October 4, 2009

Pakistan to attend World Media Summit in Beijing

BEIJING: Pakistan will attend the three-day World Media Summit, being held in Beijing from Thursday (October 8). The summit will bring together personalities from newspapers, magazines, wire services, radio and

‘263 women burnt since January’

LAHORE: Two hundred and sixty-three women were burnt, 111 were burnt alive, and 100 were burnt in gas leakage in and around Lahore between since January this year, the AGHS

SC takes notice of minors’ gang rape

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Saturday directed the Punjab PPO to submit a report in his chamber on October 6 regarding the rape of a girl.

Man accused of flogging Swat girl arrested

By Irfan Mughal DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A central character of the famous incident of flogging of a girl in Swat in the days preceding the military operation there is in

Excise team accused of thrashing widow to death

LAHORE: A team of the Punjab Excise and Taxation department allegedly tortured a middle-age widow to death during a raid at her house in Baghbanpura on Saturday. The team conducted

College girls make police arrest ‘flirts’

SIALKOT: Students of Government College for Women, Daska, on Saturday staged a sit-in on city police station premises for an hour to protest the release of youths who thrashed the

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