Herald Report The cold-blooded murder of a teacher by one of his students has sent a wave of shock and angst across the country, particularly among academia and students. They described the gruesome act a result of the myopic state education policy which breeds extremism among the frustrated youth. According to media reports and police Khateeb Hussain, a BS student …
KARACHI: A Pakistani philosopher and intellectual, Javed Bhutto, has been shot dead in Washington DC. The police have arrested the suspect, identified as Hilman Jordan, 45, and charged with murder. Bhutto, 64, was shot dead Friday morning arouund 11am outside a convenience store in Southeast Washington, The Washington Post reported. The shooter was reported to have been a neighbour who had been involved …
Political, social activists threaten GB-wide protest if main culprits not arrested HAH Report ISHKOM AN: Massive protest was held at Ishkoman in the western Ghizer district of Gilgit-Baltistan on Saturday against the failure of police and security agencies in arresting the main culprits involved in the brutal murder of a teenage boy after sexual assault. Hundreds of people blocked …
News Desk Karan Johar and Indian cricketers Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul are being sued for comments made about women in a December episode of talk show Koffee With Karan, according to India Today. The case has been filed in Jodhpur, but it is not clear at this point who has filed it. During the episode, Pandya was asked by …
Provincial minister and senior Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Aleem Khan was taken into custody by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials in Lahore on Wednesday. As per a press release issued by NAB Lahore, Khan was arrested for owning assets beyond his known sources of income. Khan faces multiple inquiries, including one involving offshore company Hexam Investment Overseas Ltd, one for owning …
Five policemen raise their guns and fire dozens of times into a parked car at point-blank range in Pakistan. Then they reach inside, around the bodies of the dead, to pull out three crying children. By Gohar Abbas Islamabad The footage filmed by shocked witnesses to the killing went viral, sending Prime Minister Imran Khan scrambling to quell anger over …
Hours after he lost his parents and a sibling in a bloody shooting on Saturday, a nine-year-old Pakistani boy exposed a blatant cover-up by police. By M Ilyas Khan Islamabad: Hours after he lost his parents and a sibling in a bloody shooting on Saturday, a nine-year-old Pakistani boy exposed a blatant cover-up by police. Highly-trained counter terror forces had …
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News Islamabad On Wednesday, Khadija Siddiqui, a young Pakistani law student, watched the man who stabbed her 23 times in broad daylight re-convicted for the crime. It was the culmination of a three-year battle for justice that at one point saw the convicted attacker, her ex-boyfriend, acquitted by the High Court and allowed to walk …
Herald Report ISLAMABAD Political and youth activists hailing from Gilgit-Baltistan staged a protest rally outside the National Press Club, Islamabad on Friday, seeking justice for a youth who has been murdered in Rawalpindi and recovering a nursing assistant who has gone missing a week ago in Karachi. The call for the protest was given by Baltistan Youth Alliance and joined …
Couple who was lynched over blasphemy accusations left behind three young children — one of whom witnessed the horror. Xari Jalil Do you remember the ill-fated Shama and Shahzad Masih, the Christian couple from Kasur’s Kot Radha Kishan district in a brick kiln village called Chak 59? The husband and wife – who was pregnant at the time – were …
