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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
LAHORE, January 25 2006: The Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) held four-hour long negotiations with Cable Operators Association of Pakistan (CAP) on Monday January 24 to resolve the ban imposed on GEO network in Pakistan (outside Sindh province) by the cable operators. PBA was presented with a six-point demand by CAP (listed below) for consideration and […]
JACOBABAD, January 24 2006: Two illegal detainees were recovered from a police station near here, after a raid conducted there on the order of a court. According to details, one Bahauddin Tanviri had moved the district and sessions court Jacobabad that his two relatives, Karim Bux and Gulsher were detained illegally by SHO Mubarakpur at […]
GUJRANWALA, January 24 2006: Five women were molested in different incidents here and around on Monday January 23. In the first incident, ten people, including Khalil, Akhtar, Sarwar, Salman, Nasir, Shahid, Shan and Viki, allegedly entered the house of Jahangir Masih and molested his cousins Arshad Bibi and Iqbal Bibi. The Baghbanpura police are investigating. […]
Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, January 24 2006: Social activism saved an eight-year-old girl in Mardan district from being given in marriage under the custom of Sawara to pay for the murder committed by her uncle. Samar Minallah, an anthropologist working in the area, told Dawn that the girl’s family backed out of the Sawara deal when […]
NAWABSHAH, January 24 2006: A TV journalist was beaten and arrested by Railway Police while he was making footage of railway police action against the encroachment on Railway Land at Nawabshah on Monday 23 January 2006. According to press report, Railway Police snatched camera, press card and cash along with other papers from Rizwan Thebo […]
KARACHI, January 24 2006: Prominent writer, intellectual and critic Prof Riaz Siddiqui, 62, died on Monday January 23 at the Jinnah Hospital, where he was shifted after being injured in a traffic accident on Sharea Faisal in the morning. He has left the widow, a son and a daughter. He was buried in the Liaquatabad […]
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