The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has raised questions over the absence of a woman member in the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), reports Samaa.
A petition was filed by a citizen named Maham Ali Khan in this regard. The IHC has ordered the Law secretary and the CII chairman to submit a response to the petition.
The lack of inclusion of women in the constitutional body that advises the legislature whether or not a certain law is in accordance to the Quran and Sunnah is against Article 228 of the Constitution of Pakistan, Maham’s counsel Zainab Janjua told IHC judge Amir Farooq during a hearing on Tuesday.
The CII can’t have more than 20 or less than eight members. The counselor said that currently there are 12 members in the body but none of them is a woman.
The petitioner has requested that a woman member be included in the council.
A woman in Egypt poured boiling water on her husband allegedly for ill-treating their son.
As per reports, the 43-year-old man was rushed to a nearby hospital with burns sustained in different parts of the body allegedly due to the woman’s attack.
The husband who is a mechanic accused his 32-year-old wife of throwing boiling water at him from a teapot in their house because he had berated their son for playing late outdoors.
Police arrested a pregnant woman for kidnapping a newborn boy from a charity hospital in Karachi’s Baldia Town on Thursday. The baby was recovered during a police raid at her house.
According to the police, the accused Sabiha told during the initial inquiry that a nurse had sold the baby to her for Rs 30,000.
As per reports, the woman, who was 37 weeks pregnant and a mother of two daughters, confessed that she committed the crime under pressure from her in-laws to bear a boy. After the medical report, the woman found out that she was expecting a girl after which she decided to kidnap a baby boy around her delivery date to “avert social pressure”.
Police said that they did not find the husband of the accused involved in the crime. The woman has been handed over to the Anti-Violence Cell and an investigation is underway.
Atallah, the uncle of the abducted child, said that the rescue of the child was carried out with the help of a lady doctor and her brother.
The cloth wrapped around the newborn was shown on social media and TV channels with the news that a woman had kidnapped the child and escaped from the municipal hospital.
The lady doctor’s brother chased the suspect and visited the house. He informed the police after which the child was recovered.
When the woman’s dead body was brought to the graveyard for burial, a mob attacked the graveyard and tried to stop the family from burying the woman there as the deceased was an Ahmadi. Despite this, the minority community’s members managed to finish the burial process.
Sunni mob attacks an Ahmadi funeral procession carrying an Ahmadi lady. Imagine the pain. Grief of a loved one passing away. And then having them attacked and disrespect this way?
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar’s Focal Person Azhar Mashwani wrote in a tweet that police and members of the administration reached the site as soon as the incident was reported.
According to District administration’s report: “Police reached as soon as the incident was reported. 2 different areas have been demarcated for both communities’ graveyards, as per the agreement between both communities’ elders, & this longstanding issue of graveyard is resolved” https://t.co/hwoRvBndVO
Mashwani also quoted the district administration as saying that two different areas have been demarcated for both communities’ graveyard as per an agreement between elders of both communities. He said that this “longstanding issue of graveyard is resolved”.
Legal proceedings are linked with complainant’s application. Apparently they have withdrawn application/complaint after mutual agreement of both communities and resolution of issue.
Polling is in full swing in the PP-84 Khushab constituency, where the seat fell vacant after the death of the PML-N MPA on March 12 from COVID-19.
Khushab’s by-election saw something interesting today when a woman gave birth in a polling station located at the constituency. The child was born at the Mith Tiwana Rural Health Centre, which has been turned into a polling station for the by-poll.
The newborn’s father, Salamat, said he was overjoyed over the birth of his child. “I am very happy at the birth of my child on the election day. Insha’Allah we will name the child after giving some though to it. Whichever name we think is suitable,” he added.
The baby born is the first child to the family.
Residents of Khushab are exercising the right to vote for their preferred candidate in to the PP-84 Punjab Assembly seat. PTI’s Sardar Ali Hussain Khan Baloch and PML-N’s Malik Moazzam Sher Kallu are the top contenders.
A woman pronounced dead at Multan’s Nishtar Hospital has come back to life and walked away a day later.
According to reports, the woman, who was brought to hospital for a gunshot wound after getting caught in crossfire, was declared dead on Tuesday and is currently being treated for her injuries after spending one night “dead”.
