April 14, 2011

$750 million earmarked for tribal women

ISLAMABAD: The government’s Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is designating $750 million, nearly half from US coffers, to create jobs and alleviate poverty by providing

Young female schoolteacher gunned down

Karachi: A young schoolteacher was cut down by an unknown assassin’s bullet in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Wednesday. SHO Asif Jakhrani said Sana, 24, was a teacher

Wadera held for declaring couple kari

SUKKUR: A man has been arrested for presiding over a jirga which declared a couple karo-kari and also ordered their murder. Ghulam Sarwar Unnar of

Nikahnama issue Court warns govt of contempt

PESHAWAR: The high court on Wednesday directed the provincial government to implement forthwith a court judgment delivered over a year ago regarding making necessary changes