KARACHI: Sharing their clinical observations and data gathered during medical camps organised in four desert-belt districts over the past four years, speakers at a seminar held on 13th August underscored the need to integrate mental health into primary care services and initiate
KARACHI: A sessions court on 8th August sentenced a man to two years in prison for marrying an underage girl. After hearing complainant counsel Daniyal Muhammad Hussain and the defence side, Judicial Magistrate (East) Noor Ahmed Chandio, found Azhar Ali guilty of
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on 5th August sent the chairperson of a non-governmental organisation to prison on judicial remand in a child trafficking case. On Monday, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had arrested Mubina Cassum Aboatwala, chairperson of the Health Oriented Preventive
KARACHI: The Pakistan Paediatric Association (PPA) has called for urgent reforms in the national immunisation programme, emphasising the need to extend the age limit for childhood vaccinations from two to five years. It also urged the inclusion of advanced vaccines such as
KARACHI: The couple and their minor son, allegedly murdered in the name of honour, were laid to rest near Ghaghar Phatak on 31st July after relatives of the women strongly resisted their burial in Lasbela, Balochistan. The bodies of Abdul Majeed, 40, his
KARACHI: Investigators probing the Gujranwala couple’s murder case have found that the deceased man had embraced Islam before marrying the Muslim girl. Police registered an FIR regarding the murder of Sajid Masih and Sana, whose bullet-riddled bodies were found at Clifton beach on July
KARACHI: Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah opened the North Nazimabad chapter of Karachi Down Syndrome Programme (KDSP) — a non-profit organisation advocating for the value, acceptance and inclusion of individuals with Down syndrome — on 22nd July. Built with the provincial government’s
HYDERABAD: The Sindh Human Rights Commission chairperson Iqbal Ahmed Detho has urged civil society to ensure provision of timely legal aid and essential needs such as appropriate clothing and safe living conditions to inmates at correctional centres. He said during a visit
KARACHI: The German Consulate General Karachi organised an ‘active symposium’ at a local hotel here on 12th July to launch ‘StrongHer’— an initiative by the Goethe-Institute Pakistan in collaboration with Matrix Fit Pakistan — to celebrate and explore the many dimensions of
KARACHI: Expressing serious concern over the escalating violence against women, especially female healthcare providers, experts representing the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Pakistan (SOGP) on 12th July demanded that the government bring the perpetrators to justice and address systemic failures. “We strongly