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KARACHI: Journalist dies

KARACHI, January 28 2006: Naseem Taqvi, a journalist, poet and critic, died here on Wednesday January 25 night after protracted illness. He was buried in the Sakhi Hasan graveyard on Thursday. He was 62. A former staffer of daily Nawa-i-Waqt, Mr Taqvi was author of several books of prose and poetry. Source: Dawn Date:1/28/2006


Two boys in chains escape from school

KARACHI, January 27 2006: Police are searching for the principal of a religious school who kept young boys chained up and beat them daily to force them to study. Police raided the madressah in Karachi after 8-year-old Mohammad Ammar and 10-year-old Ahsan Muavia jumped from the roof to escape, still wearing their chains. “One of […]


Case against police for illegal arrests

LAHORE, January 27 2006: Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Razvi of the Lahore High Court on Thursday January 26 got a criminal case registered against the officials of the Shahkot police, who had taken into custody a petitioner and his friend from court premises soon after the proceedings in a habeas corpus petition were over. The […]


Rapes cousin for three weeks

KARA, January 27 2006: A girl was abducted and raped by her cousin for three weeks. Javed came to the house of his cousin Fozia at Haveli and took her with him, saying that her ailing grandmother wanted to meet her. On way, Javed’s accomplices Irshad and Amin abducted her and took her to Jhang […]


Girl raped

PAKPATTAN, January 27 2006: A girl was raped at Chak 95-EB. Accused Pervaiz overpowered the girl and took her into fields and raped her. Police have registered a case. Source: The News Date:1/27/2006


Newsmen protest police misbehaviour

GUJRANWALA, January 27 2006: Newsmen have lodged a strong protest over undue check on freedom of press and demanded DPO to take action against SHO of the Kotwali police station who misbehaved with them on Thursday January 26. The newsmen were covering a rally staged by Jamiat-e-Tulba Arabia here near old railway station against the […]


SC orders probe into gang-rape

BAHAWALPUR, January 25 2006: Supreme Court Chief Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar Ahmed has ordered a judicial inquiry into the alleged gang-rape case of Uch Sharif. The apex court issued the orders on an application filed by a human rights body. The CJ asked the Bahawalpur district and sessions judge to submit his report by Jan 30. […]


Man acquitted of rape charges

KARACHI, January 25 2006: The Federal Shariat Court (FSC) on Tuesday January 24 set aside conviction of man in rape case and ordered to release him if not involved in other cases. Amir Bux was sentenced to 14-years in prison with punishment of whipping 15 stripes by additional district and sessions court Tando Mohammad Khan […]


Man held for killing daughter

GUJRANWALA, January 26 2006: The Tatle Aali police have arrested a man for allegedly killing his daughter here. The police reportedly found the body of Saba Mehwish in the Chiriala village and the DPO assigned SHO Tahir Farooqi to arrest the killer. The SHO investigated and arrested the father of Mehwish, who confessed to strangling […]


Journalist Zafaryab Ahmad dies

LAHORE, January 26 2006: Journalist Zafaryab Ahmad died of cardiac arrest here on Wednesday January 25. He was 53. Mr Zafaryab, during his career as journalist, had served the daily Dawn, weekly Viewpoint and daily The Frontier Post. He also edited the first Punjabi newspaper of the country, Sajjan, in 1990. He was given the […]


Two girls given in Vani

MULTAN, January 25 2006: Two adolescent girls were given to the family of a rape victim as compensation in the practice of the custom of Vani in Chak No31/10-R (Katcha Khuh), Khanewal, on the orders of a punchayat (local council). Nasim Bibi, the mother of the rape victim, told reporters that Ijaz Ahmed, son of […]


CPNE rejects amendments in Press Council draft

KARACHI, January 25 2006: The Standing Committee of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors CPNE has rejected the proposed amendment in draft Press Council saying that such amendments would give it an status of ‘Special Court’ against the newspapers instead of an independent and volunteer body. The meeting, presided over by CPNE chief Arif Nizami, noted […]


Media watchdog seeks release of journalist

ISLAMABAD, January 25 2006: An international media watchdog renewed a demand for the release of a Pakistani journalist abducted last month after reporting a US missile strike in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan. A government official said Tuesday January 24 the journalist may have been abducted by Islamic militants. But the New York-based Committee […]


Hate literature to be checked: Pervaiz

LAHORE, January 25 2006: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Tuesday January 24 announced continuation of a drive against the literature containing sectarian hatred and warned that strict action would be taken against those writing, publishing or printing it. He was speaking at a meeting of the Ittehad Bainul Muslimeen Committee which was attended by over […]