January 17, 2009

Police arrest 15-year-old for raping minor girl

KARACHI: The North Nazimabad Police has finally arrested a 15-year old rapist, Babar alias Naeem, who had raped a minor girl and was at large for 24-hours. North Nazimabad Police

A glass of acid and the burnt girl

KARACHI: Maria Shah, 23, lies half-conscious in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Civil Hospital, Karachi Burns Centre. The scorches on her face have changed her fair skin to

TTP hopes ban on Swat girls’ education will go

KHAR: A spokesman for the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Maulvi Omar, on Friday said talks with the Swat Taliban were underway to review the decision about ban on female education

NWFP to provide full security to girls’ schools

PESHAWAR: NWFP Minister for Primary Education Sardar Hussain Babak said on Friday the NWFP government would provide full security and protection to educational institutions, especially to girls’ schools in the

Woman protests against police, ex-husband

NAUSHAHROFEROZE: A woman, along with her three minor children and aged father, staged a protest against her ex-husband and the area police here on Thursday. The woman, Rukhsana Brohi, reached

Minister vows to fight for girls’ education

By Muqaddam Khan SWABI, Jan 16: NWFP Minister for Education Sardar Hussain Babak has rejected the Swat militants’ call for closure of girls’ schools and said that no one will

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