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| Mukhtaran Mai vows to continue her mission |
| Gang rape survivor Mukhtaran Mai, who had to wait five years for the Supreme Court’s verdict in her case, has lost faith in the justice system.
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| Women protection a low priority in Pata |
| DESPITE the passage of over four years, the law commonly known as Women Protection Act (WPA) is yet to be extended to the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata) due to which the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, 1979, is applicable in these areas in its original form. |
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| Mai will appeal against SC decision |
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Rape victim Mukhtaran Mai said on Sunday that she would challenge the Supreme Court decision to dismiss her appeal against the early release of five men convicted of abusing her.
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| Will Mukhtaran Mai ever get justice? |
| It is tempting, when hearing that five of the six men accused of raping Mukhtaran Mai have had their acquittals upheld by the Supreme Court, to see the verdict as the latest in a long line of indignities forced upon her. Mukhtaran Mai has endured government scorn and apathy with grace and has been an inspiration to millions. If anyone deserved justice, it is her. |
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| Girl disappears during fracas over custody |
| Karachi: A sessions court summoned the Station House Officer (SHO) of the City Courts on Friday with regard to a brawl that took place a divorced couple and their lawyers in a case related to the guardianship of the couple’s teenaged daughter, who went missing after the incident.
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| Woman murdered by husband, brother-in-law |
| Karachi:A mother of a child was murdered by her husband and her brother-in-law at her residence in the Ibrahim Hyderi police limits on Thursday, police said.
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| University student abducted |
| RAWALPINDI, April 19: A newly-married female student of the University of Arid Agriculture was abducted last week, police said on Tuesday. |
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| Teenage girl assaulted |
| UMERKOT, April 19: A teenaged girl of scheduled-caste community was criminally assaulted by a relative of a landlord near here on Tuesday. |
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| SC upholds LHC verdict in Mukhtaran Mai case |
| Supreme Court has delivered the verdict into Mukhtaran Mai rape case upholding the LHC’s verdict, acquitting all the accused except one Abdul Khaliq. |
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| Tortured woman dies nameless |
| RAWALPINDI, April 18: A brutally beaten pregnant woman receiving treatment in Benazir Bhutto Hospital died on Monday – as unknown as the day she was found abandoned in Kotli Sattian woods last week. |
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| Health worker assaulted by four policemen |
| QUETTA, April 13: Two policemen were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly subjecting a lady health technician to gang-rape. Their two accomplices, however, escaped. |
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| Husband kills wife, daughter on petty issue |
| Peshawar—A malicious husband killed his wife and young daughter on a minor issue at Bara gate area on Monday, Police said.
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| Umerkot: Mobile phone friendship leads woman into brothel |
| UMERKOT: The curse of a cell phone friendship landed a married woman of Bahawalpur in a brothel of Umerkot from where she was rescued by police on the complaint of neighbours. |
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| Quetta: Man, woman killed for honour |
| QUETTA: Unidentified men killed a man and a woman over the suspicion that they had illicit relations, in Tambu Tehsil of Dera Murad Jamali on Monday. |
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| Six arrested, minor girls recovered in vani case |
| DERA ISMAIL KHAN, April 7: Police have arrested six of the 14 accused persons and recovered two minor girls who were given in vani to the rival family for settling a dispute between the two families. |
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| Woman burnt to death as rivals set ablaze van in Mirpurkhas |
| MIRPURKHAS: A woman was burnt to death and many injured on Thursday when a group of transporters set ablaze a Naukot-bound van at Bandi Shakh on Mirpurkhas-Digri Road. The incident was the result of a rivalry between two groups of transporters. |
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| HONOUR KILLING |
| A man killed his 35-year-old woman wife for ‘honour’ and later called police offering his arrest on Bahawal Sher Road in Mozang on Sunday, police said. |
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| Customs officer kills wife |
| LAHORE – A Customs officer gunned down his wife, mother of three, in Mozang police precincts in the wee hours of Sunday. |
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| 49 women killed in March |
| HYDERABAD, April 4: About 49 women were killed on the pretext of karo-kari and in incidents of domestic violence during March in Sindh, according to a report released the by Research and Development for Human Resources. |
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| 2 booked for harassing woman |
| CHAKWAL, April 6: Two persons were booked by the local police on Wednesday following the orders of the additional district and sessions judge on the charges of harassing a woman. |
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| Six arrested, minor girls recovered in vani case |
| DERA ISMAIL KHAN, April 7: Police have arrested six of the 14 accused persons and recovered two minor girls who were given in vani to the rival family for settling a dispute between the two families. |
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| Four arrested for beating up women in Rahim Yar Khan |
| RAHIM YAR KHAN: Four men of a Maitla family were arrested on Monday on charges of breaking into the house of a Ranjha family with support from local policemen and beating their women. Dozens of Ranjha family men and women then staged a demonstration and blocked the National Highway on Sunday to protest the incident. The protestors dispersed after the Taranda Muhammad Panha SHO Hayat Shah Jahan Khattak arrived at the scene and assured them of action against the accused. |
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| Honour killing: Couple murdered in Dera Murad Jamali |
| QUETTA:
A man and woman were killed by unidentified armed men on the pretext of disloyalty in Tehsil Tambu area of Dera Murad Jamali on Monday.
