New Delhi: The parents-in-law of a widow, expelled out of her matrimonial house after her husband's death in 2010, has been asked by a Delhi court to pay Rs 10,000 as monthly maintenance to her and her minor son. Metropolitan Magistrate Rachna Tiwari Lakhanpal gave the order holding that a man's widow is entitled to claim maintenance from her father and mother-in-laws. Accordingly, the court asked the woman's father-in-law, an...
09:09 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Islamabad: While the world continues to raise a toast to contemporary Pakistani authors, the latest author to enter the literary marathon is a genius of sorts who translates Urdu tomes and works on his own tales of fiction with equal ease. Musharraf Ali Farooqi caught everyone's attention with translations of Urdu classics "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" and the first book of a projected 24-volume magical fantasy epic, "Hoshruba". His...
04:59 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Dera Ismail Khan: The Pakistan Taliban will attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesman for the militant group said on Friday. Pakistan's government has charged bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering and staying in the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday. "If the family of Osama bin Laden...
09:38 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Dera Ismail Khan: The Pakistan Taliban will attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesman for the militant group said on Friday. Pakistan's government has charged bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering and staying in the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday. "If the family of Osama bin Laden...
04:33 AM, Mar 10, 2012
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05:37 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Islamabad: Three of Osama bin Laden's widows, who were captured following the US raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader, are soon expected to leave Pakistan after seven months in custody. According to a media report, the three women " two Saudis and one Yemeni " were picked up by Pakistani security officials early on the morning of May 2 in Abbottabad, just minutes after US Navy SEALs killed bin Laden...
01:39 PM, Dec 10, 2011
Mumbai: Two years ago, her world collapsed when her husband of six years committed suicide. At 25, she was a widow, unable to bear the burden of loans he had accumulated as a farmer. With two children, she braced for a colourless life. But when all seemed bleak, a ray of light appeared - a television show. 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' (KBC), a programme that ignites hopes in the great middle...
12:44 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Imphal: Manipur's Binalaxmi Nepram, who's seen how militancy has permanently scarred women in her state, has set up the Manipur Women Gun Survivours Network for widows who have lost their husbands in the ongoing conflict in the state. More than 20,000 people have lost their lives in the killing fields of Manipur in the last five decades and every year more than three hundred widows are created because of the...
08:53 AM, Jul 28, 2011
Islamabad: Officials in Pakistan say the country has agreed to let Osama bin Laden's youngest widow return to her native Yemen. But they would not reveal when she'll leave. Amal Ahmed Abdullfattah, two other widows and eight of bin Laden's children were detained following the May 2 US raid that killed the al-Qaeda chief in the northwestern Pakistani city of Abbottabad. A Pakistani security official said on Friday that Pakistan...
06:05 PM, Jun 24, 2011
Dubai: Slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's detained relatives, including his 29-year-old Yemeni widow, will be repatriated back to their home countries after their initial interrogations are completed, a Pakistani diplomat has said. Bin Laden's Yemeni widow Amal Ahmed Abdul Fattah was with her husband in a bedroom when US special forces stormed the house. She was shot in the leg while attempting to defend her husband and is currently...
02:38 PM, May 09, 2011
Kiev: Black-clad Orthodox priests sang solemn hymns, Ukrainians lit thin wax candles and a bell tolled 25 times for the number of years that have passed since the Chernobyl disaster as the world began marking the anniversary on Tuesday of the worst nuclear accident in history. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill led the nighttime service near a monument to firefighters and cleanup workers who died soon after the accident from acute...
09:40 AM, Apr 26, 2011
Bhiwani: Two widows - Suman and Shakuntala - were beaten to death in the village of Raanila in Bhiwani, Haryana, allegedly by their nephew Naresh. But shockingly, not a single villager came to their rescue. According to reports, Naresh claimed Shakuntala had a bad influence on his aunt Suman, but what has stunned everyone is how Naresh saw fit to allegedly murder the duo. "I begged people to help, but...
07:28 AM, Apr 19, 2011
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09:41 AM, Jan 08, 2011
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