Month: October 2008

LHC orders case against sub-inspector

LAHORE, Oct 28: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday ordered registration of a case against a police sub—inspector for illegally detaining two women and...

Opposition walks out of Senate

ISLAMABAD – The Opposition and a treasury member of ANP on Monday jointly staged a token walkout from the Senate against brutal killing of a...

Sherry condemns killing of Khairpur girl

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Women’s Development Sherry Rehman on Monday condemned the killing, allegedly for ‘honour’, of a 17-year-old girl in Khairpur district of Sindh....

Girl thrown to dogs was pregnant

ISLAMABAD: There is more to the bone-chilling account of the 17-year-old Taslim Solangi of Khairpur who was thrown to dogs — she was 8-month pregnant...

‘Abbaya’ mandatory for women pilgrims

LAHORE, Oct 27: Faroghe Aftab Zaidi, the Haj training coordinator at the ministry of religious affairs, has said wearing of an ‘abbaya’ over clothes has...