Islamabad, Nov 14 : If official figures are to be believed, on an average one woman is killed for honour every day in Pakistan, as a total of 1019 women were killed during the past three years in the country.
According to crime-against-women statistics revealed in the country’s National Assembly last evening, more than 7000 cases of rape and murders of women were registered between 2005 and 2007.
The statistics revealed that the total number of honour killing cases is 1019 – 321 in 2005, 339 in 2006 and 359 in 2007. Stove burning cases include 18 cases in 2005, 17 in
Islamabad, Nov 14 : In what could be described as a major development, the National Accountability Bureau, Pakistan''s apex anti-corruption organization with the responsibility of eliminating corruption, has reportedly dropped all corruption cases against politicians, both the government and the opposition.
Islamabad , Nov 14 : Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) has said that the US had been violating international law by launching missile attacks in the Tribal Areas, and that Pakistan government was trying its best to stop such attacks.
Islamabad, Nov 14 : Estimates compiled by Pakistan’s Finance Ministry indicate that the direct and indirect cost of the war-on-terror borne by Pakistan was likely to increase to 8 billion dollars per annum in the next couple of years, from the current 6 billion dollars.
Islamabad - An airstrike by a US drone killed at least 10 people Friday in Pakistan's Waziristan tribal region, a known hub of al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, Pakistani officials said.
Islamabad, Nov 14 : The Pakistan Government is learnt to have decided to declare Benazir Bhutto’s death anniversary on December 27 as a public holiday.
