March 30, 2006

Pakistan to contest for Human Rights Council

UNITED NATIONS, March 30 2006: Pakistan, India, Japan and Bangladesh have shown willingness to become members of the newly established UN Human Rights Council, UN sources said. Other candidates for

Court protects couple condemned karo-kari

KARACHI, March 30 2006: The Sindh High Court has granted protective bail to a woman and her husband who married of their free will and are facing charges of kidnapping

Govt attacks radio station in Khyber Agency

PESHAWAR, March 30 2006: Paramilitary forces on Wednesday March 29 launched an operation against cleric Mufti Munir Shakir’s supporters in Khyber Agency after a tribal jirga (council) failed to convince

Editors want protection for journalists

ftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI, March 30 2006: Senior editors from South Asia have asked for complete overhauling of the Geneva Conventions to provide adequate protection to journalists working in strife-torn

Pakistani journalists to study US

Khalid Hasan WASHINGTON, March 30 2006: Journalists from Pakistan are among 29 newspersons from 100 countries who have been selected for a State Department-sponsored visit to observe the working of

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