A judicial magistrate on November 5 granted bail to the driver of a dumper truck in a case pertaining to the death of a motorcyclist in a road accident involving the heavy vehicle. Twenty-three-year-old Shahzeb Shahid was killed and his wife Misbah
KARACHI: A fast-moving dumper fatally struck a young man and injured his wife in the Garden area on November 4 police said. The incident triggered a violent protest as residents gathered at the scene and set the heavy vehicle on fire. “A
LARKANA: A 35-year-old man was killed in an ambush leading the death toll in an old enmity between two rival communities to 27 in a Naudero village on November 2. Unknown assailants ambushed Shahzado Jaiho while he, along with a friend, Maqsood
ISLAMABAD: The Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO) on October 31 released its latest Domestic Violence Factsheet for Sindh, highlighting low convictions despite rising reports in the first six months of the current year. The factsheet was compiled through data received via the
HYDERABAD: A young woman seeking custody of her minor daughter has accused a police officer in Mirpurkhas of raping her. The accused officer was immediately suspended and FIR was registered against him. According to sources, the Mirpurkhas police on October 25 registered
SUKKUR: Three suspects were arrested hours after they allegedly killed their two close relatives over a matrimonial issue and kidnapped a 10-year-old girl in the old area of Kashmore on the night of October 24. Two other relatives were wounded in the
KARACHI: Seven policemen were suspended after a “teenage boy” died under controversial circumstances in the custody of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of police, it emerged on Friday. While the police claimed that Muhammad Irfan died of heart attack, his relatives alleged
Islamabad:The provincial governments of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh have pledged to continue reforms on addressing child marriage, birth registration, child protection, gender-based violence (GBV) and social inclusion. The UK’s Aawaz II programme, which started in 2017, has supported pilots such as
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on October 22 remanded a man in police custody in a case pertaining to the alleged murder of his two daughters in Block-G of North Nazimabad. The investigating officer (IO) produced the suspect, Akbar Sattar, before Judicial Magistrate
A sessions court has revoked the interim pre-arrest bail of a doctor in a case pertaining to the sexual abuse and brutal torture of a 19-year-old woman who had died after remaining in coma for over two weeks. Shanti was brutally raped