Doctors are providing her proper treatment and investigating whether declaring her dead was a mistake or if she has really returned to life as in a rare situation called Near Death Experience (NDE).
In NDE people, for all intents and purposes, die but return to life.
Nishtar Hospital Emergency Director Dr Amjad Chandio claims the woman was not pronounced dead in the emergency room, but a death certificate was issued by the hospital.
“It is being investigated whether a blunder was committed and by whom,” he said.
A woman’s reaction after getting a job during the COVID-19 pandemic has gone viral on social media.
The woman’s reaction was caught on the CCTV camera of the employer who shared it on his Instagram handle with the caption “So I just hired this young girl and this was her response.”
The video shows the woman walking outside the office building after getting the job. She walks into the car park, stops for a moment and then starts dancing.
DISCLAIMER: A picture of the survivor has been used while respecting her decision to come forward and making her voice heard
A police team has been formed to probe the kidnapping and week-long torture of a woman lawyer, Advocate Irshad Nasreen, who was recovered from Mailsi, the district police officer (DPO) has said.
The DPO, while formally announcing the woman’s recovery, said the special team, comprising the superintendent of police (SP) for investigation, Shamsul Haq, and two deputy superintendents of police (DSPs), was tasked with searching for and arresting the kidnappers.
The police officer noted that a FIR [First Information Report] — including charges of kidnapping — was registered on behalf of the woman’s son on August 22.
The special team was investigating the case in light of her recorded statement, Geo quoted the cop as saying.
The woman has been shifted to the Dipalpur Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital, the police officer said.
A resident of Dipalpur, police had earlier told media that Nasreen was recovered in a semi-conscious state from a field near Dhoda Road in Mailsi. She was found with her hands and legs tied and unable to speak.
The day she was recovered, police said she told them she had been kidnapped from her office by unidentified men on August 14.
A viral video that followed her recovery showed the lawyer in a traumatised state.
Further investigation was underway, police added.
On Monday, Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan also reportedly took notice of the incident after the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) issued a statement condemning incidents of targeted killings, kidnappings and incidents of torture of lawyers.
In the statement, PBC Vice Chairperson Abid Saqi strongly condemned the incident, saying the increasing lawlessness in Pakistan was extremely concerning. Five lawyers have been shot dead in targeted killing so far, including four in Punjab and one in Sindh, he said.
Three lawyers in Lahore, Pakpattan, Sialkot were kidnapped and tortured, Saqi added.
The PBC official said the torture and abduction of the woman lawyer was extremely worrisome. The woman lawyer, he added, was tortured continuously for six days after her abduction.
She was recovered in a very critical condition in the fields in Mailsi, he added.
Saqi further said these incidents of violence have made lawyers vulnerable and their safety compromised. The government’s indifference to targeted killings, kidnappings, and violence in just three weeks was reprehensible, he added.
It was the duty of the government and the administration to improve the law and order situation, he said, lamenting that the incumbent leadership had failed to protect its citizens.
The official said the current situation called into question the ability of the government. He demanded action against those involved in the targeted killings, kidnapping, and torture of lawyers.
Meanwhile, according to reports, she was once kidnapped earlier in October 2019 as well.
The Lahore railway station has hired a woman officer as station manager for the first time in its history.
Railway authorities have appointed Lahore Assistant Transport Officer (ATO) Syeda Marzia Al-Zahra as the station manager of Lahore railway station. She has replaced the additional charge of station manager Lahore from station master Lahore Cantt Younis Bhatti.
As per reports, Syeda Marzia is the first woman station manager of Pakistan Railways (PR).
Meanwhile, the Railway Sampars Union protested the appointment. Union Central Chairman Muhammad Irfan, while expressing reservations over the appointment, said that the union would protest if the notification was not cancelled.
A woman who was caught on camera threatening an on-duty traffic policeman after she violated traffic rule last year is back again. This time the same woman involved in an argument with some other women.
A video doing rounds on social media shows the woman fighting, abusing and calling other women ‘maasi’ in an insulting manner. While the faces of the other women are not visible, they can be heard saying that they recognise her facefrom her past activities that went viral in the news in November last year.
Previously, the woman identified as Sana was stopped by traffic warden in Karachi’s area of Khayaban-e-Shahbaz of DHA after she violated a signal rule upon which she started threatening and using foul language against the policeman who asked her to show her license or CNIC.
