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By our Diplomatic Correspondent Islamabad: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has asked Imran Khan-led government in Pakistan to “guarantee fundamental rights” to all citizens of south Asian countries. The matter was raised in the British Parliament by Minister for South Asia and the Commonwealth Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon with Pakistani’s Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari. The problem emerged after recent reports of the killing of Mehmood Khan, an Ahmadi in northern Peshawar. He’s the fourth Ahmadi to be shot dead in the area. Ahmadi are minorities in Pakistan and are considered heretical in mainstream Islam. While raising the question of…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: A senior Indian diplomat was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today to register Pakistan’s strong protest over ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces along the Line of Control (LoC) on 11th November 2020, resulting in serious injuries to one innocent civilian.Due to indiscriminate and unprovoked firing by the Indian occupation forces in Rakhchikri Sector of the LoC, 26 year old Sagheer Ahmed s/o Rasheed Ahned, resident of Village Kirni, sustained serious injuries.The Indian occupation forces along the LoC and the Working Boundary (WB) have been continuously targeting civilian populated areas with artillery…

By Mehr Yasin Kashmore, Sindh: Police arrested a fraudulent for allegedly raping a woman and her minor daughter for two days after luring the the former with a job offer in northern Sindh’s Kashmore district, police authorities told Islamabad Telegraph.Police arrested the suspect while an accomplice is currently at large, officials said.Kashmore Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Amjad Ali Shaikh confirmed the suspect’s arrest and said police teams were raiding suspected places to arrest an acc. He said the woman and her daughter accomplice. This correspondent learnt that victim hails from Karachi who came to Kashmore along with her minor…

By Editor Foreign Affairs Islamabad: The Pakistani authorities must immediately disclose the whereabouts of Idris Khattak and lift the veil of secrecy surrounding his case, said Amnesty International, on the first anniversary of the prominent human rights defender’s enforced disappearance.Idris Khattak, who has worked extensively to tackle enforced disappearance, including with Amnesty International, has not been seen or heard from since being abducted while on his way home from Islamabad to Peshawar on 13 November 2019. On 16 June 2020, more than six months after his disappearance and following a public campaign by his family, the Pakistani Ministry of Defence…

By our Staff Reporter Karachi: Amid wide spread protests and countrywide campaigns against rape of kids, children and teenagers in Pakistan, another four years old boy was allegedly sodomised and killed in Karachi, Pakistan’s most populous city. Police confirmed the incident to to ‘Islamabad Telegraph’ and said it was investigating the alleged kidnapping, sexual assault, torture and murder of a four-year-old boy, who passed away at the Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Wednesday. ” My child had left house in the morning on Tuesday morning to play with his friends .A few hours later he was found in a…

By Special Correspondent Islamabad: Days after a court in Pakistan orders arrest of all accused involved in forced conversion of a Christian teenage girl in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, a Christian mother and her son were murdered in broad day light.Police confirmed the incident and said it was investigating the case. It all happened at a village in the Pakistani province of Punjab on Monday in what the sources in police believe was a killing over alleged blasphemy.Shabbir Masih told local police that his wife Yasmeen Masih and son Usman Masih were killed by their neighbour Hussain Shakoor in Hussain…

By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI – Sindh High Court ordered arrest of all accused involved in forced conversion of a Christian teenager to Islam and marry a 44-year-old Muslim man, an incident that sparked street protests by church groups and rights activists. The high court in Sindh province – where the legal marriage age is 18 – instructed police to arrest suspects including the cleric who conducted the wedding ceremony. Court-appointed doctors said the girl was about 14.”Being a teenager, she can’t enter into a legally valid marriage,” court order said.”We direct (police) … to carry out a full investigation…

News Desk Islamabad: After finally losing faith, the Supreme Court, on Tuesday, commenced proceedings against Rail-ways Secretary Habibur Rehman Gillani and Chief Secretary of Sindh Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah for the apparent delay in the completion of the Karachi Circular Railways (KCR) project. Pakistan’s Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed warned that things would not end here, but that the court would call anyone, including Prime Minister Imran Khan and Sindh Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, if necessary, the Dawn news reported. The Supreme Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan and Justice Muneeb Akhtar, had taken up a…

News Desk Several airlines operating in Pakistan may face a ban in 188 countries for failing to meet the international standards of pilot licencing recommended by an UN specialised agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Express Tribune reported. The country’s national flag carrier– Pakistan International Airlines — has already been barred from flying to the United Kingdom and European Union over the licencing scandal. In a meeting, the ICAO approved a mechanism for addressing Significant Safety Concerns (SSCs) to its member states. Pakistan being a member state of the ICAO was identified among eight countries that had failed to…

By Special Correspondent Islamabad: On Monday, the High Court of Islamabad assured the lawyer of the Indian High Commission of a fair trial of the accused spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and proposed a third consular access to the International Court of Justice for review and reconsideration of the conviction. The IHC Trial Judges, consisting of Chief Justice Athar Minallah, Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, also proposed that Shahnawaz Noon, a lawyer, should be provided with the requisite documents relating to the court martial proceedings against the Indian spy, because he had previously been denied these documents for not…