Tag: Persons

Transgender person shot by brother in Muzaffargarh

MUZAFFARGARH: A transgender person, Nirma, was shot and injured by her brother in the late hours of Tuesday night when the former refused to give...

Cafeteria run by transgender persons at NCA closed down: report

ISLAMABAD:  A cafeteria— run by a group of transgender persons led by Bubbly Malik— at the Rawalpindi campus of the National College of Arts,...

Indonesia’s first Islamic school for transgender persons fighting backlash

JAKARTA: When Shinta Ratri prays, like many devout Indonesian women she dons a mukena, a long flowing gown often embroidered with colourful and intricate...

Transgender persons expected to get federal govt jobs

ISLAMABAD: The Establishment division on Tuesday recommended the cabinet to allocate a separate quota for transgender persons for the federal government jobs. This recommendation was...

PM directs revival of tribunal for disadvantaged persons

Rejecting the Ministry of Human Rights's proposal for its abolition, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday instead directed the ministry for revival as well as...

FIR registered against army man, SC orders report within 30 days

KP AG says Naib Subedar Amanullah and others moved 35 internees from Malakand Internment Centre and are hiding their whereabouts A three-member bench of the...

SC gives govt another day to produce 35 missing persons

Bench warns of summoning PM, KP CM if missing persons are not produced in court The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday gave the government...

Witness agrees to record statement through video link

IHC issues notices to ISI DG and interior secretary over disappearance of Pindi resident The Supreme Court on Thursday resumed hearing of the missing persons’...

Missing persons case: SC rejects FC IG’s report

  The Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected a report by the inspector general of Frontier Corps (FC IG) regarding the missing persons issue, saying no...

Eight more fall prey to targeted killings

At least eight persons were gunned down in separate incidents of firing in different areas of Karachi on Saturday. As per media reports, miscreants...

CIED disposes of 329 cases of missing persons

The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (CIED) disposed off 329 cases of missing persons from January 1, 2011 to November 30 this year....

PHC orders early meeting to decide missing persons’ fate

Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan on Tuesday directed high ranking civil, military and police authorities to arrange early meetings in...

PHC orders presentation of complete list of missing persons

Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday gave a last chance to the authorities to present a complete list of missing persons by 4th December...

15 missing persons traced last month

The proceedings of the Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances Commission were held in October in Islamabad in which 15 missing persons have been traced out. According...

SC orders Balochistan govt to compensate missing persons’ heirs

The Supreme Court in an interim order issued on Friday ruled that the Balochistan government should compensate the heirs of the province’s missing persons. A...

‘UN group on missing persons’ visit conforms to int’l rules’

Defending her invitation to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Friday that the mission’s...

Free elections, recovery of missing persons only solution to Balochistan problem:...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Nawaz Sharif on Monday called for the recovery of all missing Baloch persons and a free, fair and transparent election,...