A silent epidemic of mental health issues is sweeping through workplaces and institutions in Pakistan, leading psychiatrists and mental health experts warned on 21 October 2024 and called for legislative changes to mandate mental health support across all sectors. Speaking at a
A woman was shot dead by her husband’s nephew on 20-October-2024 over a dispute regarding a marriage proposal in the Manghopir area. The police arrested the suspect identified as Ehsan and seized the weapon used in the murder. The incident occurred in
Police have registered a case regarding the murders of four females in a Lyari flat. FIR No. 279/24 was filed at the Baghdadi police station on the complaint of the head of the family, Muhammad Farooq, whose son Bilal was later arrested
The Sindh High Court has dismissed the appeal of a convict against life imprisonment in murder case observing that the prosecution proved its case. Saeedur Rehman was sentenced to life imprisonment sentence by an additional district and sessions court Malir for murdering
SUKKUR: A man complained to media persons in Shikarpur on 19th October that four men subjected his 12-year-old daughter to sexual assault when she went out of the home to buy milk for the family’s breakfast at around 7 am but police
A man allegedly killed his elder brother in the name of honour in Ibrahim Hyderi’s Jumma Goth on 19 October 2024. Police arrested Allah Dino and recovered the weapon used in the crime. According to the Ibrahim Hyderi police, the murder was
SUKKUR: A large number of schoolchildren, teachers and residents of villagers took out a procession in Hassan Phulpoto village, Khairpur district, on Friday in protest against harassment of female teachers by local thugs, who tried to kidnap the teachers when they were
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