April 24, 2007

Eight-year-old rape victim’s trauma

KARACHI, April 23: Unable to grasp the enormity of her ordeal, an eight-year-old girl (name withheld on request) tried to play with her cousins on Monday evening after being raped

Girl gang-raped for days

LAYYAH, April 23: A 15-year-old girl who was kidnapped on April 17 from Chak 125-A called out for help in the Layyah city on Saturday when her alleged captors were

Journalist Ahmad Hassan Alvi dies

ISLAMABAD, April 23: Ahmad Hassan Alvi, a veteran journalist working for Dawn, died on Monday with his boots on, succumbing to a massive heart attack. He was 66. Mr Alvi,

Protest rally for BBC reporter’s release held

ISLAMABAD, April 23: Pakistani and Islamabad-based foreign journalists on Monday held a protest rally outside Parliament House on Monday to show solidarity with the BBC correspondent Alan Johnston who was

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