Tag: Woman

LAHORE - A thirty-seven-year-old woman was gunned down by unidentified robbers in the precincts of the Sattukatla Police Station here on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Gulshan, a resident of Mian Channu. She worked as a labor with a local contractor. Gulshan was returning home after buying groceries from the market when robbers held her at a gunpoint and tried to snatch money. She tried to resist the robbery, at which point robbers opened fire and fled. She was injured and

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

FAISALABAD - A man killed his brother's wife over suspicion of having affair with another man. Reportedly, Allah Bakhsh, a resident of Sandheelianwali, bludgeoned his brother's wife Farhat to death. The deceased left her husband's house last week over a domestic row with in-laws and went to her parents' house.
When she returned to her husband's house, accused Allah Bakhsh attacked her with a heavy stick and killed her over the suspicion that she had affair with some other person.

KASUR - Two people including a woman were kidnapped in separate incidents. In the first incident, an accused Adnan kidnapped Razia when she was alone in her house situated in Talwandi, in the premises of Illahbad Police Station. In the second incident, Ibrahim reported to the Ganda Singh Police Station that some people abducted his son Takhleel-ur-Rahman when he was going to school in Jughian.
YOUTH COMMITS SUICIDE: A young boy committed suicide over a domestic issue in the

ISLAMABAD: A Chinese national woman doctor, Dr Jiya, 48, was mysteriously found dead at her residence-cum-clinic here on Friday in a posh sector of the federal capital.
The police said she had been running a clinic at Rose Plaza at I-8 Markaz for several years.
"Dr Jiya, after embracing Islam, was married to a Pakistani national, Danish Hussain," said Industrial Area SP Ishaq Warraich. He said her hands had been tied and her mouth gagged with a piece of cloth, the SP added.

SAHIWAL - Two people, including a woman, were murdered in separate incidents. In the first incident, four unknown people entered the dera of Muzammal, a resident of Cahk No 59/4R, and on the pretext of holding a meeting with him. they took him to nearby fields and shot him dead. In the second incident, Imran Ahmed murdered Farzana, a resident of Chak No 67/4R, on the doubt that she had relation with a young man of the same village.

KARACHI - The Pakistan Customs Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC) Karachi Airport Unit recovered and confiscated two kilogrammes of heroin from the possession of a female passenger of Zambia on Wednesday.
The Customs DEC staff, following a tip-off that the drug mafia has been using African female passengers for drug trafficking, intercepting a Zambian passenger Rosaria Mubanga at the International Departure Hall of the Jinnah International Airport when she arrived there to take an

KHAR - Security forces on Wednesday arrested a woman allegedly planning to blow herself up in a lawless tribal region where 43 people were killed two months ago in a female suicide attack, officials said. "Security forces and local administration officials raided a house near Khar on Wednesday morning and arrested a woman wearing a suicide vest," senior local official Sohail Khan told AFP.
He said the raid was ordered on a tip-off that women were being trained as suicide bombers

GUJRANWALA - An elderly woman was crushed under a train and a police constable sacrificed his life while trying to rescue her at the railway crossing near Sheranwala Park. Reportedly, an unidentified old woman, unaware of the arrival of a train, tried to cross the rail line near the secondhand clothing bazaar situated on both the sides of the track.
Constable Azeeb Khalid rushed to rescue her and both were crushed by Quetta-bound Jafer Express. The woman died instantly while

SAHIWAL - A woman killed her paramour Javed Iqbal at Chak No 107/7R. Reportedly, Javed developed relations with Sajida. After some time, he severed his relations. On the day of the incident, the enraged woman called Javed at a set place, opened fire and killed him instantly.
LAND DISPUTE CLAIMS LIFE: Mumtaz and four others shot dead Allah Ditta over a land dispute at Chak No 84/5L. Reportedly, Allah Ditta had a lease dispute with Mumtaz. On the day of the incident, MUmtaz and

LAHORE - For 48-year-old Zohra Batool, a resident of Pakpattan, and mother of seven, possessing skills for creating decoration items and the dream of making it big some day, was certainly not enough. Her life had become extremely stressful and it was difficult to go through the grind everyday, knowing that there was no one else to help her out and that if she stopped work, her family would starve.
With her husband unemployed because of a chronic illness, Zohra was left all alone

ALGIERS - An Italian woman tourist travelling with a driver and a tour guide has been kidnapped in the Sahara desert region of southern Algeria, security sources said Friday. The 56-year-old Italian who has not been identified was abducted Wednesday around 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) in Alidena, an area around 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of Djanet, the main town in southeastern Algeria, a security official in the region contacted by AFP said.
The driver and guide who accompanied her

LAHORE - A woman was allegedly killed by her brother-in-law in Mustafabad police precincts on Friday. The deceased, identified as Tahira (40), a mother of two, was a resident of Dharampura. She contracted marriage with Muhammad Arshad four years ago. Tahira's sister, Safia, was killed by Arshad's family member, who was jailed later on. Police investigators told that Tahira was following her sister's case, despite being pressurized by her in-laws not to follow the case.
Tahira was

NEW YORK - Playing the other woman in 'The Other Woman' is an uncomfortable fit for Natalie Portman. Sure, she did crazy beautifully in 'Black Swan,' earning an Oscar nomination for her performance as a ballerina pirouetting into madness. But playing a home wrecker and the stepmother to a young boy seems incongruent with her innately girlish likability.
Writer-director Don Roos doesn't do her any favors by jumping all over the place in tone; he goes from deadpan humor to

KASUR - A four-year old girl was raped at village Sanda Kalan in the precincts of Ganda Singhwala police. Reportedly, one Arslan took the minor to his workshop and raped her. In another incident, a woman was abducted from Bablian Autar village in the Kot Radha Kishan police limits.
Reportedly, Razia Bibi was going to the fields when three armed men kidnapped her in a car and took her to an unknown destination.
MAN SETS WIFE ON FIRE: A man allegedly set his wife on fire for

TEHRAN - Iran on Saturday hanged an Iranian-Dutch woman for drug smuggling after initially arresting her for anti-government protests, the Tehran prosecutor's office said. Zahra Bahrami's execution takes the total number of people hanged in Iran so far this year to 66 - on average more than two a day - according to an AFP tally based on media reports.
The Netherlands summoned Iran's ambassador in the wake of the hanging, the Dutch foreign ministry said. "A drug trafficker named

FAISALABAD - A long-running family vendetta took one life when attackers came in the uniform of Elite Force and shot dead a 22-year-old married woman in her house. Reportedly, a group of men wearing police uniform shot down Saima Sahi of Chak No 186 RB Dhilam near Chak Jhumra, in her house and escaped. The victim family had an old enmity with another group of the area and several men from both the sides have been murdered in the blood feud.
The victim Saima Sahi's two brothers