KARACHl: Police on 15 May 2024 said that they were treating the suspected suicide of a teenage domestic help in a DHA house on May 12 as a rape and murder case. The 17-year-old girl was found hanging from a ceiling fan
SUKKUR: A woman was shot at and wounded when she, along with her family, offered strong resistance to a group of armed men who wanted to take away her seven year-old daughter on 11 May 2024 evening. The group of Jagiranis had
KARACHI: It`s one day to Mother`s Day and the children`s nursery at the Edhi Home in Mithadar is decorated with balloons and posters along with framed photographs of the late couple Abdul Sattar Edhi and Bilquis Edhi. Children in the classrooms are
National human rights institutions (NHRIs) from across the globe will redouble their efforts to promote and protect human rights in relation to the activities of business, with a particular focus on pressing issues such as climate change and threats to online civic
KARACHI: Sindh Education Minister Sardar Ali Shah on Tuesday informed Chief Minister (CM) Murad Ali Shah that the insufficient number of middle and secondary schools in the province was the major reason behind the 54 percent drop-out rate for children at the
The International Religious Freedom and Interfaith Harmony Summit 2024 brought together a diverse group of global leaders, religious figures, government officials, and civil society representatives in Pakistan on Thursday. The summit, organized by the Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO) and All Neighbors
THE Supreme Court recently delivered a judgement championing the rights of women within a marriage. The ruling stemmed from a case where a divorced woman sought entitlement to a plot mentioned in her nikahnama in the clause pertaining to ‘special conditions’, which
KARACHI: The Sindh government on 22nd launched two more routes of the womenonly Pink Bus Service and announced that female passengers could avail the facility free of cost for a period of two months. Of the two new routes, one would connect
April is recognised as the Sexual Assault Awareness Month globally. In Pakistan, though, sexual awareness remains a controversial topic and it is often falsely equated with promoting immorality and indecency. In reality, it is to the contrary and sexual awareness plays a
DADU: Police have arrested 15-year-old murder suspect, who confessed to strangling an eight-year-old girl to death in Kotri on April 8 and said he had been jobless for a long time and hungry for three days when he tried to snatch gold