ISLAMABAD: President General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday rejected criticism of the Women’s Protection Bill as “un-Islamic” and rejected the notion of the Hudood Ordinances as divine law.“The Hudood Allah cannot
HYDERABAD: A gang-rape victim, Nadira Parveen, deposing before district and sessions judge Zafar Ahmad Sherwani on Tuesday, said she feared for her life as ‘I am being chased by henchmen
SUKKUR: A Jirga which was held in the village of Chandan near Thul on Tuesday resolved a Karo-Kari dispute between Buriro and Khoso tribesmen. Sardar Umer Daraz Bhangar, Mumtaz Buriro
MIANWALI: Mufti Hussain Ali of Jamia Akbria has refused to issue a Fatwa for the dissolution of two girls’ Nikahs which were solemnised in their childhood in compensation for an
Date: December 06-08, 2006 Location: Karachi A three-day workshop on “Violence Against Women” was organized by the PPF at Gwadar, Balochistan commencing December 6, 2006. Twenty-eight participants, including 14 women,
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday demanded of the government to release an inquiry report on the kidnapping and killing of Hayatullah Khan Dawar, a tribal journalist whose body
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