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| Husband arrested for torturing wife |
| CHAKWAL: The husband, his two brothers and father were arrested by Kallar Kahar Police while DPO Chakwal Syed Ali Mohsin took a serious notice as the woman was disgraced by her husband and relatives at village Kharli in the area of Kallar Kahar Police Station. |
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| 2 teenage girls abducted from Khairpur |
| Khair Pur—Four armed men broke into a house and abducted teenage girl daughter of Hussain Bakhsh Sheikh from Scorp Colony of Khairpur hereon the other day. |
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| Multan Woman tortured to death over illicit relationship |
| MULTAN: A Customs inspector along with his two nephews have allegedly killed his wife over suspicion of illicit relationship, here at Binddah Sandeela on Thursday. |
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| Man booked for harassing woman in Chakwal |
| CHAKWAL, March 26: A man was booked on the charges of harassing a woman, sources said here on Saturday. |
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| Man throws acid on wife in Toba Tek Singh |
| TOBA TEK SINGH, March 26. A woman was injured critically when her husband threw acid on her late on Friday night. |
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| Woman abducted |
| MULTAN: A woman was allegedly abducted by five unknown persons here at Basti Malook on Sunday.
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| Girl killed for honour |
| CHAKWAL, Feb 21: A girl was gunned down by her fiancé in the name of honour here on Sunday night, police said. |
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| Man kills Wife for beating children |
| MURIDKE: A man killed his wife for beating children at Sharqpur Khurd on Friday. |
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| Multan: 9-year-old gang raped and murdered |
| MULTAN: A post mortem report of 9-year-old Saba revealed that the child had been gang raped and murdered. |
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| Karachi: Father kills daughter, throws acid on wife |
| KARACHI: A depressed person stabbed his daughter to death and injured his wife over a domestic dispute in the limits of Shah Faisal Police Station, in the wee hours of Tuesday. |
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| Woman burnt 90pc in Korangi |
| KARACHI: A woman got seriously burnt in suspicious circumstances in Korangi on Sunday night.
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| Minor girl critical after rape in Umerkot |
| UMERKOT, Jan 13: A minor girl is reportedly in critical condition after being raped two days ago. The incident happened near Dhoronaro town. |
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| young husband guns down aged wife |
| A 24-year-old man allegedly shot dead his 60-year-old wife in Tarnol area on Wednesday, police said. |
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| Panchayat booked: Woman disgraced for `honour` missing |
| MULTAN, Jan 22: The Khanewal police is looking for a woman who has been missing for three days after her in-laws disgraced her in the name of honor in Mochiwala, Bherowal |
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| Girl electrocuted on panchayat’s order |
| BAHAWALPUR – Another example of brutal ‘societal justice’ has surfaced in a village of Bahawalpur where a 22-year-old girl was electrocuted on the directives of a panchayat (traditional council) over the issue of arranged marriage and the charges of running away with a cousin.
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| Three held for keeping woman in chain |
| KARACHI, Jan 6: Police booked and arrested on Thursday a young man, his elder brother and sister-in-law for keeping his wife chained in illegal confinement in his home for more than four months, officials said.
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| Violence against women and attacks on religious minorities on the rise in Pakistan |
| Violence against women and attacks on religious minorities on the rise in Pakistan. The families of the victims are often afraid to use the courts for fear of reprisals. The proposals of the Justice and Peace Commission to combat the phenomenon. |
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| Pakistan: 102 Honor Killings in Punjab in 6 Months, Nearly 3,000 Women Victimized |
| The Pakistan Daily Times reports on 2,909 women victimized over 6 month (January through June 2010) in Punjab, including 102 “honor killings.” |
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| Missing girl found murdered |
| TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 3: An 18-year-old girl who went missing six days ago from her house in Kamalia was found dead near a canal of Mamoon Kanjan, Faisalabad, family and police said. |
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| Newly-wed girl killed by husband |
| LAHORE: A newly-married bridegroom, who had staged a dacoity-cum-murder drama to mislead the police investigators after killing his Hafiz-e-Quran bride over dowry dispute in Muridkey police precincts on Sunday night, has confessed to his heinous crime on Tuesday. |
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| Man quizzed in rape case |
| KARACHI, Dec 21: Investigators inquiring into the rape case of a young girl questioned on Tuesday a man who had hosted a party at his Defence apartment where the victim along with her friend was said to be present, officials said. |
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| Shariat Court knocks out 3 sections of women`s protection act |
| ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: The Federal Shariat Court has declared as unconstitutional and un-Islamic three sections of the Protection of Women Act 2006, holding that these take away the overriding effects of the Hudood Ordinance 1979.
