KARACHI: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Sindh Assembly has ordered the immediate dispossession of the women’s hostels occupied by government officials, including DIGs, DC, and education officers. The Women Development Department (WDD) has set up 11 hostels for working women
How the birth of child helped the victim bring her tormentor to justice KARACHI: Some crimes are too disturbing, too sickening, and too sinister to be believable. One such crime involving interfamilial sex abuse came to light last week when a man
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has dismissed the bail application of a man in a child molestation case. The applicant, Nazar Hussain, was arrested by the Zaman Town police for molesting a seven-year-old boy in the Korangi area on August 9, 2023.
A sessions court on 20-March-2025 awarded a collective sentence of 32 years imprisonment to a man on charges of raping his daughter and criminal intimidation. Muhammad Shahid was found guilty of assaulting his daughter at their house within the jurisdiction of the
A judicial magistrate on 12-March-2025 remanded a suspect in the Federal Investigation Agency’s custody for five days in a case pertaining to child phonography and misuse of “personal / objectionable” data of minor US citizens for extortion. Investigation Officer Ameer Ali Khoso
KARACHI: Unknown criminals kidnapped a 12-year-old girl in Surjani Town, subjected her to sexual assault and torture before throwing her out of a car in the Scheme-33 area on 3rd March, police said. Surjani Town SHO Ghulam Husain Pirzada said the girl
ISLAMABAD: A civil society organisation in a report has highlighted the concerning scale of gender-based violence (GBV) and the extremely low conviction rates in Pakistan, emphasising the need for urgent reforms in law enforcement and judicial systems. The report ‘Mapping Gender-Based Violence
KARACHI: A two-day 3rd Global Conference on Research in Education and Social Sciences (GCoRESS) 2025 that commenced on 21st February saw some interesting panel discussions, presentations and talks about education, parenting, language and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The event was organised by SZABIST
BEING a child in this society should not be so hard. But recurrent reports of child abuse — from burying girl children alive to torturing a 12-year-old domestic worker to death for consuming her employers’ chocolate — point to a pervasive malaise.
A suspect who made an inappropriate gesture towards a woman in District Central of Karachi was arrested with the help of CCTV footage. CCTV footage from Federal B Area Block 14 was shared on social media, showing a motorcyclist harassing a woman.