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
KARACHI: A dialogue on the provincial action plan on prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) held here on October 16 saw many members of the civil society discuss how to pave the way for justice in such cases. The event was
SUKKUR: The court of an additional sessions judge on Ocotber 15 sentenced to 11 life terms each the main accused and his two sons in the case of slaughter of 11 of their own family members at their home in Halejwi village
KARACHI: A man in his 50s, said to be a drug addict, set four of his neighbour’s children on fire, killing two of them, and then took his own life with a knife, officials said on October 15. They said that the
An abduction FIR was registered at Preedy Police Station on October 14 after two sisters went missing from a madrassa near Abdullah Haroon Road under mysterious circumstances last weekend. The complainant, Muhammad Azeem Akhtar, has accused a school teacher of abducting his
KARACHI: From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Karachi. Like millions of children, she is a household helper, an illegal but common practice that brings grief to families often too poor to
KARACHI: A polio worker was killed in a suspected targeted attack on the Superhighway on October 9. Site Superhighway Industrial Area SHO Wilayat Shah told Dawn that Rehmanullah, 30, was on his way to Surjani Town on a motorcycle when unknown suspect(s) opened fire