Pakistan

92pc male, 8pc female prisoners tortured in Pak jails: Survey

Second Indo-Pak Students Peace Camp in Chandigarh from Tuesday

Lahore, Oct 1 : The second Indo-Pak Students Peace Camp will begin in Chandigarh tomorrow to promote peace and people-to-people contact, especially between the youth of the two countries.

Twelve Pakistani students are leaving for Chandigarh today via Wagah to participate in the camp.

Mubashir Ahmed, the Centre for Youth Development and Activities (CYDA) coordinator, said that the CYDA, in collaboration with several Indian organisations, was working to develop relations between India and Pakistan.

APDM collects resignation of 236 lawmakers

Islamabad, Sep 30 : The All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) has collected as many as 84 resignations from the National Assembly members and 152 from the members of provincial assemblies till now.

The APDM would furnish these resignations to the Speakers of the national and provincial assemblies respectively on October 2, as decided by the alliance.

Convenor of the alliance’s Joint Action Committee (JAC) Raja Zafarul Haq announced it in a press conference here.

Law relating to Musharraf’s dual office is wrong: Pak SC judge

Karachi, Sep 30 : Pakistan’s Supreme Court senior judge, Justice Rana Bhagwan Das, has said that the law relating to the President Pervez Musharraf’s dual office is wrong and the decision that he gave is based on the "call of his conscience."

Talking to journalists after a programme organised by the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), he said that he had annulled the act regarding the holding of two offices by Musharraf.

‘Nawaz Sharif to make another comeback bid around Oct 18’

London, Sept 30 : Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was deported back to Jeddah within hours of his landing at Islamabad Airport on September 10, will make another attempt to return home around October 18.

His brother and the president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Shahbaz Sharif, told Al Jazeera TV that Nawaz is "going to return very soon after Ramadan," despite the risk of another deportation.

Sindh HC allows Benazir Bhutto, her sisters-in-law to import bulletproof vehicles

Karachi, Sep 29 : The Sindh High Court has allowed Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and her sisters-in-law to import bulletproof vehicles.

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