KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on August 16 sentenced a man to a total of nine years in prison for sharing obscene videos of a TikToker on WhatsApp. Judicial Magistrate (East) Yusra Ashfaq found accused Lutuf Ali guilty of committing offences against the
KARACHI: The ongoing anti-polio campaign in Karachi has seen 27 percent refusals in 40 of the 85 high-risk union committees (UCs) covered on the first day of the drive, it emerged on 16 August. A session organised for journalists by the Emergency
KARACHI: Amid the detection of a confirmed monkeypox (mpox) case in the country, the Sindh health department on 16 August initiated the screening of passengers at the Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, and released an advisory for healthcare institutions in the province. Officials
KARACHI: As many as 95 people, including 20 women, were wounded during aerial firing on the eve of Independence Day late Tuesday night, police, hospital, and rescue services officials said. Police Surgeon Summaiya Syed told Dawn that 95 people who were shot
KARACHI: Amid growing concern over recurrent positive environmental samples from across the province and two confirmed polio cases, Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah launched a major anti-polio campaign on August 14 targeting vulnerable children in Karachi’s 85 high-risk union committees. The campaign
Police on 12 August 2024 registered a dual murder case in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar area following a shooting incident that occurred two days ago. The case, filed at the Gulistan-e-Jauhar police station, included charges of murder and attempted murder. The complaint was lodged
A man and a woman were gunned down in a firing incident in Baldia Town in the early hours of 10 August 2024. Police said the incident took place at a house near the Jungle School within the limits of the Ittehad
KARACHI: Police on the 9th of August arrested a 40-year-old man and booked him on suspicion of digging up the grave of a recently-buried woman and sexually abusing the corpse, in a Korangi graveyard. Awami Colony police registered a case against the
A former police officer has been arrested for a firing incident in Quaidabad three days ago that resulted in the deaths of a police officer and a two-year-old child. Malir SSP Kashif Abbasi and Korangi SSP Touheed Rehman Memon announced the arrest
HYDERABAD: A 10-year-old boy was allegedly shot dead by a landowner over a petty issue in the Husri area on 3rd August. The boy, Tahir Mallah, died instantly after he received a single shot, according to his parents. The bereaved family is