As the Karachi police have failed to control firing during wedding celebrations, there seems to be no stop to the killings of people due to celebratory gunfire. The latest incident occurred on 26-January-2025 afternoon within the limits of the Sacchal police station
Half of the quarter-billion students who faced academic interruptions were in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan KARACHI: In South Asia, the climate crisis has made monsoons fiercer, heatwaves more severe, and floods more relentless —transforming nature’s wrath from a distant threat into an
Formula milk companies are lobbying to have breast milk substitutes or formula milk declared as ‘food’ to remove it from the purview of health and medicine authorities, enabling them to freely market their products without regulatory oversight, health experts warned on 25
Listen KARACHI: Sharing concern over the country’s high infant mortality and morbidity rates, health experts on 25th January stated that the single step that can help mothers save the lives of their babies is to breastfeed them, at least exclusively for the
Senator Sherry Rehman, chairperson of the Standing Committee on Environmental Change in the Senate, addressed a seminar on environmental pollution and its impact on heart health via video link. In her address, Senator Rehman emphasized the growing threat of air pollution to
girl ‘who married of her free will’ A local court on 24-January-2025 sent a teenage girl, who was allegedly kidnapped from Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area and later recovered from Naushehro Feroze, to a shelter home. The court also remanded a suspect arrested in
KARACHI: Expressing serious concern over the alarming levels of environmental pollution affecting public health, experts called for urgent corrective measures, including implementation of strategies to prevent pollution exposure and related cardiovascular diseases, on 24th January at a seminar. They also underscored the
KARACHI: Despite a ban on celebratory gunfire in the city, a six-year-old boy was shot dead when participants in a marriage ceremony fired gun(s) into the air in Surjani Town, on 24th January, said police. Two marriage party participants — a man
In a tragic incident in Baldia Town on 23 January 2025, a man said to be a drug addict allegedly strangled his wife to death. The incident took place at a house located in Baldia Town Sector 12-E within the limits of
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s fact-finding study Exodus: Is the Hindu Community Leaving Sindh? – has underscored the state’s failure to protect a vulnerable minority, with many Hindu families compelled to migrate not only in connection with faith-based violence but also