Tag: Woman

VERSAILLES - French police fined a woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil, the first reported enforcement of a ban on the garment on the day it came into effect, a police source said Tuesday.
The young woman, born in 1983, was fined 150 euros (216 dollars) "without incident" in a shopping centre in Mureaux, northwest of Paris, early Monday evening, the source said, without elaborating on exactly what she was wearing.
France on Monday became the first country in Europe to

AVIGNON - A young woman left the southern French city of Avignon for Paris Monday wearing a niqab to defy a ban on full-face veils in public places on the first day it came into force.
"I had been invited to take part in a television programme which I am going for and I find that today is April 11, the first day of the application of the ban," Kenza Drider, 32, told reporters before boarding a train for Paris.
"This law infringes my European rights, I cannot but defend them

Despite the age-old stereotype in Hollywood (pun intended) of casting much younger actresses opposite older actors, Uma Thurman is one of the few lucky leading ladies to have broken that mold - several times over, in fact. In her new movie 'Ceremony,' Thurman plays the beautiful and seemingly unattainable Zoe, a playful, curious woman who is easily distracted by new things.
When she gets herself involved in a brief romantic fling with the much younger Sam (played by Michael

QUETTA - At least 6 people including a woman were killed on Friday in a road accident took place near Kuclak some 30 km from, Police said.
Police official said that Karachi-bound NATO trailer was returning from Afghanistan when in a bid to overturn a vehicle, it rammed into a Taxi car coming from opposite side at Jalogir Mor. Resultantly, a woman among six commuters died on the spot. The ill-fated passengers were rushed to the Pishin Civil Hospital for medico-legal

KABUL - British troops killed an Afghan woman and wounded a woman and a child in a car accident in Kabul on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief said, adding that initial reports a man had been shot dead at the scene were wrong.
Spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said information he had initially given out, that two women and a man had been killed, was the result of miscommunication between security forces. The accident came at a time of heightened anti-Western sentiment

LAHORE - A six-year-old child was strangled by her mother after she had a scuffle with her husband over a monetary dispute in the Sabzazar Police Station precincts on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Usman, a resident of Jamil Town. Police have registered a case on complaint of the victim's father against the accused mother Najma. Police said that the father of the child married Najma six years ago but married for the second time few months ago on which relations between

LAHORE - A woman died in a private hospital of Johar Town on Saturday due to alleged negligence of doctors. Family of the woman held a protest and resorted to violence. Police soon controlled the situation and shifted the body to the morgue for autopsy. The victim's family requested registration of a first information report (FIR) against doctors. According to details, Umar, a resident of Wassanpura, brought his wife Yasmeen to the hospital two days ago. Yasmeen was given an injection

KARACHI - "I was kidnapped and forcefully married by Abdul Rashid Magsi with the help of local police seven years ago. Every day before leaving the house, Magsi used to lock me inside. During the period, even my parents were not allowed to see me and being poor, they could do nothing," said R, while narrating her ordeal to media persons.
For seven years, she was locked inside a house. She faced the wrath of her cruel captor, who even married her forcefully. She finally made her

SAHIWAL - Real brothers killed their sister and her paramour in the name of honour at Chak Meer Dad Muafi the other day. Reportedly, Zubaida, a resident of Chak Meer Dad Muafi, developed illicit relations with Shaban. Zubaida's brothers Nazir and Tasleem caught her and Shaban red handed and slaughtered them with the strokes of an axe.
BLIND MURDER CASES' MYSTERY SOLVED: Sahiwal police traced a gang of killers involved in two blind murder cases and arrested them. As per details,

KARACHI - The mutilated bodies of a man and a woman, both in their 20s, were found in the bushes near Hamdard University within the jurisdiction of the Surjani police station on Monday. Police shifted the bodies to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for legal formalities. The identity of the victims could not be ascertained until the filing of this report. Separately, a man was shot dead by unidentified armed men in Mochko area.
Police said that 50-year-old Asghar Ali was gunned down

LAHORE - No matter how resistant they are to establishment and how much they demand for democracy, the unfortunate fact is that no union in Pakistan has the same ratio of representation of women as men. The journalists unions are much the same. Male dominated, and sometimes in certain splinter groups, they tend to follow more of the personal agenda of a few top leaders instead of following the plight and misery of the media workers and journalists. Nevertheless, one woman broke away

LAHORE - Ajoka presented 'Kala Maida Bhes', a play based on the true story of a Sindhi woman who was exchanged for an ox, at Al-Hamra on Thursday. The play, written by Shahid Nadeem and directed by Madeeha Gauhar, is set in a village in the Cholistan desert where drinking water is scarce and the powerful and exploitative "peer" (spiritual chief) controls the only well.
The storyline revolves around the emotions of the woman who has been exchanged. The barrenness of the

ISLAMABAD - Gulshan Saeed of PML-Q is the richest female senator who owns gold ornaments that weigh nearly 13 kg and has property worth millions of rupees.
Details of her assets declared to the Election Commission of Pakistan reveal that rest of her female colleagues in the upper house possess less than half of gold ornaments owned by GulshanSaeed. According to ECP documents, Senator Gulshan Saeed also owns two houses valuing Rs 50 million and a piece of agricultural land worth

KUNDUZ - Police in northern Afghanistan said on Thursday that German troops based in the area had accidentally killed one woman and injured another during an exchange of fire.
The incident happened in the Chahar Dara district of Kunduz province on Wednesday when German troops came under attack and retaliated with gunfire, provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sayedkhili said. "German troops patrolling Chahar Dara district opened fire on civilian houses yesterday afternoon,"

KASUR - An old woman committed suicide over a domestic issue here on Monday at village Harrihar in the precincts of Sadar Police Station. Reportedly, Haleema Bibi was divorced some years ago and often remained upset on this issue. On the day of the incident, she ended her life by hanging herself from a tree.
CONSTABLE ROBBED OF CASH, VALUABLES: Bandits deprived a constable of his motorcycle, cash and a cell phone at Chak Deeda in the premises of Mustafaabad Police Station.