BAHAWALPUR: A man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly killing his second wife over an argument about not divorcing his first wife. Police said Ghulam Yaseen, a resident of Ghanna village, had married Malookan Mai in 2012. He had a daughter from this marriage and Mai was six-month pregnant with a second child. They said […]
LAHORE: A man stabbed to death his wife after she was found in objectionable condition in the bedroom with her paramour in Manga Mandi, police said on Tuesday. The woman succumbs to injuries in the way to hospital while the killer managed escape. Police investigators said that the deceased, identified as Rehana Bibi from Mushtaqabad, […]
SUKKUR, March 30: A man and a woman were shot dead on suspicion of having illicit relations in Ali Bukhsh Jakhrani village of Jacobabad district on Saturday. According to sources, Nawab Ali aka Takri, son of Mian Bukhsh Jakhrani, was working in a field when suspects, identified by the bereaved family as Kaishoo Khan Jakhrani […]
Akhtar Amin PESHAWAR: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Sunday said killing of girls marrying without the consent of the family members was on the rise in Pakistan. HRCP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Coordinator Shahidullah Khan told The News that women were being killed in the name of “honour” even on suspicion or for going […]
BAHAWALPUR – In the last month, 34 women and two men were killed by declaring them Kari while 174 people including 45 women committed suicide and 40 people were sexually harassed, disclosed Muhammad Baqaruz Zaman, a representative of the Pakistan Commission for Human Rights, at Liaquatpur. However, 58 people including 21 women attempted suicide but […]
Another vile honour killing on March 13 was added to Pakistan’s growing list of barbaric crimes that threaten to lead it into a deep, dark abyss from which it cannot return. This time, the incident took place in the tribal northwest town of Parachinar and the victim was a 25-year-old army soldier charged by a […]
MIRPURKHAS: A married woman was axed to death on charge of “Karo Kari” (illicit relations) by her husband in village Allah Ditto Khoso on Thursday. Samaro police detained the father of the accused. The accused, Ghulam Rasool Khoso, was absconding. Police said that the victim was attacked with an axe while she had been cooking. […]
SUKKUR: Three people were killed on the pretext of Karo-Kari in different areas of the Sukkur region on Saturday. Police said in Village Kakri in the limits of Lakha Road Police Station accused Shah Dost Brohi shot dead his daughter Dur-e-Bakht and her alleged paramour Abdul Qadir Brohi. Later, the accused surrendered himself before the […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: The Lakha Road police arrested a man on Saturday for allegedly killing his teenage daughter and a young man on the pretext of Karo-kari. Lakha Road SHO Shaukat Kabir said that the suspect, 50-year-old Shahdost Brohi, shot and killed 15-year-old Durre Bakht, his daughter, and 20-year-old Abdul Wadir Brohi, a relative, on the […]
SUKKUR: A woman was among the four people killed over the issue of illicit relations in the Sukkur region on Wednesday. Police said accused Ismail Manghnaijo shot dead his wife Dinan in Nawazo town of Rohri in Sukkur on the charge of Karo-Kari. Police shifted the body to a local hospital for autopsy, but could […]
KHAIRPUR – A girl was killed over karo-kari near here on Monday. Accused Mashooq Ali Jamali killed his young daughter Rehana Jamali at village Muhmmad Moosa jamali in the jurisdiction of Faiz Muhammad Bindo police station and fled. Police handed the body to relatives after autopsy from Pir Jo Goth hospital. The cause of murder […]
Mohammad Ali Babakhel WORLDWIDE perceptions regarding women’s participation in law enforcement are changing, but in Pakistan policing is still a male-dominated career. In Pakistan, the origin of women policing can be traced to the 1970s. In the Police Act 1861 and Police Rules 1934 there is no reference to women policing. However the Police Order […]
SHIKARPUR: A 22-year-old woman was killed allegedly by her husband suspecting her of having maintained illicit relations with his cousin, in Bahram Khan Bunglani village on Saturday. Ghulam Rasool reportedly shot dead his wife in his home located within the remit of the New Faujdari police station. No FIR was registered till the filing of […]
By Mudassir Raja RAWALPINDI: A woman committed suicide on Tuesday after her ex-husband killed the man she had allegedly eloped with a day earlier in Dheri Hassanabad on Tuesday. According to Civil Lines Police Station House Officer Raja Shakeel, Bibi burnt herself to death in her home at around 4pm. He said that police had […]
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