RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has confirmed death sentences awarded to five hardcore terrorists involved in high-profile cases including human rights activist Sabeen Mahmud murder, Safoora Chowrangi carnage and bomb blast outside a Bohra community mosque in Karachi, ARY News reported.
KARACHI: Police in Pakistan's port city of Karachi said they were hunting a network of women from well-off families acting as fundraisers for the Islamic State group, highlighting its growing appeal among the country's middle classes.
ISLAMABAD: Worshippers at the infamous Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital Islamabad still gather in their hundreds for Friday prayers, but the fiery sermons calling for Sharia led by cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz are now a thing of the past.
KARACHI: The Second Floor (T2F) which calls itself a community space for open dialogue has been nominated for Dutch Human Right Tulip Award, ARY News reports.
KARACHI: One of the top officials of Karachi police on Wednesday claimed to have recovered a hit-list from Safoora bus attack suspects, containing names of journalists, fashion designers and government officials.
It is now emerging, according to the account of senior Karachi police officials who have interrogated Saad Aziz, that he targeted social activist and entrepreneuer Sabeen Mahmud because of her liberal views and because, according to him, she campaigned against Lal Masjid cleric Maulvi Abdul Aziz.
Speaking to a leading English magazine, mother of slain Pakistani activist Sabeen Mahmud spoke about the night of the fateful shooting and revealed what Sabeen was like in person.
There seems to be considerable shock and surprise by people, especially those who constitute the bulk of the country's civil society elite, at the revelation by the Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah that the alleged mastermind of Sabeen Mahmud's killing is Saad Aziz, a 2011 graduate of the prestigious IBA, Karachi.
After a former IBA graduate Saad Aziz was alleged to be the mastermind of Sabeen Mahmud's murder in Karachi,Twitter sparked with an intense debate between those who demanded that action be taken against the reputable institute in the same fashion it is usually taken against Madressahs or religious seminaries.
KARACHI: CM Sindh Qaim Ali Shah revealed yesterday that the mastermind of Sabeen Mahmud's murder was an IBA graduate named Saad Aziz. Aziz was also involved in the Safoora bus attack, ARY News reported.
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Students at America's prestigious Harvard University in the state of Massachusetts on April 29 held a vigil for slain Pakistani rights campaigner and activist Sabeen Mahmud.
KARACHI: The law enforcement agencies (LEAs) on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a key suspect in connection to murder of human rights activist Sabeen Mahmud, ARY News reported.
In a Facebook post put up on its Facebook page on the evening of April 28, The Second Floor -- the brainchild of Sabeen Mahmud who was killed by unidentified men in Karachi on April 24 -- announced that it was closing till further notice.
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Pakistani investigators have found no match for casings of bullets that killed a prominent human rights activist, dashing hopes for quick answers to a murder that has raised fears for the safety of dissenting voices.