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Why culprits in Mukhtaran Mai rape case were released in Pakistan?
Apr 24th
The second sex
By Babar Sattar, The News, April 23, 2011
The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad.
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir’s seminal work on feminism published in 1949, defined a woman in the following terms: “…humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being…And she is simply what man decrees; thus she is
Mukhtaran Mai case: Why did this happen, cry outraged members of society
Apr 24th
‘Shame on the nation that allows its daughters to be raped publicly, repeatedly’.
CJ wants curb on drug trafficking in jails
Apr 24th
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry has said that he received reports of drugs trafficking in prisons and that it should be end immediately, Geo News reported. He said that he stayed with prisoners in jail all the day on last Eid so he …
Review plea against Mukhtaran case verdict to be filed: Aitzaz
Apr 23rd
LAHORE: The counsel of Mukhtaran Mai, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsen, has announced to file a review petition in Supreme Court (SC) against the apex courts verdict in which four of the five accused were acquitted, Geo News reported Saturday. The former presid…
Mai supporters decry setback to women rights
Apr 23rd
Verdict seen as a major blow to women who speak out against injustice.
Hard justice: Swat jirga demands military courts
Apr 23rd
Slam Asma Jahangir’s comments, demand eye for an eye.
Govt complicit in drone attacks: Imran Khan
Apr 23rd
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s two-day sit-in on Nato supply route begins today .
A question of ‘strategery’
Apr 22nd
The problem of how to resist a superior force is one that is as old as time. As it happens, so is the answer.
Efforts for Dr Chisty release gain momentum in India
Apr 22nd
MUMBAI: Hope rises for a Pakistani prisoner in India, retired virologist Dr Khaleel Chishty as a result of involvement of the Government of Rajasthan and the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) for his release. Dr Khaleel Chishty, 78, remained u…
A thriller of feathery proportions
Apr 22nd
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horror classic, ‘The Birds’, to play at Safma on Friday.
