JI promises to abolish FCR

Staff Report LANDIKOTAL: Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) is the basic impediment in the peace and development of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). FCR has long violated the basic human rights of the tribesmen in the region and it is a ...

PESHAWAR: Court of the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) Commissioner Sahibzada Anees has reserved its judgment on an appeal in favour of alleged CIA informant Dr Shakil Afridi challenging his conviction by a tribal court till May 2. The ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation says current law means cyber crimes are often prosecuted much more severely than crimes of violence. PC World Digital rights activists are using a recent security breach involving the secretive group Anonymous as ...

PESHAWAR, April 27: Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan on Saturday said the US drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas were a war crime as they were being carried out in violation to the United Nations charter and Geneva ...

Observing a rise to the crime committed by outsiders (Non-Manipuris) in Manipur, Federation of Regional Indigenous Societies (FRIENDS) Thursday reiterated its demand for re-introduction of inner line permit (ILP) system in the state. Addressing the ...

Explosion at fertiliser plant north of Waco, Texas RESCUERS in Texas carried out a painstaking search for survivors after a massive explosion at a fertiliser factory killed as many as 15 people and injured at least 160. With the US already on edge ...

A labyrinth of confusion leads to the small but neat fourth-floor office of Unistal Systems in Delhi's Nehru Place. The promoter of the Rs 20-crore company which manufactures data recovery software and tools, Alok Gupta, has battled a data theft ...

A link in the global football-rigging 'pandemic' can be traced to a seedy Cambodian border town and the illegal, Chinese-owned betting shops that operate there, writes David Eimer Casinos and football-betting shops in Poipet, Cambodia. Photos: ...

hypnosec writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has started accepting donations in the form of Bitcoins again after a two year hiatus, stating that the legal uncertainty hovering over the digital currency has all but disappeared. On their ...