Month: September 2009

Aafia’s lawyers to visit Pakistan

By Masood Haider NEW YORK: Two of the three new lawyers engaged by Pakistani government to defend Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist accused of...

Woman held for killing wife of ex-husband

By Tahir Siddiqui KARACHI: A 24-year-old woman was arrested and booked for killing the wife of her former husband in Rizvia Society on Friday, witnesses...

Man jailed for throwing acid on cousin

KARACHI: A sessions court sentenced a man on Friday to a total of nine years in prison on charges of attacking his female cousin with...

Bail granted to rape accused suspended

KARACHI: Justice Amir Hani Muslim of the Sindh High Court on Friday suspended bail granted earlier to a man accused of subjecting a minor girl...

Panel to work for Aafia’s release

LAHORE: The Judicial Activism Panel said on Friday it had evolved a strategy for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from the US custody. In...