Gender Issues

Aafia’s lawyers to visit Pakistan

By Masood Haider NEW YORK: Two of the three new lawyers engaged by Pakistani government to defend Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist accused of

Bail granted to rape accused suspended

KARACHI: Justice Amir Hani Muslim of the Sindh High Court on Friday suspended bail granted earlier to a man accused of subjecting a minor girl

Panel to work for Aafia’s release

LAHORE: The Judicial Activism Panel said on Friday it had evolved a strategy for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from the US custody. In

Marriage of a minor

THIS is apropos of the news item, ‘Jirga orders marriage of four-year-old village girl’ (Aug 31). I thought these jirgas were declared illegal but apparently

NAB withdraws cases against PM’s wife

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has officially filed an application in the Accountability Court of Karachi to withdraw two cases filed against Prime Minister