Forbidden from appearing on TV, Amir Liaquat launches news website

Aamir Liaquat Hussain launches AlhNews

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A little over a month after he was barred from making any appearanceon electronic media by a court, televangelist and TV host Amir Liaquat Hussain has launched an eponymous news website. Called Amir Liaquat Hussain news (alhnews.com), the Urdu-language website, launched on January 14, features a wide array of news categories, including local and international, business, health, sports and entertainment news. Also highlighted on the website are columns penned by and video commentaries featuring Hussain, and even childhood and family photos of the controversial anchor. “If the voice is banned a 100,000 times, the picture is forbidden…

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‘Naqeebullah Mehsud was innocent, was killed in a fake encounter,’ says inquiry team

Naqeebullah Mehsood

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The death of Naqeebullah Mehsud was an extrajudicial killing, the Additional Inspector General of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), Dr Sanaullah Abbasi, on Tuesday told the victim’s grieving friends, family and tribesmen gathered on the outskirts of Karachi. Abbasi, who headed a three-member team investigating Naqeebullah’s killing in an ‘exchange of fire’, assured his kin that Naqeebullah had never been involved in terrorism-related activities as alleged earlier, but had been innocent and was in fact killed in a ‘fake encounter’. “This was a fake encounter in which an innocent man was…

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Zainab murder case: Kasur tense as suspected serial rapist, killer arrested

6-year-old Zainab's autopsy suggests child endured rape, captivity before murder

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Kasur turned tense on Tuesday as residents surrounded the house of a suspect arrested for the rape and murder of six-year-old Zainab Amin, whose DNA matches samples taken from the crime scene. Earlier today, police sources told DawnNews of the arrest of the suspect, saying his DNA was a match with samples on record, but the Punjab government has yet to confirm this information. As a mob began gathering around the house, police also reached the area urging people to remain calm in order to avoid any untoward incident. Television footage showed…

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Rebuked for skipping classes, student kills college principal, accuses him of blasphemy

College student kills his principal in Charsadda over blasphemy

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A grade 12 student at a private college in Charsadda shot his college principal dead on Monday after being censured for skipping school to attend the November 2017 sit-in of religio-political parties in Islamabad’s Faizabad area. In a video acquired by DawnNews, the student, while being arrested, appeared to justify the murder saying he believed the college principal had committed blasphemy. It was not immediately clear what prompted that charge. “I have been taught… to kill… to not be afraid. Don’t be afraid of disrespecting the one who” commits blasphemy, the student…

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Notices issued to Rao Anwar, Sindh officials for investigation into ‘fake’ encounters

Rao Anwaar

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The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday accepted a petition asking for a probe into the the alleged ‘fake’ police encounters carried out by former Malir SSP Rao Anwar. The high court issued notices to Anwar, Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) A.D. Khowaja and Home Secretary Sohail Anwar Siyal along with other high ranking officials to appear before the court on February 20. Anwar, who is under scrutiny over his alleged involvement in the extrajudicial killing of Waziristan native Naqeebullah Mehsud, earlier failed to appear before the Sindh IGP…

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Parents of 8 girls raped and murdered in Kasur appear before SC seeking justice

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The parents of eight girls who had been raped and murdered in Kasur since 2015 appeared before the Supreme Court on Sunday and pleaded for justice. “Give us justice,” the parents ─ including those of six-year-old Zainab whose body was found in a trash heap on January 9 ─ pleaded before a three-member bench of the apex court. The bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar, was hearing a suo motu case on the grisly rape and murder of the six-year-old that shocked the nation this month.…

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High-level police committee to investigate Naqeeb’s ‘encounter’ in Karachi

Naqeebullah Mehsood

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A committee comprising the Inspector General Police (IGP) Counter-terrorism Department (CTD) Sanaullah Abbasi and DIGs South and East was formed on Thursday to investigate the death of Naqeebullah who was allegedly killed in a “staged encounter”. A notification issued by the provincial inspector general police office said the committee is mandated to “assess the genuineness of encounter” and “dig out profile of the deceased”, and directed to submit its findings within three days. Earlier in the day, Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal took notice of the incident, following reports…

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LHC reserves verdict on petition against PAT Mall Road rally

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The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday reserved its judgement on a petition filed against the Pakistan Awami Tehreek-led (PAT) protest being held on The Mall today. The PAT is set to relaunch its protest campaign to “force the PML-N out of power – both in the federal and provincial governments” ─ shortly and leaders of the PTI and PPP are expected to attend the inaugural rally on The Mall. The Jamaat-i-Islami and the PML-Q, too, have pledged their support. A petition against the rally was filed by Advocate AK…

