Tag: Assassination

Forgotten child hero Iqbal Masih
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Forgotten child hero Iqbal Masih

Iqbal Masih was a Pakistani child who became an international symbol of the fight against child labor. Despite his tragic death at the age of just 12 years old. Iqbal's legacy continues to inspire activists around the world to this day. Born in 1983 in a small village near Lahore, Pakistan, Iqbal Masih was the youngest of six siblings. Like many children in his community, Iqbal was forced to work in a carpet factory from the age of four. He would work for twelve hours a day, seven days a week, for a mere $6 a month. Despite this grueling schedule, Iqbal was determined to learn how to read and write. He managed to attend a free school set up by a local activist group, where he excelled in his studies. In 1992, at the age of nine, Iqbal escaped from the factory and joined the Bonded L...
October 16, 1951: Pakistan’s 1st PM Liaquat Ali Khan assassinated in Rawalpindi
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October 16, 1951: Pakistan’s 1st PM Liaquat Ali Khan assassinated in Rawalpindi

Liaquat Ali Khan was the first Prime Minister of Pakistan. On October 16, 1951, Pakistan’s 1st PM Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in Rawalpindi's Company Bagh. His killer assassinated him during a public assembly of the Muslim City League. on October 25, only 10 days after Khan’s assassination, the authorities set up a commission to investigate the murder. The court declared Federal Court Judge Justice Muhammad Munir as the head of the commission along with Punjab Finance Commissioner Akhtar Hussain. However, the court did assemble this commission to discover the reasons behind the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan. Instead, the court advised the commission to research the circumstances under which Liaqat Ali Khan was killed. This task included finding the officials responsible for t...
Assassination of the President leaves Haiti in Fear
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Assassination of the President leaves Haiti in Fear

The Assassination of the President disrupted the whole country. Authorities investigating the case, say that a foreign hit squad is responsible behind the murder. PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti was fatally killed in the late hours at night on the 7th of July in his private residence on the outskirts of the Port-au-Prince, the Capital city. The event has shaken the country to fear. People are now scared for their lives considering how easily such a well-known personality with so much protocol was assassinated. They fear their fates as normal citizens. Carl Henry Destin, a Haitian justice of the peace, said that he found the President in a brutal state. According to him, “There were 12 holes visible in the body of the president that I could see,” and “He was ...