ON Sept 9, World Suicide Prevention Day, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah appealed for a more compassionate approach towards those who attempt to take their own lives. In a message to mark the occasion, he urged the federal government to revisit and repeal the law criminalising attempted suicide. Under Section 325 of the Pakistan […]
RAWALPINDI: Police have detained 38 people on charges of torturing and threatening two transgender persons. The suspects allegedly forcibly entered the victims` home in Dhoke Kala Khan and injured them. Mohammad Sajid complained toAirport police that he along with his companions Ageel Sana alias Meri, Mohammad Ali alias Alina have been residing in their house […]
ISLAMABAD: Noor Mukadam lost six life-saving opportunities due to the active connivance of the accomplices of the principal accused, Zahir Jaffer, in her murder, according to the investigation report of Islamabad police submitted to the trial court. `Her life could have been saved had the accomplices acted otherwise,` claimed the report commonly 1(nown as challan […]
KHUZDAR: The ringleader of kidnappers was killed and a member of the Levies Force was injured in heavy exchange of fire during an operation launched by security men here on Thursday against kidnappers. Khuzdar Deputy Commissioner retired Major Bashir Ahmed told a press conference here that the operation had been conducted by the Levies Force […]
MOHMAND: Two policemen were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked two checkposts in Mohmand tribal district on Thursday night. In the first incident, miscreants opened fire on a checkpost in Ekkaghund tehsil, seriously injuring constable Nizam Khan. He succumbed to injuries while being shifted to a Peshawar hospital. Separately, gunmen attacked the Shakar Ghundi Ghanam Shah […]
MANSEHRA: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in collaboration with the Norwegian embassy in Islamabad organised the `Enrolment Festival` to sensitise parents to the formal education of their daughters in middle and secondary schools in Kolai-Palas district. The women-only event was hosted by a girls high school. Unesco national project officer Sadia Bangash […]
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has directed the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments to update it on efforts to amend the Pakistan Penal Code to prescribe only death sentence for the offence of blasphemy. A bench consisting of Justice Roohul Amin Khan and Justice Mussarat Hilali directed additional attorney general Aamir Javed and additional advocate […]
KOHAT: A land dispute claimed four lives and left four others, including a woman, injured near the Ghamkol refugee camp No 3 here on Friday. The Junglekhel police station officials said Irfan, Adnan and Ehsan along with their father Umar Farooq opened fire at their cousins, killing four of them on the spot. Four others, […]
KARACHl: A pregnant woman was shot dead allegedly by her husband in a Malir locality on Friday, police said. They said that Musafi, 35, was gunned down in Gulshan-i-Amna in Malir Halt. An Airport police officer said that after a quarrel inside their home, the woman`s husband, Adam, pulled out his pistol, fired at her […]
MITHI: The Additional Sessions Judge of Mithi, Mohammad Yousaf Gul, on Friday handed down 24 years` rigorous imprisonment and imposed heavy fine on a man for `raping, making pregnant and forcing a young [16-year-old girlj to commit suicide`. Convict Konpji Singh Thakur was ordered to pay a fine of Rs1 million for the offence punishable […]