When I was young, we were asked to light up our houses with candles and oil lamps as Mela Chiraghan would be approaching. It was not just my house but the entire street and Lahore was seen illuminated in order to celebrate this festival of lights. During the days of Mela Chiraghan, my parents would […]
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Pakistan student stabbed 23 times fights to see her attacker jailed
A Pakistani law student has emerged as a women’s rights crusader after she was stabbed 23 times in a busy street only to see her alleged attacker walk free, igniting outrage across the deeply patriarchal country. Khadija Siddiqui, 23, survived the frenzied attack in broad daylight outside her sister’s school on a busy thoroughfare in […]
Khadija stabbing case: SC accepts appeal against acquittal, issues bailable arrest warrants for Hussain
LAHORE: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday formally accepted an appeal against acquittal, issuing bailable arrest warrants for Shah Hussain. SC hearing a suo moto notice case pertaining to convicts acquittal in Khadija stabbing case at the Lahore Registry ordered Hussain to submit bonds of Rs 100,000. Siddiqui had filed an appeal against Hussain’s acquittal. […]
CJP directs Justice Khosa to hear appeal against LHC’s verdict in Khadija stabbing case
LAHORE: Justice Asif Khosa will hear the appeal against the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) decision of acquitting Shah Hussain who is accused of brutally attacking law student Khadija Siddiqui with a knife. Early Sunday morning, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar headed a two-member bench at the apex court’s Lahore Registry to hear the case of […]
LHC acquits convict in Khadija Siddiqui case
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) acquitted the convict in Khadija Siddique case on Monday. The convict, Shah Hussain, had been sentenced to five years in prison by a trial court on charges of stabbing Khadija Siddiqui 23 times. Hussain challenged the verdict in the LHC, and on May 25, the high court reserved its […]