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Journalist Panel wins National Press Club’s elections: Various dignitaries congratulated the newly elected office bearers

Journalist Panel After Winning National Press Club Islamabad Elections 2018

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By ASGHAR ALI MUBARAK Islamabad: The Journalist Panel scored a thumping victory in the National Press Club elections 2018-19 held on Saturday, January 13rd 2018 here at Islamabad. The Chairman NPC Election Committee Nasir Zaidi announced result of the main office-bearers according to which as President; Tariq Mehmood Chaudhry 989, Asif Bashir Chaudhry (1074), Bilal Dar (1030) and Kashif Rafique (989) as Vice-Presidents; Myra Imran Azam( 943) as vice president women seat ,Shakeel Anjum (1225) as Secretary, Ms. Nausheen Yousaf (AZAD Panel 1073) as Finance Secretary and Abid Abbasi (1219),…

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New footage in Zainab case could frustrate probe

Zainab Murder Case New Video

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KASUR: Police are scra­m­bling to find clues that could lead them to the culprit behind the rape and murder of Zainab in Kasur, while the deadline assigned to them by the Punjab police chief to make the arrest expired at 8pm on Saturday. At least four agencies — the Counter Terrorism Department, the Intelligence Bureau, the Special Branch and the Punjab Forensic Science Agency — have been seized with the case and each agency has arrested suspects separately, while investigating the matter. Separately, a new video, which apparently shows the kidnapper…

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Zainab murder case: Punjab police chief submits report to Supreme Court

Zainab Murder Case report

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After Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar took suo motu notice of the brutal murder of six-year-old Zainab in Kasur, Inspector General Punjab Arif Nawaz Khan submitted a report to the Supreme Court on Thursday saying that 272 suspects have been questioned about the incident. The report said that geo-fencing data from the area was acquired and all resources are being employed to catch the culprit. It also said a house-to-house search was being conducted based on the information provided by the last witness of the crime. It said…

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Sheikhupura man suspected of raping, murdering 8-year-old killed by police

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With riots triggered by perceived police inaction over the rape and murder of 6-year-old Zainab Amin continuing throughout the day in Kasur, the alleged murderer and rapist of an 8-year-old child was killed in Punjab’s Sheikhupura district by police on Wednesday night. Police say Shiraz Arif Raja had abducted, raped and murdered 8-year-old Maliha, whose body was found in a pile of trash on January 4 stuffed in a gunny bag. Maliha, who had been visiting Sheikhupura to spend winter vacations with her maternal uncle’s family, had gone missing on December 29.…

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6-year-old Zainab’s autopsy suggests child endured rape, captivity before murder

6-year-old Zainab's autopsy suggests child endured rape, captivity before murder

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A postmortem examination conducted on 6-year-old Zainab, whose body was recovered from a trash heap in Kasur days after she went missing, suggests she may have been raped before she was strangled to death. District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) Medico Legal Officer (MLO) Dr Quratulain Attique told Dawn.com on Thursday that the examination revealed the minor girl had died of strangulation. There were visible marks of torture on the child’s face, congestion in her muscles, and her tongue was badly bruised and injured as it was pressed between her teeth. She added that the hyoid…

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Pakistan cautions US about consequences of anti-Taliban offensive

Pakistan cautions US about consequences of anti-Taliban offensive

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WASHINGTON: Pakistan is believed to have told US interlocutors that a major military offensive against the Taliban from both sides of the Afghan border, if ending in failure, will have negative consequences for the entire region. Diplomatic sources, who spoke to Dawn, believe that the key element in the new US strategy for Afghanistan is to launch a two-pronged military offensive that inflicts a military defeat on the Taliban and forces them to join the Afghan reconciliation process on Kabul’s conditions. Pakistanis do not disagree with the basic thrust of…

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Veteran Asghar Khan’s state funeral held in Rawalpindi

Asghar Khan Funeral

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Civil and military leaders attended the state funeral of Air Marshal retired Asghar Khan held at Nur Khan Airbase in Rawalpindi on Saturday. Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, and Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat, the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, as well as other serving and retired officials were among those in attendance. His body will be flown to Abbottabad where a second funeral will be offered for the former chief of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF). He will be laid to rest in the…

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