News Source: The News
| 8 months ago
Assembly have condemned public flogging of a girl in Swat and questioned the role of the media and authenticity of the visuals at a time when, they said, peace had almost returned to the valley. Woman MPA of PML-N Mehar Sultana told The News that...
News Source: Indian Express
| 8 months ago
Now that girls' schools have been bombed out of existence, women forcibly barred from working and barbers' shops forcibly shut down in the Swat Valley and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mehsud is within striking distance of Wagah,...
News Source: The Frontier Post
| 8 months ago
Sindh Minister for Information, Ms.Shazia Marri, has strongly condemned the public flogging of a 17- year-old girl in Swat. In a statement here on Sunday she termed the incident as `barbaric' and a `heinous crime against humanity...Marri added that...
News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 8 months ago
A hundred miles northwest of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, the Swat valley offers a chilling vision of what much of the country could become. Where tourists once frolicked, extremists are laying the groundwork for religious courts to dispense brutal...
News Source: The Frontier Post
| 8 months ago
In a telephone talk with the Secretary General of the party Dr Arif Alvi, he said that this brutal incident has nothing to do with Islam or Shariah. He appreciated that Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry has taken suo moto notice of the...
News Source: The Hindu
| 8 months ago
Human rights activists and women’s groups held countrywide protests against the flogging of a 17-year-old girl in the Taliban-run Swat valley on Saturday after a mobile phone film of the incident sparked national outrage. In Lahore and Karachi, and...