Tag: crime
Shehbaz Sharif’s anger against NAB, SC is justified amid Punjab’s scrutiny
News Analysis | Shebaz Sharif, the Chief Minister of Punjab, seems to have been roiled by the activism of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the...
Is Jack the Ripper haunting London streets again?
AFP | Another deadly night in London is putting pressure on political leaders, as a surge in violence on the streets of the British capital...
A Candid Discussion with Governor Sindh
GVS sat down with Muhammad Zubair Umar, Sindh’s 32nd Governor, to understand the complexities of the province and of Pakistan’s largest and most dynamic...
Britain using new law to clampdown on corruption money
AFP | Russian oligarchs suspected of corruption will be forced to explain their wealth in a new British clampdown on organised crime, Security and Economic Crime Minister...
Axact back in the limelight over fake degrees scandal
News Analysis | Pakistan based IT company Axact came back into the limelight after the BBC exposed a fake degrees scandal on Tuesday. The BBC...
Who killed Benazir Bhutto? The theories behind the murder
AFP with News Analysis input Ten years after former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead a Muslim nation, was killed in...
Women flogged for adultery in Indonesia
A video has surfaced from Indonesia in which a woman is being brutally flogged for committing adultery. The woman can be seen kneeling before a...
How is Indian culture an impediment to justice for victims of...
Devika Sakhadeo | The #MeToo campaign that encourages women to speak up about their experiences of sexual assault harassment has been a catalyst for such accusations across political,...
Murder of an ordinary man with extraordinary political significance
Shiffa Yousafzai | Just when we had started to feel that law and order situation has improved in the country in general and in KPK in...
The game of skins; How Eid-ul-Adha used to be a time...
Eid-ul-Adha is the holiest of Islamic festivals but ironically, these sacred days provide a bonanza for the whole criminal spectrum from the low-level hoodlums...
Will judicial activism enable JIT to get accountability?
Ikram Sehgal | The Supreme Court’s (SC) seriousness of purpose in the PanamaGate case was evident from the brusque manner it dismissed Hussain Nawaz’s apprehensions...
Alleged mastermind behind Samjhota Express killings acquitted on Ajmer Bombing case
Pakistan foreign office spokesperson, Nafees Zakaria, said it was ‘regrettable’ that the mastermind of the deadly 2007 Samjhota Express bombing, had been acquitted yesterday...
Can “traffic stress” increase husbands & wives beating each other?
Louis-Philippe Beland and Daniel Brent | Society pays a heavy price for traffic. It leads to lost time, more pollution and increased spending on gasoline. In metropolitan...
