The Provincial Assembly of Sindh on 11-August-2025 unanimously passed a resolution while reaffirming the status of members of religious minorities as equal citizens of Pakistan, whose fundamental rights are fully protected under the Constitution of 1973. The lawmakers, both on the treasury
In what is a significant achievement for both the province and the country, the government of Sindh has completed Pakistan’s first real-time digital birth registration. Baby Messam Abbas was officially registered at the moment of birth at the Sindh Government Hospital, Qasimabad,
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
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.
The Sindh High Court on 31-July-2025 directed the medical superintendent of Services Hospital to conduct an ossification test on a girl to determine her age in a free-will marriage case as the family of the girl claims she is a minor. The
Child’s friend saw him outside mosque, alerted his uncle KARACHI: A three-year-old boy missing for nearly three months was recovered after a chance encounter led to his dramatic rescue. Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the abduction, who allegedly forced
There are too many lifts; how many cameras can we install? Civil Hospital MS KARACHI: Following the horrifying incident of a child sexually assaulted in a lift at Sindh’s second-largest government hospital, the hospital administration appears more focused on suppressing details than
This past Sunday, two brothers, aged 12 and 15, were tragically crushed under a speeding water tanker near Kala Pul on Korangi Road, Karachi, while they were riding a motorcycle. Their deaths – disconcertingly bringing the total heavy traffic accident tally to
Barbarity disguised as justice has no place in any civilised society. Dragged into a desert somewhere in Balochistan and executed in cold blood, a man and woman became the latest victims of a brutal practice falsely justified in the name of ‘honour’.
A family court in Karachi has awarded a six-month prison sentence to two persons after they were found guilty of wilfully violating judicial orders in a sensitive child custody dispute. The court ruled that a woman, Ameer Zadi, and her son, Salman