These cases are not just statistics; they reflect the violent stripping of women’s autonomy and dignity under the guise of family ‘honour’. In Pakistan, ‘honour’ killings continued to claim the lives of women throughout 2024, perpetuated by deeply ingrained societal beliefs about family dignity
The year 2024 appears to have been good for the Sindh police, with improvements observed in the department as regards investigations and information technology, owing to which they succeeded in solving major terrorism cases, including the attack on Chinese nationals near the
SUKKUR: Sindh IGP Ghulam Nabi Memon said that the number of kidnapped in Sindh are 16 while after a year one kidnapping case was reported in Karachi. He said this while chairing a high-level meeting in Sukkur on 29 December 2024. DIG
NAWABSHAH: Nawabshah police raided a brick kiln near Khadar on 28th December and recovered 20 bonded labourers who were reportedly being forced to work without wages. The police acted on the orders of the sessions court, which received a complaint from Sabagho
Unknown armed men shot and killed a 43-year-old mother of two, Razia, wife of Sanaullah, in the Landhi area on the night between 25-26 December 2024. The incident occurred at a house in Gulshan-e-Bunair, within the Quaidabad police station limits. The police
Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah has announced a comprehensive review of textbooks for the academic year 2025-26 to align them with modern, inclusive educational standards. During a meeting he chaired at the Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) in Jamshoro on 24-December-2024,
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate granted bail to five members of a family including a man accused of detaining his daughter and shaving her head as punishment for wanting to marry of her own free will. The investigating officer (IO) presented the victim’s father,
The Sohrab Goth police on 23 December 2024 arrested a woman, her father and her brother on the charge of her husband’s murder. According to police, the suspect first fed her husband something intoxicating substance and then strangled him to death. She
KARACHI: A young nurse was rescued by police from the alleged wrongful confinement by her paternal family, who had shaved her head as a punishment for wanting to marry of her own free will, officials said on 22nd December. Quaidabad SHO Farasat
Police arrested six people, including four women, on 20 December 2024 for allegedly attacking and injuring polio workers and policemen after an anti- polio team attempted to administer polio drops to children in Karachi’s Korangi area. The incident took place at a