January 5, 2009

Women Drug Rehab Centre faces lack of funds

KARACHI – Pakistan’s first women drugs addict rehabilitation and treatment centre has been shelved due to financial burden, The Nation has learnt on Sunday. The women centre is being run

Young widow strangled

A 22-year-old widow, the mother of a six-month-old girl, was found hanging off a ceiling fan in her apartment in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. The Sharea Faisal police said that Saba Fatima, widow

Bodies of murdered women found

KARACHI, Jan 4: Two young women were killed on Sunday in separate acts of violence in the city, police and witnesses said. The Surjani Town police said that an unidentified

BISP to be launched for Fata women

ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The government has decided to take the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) to people in tribal areas, despite reported threats from the local Taliban that women receiving

Journalists condemn attack

HYDERABAD, Jan 4: A large number of journalists and activists of different organisations held a demonstration outside the press club here in protest against attack on the offices of the

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