TikToker Makhdoom Junaid allegedly used female relatives to obstruct his arrest by a team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) from Sukkur. The incident occurred on Abul Hassan Isphahani Road where the FIA team had arrived to arrest the suspect over allegations
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
A 40-year-old woman was shot dead allegedly by her husband during a domestic dispute in Lyari’s Mirza Adam Khan Road area on 05-August-2025. The Chakiwara police said that the victim, identified as Bakhtawar, wife of Nawab, was taken to the Civil Hospital
A joint committee, comprising office-bearers of the Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) and senior officers of the Sindh police and the prosecution department, has been constituted to oversee the progress of investigation and prosecution in the high-profile murder case of Advocate
HYDERABAD: The Women’s Action Forum (WAF) has unveiled a deeply disturbing four-year analysis of gender-based violence in Sindh, exposing a society where patriarchal control, institutional failure, and social apathy have combined to make women increasingly unsafe. The report, based on media monitoring
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed a female convert to Islam to approach a guardians & wards court to seek the custody of her children from her former husband, who is Hindu. The direction came on a petition of Laxmee, who
Naheed, a Hafiz-i-Quran from Mirpurkhas and mother of two, has spent the last eight years within prison walls awaiting a decision on her pending appeal. Her embroidery and crochet work, sold through a prison-run sewing centre, sustains her children on the outside.
Police have made progress in the July 28 murder case, in which a couple from Gujranwala was found with bullet wounds in Karachi’s China Port area. The murdered woman’s brother, Waqas, has been taken into custody. He has admitted to plotting the
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
An eight-year-old boy was shot dead in the Gulshan-e-Maymar neighbourhood of on 31-July-2025. The incident took place in Muhammadpur Society. Police and rescue teams transported the victim to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he was identified as Raza, son of Allah Bachaya. According