The Sindh High Court on Tuesday set aside the acquittal of a retired schoolteacher in a child molestation case and remanded back the case to a sessions court for trial de novo. The order came on suo moto criminal revision application with
KARACHI: Outgoing Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has granted special remission of 120 days, or four months, to the convicts on the occasion of 76th Independence Day. Home Secretary Aijaz Ali Shah issued an official notification to this effect. It
Members of minority communities and rights activists in Karachi have demanded an end to religiously-motivated crimes, including abductions, harassment, forced marriages, and rape of women and girls of religious minorities, apart from the protection of communal and worship places of minority communities.
Sindh police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon on Saturday conducted a meeting to review progress in investigations in various cases and the ongoing crackdown against the narcotics mafia, and directed that police officers should eliminate all types of crime and organized crime. The
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and the provincial local government department to submit a report on the efforts being made to implement the Supreme Court’s directions about the affected residents of the Gujjar Nullah and
HYDERABAD: As many as 207 daily wage earners — associated with the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation as sanitation workers, most of them for almost 18 years — have been retrenched with a single stroke of pen. According to the municipal commissioner, they had
SUKKUR: The Sindh Human Rights Comm-ission (SHRC) has vowed to commemorate ‘Inter-faith Harmony Day’ to promote tolerance and respect for minorities and celebrate religious diversity of Sindh. The commission’s chairperson Iqbal Ahmed Detho shared the human rights body’s recommendations at a seminar
KARACHI: For the first time in the country, minorities marched for their rights on National Minority Rights Day at the Frere Hall here on Friday. There were members of the minority communities as well as those who empathise with them. All chanted
As women lack education and financial autonomy in underprivileged areas of Sindh, they often face more financial and psychological stress in case of tribal conflicts. This was stated by speakers at a seminar titled ‘Tribal Conflicts and Impact on Women’ organised by
KARACHI: Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah on Thursday informed the provincial assembly that all private schools were bound to enroll 10pc poor students free of cost under the law, but many of them were not complying with it. Answering a call