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 […]
SUKKUR, February 23, 2005: Two women were killed on the pretext of karo-kari in two separate incidents in Ghotki and Shikarpur districts on Monday night. In Ghotki’s Pathan Mahar village near Khanpur Mahar, one Achar Mahar allegedly shot dead his stepmother Nadeeman, wife of Qabil Mahar. Police handed over the body to relatives after post-mortem. […]
KHIARPUR,February 23,2005:The Judicial Magistrate of Sobhodero, Ghulam Shabbir Soomro, in a defamation/damage suit, acquitted three journalists of Khairpur, namely, Qurban Gilal, Liaquat Ali Jakhar and Idrees Abbas. A constable, Abdul Qadir Drigh, had filed a suit of defamation against the above-named journalists seven months ago. During the proceeding, the complainant could not prove the charges, […]
MULTAN, February 23, 2005: Police in Vehari said on February 22 they had arrested a man for allegedly beheading his 8-year-old niece with a hatchet during an exorcism. The suspect’s wife delivered a stillborn boy two weeks ago and an “exorcist-cum-magician” told him that the victim’s mother had performed black mage on them, police said. […]
TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN, February 23, 2005: A 40-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by five people in Dev Raj Kolhi village near here on February 21. The accused barged into the house of Kalan, wife of Kuhro Kolhi, belonging to a minority tribe, and allegedly gang-raped her. The accused also looted valuables worth thousands of rupees […]
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