2 held for raping married woman

UMERKOT, April 15: Three persons were injured on Monday when members of the Bheel community allegedly attempted to get shops closed in protest against killing of two young men whose bodies were recovered from a well after two days. The protesters ...

By KARACHI: Alike previous fiscal year, the Sindh government has kept the similar allocation for Minority Affairs Department, under Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) for the year 2013-14. The provincial government has allocated RS 720 million ...

ISLAMABAD The new government has pledged to rein in human rights abuses by security forces in the huge, resource-rich province of Balochistan as a first step towards starting talks to end a long-running insurgency waged by guerrillas seeking an ...

This ineffectual and futile rearguard action of putting up an apparently liberal and secular face in Balochistan is aimed at mollifying liberals and deceiving the Baloch people in general The liberal circles in general, and pseudo-nationalists of ...

ISLAMKOT: Their cheeks are flushed. They whisper in hushed tones and giggle away at a tightly guarded-secret. Reshma and Marvi look like teenage girls anywhere. Only, they are not. On a sweltering summer afternoon, sitting behind a wooden ...

ISLAMABAD: With chunks of burnt coal in his mouth, gargling with kerosene oil and spitting out fire, 20-year-old Shakeel Lassi was one of many performers to win over an audience at the Margalla Festival 2013, which began at the Arts and Crafts ...

KARACHI - The PPP Parliamentarians has emerged as majority as well as biggest beneficiary of the reserved seats in Sindh Assembly with 21 MPAs elected on reserved seats for women and minorities. Out of total 29 seats reserved for women, 16 women of ...

By KARACHI: The newly elected lawmakers of the Sindh Assembly will take oath in its inaugural session, to be presided over by outgoing speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, on Wednesday (today). Election of the new speaker and deputy speaker is also likely to ...

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) outnumbered all other parties in the race for reserved seats in the National Assembly by clinching 35 seats reserved for women and five for non-Muslims. The ECP on Tuesday published the names of the ...