MULTAN,February 25,2005:Around 200 women wearing veils on Thursday took out a procession in Dera Bugti against sexual assault on a lady doctor, use of delaying tactics in the arrest of the culprits and no action against the PPL management. “Some 200 women of the Bugti tribe marched on the streets in Dera Bugti and staged […]
KARACHI, February 25, 2005: When Doctor Shazia Khalid was brutally raped in her lodgings near Pakistan’s largest gas field it was not just a personal tragedy. It also sparked a tribal revolt that threatened to destablise the whole country. But the very public nature of the 32-year-old’s plight has not made justice any more likely […]
ISLAMABAD,February 24,2005: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday that the culprit behind the rape of a lady doctor in Sui would face hanging. However, the president defended an army captain who is the chief suspect in the case, saying he believed the man was not guilty. “The rape case is most unfortunate. Whoever has […]
ISLAMABAD, February 25,2005:Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain has suspended National Assembly Secretary Mahmood Salim Mahmood for his alleged involvement in sexual harassment of a woman last week at Heathrow Airport. A notification in this connection was issued Thursday evening when the National Assembly session was in progress. Moments before his suspension Salim was conducting House proceedings. […]
DERA MURAD JAMALI ,February 25,2005: A son killed his mother in a bid of Karo Kari here on Thursday. As per information a son killed his mother on the suspicion of illicit relation with another person. He fired many shots on her mother and killed her on the spot. Police arrested the killer with the […]
ISLAMABAD, February 25, 2005: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on February 24 that the culprit behind the rape of a lady doctor in Sui would face hanging. However, the president defended an army captain who is the chief suspect in the case, saying he believed the man was not guilty. “The rape case is most […]
QUETTA, February 25, 2005: Hundreds of tribal women staged a rally in Dera Bugti on Thursday in protest against the government’s failure to arrest the main accused involved in the lady doctor’s criminal assault case. It is for the first time in the history of Balochistan that tribal women held a protest march. The women, […]
KARACHI, February 25,2005:The APNS expressed its dismay on Thursday over the Senate resolution on Wage Board, a matter subjudice in courts, and rejected the linkage of government advertisements with the implementation of Wage Board Award. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society held at Karachi under the chairmanship of its […]
ISLAMABAD, February 25,2005: President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday directed the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to arrange his meeting with the working journalists to help resolve issue of non-implementation of 7th Wage Board Award for the newspaper employees. He gave the directive to Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed after conclusion of his press […]
MULTAN,February 25,2005:Around 200 women wearing veils on Thursday took out a procession in Dera Bugti against sexual assault on a lady doctor, use of delaying tactics in the arrest of the culprits and no action against the PPL management. “Some 200 women of the Bugti tribe marched on the streets in Dera Bugti and staged […]
PESHAWAR,February 24, 2005 The daughter of former provincial minister and renowned lawyer from Abbottabad, Ayub Tanoli (late), Kiran Tanoli was appointed as the coordinator women youth wing Hazara division of Pakistan Muslim League on Wednesday. A notification to this effect has been issued from the party central secretariat Islamabad. Commenting on her appointment as the […]
SLAMABAD, February 24, 2005 The opposition staged a token walkout from the National Assembly on the first day of the third parliamentary year when its member was not allowed to raise Dr Shazia Khalid’s rape issue. After the opposition’s walkout from the House, PPPP legislator Nahid Khan pointed out the quorum; around 70 members were […]
LAHORE, February 26, 2005: The Punjab Human Rights Monitoring Committee is scheduled to review the human rights situation across the province at its fifth meeting here on February 26. The meeting, to be chaired by regional director Kishwar Shaheen Awan, is to take stock of police activities in curbing various crimes against women, minorities and […]
KARACHI, February 24, 2005: The President of Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Khalid Firoz Arfeen, has stressed upon the need for the media to constantly update its skills in different fields so that the quality of business journalism in Pakistan continued to improve. This he said at the inauguration of one-day workshop here in […]
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