A Karachi court on 11-July-2025 allowed an application filed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) seeking transfer of a child trafficking case against incarcerated social worker Sarim Burney to a federal anti-corruption court. FIA Investigation Officer (IO) Bilal Ahmed moved the application
UMERKOT: The Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has warned that repeated blasphemy accusations based on unverified social media content risks “provoking violence and destabilising communal peace.” The commission said in a formal letter to Umerkot SSP that blasphemy laws must not be
A civil court has directed the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) to file its written reply on a woman’s suit seeking damages of over Rs37 million over the death of her husband, who had drowned in an uncovered drain on Hub River Road
A model court on 07-July-2025 handed down a collective sentence of 32 years in prison to a man in a house robbery case. Zakir Ahmed was found guilty of stealing 14 tola of gold jewellery, four mobile phones, over Rs1.3 million in
KARACHI: Over 1.6 million children, between five and 17 years of age, in Sindh have been found to be trapped in child labour, revealed the Sindh Child Labour Survey 2022–2024. Conducted by the provincial labour department with technical support from Unicef and
SUKKUR: The Sukkur IBA University, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs, and Crime (UNODC), National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) and with funding from the European Union, concluded the final conference of the project titled “Prevention of Violent Extremism through
The Sindh government has announced launching a comprehensive crackdown on drug abuse and trafficking, prioritising the protection of youth and public safety. Officials said Pakistan President Asif Zardari had stressed urgent and coordinated action against narcotics as a key priority at the
Sindh has emerged as a national and global model in emergency cardiac care, where the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) Karachi and its expanding network of 11 cardiac centres across the province are offering round-the-clock, completely free emergency angioplasty (Primary PCI)—having
KARACHI: A model court on 30-June-2025 sentenced six policemen of the Jamshoro CIA to life imprisonment in a drug trafficking case. Constables Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Yaqoob, Aijaz Ali Mallah, Abdul Hameed, Rahib Hussain and Ahmed Nawaz were found guilty of trafficking 77
The Sindh Health Department has ended the services of 289 doctors who were hired on short-term contracts during the Covid-19 emergency, triggering widespread criticism from the medical community and healthcare unions. A formal notification issued on June 27 confirmed the discontinuation of