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| Pakistani man kills mother in courtroom 'honour killing' |
| A man shot dead his mother in a courtroom in Pakistan's Punjab province in what was described by officials as an ''honour killing''. |
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| Rapist` of two daughters held on court orders |
| SAHIWAL, Oct 23: Following the orders of the district and sessions judge, the police on Saturday arrested the man who was accused by his daughter of raping her and her sister for several years. |
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| Khipro schoolgirl’s gang-rape: Victim’s uncle raises questions over probe |
| HYDERABAD, Oct 25: The uncle of much publicised Khipro gang-rape schoolgirl has expressed dissatisfaction over police investigation and said the FIR should have included provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
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| Couple killed over karo-kari |
| SANGHAR, Oct 29: A man and woman were killed on the pretext of karo-kari near Mian Pir Mohammad village in the Perumal area late Thursday night. |
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| Men of ‘honour’: Cousins ‘killed for fleeing forced marriage’ |
| MULTAN: Two young women were murdered in the name of ‘honour’ while they were returning home from the Multan district jail on a donkey cart on Saturday |
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| 10-year-old maid beaten up to ‘free her of djinns’ |
| MULTAN:
A 10-year-old girl, who worked as a maid at a lawyer’s house, sought refuge at a neighbour’s house on Tuesday night after being beaten for days by a witch doctor to free her from djinns’ possession
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| Four booked in rape case |
| ATTOCK, Dec 12: The Fatehjhang police have registered a case against four persons on the charge of raping a married woman.
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| Old woman killed in family feud |
| An old woman was killed during a clash between her sons and relatives over a marriage dispute here on Thursday, police said |
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| Free will marriage sparks kidnappings |
| A nuptial without the blessings of both sets of parents resulted in kidnapping and counter kidnapping of bride and groom’s family members, seven people in total.
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| Former MLO indicted in rape case |
| KARACHI: A sessions court on Thursday indicted a former medico-legal officer of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in a case pertaining to the rape of a trainee nurse.
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| Gang-rape victim tries to end life |
| UMERKOT, Oct 20: The post-traumatic fallout of the gang-rape victim continues to hark back forcing her to attempt suicide, besides ruining her health as she has become insomniac, restless and teary-eyed and suffers from constant headache and body ache.
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| Girl shot dead on court premises |
| BAHAWALPUR, Oct 20: A man allegedly shot dead his sister on the district court premises on Wednesday in the name of honour. |
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| Man kills daughter over marriage issue |
| As reported by the Dawn News on Sunday, a man axed his teenaged daughter to death on Saturday morning because he was angry over her demand for marrying a man of her choice. Police said Manga Khan, a labourer, killed 16-year-old Aziza Bibi with a hatchet. |
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| Father kills daughter |
| A six-year-old girl was killed and another injured allegedly by their father in the city’s Malir area on Tuesday night.
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| Man accused of forcing minor girl’s nikkah |
| A peasant held a demonstration along with members of his family outside the press club here on Sunday in protest against a local wadera who, he alleges, forced the nikkah of his three-year-old daughter with a seven-year-old boy.
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| Women farmers should be given equivalent status in GNP |
| Rural women should be identified as women farmers and their contributions should be included in Gross National Product (GNP) equivalent to male farmers, said a resolution presented by more than 1,000 participants heading from 103 districts of the country. |
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| Zainab identifies her tormentors |
| Zainab has identified the four young boys who raped her and then threw her at the doorstep of her house. |
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| MPA beats pregnant wife, threatens her with death |
| MPA Haroon Sultan Bukhari and his elder brother Basit Bukhari allegedly beat up the former’s pregnant wife on Friday until she fainted; menaced her with a gun, threatening to kill her if she told anybody about it; and would not take her to a doctor. |
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| Video shows militants stoning woman in Pakistan |
| Video shows militants stoning woman in Pakistan to death.Apparently executed for being seen with a man in public |
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| Beauty Parlour's beautician gang raped |
| DASKA: A local beauty parlour's beautician "A" was forcibly gang raped after abduction by four armed vagabonds in Daska city here. Reportedly, four armed accused forcibly kidnapped her from near Lorry Adda Daska when she was going back towards her home along with her younger sister. |
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| SBP issues guidelines to comply with Anti-Harassment Law |
| The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has issued instructions to all the banks to comply with the ‘Protection Against Harassment of Women at Work Place Act 2010’ displaying the Code of Conduct within their premises.
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| Former President Bachelet of Chile to Head United Nations Agency for Women |
| Michelle Bachelet, famous for breaking gender barriers by becoming the first woman elected president of Chile, will head the new global United Nations agency created to advance women’s rights, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Tuesday. |
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| CSA meeting with govt, civil society organisations on 8th |
| Providing an opportunity to key stakeholders for sharing their position and expectations from ‘UN Women,’ the Civil Society Alliance (CSA) plans to hold a national consultation with civil society organisations, government functionaries and representatives of international organisations on September 8. |
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| At least 3.9m children, women need food support |
| here are about 1.4 million (eight per cent) pregnant and lactating women among the affected people and over one million are elderly or otherwise vulnerable. |
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| US commits $40 million to advance women’s rights in Pakistan |
| The US is launching a new $40-million Gender Equity Grants Programme in Pakistan to advance women’s rights and support the government of Pakistan’s policies against gender inequities. |
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