Gang rape victim seeks justice, police not cooperating By: zainab jatoi on December 4, 2021 CHINIOT: An alleged gang rape of a 14-year old girl in Chiniot has put the spotlight on the district police for first delaying registration of the case and then failing to apprehend the suspects, Abdul Waheed and Mohammad Shoaib, despite cancellation of their bail by the court. The victim’s parents, who protested outside […]
Hundreds of I.Coast women march against rape By: AFP on December 4, 2021Hundreds of women in Ivory Coast took to the streets of Abidjan on Saturday to protest a surge of violence against women, in a country where 800 women reported rapes in 2020. The movement, dubbed “Offensive Orange”, saw more than 2,000 women march against rape in the Ivorian economic capital, calling it “a weapon of […]
Pakistani woman abused by a UK civil servant in mortgage case inquiry By: AFP/ Web Desk on December 4, 2021ISLAMABAD/LONDON: In the UK’s biggest mortgage fraud probe, a Senior UK civil servant working for Serious Fraud Office (SFO) made a British Pakistani woman a target of verbal abuse, and also insulted another ethnic female lawyer calling her a “dog”. The senior civil servant Jonathan Francis McGarry a lead lawyer within the Proceeds of Crime […]
Academics, youth abroad our ambassadors; help project positive reality immensely: Dr Moeed By: APP on December 4, 2021ISLAMABAD: National Security Adviser (NSA) Dr. Moeed Yusuf on Saturday said Pakistan’s academics and youth abroad were its ambassadors and help project its positive reality immensely. Held a consultative session w/ Pakistani faculty members & students of Nazarbayev University. Wherever I go, I try to learn from such diaspora groups & always walk away truly […]
SBP receives $3 billion deposit from Saudi Arabia By: webdesk on December 4, 2021KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan on Saturday received a $3 billion deposit from Saudi Fund for Development. Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin tweeted: “Good news, $3 billion Saudi deposit received by SBP.” “I want to thank Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the kind […]
Twitter admits policy ‘errors’ after far-right abuse By: AFP on December 4, 2021Twitter’s new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said that far-right backers have employed it to protect themselves from scrutiny and to harass opponents. Even the social network admitted the rollout of the rules, which say anyone can ask Twitter to take down images of themselves posted without their consent, […]
Religious fanaticism time bomb needed to be defused: Fawad By: Web Desk/APP on December 4, 2021ISLAMABAD: On Saturday, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain while expressing deep sorrow and regret over the Sialkot incident, said that narrow-minded religious fanaticism was like a time bomb that needed to be defused before it was too late. In a tweet, he said that after the Sialkot incident he had been thinking […]
Unknown attackers kills four in Kharian flat By: Web Desk on December 4, 2021On Saturday, Unknown attackers killed four people including two women whose dead bodies were found from a flat two days after their murder in Kharian, Daily Times reported. A three-year-old child of the family has been miraculously survived the incident. Gujrat DPO Salamat Ali reached the spot and recovered the bodies. The dead were identified as Asad Murtaza, Rabia […]
Last solar eclipse of 2021 ends By: Web Desk on December 4, 2021 The last solar eclipse of the year that was not visible in Pakistan has ended, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). As per the weather department, the total solar eclipse was visible in areas surrounding South Africa, South Australia, South America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, Antarctica and the Indian Ocean. The […]
Drug Abuse: Unstated Challenge to the Progress of Pakistan By: Raesa Fatima on December 4, 2021The rate of drug use in Pakistan is exponentially increasing. According to a UN report on drugs by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2013, almost 7.6 million people in Pakistan are into drugs. After 2013, no concrete data has been collected to determine the scope of drug abuse in Pakistan. […]