Month: July 2009

Full pension urged for widows

HYDERABAD: The federal government should pay full pension to widows for enabling them in leading an honourable and dignified life as the unprecedented price hike...

Rape case against folk singer

MIANWALI: Police have registered a case against a local folk singer, Sharafat Ali Terikhelvi, on the charge of raping and detaining a 16-year-old girl for...

Girl moves court for divorce in Gilgit

GILGIT: An eleven-year-old girl, who was forced to marry a man, reached a local court and sought divorce, officials said here on Tuesday. Fairoza requested...

‘Kari’ shot dead by husband

LARKANA: A farmer shot dead his 20-year-old wife Gulzar Khatoon on Tuesday after branding her Kari, in village Hussain Magsi in the jurisdiction of Behram...