February 6, 2007

Fresh probe into police torture case

LARKANA, Feb 6: The SSP crime, Sukkur, Abdul Ahad Sangri, on Tuesday restarted inquiry into an incident of chopping off sensitive part of a cook, Hazoor Bakhsh Malik, in the

Liaquat library in deplorable condition

KARACHI, Feb 5: The standards of a majority of the libraries run by the Sindh Directorate of Culture are in continuous decline for want of funds and attention. These are

Orakzai orders early recovery of journalist

PESHAWAR: NWFP Governor Lt-Gen (Retd) Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai has directed the political authorities of the Khyber Agency to recover kidnapped journalist Sohail Qalander and his colleague Niaz Muhammad without

90pc work on mega projects completed

KARACHI, Feb 5: The City District Government of Karachi has completed 90 percent work on mega projects costing Rs21 billion in eight months and Karachi will soon emerge as a

Women, the Quran and human rights

AN exhaustive research study by a Pakistani scholar, human rights and peace activist and lawyer, Dr Niaz A. Shah, titled Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law, published recently,

Hearing of missing persons’ case resumes today

ISLAMABAD (February 06 2007): A full bench of the Supreme Court (SC), headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, will resume hearing of the missing persons’ case

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