WASHINGTON: The New York Times has reported that S H Farooqi, the uncle of MIT graduated Pakistani scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqi, has given a signed affidavit to the authorities swearing that Dr Aafia visited him in January 2008 in Islamabad and had asked for help to reach the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Karachi High School, claims that it is very high class school having such and such facilities and skilled and trained teachers.  In fact they have appointed untrained young teachers who have not any experience to handle the students of pre-primary. 

All the peace and harmony over the last couple of months was nice.  But that’s history now, as it ended at 8:15 am Monday morning, as a powerful car bomb holding almost 800 kilograms of explosives struck a law enforcement building in Model Town. 

A Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to 300 lashings and one and a half years in prison for filing harassment complaints about government officials and appearing in court without a male guardian. 

Geo News received footage yesterday showing a 16 year old unclothed boy being badly lashed out at by the police while being locked up in the Hafizabad area.  A local shopkeeper accused him of stealing a mobile phone sim card and reported him to the police. 

Your editorial "Permanent etchings" (March 2) has very rightly pointed out the issue of so-called Islamic provisions put into the Constitution by the late dictator General Ziaul Haq to serve his own political purposes. Apparently, they can be neither touched nor altered, just like etchings in the stone.