Day: November 15, 2007

ISLAMABAD (November 15 2007): The Women Development Ministry will establish five women crisis centres in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and NWFP to be funded by Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra).

Sources in the Women Development Ministry told Business Recorder here on Wednesday that 6 kanals of land would be allotted for each centre in the earthquake-hit areas of AJK and NWFP. They said that main objective of these centres in earthquake-hit areas was to provide shelter to widows and orphans especially girls who lost their families in the disastrous earthquake of 2005.

In the initial stage, the women crisis centres will be established in Mansehra in NWFP, Muzaffarabad and in AJK, they said. Sources said that PC-I will be prepared soon and every centre will have shelter home for destitute women and residential apartments for the staff. They said that construction, furnishing and management of the centres will be done by the Erra.

Sources said that 16 women crisis centres would be established in far-flung areas of Balochistan and Sindh. Moreover centres will also be established in Northern Areas (Gilgit and Sakardu), they added.
Source: Business Recorder
Date:11/15/2007

Karachi:The Investigation regarding the gang rape case entered its fourth day and, on the orders of senior officers, the Investigation police held three suspects including the owner of the house where the incident took place. They also sent some cloth pieces of the victim for a DNA test.

On Wednesday, it was reported that after the passage of three days, no progress had been made in the investigation into the gang rape of a girl in the Boat basin area. The victim’s family had stated that they were continuously receiving threats from the accused influentials to withdraw the case and that the investigation police was patronising the accused.

The senior police officers while taking note of the news item, ordered the police to expedite arrest. Late Wednesday night, three suspects were held in a raid on the house.

An investigation officer, on condition of anonymity, said that the house belonged to a director of a firm and that his son and two servants, who were residing there, were being held.

He stated that the investigation team took the victim, K, to the house, where she pointed that she was raped in the porch where only one bed was lying and also identified the white car which was parked there. He said that as soon as the report was available, they would match the samples of the suspected persons and, if the crime was proved, then they would be booked and showed to the media.

On inquiry, the tracker system in the car revealed that vehicle in question hadn’t moved in five days.

Source: The News

Date:11/15/2007