July 21, 2006

City’s first filter plant inaugurated

KARACHI, July 21 2006: The city nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal inaugurated the city’s first filter plant in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, set up by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) in collaboration

Jirga victim seeks security

SHADADPUR, July 21 2006: Despite Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui’s warning that stern action would be taken against holders of Jirgas, the menace is successfully surviving. Bhongar Khoso, who has

1,719 children sexually abused in 2005

KHAIRPUR, July 21 2006: As many as 1,719 children were sexually abused in Pakistan in 2005, a seminar has been told here. SAHIL, a non-government organisation working against child abuse,

Four women prisoners released in NWFP

PESHAWAR, July 21 2006: The first batch of four women prisoners were released from the Peshawar Central Prison under the recently-promulgated ordinance after they were granted bail by courts concerned.

309 women released from nine Punjab prisons

LAHORE, July 21 2006: The Prisons Department, Punjab, has released on bail 309 women prisoners from nine different jails of the province since July 10, in compliance with the Presidential

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