FROM THE COURTROOM - SHC seeks reports on targeted killings

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed the interior secretary, home secretary and Sindh inspector general of police (IGP) to submit detailed reports on targeted killings at a date to be fixed later.  Read more...

A tale of three unfortunate women

Three brave women narrated their sorrowful tales to highlight the sorry state of women rights at a press briefing on Monday at the Madadgaar Helpline office Read more....

President’s dual offices: notice issued to AG

Taking notice of the indifferent attitude of the deputy attorney-general and non-compliance of the court orders on a petition against President Asif Ali Zardari holding dual offices, a full bench of the Sindh High Court   Read More

Legal experts say PPP is in contempt of SC

ISLAMABAD: The PPP leadership and activists would clearly commit a punishable act by protesting or using improper language against the judicial verdicts such as in the NAB Chairman Justice (retd) Deedar Hussain Shah's case.   Read more....

As PA passes resolution on violence against women, men say they are oppressed too

Acting Speaker Shehla Raza, accused the male members of the Sindh Assembly of not taking the issues of women seriously as pandemonium broke out in the in the assembly on Thursday.
Raza made this comment after a furore was caused in the House by the remarks of a PPP MPA Sardar Jam  Read more

MQM continued its boycott of provincial Assembly

Karachi: The MQM on Thursday continued its boycott of provincial Assembly of Sindh against owning of perceived controversial People’s Aman Committee (PAC) by Sindh home minister and PPP Sindh vice president Dr Zulfiqar Mirza  Read more...
 

Pakistan Air Force received 18 state-of-the-art F-16 C/D Block 52+ aircraft

ISLAMABAD: Re-equipment Ceremony of No 5 Squadron of Pakistan Air Force was held at PAF Base, Shahbaz (Jacobabad) on Thursday.
The No 5 Squadron, one of the oldest squadrons of the PAF, previously equipped with Mirage aircraft has now been re-equipped with newly Read more...

SHC summons officials in jail HIV cases

KARACHI: Taking notice of the apathy of the provincial government towards prisoners at the Central Prison Karachi and other prisons, a division bench summoned on Monday the Sindh health secretary, home secretary, head of development   Read more....

Suicide blast claims 36 lives in Peshawar

PESHAWAR, At least 36 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a bomb explosion at a funeral prayer of peace Jirga leader’s wife in Adezai’s area of Matni near Peshawar on Wednesday.   Read More...

US-Pak partnership crucial for peace in Afghanistan: Dr. Marvin

ISLAMABAD : Dr. Marvin G, Weinbum of the United States has said that US-Pakistan partnership is very important to bring peace and stability in Afghanistan.   Read more ...

The American who shot dead two men in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and the US, is a CIA agent who was on assignment at the time.

Pakistani authorities charged him with murder, but the Obama administration has insisted he is an "administrative and technical official" attached to its Lahore Read more...