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
IN the 1960s, governments started introducing labour welfare schemes primarily comprising benefits such as medical care and cash benefits, old-age pension, housing, free school education, share in company profit and employment for differently abled persons. The medical and pension schemes require regular
PAKISTAN’S first comprehensive occupational safety and health (OSH) profile exposes the inadequacies of worker protection in a country where over 72m people constitute the formal workforce. It arrives against a backdrop of preventable industrial tragedies: the 2012 Baldia factory fire in Karachi,
The Policy Brief on the Employment of Children in Pakistan analyzes child labour laws and highlights Pakistan’s commitment to international conventions like the UNCRC and ILO. It differentiates between child work and child labour, emphasizing the latter’s harmful effects. The brief calls
Seeta Kolhi, a ninth-grade student at the Govt Girls Secondary School Wehro Sharif, is the only literate female in her community. Most girls in her colony spend their days working in the fields, picking cotton and other crops, often alongside their families
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
• Health dept data shows 132 children died from vaccine-preventable disease this year • Expert laments parents not utilising free vaccines against 12 major diseases KARACHI: Measles — a highly contagious but vaccine-preventable viral infection — is rearing its ugly head again
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