Judicial probe sought into alleged torture on professor
Peshawar
December 29, 2020
PESHAWAR: The Citizens Rights Movement, a conglomerate of different rights-based organizations, on Monday staged a protest against the alleged torture on an associate professor at the Gulbahar Police Station and demanded a judicial probe into the incident.
The members of the rights-based bodies, including those from the Peace Foundation, Pakistan Writers Guild, Bazm-e-Bahar-e-Adab and others gathered at the Peshawar Press Club to voice anger at the alleged torture by the Gulbahar Police on Associate Professor Malik Arshad Hussain, a professor of English at the Government College of Management Sciences, Peshawar, and alleged maltreatment of his wife, Munazza Arshad, a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf active worker and her sister.
PTI woman member accuses own party leader of revengeful activities
Peshawar
December 25, 2020
PESHAWAR: An active woman member of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and former councillor Munazza Arshad Advocate on Thursday accused the City District chapter president of her own party, Syed Qasim Ali Shah, of revengeful activities.
Speaking at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club along with her husband, Associate Professor Malik Arshad Hussain, she alleged that Syed Qasim Ali Shah was using pressure tactics against her as she had always opposed the latter for his alleged dictatorial attitude in the party.
Elaborating on her point, she alleged that the PTI city district chapter president, who was a Peshawar district’s naib nazim (district council convener) in the past, acted against the merit and appointed the woman workers of his choice to various party offices in Peshawar.