By Faizan Bangash in The News, December 20, 2023LAHORE: Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said the Lahore High Court and Supreme Court are the crime scenes of the murder of Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The PPP leader said it was perpetrated by late Gen Ziaul Haq and the coterie of judges of the Lahore High Court, the Supreme Court along with lawyers, politicians and bureaucrats who acted as facilitators. Bilawal was addressing a…
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by Prithvi Man Shrestha & Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 23, 2023Police on Tuesday recommended prosecuting 238 people including former ministers, senior bureaucrats and middlemen in the infamous Lalita Niwas land grab scam on charges of organised crime and forgery of government documents. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police submitted its investigation report to the District Attorney’s Office Kathmandu, which will now decide how many of them will be prosecuted. The…
report in The Nation, August 16, 2023The UN said Tuesday that the International Criminal Court should recognize gender discrimination in Afghanistan as a crime against humanity. “The legal opinion we have received shows that the denial of education to Afghan girls and employment to Afghan women is gender discrimination, which should count as a crime against humanity, and it should be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court,” said Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global…
report in Prothom Alo, Jul 06, 2023The United States has condemned the murder of labour union organiser Shahidul Islam and called on Bangladesh authorities to investigate the crime thoroughly and hold the perpetrators accountable, reports news agency UNB. US ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas made the call on Wednesday. Ambassador Haas visited the headquarters of the Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers Federation to express condolences over labour leader Shahidul Islam’s death. The United States said…
report in Prothom Alo, 20 Jun 2023Every day 5-year-old Jannat hunts for bottles and cans in the Rohingya refugee camp where she lives in Bangladesh – when she collects enough, she buys a snack to stave off her hunger pangs. She is one of a growing number of children turning to garbage picking since the United Nations slashed rations for nearly 1 million Rohingya camp residents to just 9 cents a meal this month. The…
report in Prothom Alo, 20 Jun 2023Every day 5-year-old Jannat hunts for bottles and cans in the Rohingya refugee camp where she lives in Bangladesh – when she collects enough, she buys a snack to stave off her hunger pangs. She is one of a growing number of children turning to garbage picking since the United Nations slashed rations for nearly 1 million Rohingya camp residents to just 9 cents a meal this month. The…
Report in Dawn, June 4th, 2023 PESHAWAR: Awami National Party has urged the federal government to order a judicial probe into the ‘resettlement’ of terrorists in the country and award punishment to those involved in the ‘heinous’ crime. ANP provincial president Amil Wali Khan in a letter to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded constitution of a high-level committee headed by the Peshawar High Court chief justice to investigate the process of resettlement of terrorists, especially…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, May 24, 2023The District Attorney Office, Kathmandu said on Tuesday that it could prosecute the accused in Bhutanese refugees scam with more charges, although the police have recommended charging them with three crimes—fraud, organised crime and treason. The police, on Monday, submitted its investigation report on the Bhutanese refugee scam to the attorney office with a recommendation to prosecute 33 individuals including senior political leaders of different…
Whenever there is an incident of sexual assault or gender-based violence in Pakistan, we often end up with two tragedies for the price of one. First, there is the crime itself. Time and again, mostly, women who have the temerity to walk around in parks, go to work, school or just literally step out of their homes fall prey to the most brutal form of victimization imaginable. We are reminded, in the unlikely event that…
report in The Daily Star, Jan 24, 2023Human trafficking cases in Bangladesh and the Philippines increased after devastating cyclones and typhoons displaced millions, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today. Evidence is emerging that climate-related disasters are becoming a cause of human trafficking as criminal gangs exploit a growing number of uprooted people, the UN drugs agency noted. The continuing war in Ukraine is also another risk factor for increased human…
Crime and business
edit in The Express Tribune, December 31st, 2023.The escalating crime rates in Karachi have cast a long and ominous shadow over the city’s bustling business community, triggering a cascade of concerns that reverberate far beyond immediate safety issues. The recent surge in criminal activities has emerged as a formidable challenge, prompting business leaders to confront the unsettling reality that their operations are increasingly at the mercy of criminal elements. The targeted killings of traders in…