Tag: Victims

Mobilink constructs homes for flood victims

Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and a part of Orascom Telecom Holding has marked the completion of the first phase of model...

MQM most targeted party with 18 victims in 3 months: report

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) remained the most targeted political party in the country with 18 of its workers falling prey to targeted killing,...

NAB establishes CVDC for Double Shah scam victims

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab established a claim verification and disbursement cell (CVDC) in Lahore on Thursday for speedy disposal of claims of...

NAB establishes CVDC for Double Shah scam victims

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab established a claim verification and disbursement cell (CVDC) in Lahore on Thursday for speedy disposal of claims of...

Families of targeted killing victims compensated, SC told

The Balochistan government on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it had paid a total of Rs 456.417 million to legal heirs of all...

Diplomats inspect Kharotabad victims’ bodies

Russian diplomats arrived in Quetta and inspected the bodies of victims of Kharotabad incident, a private television news channel reported on Tuesday. The diplomats collected...

Monument for Airblue crash victims only a hollow promise?

months have passed since the fateful Airblue crash, but the monument that was to be erected in the memory of the victims is...

Bringing back smiles on flood victims’ faces

Faisalabad - As Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was handing over the keys of 106 new houses built in Basti Mulla Miran, Muzaffargarh, among the flood victims last week, a man in Faisalabad sitting hundreds of miles away watching the ceremony on TV channels was humbled and elevated both at the same time. Humbled because he had tried to share with the residents of Basti Mulla Miran inestimable bounties showered upon him by Allah. And a sense of elevation gripped his mind because he

SL baseball players pay homage to attack victims

LAHORE - The Sri Lankan baseball team on Monday paid a visit to the Liberty Roundabout, the place where the Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked in May 200p, to pay homage to those killed and injured by terrorist during the attack.
The team members laid a floral wreath near the plaque at the Liberty Roundabout, remembering the martyrs of the day. This is the first Sri Lankan team to have visited Pakistan since the attack took place.
The Sri Lankan cricket team is due later

ANP public meeting for May 12 victims on 15th

KARACHI - The Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh has announced staging a public meeting in Nazimabad on May 15 to commemorate the memory of those who were killed in violence in Karachi on May 12, 2007. The ANP was one of those parties that had planned to receive Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chauhdry on his arrival in Karachi on that fateful day. At the meeting, the ANP Sindh would pass a people's resolution demanding that the Supreme Court take notice of the

Finding missing families of Davis’ victims

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday sought reply from the Interior Ministry about the whereabouts of missing families of Faizan and Faheem, victims of Qartaba Chowk killings. According to the petitioner, Malik Munsif Awan, these families went missing after they pardoned Raymond on March 16, 2011 after accepting blood money. On Tuesday, an Assistant Advocate General Wali Khan filed a written statement of Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah about the status of missing

LHC seeks reply on disappearance of Davis victims’ families

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday has demanded an explanation from the Interior Ministry on disappearance of Faizan and Fahim's families.
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah submitted a reply to the court, saying that the families of Fahim and Faizan went to the court with an advocate, Irshad Kiyani, and he took them to Rawalpindi.
The minister said that the Punjab government had a view that the families could go anywhere after receiving the blood-money.

50 houses to be built for tornado victims: Firdous

SIALKOT - Federal Information Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday announced to build 50 new houses for the tornado victims in village Dera Maai Malaani near Head Marala here. Addressing the residents of the affected villages, the federal information minister said the government had not left them alone in this hard time. She promised to start construction of 50 houses in village Dera Maai Malaani soon.
MAN POISONS WIFE TO DEATH: One Muhammad Iqbal of Sohawa Colony in Daska

Japan will ‘never abandon’ tsunami victims: PM

ISHINOMAKI - Prime Minister Naoto Kan promised Sunday he would "never abandon" survivors of Japan's tsunami as he tried to focus attention on the future, despite a high-stakes battle at a nuclear plant. Kan, on only his second trip to the disaster zone in the month since the March 11 tragedy, said the government would "work as fast as possible" to house 150,000 people living in emergency shelters since the disaster struck.
Speaking to survivors in Ishinomaki city, a major fishing

Interior and home secys put on notice in compensation for ...

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued notices to the interior secretary and the Sindh home secretary on Tuesday on a constitutional petition about providing compensation to the heirs of targeted killing victims in the city.
A division bench headed by the SHC chief justice was hearing a petition filed by Iqbal Kazmi seeking provision of compensation to the heirs of the people killed in the recent incidents of targeted killings equal to that which is being provided to the

EU donates $21m to UNDP prog for flood victims

ISLAMABAD - The European Union (EU) has contributed 15 million euros (around US$ 21.2 million) to support the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) work of early recovery in Pakistan's flood devastated areas.
The EU contribution aims at restoring livelihoods through job creation, repairing basic community infrastructure and strengthening the local government offices through the UNDP's 'Early Recovery Programme' for restoring public services again, said a press release

Khosa announces grant for DG Khan blasts victims

DERA GHAZI KHAN - Punjab's Chief Minister's advisor Zulfiqar Ali Khosa Monday morning visited District Headquarters Hospital and inquired after the well being of the injured victims of Sakhi Sarwar's twin blasts.
According to a private TV, Khosa also announced compensation money for each dead and injured person.
As per the provincial government's policy, Rs. 5,00,000 would be given to each dead, he announced.
Later while talking to newsmen, the CM's advisor held people