Month: July 2014

Two alleged rapists arrested

THATTA: Two men accused of having gang raped a widow were arrested on Saturday. The rape survivor was a mother of five children and a...

Couple killed for honour

LAHORE: A 20-year-old girl and a 25-year-old boy were murdered and their bodies were thrown into River Ravi in Shera Kot area on Saturday. The...

Punish those harassing women

LAHORE: Unless a culprit of sexual harassment is punished by law and shamed by the media, the menace of sexual harassment will only be passively...

Lovebirds shot dead by enraged brother

BHAKKAR: A youth has killed his sister and brother-in-law for contracting marriage against her family’s will, and injured his younger sister. The couple recently converted...

Rape and the law

Pointing to a glaring injustice, PPP Senator Sughra Imam told the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice recently that the conviction rate for rape...