HYDERABAD: Sindh Minister for Women Development Tauqir Fatima Bhutto has said that the Pakistan Peoples Party’s government has done record legislative work and taken executive measures to improve the lot of women in the province. Talking to the media here Sunday at Mehfil-i-Milad, the minister reiterated that the empowerment of women was a goal of […]
LAHORE: A girl burnt alive on Sunday after a fire broke out in her house due to gas leak. The deceased, identified as Khadija, was a resident of Arshad Road. Police said the family forgot turning off the gas stove due to which the kitchen was filled by gas. Khadija caught in fire as she […]
SARGODHA: An armed man shot at a girl in Fatima Jinnah Colony as a result of her family’s turning down his marriage proposal to the victim.Moreover, Shahid Zaman, the accused, also intercepted the Rescue 1122 officials who were to shift the wounded girl to a hospital. Earlier, Zaman entered into the house of Ghulam Mustafa, […]
By: Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI: A young couple and their seven-month-old first born were found strangulated in their house in Fauji Colony on Sunday afternoon, police said. Neighbours of the slain 27-year-old man, his wife, 24, and their little daughter were shocked at the brutality – apparently committed in the name of honour. “It is suspected […]
CHINIOT: The family of a schoolgirl, who was allegedly raped by five men almost a month ago, has appealed to the authorities to provide her justice and protection. Riaz and Kaneez Bibi, parents of the 7th class student of the TCF School located in the Ahmadpura locality of Chiniot City, say the accused are asking […]
PESHAWAR: A girl’s primary school was blown up by unidentified men in Badabair, a suburban area of the provincial capital, police said on Saturday. According to the details, miscreants planted explosives near the main gate of the school which is situated in Mashoo Khel Village and detonated it with a remote control. Two rooms of […]
Women Business Development Centre (WBDC) Peshawar has formed Youth Entrepreneurship Development Forum for the young potential female entrepreneurs of educational institutes. In order to familiarise them towards the concept of entrepreneurship, other than campuses WBDC, Peshawar had also started holding orientation seminars in girl’s hostels of University of Peshawar. One of the foremost objectives behind […]
MIRPURKHAS: An anti-terrorism court remanded on Friday three men in police custody for their alleged involvement in the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl. The Satellite Town police produced the three suspects before Judge Ghulam Mustafa A. Memon of the ATC for remand. The court remanded the suspects for four days and directed the […]
By: Umer Farooq PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has directed police to provide protection to three women. It has also issued arrest warrants for three persons for laying down a marriage claim against the women under the outdated “ghang” custom. The move came days after introduction of the law, which announces punishment for those […]
By: Rizwan Shehzad KARACHI: The police failed to produce a minister’s servant, accused of abducting a teenage girl and then forcing her to convert to Islam, to the court on Wednesday. The case was fixed for hearing on Wednesday before the 13th judicial magistrate, South, Hatim Aziz Solangi, but the police failed to present the […]
Karachi: Twenty-five-year old Mehwish met with a violent death when her former husband came to her house to visit their three girls and, after spending the night with her, stabbed her with a kitchen knive on Wednesday morning. Tamuria police said that the former husband, Muhammad Faheem, had shown up at his ex-wife’s residence in […]
MIRPURKHAS: A minor girl, who had gone missing on Jan 11, was found raped and murdered in Mir Allahbachayo Colony on Wednesday, police said. They said that the body of nine-year-old Nimra was found wrapped in a plastic bag in a playground behind the Government Comprehensive Higher Secondary School after some residents informed the Satellite […]
More than six months after the story first broke of at least four Kohistani girls being killed for singing and clapping at a wedding in the presence of unrelated men, the ugly affair has cropped up again. At the time, a local man, Afzal Kohistani, had alleged the girls had been put to death on […]
SUKKUR: A married woman was killed allegedly by her cousin on the pretext of Karo-kari in Muhammad Hassan Brohi village within the remit of the Dil Murad police station near Jacobabad on Monday. According to sources, Jagan Gabol suspected that Rehmat Khatoon, 32, wife of Muhammad Hassan Gabol, was fond of another man in the […]
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