ISLAMABAD: Google on Monday launched an international appeal to collect relief funds for the flood victims of Pakistan. The world’s largest search engine launched the appeal, asking its users across the globe to donate for the flood victims. People from all over the world can donate $15, $25 and $50 each. The unprecedented rains and […]
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11 children receiving trauma care killed by Israeli airstrikes
WEB DESK The Norwegian Refugee Council confirmed on Tuesday that 11 of over 60 children killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza over the last week were participating in its psycho-social program aimed at helping deal with trauma. “We are devastated to learn that 11 children we were helping with trauma were bombarded while they […]
Victims of north Nigerian institution share stories of terror
When Jibril had tried to escape as a boy from an institution in Nigeria that called itself a place of Islamic teachings, he said he was hung up by his arms until bones in his shoulders broke.Another teenager, one of about 400 men and boys freed in Thursday’s police raid, said boys were often kept […]
Remains of nearly 85,000 genocide victims buried in Rwanda
The remains of nearly 85,000 people murdered in Rwanda’s genocide were laid to rest Saturday in a somber ceremony in Kigali, a quarter of a century after the slaughter. Mourners sobbed as 81 white coffins containing the remains of 84,437 victims of the 1994 mass killings were buried at the Nyanza Genocide Memorial in the […]
Acid attack victims
Sir: According to the report approximately 65 percent of acid attack victim are woman, girls and children. 15 percent of women are being confined by this hazardous chemical. However, long-run consequence of these attacks and bombardment includes the category of mental disorder as well as permanent scarring of the faces. Despite of those women despair […]
Sudan’s Darfur refugees wonder when their turn will come
‘When we arrived here, there were TV crews and photographers, but now nobody comes,” said Abdallah, amazed to see a journalist turn up at his Sudanese refugee camp in Chad. He fled over the border from Sudan’s western Darfur region in 2004, a year after the armed forces and their allies, the Janjaweed horseback militia, […]
Model Town Massacre: PAT chief pledges to fight for justice for victims
Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chairman, Dr Tahirul Qadri, on Tuesday, announced that he was willing to accept whatever decision the court made in the Model Town case. He said this while talking to media sources at Lahore airport upon his arrival from Turkey. Dr Qadri claimed that it was the first time that the Joint […]
Pak Army hands over model village to Earthquake victims in District Awaran
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army handed over homes and shops of a model village in Mashkai District Awaran amongst families who got displaced due to Earthquake 2013. According to an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement the Model Village has all basic amenities including School, Market, Water Supply system and Solar Based electricity. This mega project has been […]