Month: November 2004

Rape victim pleads for govt protection

PESHAWAR – An alleged rapist who later set the house of the rape victim on fire in a village of Charsadda district is still at...

Villager kills wife and guest

JACOBABAD – A man and a woman were killed after being dubbed as karo and kari in Mir Hassan Khoso village of Jaafarabad district in...

64 women in Darul Amans await court verdicts

KARACHI – Around 64 women lodged in four government-run Darul Amans (shelter homes) in Sindh are waiting since long for court verdicts to decide their...

Police told to book 8 Karo-kari accused

KARACHI – The Sindh High Court directed the Gambat police on Monday to register a case against eight people accused by a girl of trying...

100 literacy centres for Thatta women

THATTA – The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), in coordination with community-based organizations (CBOs), has started work on about 100 literacy resource centres in...