The Sindh Human Rights Commission has taken suo moto notice of a news report published in different newspapers, regarding the death of a 25-year-old woman, her six-year-old daughter, and her two-year-old son. The commission has directed SSP Keamari to conduct a thorough
KARACHI: A man brought the body of his three-year-old daughter to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities on Wednesday evening, police said. The man, identified as Shahzad, told the police that the body was handed over to him by his estranged
A dark head emerges, followed by the torso. The balding man heaves himself up, hands on the sides of the manhole, as he is helped by two men. Gasping for breath, the man, who seems to be in his late 40s, sits
KARACHI: As countries observe World Day Against Child Labour on Wednesday (today), government officials, rights activists, members of civil society and other stakeholders asked the government and employers on Tuesday to take collective measures to eliminate the menace of child labour from
PERHAPS 2024 was always meant to be the year voters were going to knock some sense into those who grew complacent in their power, especially in South Asia. Indeed, we Pakistanis were not the only ones who misjudged an election; our neighbours
ON a cold morning in 1937, a remand home was inaugurated in Karachi under the Bombay Children Act, 1924. This remand home was later shifted to near Central Jail in Karachi, and is now functioning in accordance with the Sindh Children Act,
KARACHl: A district and sessions court has sentenced a man to life in prison for raping a nine-year-old girl within the remit of the Kalri police station. Additional District and Session Judge Ashraf Hussain Khowaja convicted Syed Rizwan Ali for assaulting the
KARACHI: Speakers at a meeting on 22nd May 2024 discussed reasons behind the alarming rise in street crime in Karachi, its psychological impacts on citizens, the role of state, and suggested solutions to overcome that menace which was causing deaths in the
KARACHI: Police on 22nd May 2024 claimed to have busted a gang allegedly involved in child trafficking and prostitution by arresting six suspects and recovering three children. `We have busted a gang involved in trafficking of children for prostitution, Orangi SP Saad
KARACHI: Condition of women workers and peasants in rural Sindh remains precarious despite existence on paper of various laws aimed at addressing their issues as there is a notable gap in the implementation of laws on women and gender inequality persists in