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.
THATTA: In a landmark verdict, Thatta sessions court on 1st February sentenced two accused to death after finding them guilty of abducting, sexually assaulting and murdering a seven-year-old girl in Gharo in December 2019. The incident had sent shockwaves through the area’s
A court has awarded a collective sentence of six years in prison to a man for sharing indecent videos and images of a woman with her fiancé and family members on WhatsApp in 2021. Judicial Magistrate (East) Yusra Ashfaq found Muhammad Anas
girl ‘who married of her free will’ A local court on 24-January-2025 sent a teenage girl, who was allegedly kidnapped from Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area and later recovered from Naushehro Feroze, to a shelter home. The court also remanded a suspect arrested in
• Body found in water tank appears to be ‘four-five days old’: MLO • DIG says cause of death is yet to be determined by doctors KARACHI: Investigators are now treating the death of a seven-year-old boy, whose body was found in an underground
HYDERABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cybercrime Centre Hyderabad has registered an FIR on the complaint of a woman against a suspect for blackmailing and harassing her using obscene pictures of the complainant with her husband that were leaked during the repair