A model court has handed down death sentence to a man in a five-year-old case pertaining to the murder of a labour leader. Babar Siraj was found guilty of shooting to death Syed Ashraf Ali, then general secretary of the Functional Labour
KARACHI: Pakistan faced a looming mental health crisis as one-third of its people suffered from psychiatric disorders while personality disorders affected nearly 50 percent of the population, said an expert at a seminar held on 17th October. The event was organised at
LARKANA: A policemen shot dead his 16-year-old daughter early on 16th October in a graveyard near Bagan Shah Bukhari’s tomb in the jurisdiction of Qambar police station and fled. The accused was identified as Safeer Buriro. Sources in the Qambar-Shahdadkot SSP office
A judicial magistrate has recorded a confessional statement of a suspect in a case pertaining to the murder of a three-year-old girl. The child’s body was recovered from a street in Qabail Colony in Block 11 of Gulberg Town on October 9.
500 to 750 patients of chikungunya are being reported daily across major government hospitals in the city. KARACHI. As a province with an ailing public healthcare system, the number of seasonal epidemics hitting Sindh on a regular basis is alarming, to say
Dozens of children have died this year in Karachi, and rural areas of Sindh and Balochistan due to diphtheria, a vaccine-preventable bacterial disease, as routine immunisation continues to decline in the region, health experts and officials reported on 12-October-2024. In Karachi alone,
On gaining independence, Karachi – a modest trading post with 450,000 inhabitants – became the capital city of Pakistan. Over the years, it welcomed all into its magnanimous fold. Today, a megalopolis of nearly 300 million people, it is the industrial and
KARACHI: Speakers at a programme held on 11th October underscored the urgent need for prioritising mental health, especially at workplaces, where people spend a significant part of their day. Held at Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) in connection with the World Mental
A three-year-old girl was found dead on 10-October-2024 in the street near her residence in Federal B Area Block 11. The body was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities. According to police, the girl was identified as Amna who was
LARKANA: A man allegedly shot dead his sister after killing her friend in Ghulam Rasool Magsi village falling within the jurisdiction of the Mirokhan police station on 7th October. According to the police, Abdul Waheed Magsi shot dead Mohammed Mithal Chandio, 22,