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DSP, policemen booked in Faisalabad torture case

DSP, policemen booked in Faisalabad torture case

  By Shamsul Islam Published: December 28, 2011 Tenth-grader Ahsan was allegedly first beaten up by the sons of DSP Zafarullah Niazi on Monday, before the DSP himself beating the kid up on Tuesday. PHOTO: EXPRESS FAISALABAD: Nine police officials, including a deputy superintendent, have been booked in Faisalabad on charges of trespassing and torturing a minor [...]

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Highway Robbery: Passenger bus looted at gunpoint

Published: December 27, 2011 Faisalabad; A band of unidentified robbers looted a passenger bus by bursting its tyres in the Bahlak police station precincts on Sunday. According to police officials, a passenger bus bound for Bahawal Nagar from Faisalabad was intercepted by eight armed bandits near Mari Patan Bridge, but the bus driver accelerated instead [...]

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Let there be light!: Christians in the dark on Christmas

Published: December 26, 2011 FAISALABAD: Scores of Christian community members staged different demonstrations against continuous, unscheduled and repeated load shedding on Christmas eve. Hundreds of members of the Christian community took out protest rallies from Christian Town, Waris Pura, Circular Road, Samanabad and other parts of the city and marched on various roads. The protesters [...]

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PFUJ flays NLA Ban on the first blind Journalist and Columnist of Pakistan

Islamabad; July 18:- Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has strongly condemned the act of the Chairman, National Language Authority to ban the first blind Journalist and columnist of Pakistan from contributing columns in newspapers and termed it a step to suppress the right of expression as envisaged under Article 19 of the Constitution of [...]

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PFUJ condemned the assassination of Baloch leader Habib Jalib

Islamabad; July 17:- The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has expressed concern over current wave of violence and target killing of several journalists, professionals, intellectuals and moderate politicians including Baloch leader Habib Jalib Baloch. In fact the country needs moderate politicians in Baluchistan so that the voice of peace-loving people is raised and those [...]

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