Police on 19 August 2024 claimed to have arrested a man for his alleged involvement in last month’s shooting at a filling station that had left a rider of a ride-hailing service dead. Officials claimed that the suspect and his accomplice were
A model court on 19 May 2024 dismissed a bail application filed by an accused in a double murder case. On May 30, five brothers, who owned an ice cream parlour, were on their way to the City Courts to appear in
DADU: As monsoon rains loomed over Pakistan, 14-year-old Shamila and her 13-year-old sister Amina were married off in exchange for money—a decision their parents made to help the family survive the impending threat of floods. “I was happy to hear I was
The Pakistan Customs Enforcement Karachi seized Boostin injections worth Rs15 million on August 17. Syed Irfan Ali, a Customs spokesman, reported that Collector Customs Enforcement Basit Maqsood Abbasi received a tip-off about an attempt to smuggle Boostin injections from Balochistan to Karachi
Amid an already delayed academic session, the Urdu Bazaar Traders Association has highlighted concerns about a significant scarcity of textbooks on the market. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, association executives Sajid Yousuf, Hussain Abbas, Ali Muhammad Awan, Nadeem Akhter, and
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed at the Karachi airport on 12 August between the Local Councils Association Sindh (LCAS) and the Aircraft Sales & Services Limited (ASSL) for launching a free air ambulance service for emergency evacuation of patients from
Police on 12 August 2024 registered a dual murder case in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar area following a shooting incident that occurred two days ago. The case, filed at the Gulistan-e-Jauhar police station, included charges of murder and attempted murder. The complaint was lodged
A man and a woman were gunned down in a firing incident in Baldia Town in the early hours of 10 August 2024. Police said the incident took place at a house near the Jungle School within the limits of the Ittehad
Sindh Environment Minister Dost Muhammad Rahimoon has said the fast-diminishing farmlands near urban centres due to their conversion into gated housing societies have posed serious threats to Pakistan’s food security. He stated this while speaking as the chief guest at a conference
In a concerted effort to combat the poliovirus, which has been detected in environmental samples throughout Karachi, around 1.037 million children between the ages of four months and five years will be targeted in the next campaign, officials said on Monday. They