Month: December 2006

Pashtun woman hiding after love marriage

KARACHI: Human rights groups have praised Pakistan for overhauling its Islamic sex laws, but for women like Quratulain Sattar, it is still an uphill battle...

Writer Shaukat Siddiqui passes away

KARACHI: Shaukat Siddiqui, one of the greatest writers of Urdu fiction in the modern era, died at his residence of cardiac arrest on Monday. He...

Pregnant woman dies of ‘police torture’

BAHAWALPUR: A pregnant woman of Tibba Badar Shair near Satellite Town was allegedly tortured to death on Monday during a police raid conducted to arrest...

A nose for refusing divorce

SIALKOT: A councillor along with his accomplices allegedly chopped off the nose of the first wife of a villager after she reportedly refused to get...