ISLAMABAD - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that around 1,100 women are among 75,000 prisoners in different jails of the country."The women prisoners are in miserable conditions. Their families no longer care for them or stay in contact with them rather than pursuing their ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday offered condolences to the families of those who were killed in Tuesday’s earthquake in southeastern Iran and western Pakistan.“The United States sends our deepest condolences for those lost in the earthquake in southeastern Iran and western ...

ISLAMABAD - Families of officials of Islamabad police on Sunday took to streets and protested against State Office’s move to get official residents vacated that they occupied during lal Masjid operation.Hundreds of women and children gathered at D-Chowk in front of Parliament House and ...

PESHAWAR - The family members of kidnapped Wadpa employees have appealed to human rights activist Ansar Barni, social worker Abdus Sattar Edhi and international organisations to take serious steps for safe recovery of their loved ones.The appeal was made during a hunger strike camp established by ...

RAWALPINDI - The family members of the three persons, who were murdered at Mareer Hassan three months ago, went berserk when police barred them from entering Fatima Jinnah Women University to meet with Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif.According to details, the family members of Ghulam ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister and Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Farzana Raja, while expressing her deep grief over the tragic incident of door collapsing due to stampede at Pattoki Office of BISP on April 23 which resulted in the death of a beneficiary woman and injuries to ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Police Inspector General was strongly embarrassed by the bereaved families of the martyred police officers as their sons were not recruited by the department according to announcements of the big bosses. The families termed the police as a thankless department for the ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Highway Patrol on Tuesday claimed to have recovered a snatched car and arrested a driver who had hit and injured a child a few days ago. The PHP also reunited few children with their families. Its Fazil post in Bhakkar recovered the car (LRG-1905), which was snatched from ...

Seven prisoners of the Adiyala Jail who went missing after the release on court orders have said that they have not seen the light of the day for the last 20 months and were kept in solitary confinement.In a brief chat with media at the Supreme Court building Monday where they were produced before ...

FAISALABAD - As many as 6 million families are living in extreme poverty which can be alleviated through the promotion of technical education in the country, the Benazir Income Support Programme ( Special Initiative) director general said.Jahangir Alim Chohan was inaugurating the Skill Development ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Highway Patrol claimed to have reunited five children to their relatives and recovered stolen wood and electrical wires worth over Rs 115,000 in separate incidents on Sunday. A 12-year-old child Muhammad Salman was found from Phattian Wala, Bahawalpur, a seven-year-old ...

Around 430 more families migrated to Jalozai camp from Khyber Agency in wake of deteriorating law and order situation in the tribal region on Thursday.Provincial Disaster Management Authority spokesman confirmed that 430 families shifted to the Jalozai camp raising the total figure of displaced ...

CHARSADDA - A non-profit organisation, the Poverty Eradication Initiative (PEI), has distributed non-food items worth more than Rs2 million among 342 flood affected and underprivileged families in Sardheri village.According to a press release issued here on Monday, the relief items including ...

KARACHI (PPI) - The prisoners would enjoy punishment days with their families in Chounras (huts) of Badin’s Open Jail and all the inmates would also be trained to cultivate various crops at the land of the prison, sources in the Prison Department told this agency.It may be noted here that the ...

ISLAMABAD - As thousands of people continue to flee their homes in the face of rising floodwaters in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, IOM and its partners in the "cluster" of aid agencies providing emergency shelter are going to to appeal to international donors for funding to help at least ...

Our Staff Reporter NANKANA SAHIB - On the eve of Eid Special Eid package of Rs6.5 million compensation cheques would be distributed among the widows and orphans of 355 families of the government departments employees who died during performing their official duty.

LAHORE - Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Ms Farzana Raja has said that the number of beneficiary families registered with BISP would rise up to 7 million till the next month, says a press release. She said that 96pc of the nationwide poverty survey has already been completed ...

DERA GHAZI KHAN - PML-N MPA Sardar Mir Badshah Khan Qaisrani demanded the provincial government to provide financial compensation to the families of the youth who had sacrificed their lives for arrest the dacoits while their children should be provided with jobs. While speaking at a session that ...

KARACHI - State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan has paid total amount of Rs2.48 billion in claims to 17,655 families during the first quarter of the current calendar year. Out of the total amount of claims disbursed by the Corporation during January-March 2011, Rs0.329 billion was paid as ...

LHC on Friday directed the federal and Punjab governments to recover the families of Faizan and Faheem, who were murdered by Raymond Davis on January 27 in 10 days. In a petition filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC), petitioner advocate Munsif Awan stated that the families of Faizan and Faheem, ...

LAHORE The Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) will show his ignorance about the whereabouts of the victim families of the two youth gunned down by Raymond Davis, while appearing before the Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry here on Tuesday (today). The Chief Justice ordered the CCPO on ...

LAHORE Capital City Police Officer Muhammad Aslam Tareen has issued special instructions to the officials of CCPO Office to immediately redress the problems being faced by the heirs to martyred policemen on priority basis. According to a police spokesman, the CCPO issued these instructions in ...

ISLAMABAD - Women belonging to Scheduled Caste Hindus from Sindh and Southern Punjab on Saturday converged in front of the National Press Club and held a protest demonstration demanding for proper legislation for their marriage registration. Families of scheduled caste Hiunds living in different ...

KARACHI - Political activists belonging to different nationalist parties on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club and demanded that the missing Baloch persons should be recovered. The protest demonstration was attended by workers of Baloch Students Organisation, ...

Families of French engineers killed in a 2002 bomb attack in Pakistan will lodge a manslaughter suit against former president Jacques Chirac, their lawyer said Friday. Their civil suit for manslaughter and endangering life also targets former prime minister Dominique de Villepin and former ...

ISLAMABAD A three-member Supreme Court bench on Thursday directed the Interior Ministry to ensure completion of disbursement of compensation cheques among the families of the children who were used as camel jockeys in Middle East. The bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, ...

KARACHI - Chairperson National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) Nafisa Shah has said that Rs165 million project is being jointly carried out by NCHD and Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme (BBS-YDP) for the rehabilitation of flood affected women in Sindh. She said this, while ...

LONDON - The UKs Department for International Development (DFID) has called on the Royal Air Force (RAF) to help provide more urgently-needed shelter for thousands of people driven from their homes in southern Pakistan, which has been hit hardest by the continuing floods. A C17, the RAFs largest ...

ISLAMABAD-In a suo moto case of three teenagers who were gunned down by the police in a fake encounter two years back, Supreme Court on Friday directed the Home Secretary Sindh to give Rs1.1 million as compensation to the family of each of the deceased. According to details, Gul Baig Jagirani, 12, ...

KARACHI - Scores of families from Lyari, plagued by the ongoing gang-war, have rushed to villages along coastline to take shelter with their near and dear ones, The Nation has learnt. According to reports, the government authorities have failed to convince the affected villagers of the coastal belt ...