KARACHI: A sessions court on 24th February sentenced four peddlers, including an underage boy, to 14 years in prison for possessing over 20kg of drugs. Additional District and Sessions Judge (West) Aurangzeb Shah found a car driver, Muhammad Saleem, and three passengers
With 150 children reportedly testing positive for HIV in just the first few months of 2024. The alarming rise in HIV cases among children in Sindh’s Mirpurkhas district is a public health crisis that demands immediate attention. With 150 children reportedly testing
In this first phase, 562,163 children under the age of five will receive the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) KARACHI. The Sindh Government, in collaboration with its partners, has launched a targeted polio vaccination campaign. The first phase, which begins today (Saturday) will
Pakistan’s prison system is at a breaking point, with over 102,000 inmates crammed into overcrowded, under-resourced facilities. Prison conditions in Pakistan fall significantly short of international standards, with inmates facing numerous systemic challenges, including severe overcrowding, unhygienic living conditions, insufficient access to clean
ISLAMABAD: The country has reported its third wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case of 2025, with the latest victim being a 54-month-old girl from Ratodhero tehsil in Larkana district. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health
A three-year-old boy on 22-February-2025 lost his life after falling into a manhole in Surjani Town’s Hasan Brohi Goth. The child, identified as Asadullah, son of Faisal, was rushed to hospital but was later confirmed dead. According to the child’s father, Faisal,
The provincial education minister, Syed Sardar Ali Shah, on 21-February-2025 ordered taking action against permanently absent teachers (around 5,000) and dismissing them if they fail to report back. Officials said an annual review meeting, chaired by Sindh Minister for Education and Mines
Murder victim Mustafa Amir’s body was exhumed and samples were collected for a DNA test on 21-February-2025. Typically, one or two samples are taken for DNA profiling. However, since this was a charred body — and burned bodies are often incomplete, with
A sessions court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for rape of a minor boy. Muneer Ahmed was found guilty of assaulting the 10-year-old boy in Chakiwara, Lyari on August 16, 2023. Additional Sessions Judge (South) Abdul Zahoor observed
A girl who was set on fire by her uncle in the Bagh-e-Korangi area succumbed to her injuries at the hospital on 16 February 2025 after battling for her life for a week. Her mother Gulshan had died on the same day