Honour killings be declared penal offence: speakers
PESHAWAR, Dec 11: The participants at a three-day workshop urged the government to declare honour-related murder as intentional killing and enact provincial laws in conformity...
PPF Seminar on Ordinances Violating Women Rights
Date: December 11, 2003 Location: Karachi Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) organized a Human Rights Day seminar for journalists titled Misusing the Hudood, Qisas and Diyat...
Laws for protection of women demanded
LAHORE: There is a dire need to enact and properly enforce laws for the protection of women and other oppressed classes of the society but...
PPF Journalism Training Workshop, Saleh Mohammad Goth
Date: December 8-10, 2003 Location: Saleh Mohammad Goth Saleh Mohammad Goth is a rural suburb of Karachi city, located some 40 kilometers east of Karachi...
Judges term Karo-kari ‘highly un-Islamic’
KARACHI: Senior practising and retired judges unanimously condemned honour killing and considered it highly un-Islamic, however, differed on various clauses of the Qisas & Diyat...