| Army accused of extra-judicial killings in Swat
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| Human Rights Watch claims more than 200 extra-judicial killings took place in valley Army spokesman denies wrongdoing
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| Forgotten victims of great games
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| They would have called themselves Katis, but the Muslims surrounding them had for centuries called them Kafirs - infidels - and their land, thus came to be known as Kafiristan
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| Violence against women rose 13pc in 2009
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| Cases of violence against women witnessed a 13 per cent increase in 2009 in one year, statistics collected by team of Aurat Foundation show
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| 2009 – Year of terrorism
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| Pakistan is at war, and this time the war is not at its borders with an enemy country. This war is with its own people and within its own territory
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| Labourers, social worker kidnapped
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| Four members of a bonded labour family and a female social worker were abducted while they were travelling to their village near Sakrand.
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| State of non-functionality
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| The euphoria over the Supreme Court’s judgment on the Nov 3 emergency should not make us oblivious to the consequences of the verdict for litigants. Seventy-six judges have been barred from holding office, and, as a result, some high courts have stopped working, thus increasing the backlog of cases and adding to the procrastination typical of our judiciary.
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| Gojra assault was planned in advance: HRCP
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| Last week’s attacks targeting Christians in Gojra were not a spontaneous reaction to the allegation of blasphemy but were planned in advance, says a fact-finding mission of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
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| Children’s Complaints Office set up
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| Notices issued to BoR for Hindu Gymkhana record
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| The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued a notice to the Board of Revenue (BoR) secretary and directed him to produce the record for the Hindu Gymkhana.
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| Balochistan minister killed on Karachi road
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| Lawyers at it again; assault journalists at LHC
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| Continuing their assault on journalists, lawyers attacked and manhandled reporters and cameramen on the premises of the Lahore High Court on Thursday after the hearing of a suo motu case pertaining to the thrashing of an ASI and reporters by some lawyers in a sessions court last week.
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| Baitullah Mehsud dead, aide confirms
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| DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against the Pakistani government, has been killed in a US missile strike, a Taliban commander and aide to Mehsud said Friday.
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| Not by begging alone
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| THE death of about 20 women in a stampede by fellow supplicants for food rations free of charge may well be taken as the climax of an extremely painful drama about poverty in Pakistan witnessed throughout the month of Ramazan this year.
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| Motherland for sale?
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| THE report about a possible leasing out of half a million acres of land to foreign parties has not caused the kind of outrage it should have. Perhaps this is more proof of the ostrich-like habits of Pakistanis. The agency report carried by the media ....
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| The evil child marriage is..
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| The plight of two 12-year old girls, one described as Christian and the other as Muslim, has again highlighted the large-scale abuse of women’s rights in Pakistan caused by a single evil practice-child marriage.
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| Freedom of expression in conflict situations: Pakistan
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| A tradition of information control
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| Bang, bang, hang, hang
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| In our judicial system there is no uniformity of age under which a child cannot be awarded punishment. Young children are being chastised in the name of law and awarded punishments, which those with a strong backing can easily evade
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| Fata priorities
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| The public debate on constitutional, legal and political reforms in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) has begun not a moment too soon. Indeed, some people think the time for leisurely talks may have passed
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| Protecting women
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| Zina remains an offence but the procedure for its complaint has been made stricter and those making an accusation of rape cannot be punished for zina. Thus, false accusations of zina will dramatically drop
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| Balochistan’s woes
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| AS if the militants’ threat to the state’s integrity and its democratic foundations were not enough to tax the establishment’s admittedly limited capacity for governance, alarm bells have again begun to be sounded about the dangerous situation
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| In the Name of Honour
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| Given below is an account of Samia's murder by the well-known Pakistani commentator & human rights campaigner I.A.Rehman, which has been published in the April 1999 issue of Newsline, Karachi, Pakistan
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