Karachi, Nov 24 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s vision of

Karachi, Nov 23 : A young girl in Pakistan who had recently converted to Islam was gang-raped in front of her younger sister last evening in Karachi by a group of men from whom she had sought help obtaining legal permission to live in a shelter home, the police said.

Quoting the two girls, a police official said that they were Christians and came from Gujranwala to Karachi on November 17 to convert to Islam.

The girl’s decision was influenced by a positive impression of the religious environment in the school where she was teaching. They both decided to convert, but they feared for their lives and did not tell their parents or relatives anything.

Karachi, Nov 22 : The Pakistan Government has still not provided the promised funds to Dr. Aafia Sidiqui’s family to enable them to plead her case in the US court.

According to The News, Aafia’s family was given repeated assurances from the government, but they have not been given any funds for hiring the services of a lawyer till now. The case is being heard in a Texas District Court.

They added that all the required information, including the name of the lawyer and the details of the probable legal expenses relating to the case, were sent to the government in August.

Karachi, Nov 22: Pakistan’s Interior Ministry advisor Rehman Malik has said that the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangavi (LJ) may strike in Karachi.

He further said that to deter strikes from the terror outfit “we need to discourage them and increase the vigil.”

Malik said this at a law and order review meeting in Karachi, which was presided over by President Asif Ali Zardari at the Governor’s House here.

Malik said there were 17,000 seminaries in the country and 3,000 of them were in Karachi alone.

Karachi, Nov 19 : Najaf Mirza, a senior police officer, who is accused of attempting to kill Asif Ali Zardari in lock up a few years back, would be formally indicted in the case on November 28 before Additional District and Sessions Judge South Khawaja Nizaar.

Earlier, the trial court had supplied copies of the case papers and documents to the accused under section 265-C of Cr PC.

Mirza was admitted to interim pre-arrest bail for one day on Monday and on Tuesday, this was extended till November 28, when he would be formally indicted, reported the Daily Times.

Karachi, Nov 17 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the US’ air strikes would be stopped after the new Barack Obama administration assumes office in the White House on January 20.

Being a nuclear power, Pakistan had to react in a “responsible manner” in response to American air strikes inside the country, said Gilani while talking to journalists on Sunday night.