into Qadianiat by using abusive languages against Hazrat Muhammad (peace […]


Violation of women’s rights

ANIS HAROON June 29 2006: THE incident which took place in the Sindh Assembly on June 21 is most unfortunate. It reflects the mindset of the so-called graduate assembly. If our MPAs get involved in eve-teasing and start harassing their colleagues, what can one expect from a common man on the street? Moreover, the leader […]


Man accuses in-laws of killing his daughter over dowry

PESHAWAR, June 27 2006: Parents of a girl, who reportedly committed suicide two days ago, have accused her in-laws of torturing her to death for not bringing enough dowry’. Saima Begum, 18, was married to 24­year-old Inayat Ali Shah son of Karim Shah, a resident of Dhaki Naal Bandi, Peshawar, some five months ago. Syed […]


Man kills pregnant wife

KARACHI, June 27 2006: A man killed his pregnant wife early June 26 morning in Korangi. Police said Abid Husain, 35, killed his 25-year-old wife, Afsheen, by slitting her throat while she was asleep in their house in Zia Colony, Korangi. Police said after killing his wife, the suspect escaped from the home leaving his […]


Woman killed over Karo- Kari

KHAIRPUR, June 26 2006: A woman was killed by her brother on the pretext of Karo- Kari in Shikarpur police limits on June 25. Report said that at Shaikh Farm one Jamzadi w/o Ali Hassan Shaikh was shot dead by her brother Hatim Ali Shaikh for maintaining illicit relations with a man and fled. Source: […]


10 acquitted in Hudood case

HYDERABAD, June 23 2006: The second additional district and session’s judge, Mr. Amjad Ali Bohyo, on acquitted 10 people, including four women, in a Zina Enforcement Hudood Ordinance case after a girl, Ms Nayab Memon, stated that she had not been abducted. The court acquitted Aachar Khuman, Noor Mohammad, Ameer Bux Arbab, Mushtaq Arbab, Zulfiqar […]


Minor girl killed after sexual assault

KARACHI, June 23 2006: A girl was murdered while police arrested 16 Afghan nationals for illegal border crossing on June 22. A body of a minor girl was found from a drainage course within Pak Colony police jurisdiction. The deceased girl was identified as Maryam, a three-year-old daughter of Shabbir Ahmed and a resident of […]


Three freed as girl denies kidnapping

HYDERABAD, June 23 2006: District and Sessions Judge on ordered the release of the accused imprisoned in the kidnapping case of Nayab Memon of Hala; district Matiari, after the girl recorded her statement that she was not kidnapped and left the home on her own. Nominated persons in the case, including Aachar Kumhan, Noor Mohammad, […]


Criminal assault on abducted peasant girl

HYDERABAD, June 22 2006: A teenage peasant girl from scheduled caste Kolhi family was abducted by her neighbour in Kotri and criminally assaulted by many .persons in captivity at Thatta district, her father claims. The girl belonged to a family that escaped bondage of a landlord some time ago and settled in a makeshift camp […]


Gang-rape victim accuses police of protecting culprits

HYDERABAD, June 21 2006: A 17-year-old girl of Tando Adam in the Sanghar district was gang-raped on June 6, but the culprits are still at large and the police are not supporting her and her family due to the political influence of the culprits. Naila, daughter of Liaquat Ali Rajput, resident of Ahmedpur locality of […]


Man shoots wife on dowry issue

SIALKOT, June 20 2006: A man allegedly shot dead his wife as a punishment for not bringing dowry from her parents at Majra of Sambrial tehsil on Monday. Reports said Muhammad Akram (33) had married Shazia Bibi (26) about seven months ago and the latter’s poor parents had not given her dowry. Akram waited for […]


Three killed over Karo-Kari

SUKKUR, June 20 2006: There teenaged boys were shot dead over a Karo-Kari dispute in a village in Hatri Ghulam Shah police station’s jurisdiction, Larkana district, late on June 17(Saturday) night. Some Jatoi tribesmen were irrigating their land in village Haji Qalab Jatoi, when armed men opened fire, killing Rauf Jatoi, 16, Umer Jatoi and […]


Hudood law clause challenged

PESHAWAR, June 17 2006: A provision of the Zina Ordinance about fixing proof for the adultery and rape has been challenged in the Federal Shariat Court by a former president of the Peshawar Bar Association. The petition was filed by Musarrat Ullah Khan in the Shariat court registry here on June 16, praying the court […]


Blasphemy accused stabbed to death in court

MUZAFFARGARH, June 17 2006: Two youths, Muhammad Imran and Muhammad Iqbal, stabbed an alleged blasphemer Abdul Sattar Gopang to death on the district courts premises here on June 16. A sub-inspector Abdul Ghafoor also sustained injuries. Both were taken to the hospital where Gopang succumbed to his injuries. Acting DPO Muhammad Zubair Dreshak said two […]