The Sindh High Court (SHC) has observed that the issues of gender-based violence and societal oppression demand continued attention and action from both the legal system and society as a whole. Issuing an order on a petition of a 14-year-old minor girl
An 18-year-old woman was shot dead by her brother for marrying of her own free will. The incident took place in the Banaras’s Bukhari Colony locality in Orangi Town. According to police, the woman was killed when she came to her earlier
BADIN A thirty-year-old woman was tortured to death by two self-styled faith healers in Khuda Baksh Hisbani village, near Pangrio city in Tando Bagho Tehsil of Badin. As per details, the faith healers identified as Versi Kohli and Horshi Kohli were called
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the West SSP to conduct an inquiry into the kidnapping of three children of a man from Punjab and submit a report within seven days. The high court also directed an East district court to
A court has awarded a collective sentence of six years in prison to a man for sharing indecent videos and images of a woman with her fiancé and family members on WhatsApp in 2021. Judicial Magistrate (East) Yusra Ashfaq found Muhammad Anas
Police have reunited two children, who had gone missing in the Tariq Road area, with their parents. According to Sindh Police Madadgar 15, a citizen had informed the police about the children. For finding the children, the parents expressed gratitude to the
During a meeting he chaired on 27 January 2025 to discuss the increasing cases of missing children, Sindh police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon decided to hold regular meetings with governmental and non-governmental sectors, and social organisations. The review meeting was held at
The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the police has claimed the arrest of a gangster allegedly involved in kidnapping children for ransom in the Surjani Town area and seized weapons from his possession. According to a spokesperson for the SIU, the SIU
In a tragic incident in Baldia Town on 23 January 2025, a man said to be a drug addict allegedly strangled his wife to death. The incident took place at a house located in Baldia Town Sector 12-E within the limits of
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s fact-finding study Exodus: Is the Hindu Community Leaving Sindh? – has underscored the state’s failure to protect a vulnerable minority, with many Hindu families compelled to migrate not only in connection with faith-based violence but also