The Sindh High Court has set aside a district court order with regard to the issuance of succession share of a married Hindu woman from the property of her deceased father and ordered that inheritance shall be limited to the sons, widow
A sessions court has sentenced a man to three-year imprisonment for sexually abusing a teenage boy. Sunil Anthony, alias Sunny, was found guilty of assaulting the 13-year-old boy at the former’s residence in Azam Town within the jurisdiction of the Mehmoodabad police
A protest has been held in Mirpurkhas against the disappearance of a person from Lahore by his family members and civil society activists. Protesters claimed that young person Parkash Kachi Kolhi disappeared near the Wagah border in Lahore while travelling to India,
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has dismissed the bail application of a man in a sexual assault case. Applicant Mohammad Maroof had been arrested by the Tipu Sultan police for allegedly molesting an underage girl with a mental disability. According to the
ISLAMABAD: A civil society organisation in a report has highlighted the concerning scale of gender-based violence (GBV) and the extremely low conviction rates in Pakistan, emphasising the need for urgent reforms in law enforcement and judicial systems. The report ‘Mapping Gender-Based Violence
Noting that frequent traffic accidents reflected failure of the authorities concerned to regulate heavy traffic, a sessions court on 28-February-2025 revoked the interim pre-arrest bail of a dumper driver accused of running over and killing three young motorcyclists in Korangi. Saeed Umar
SUKKUR: Speakers at a women’s conference held in Ghotki on 27th February said that upper Sindh districts of Ghotki, Kandhkot-Kashmore, Jacobabad and Shikarpur have become killing fields for women and demanded an end to the dark and oppressive traditions imposed on them.
Renowned actor Sajid Hasan has defended his son, Sahir Hasan, calling the drug trafficking charges against him “fabricated” and a deliberate attempt to shift focus away from the prime suspect, Armaghan, in the Mustafa Amir murder case. He alleged that the police
KARACHI: A sessions court on 24th February sentenced four peddlers, including an underage boy, to 14 years in prison for possessing over 20kg of drugs. Additional District and Sessions Judge (West) Aurangzeb Shah found a car driver, Muhammad Saleem, and three passengers
Pakistan’s prison system is at a breaking point, with over 102,000 inmates crammed into overcrowded, under-resourced facilities. Prison conditions in Pakistan fall significantly short of international standards, with inmates facing numerous systemic challenges, including severe overcrowding, unhygienic living conditions, insufficient access to clean