KARACHI: Highlighting a serious gap in Pakistan’s legal framework, an additional district and sessions judge has urged lawmakers to introduce specific legislation criminalising the abetment of suicide arising from domestic cruelty, particularly to protect vulnerable women. Read More: Jiah Khan suicide case verdict today: Will Aditya Pancholi’s son Additional District and Sessions Judge Mirza Tauseef Ahmed, who […]
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CJP throws Session Judge’s cell phone, orders immediate transfer in Larkana
LARKANA: Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar on Saturday burst out with anger at an additional district and sessions court judge, ordering his immediate transfer. During a surprise visit to the sessions court in Larkana, CJP Nisar, irked by Additional District and Sessions Judge Shyam Lal’s cellpone on the table, picked it up and threw […]
Student arrested for leveling false blasphemy allegations against Gulalai Ismail
PESHAWAR: Hamza Khan, a 23-year-old student from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) who accused Aware Girls’ founder Gulalai Ismail of blasphemy, has been arrested after a Peshawar court announced judgement against him. Khan had accused Gulalai of uttering derogatory remarks against religion and the Pashtun culture. He had said in a video message last year that the women […]
2 killed in Lahore sessions court shooting
LAHORE: A head constable and an under-custody suspect were killed when gunmen opened fired at them at sessions court on Wednesday. The suspect, identified as Amjad, died on spot while the head constable, Asif, succumbed to his wounds while on his way to the hospital. The suspect’s acquaintance, Ahsan, was also injured during exchange of […]