KARACHI: A sessions court sentenced a man to a total of 50 years in prison in a case pertaining to the abduction and gang rape of a minor girl. Additional District and Sessions Judge Naseer Noor Khan, who is also the presiding
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
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
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on 5th August sent the chairperson of a non-governmental organisation to prison on judicial remand in a child trafficking case. On Monday, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had arrested Mubina Cassum Aboatwala, chairperson of the Health Oriented Preventive
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