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
KARACHI: The Education College, located in Federal B Area, Block 15, has been granted the status of a university to be operated under a public-private partnership as a degree-awarding institute. The grant of varsity status followed a recent mandatory visit by a
The Sindh government’s women development department aims to actively partner with dedicated charities and non-profits in the education sector to build quality schooling facilities for minor children of female jail inmates who live in the prisons in Sindh along with their mothers.
In a move against the recently passed PECA Amendment Act 2025, journalist bodies, legal experts and human rights organisations have united to launch a joint struggle for its immediate annulment. A convention will be held on March 1, 2025, at the Karachi
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
Fact-finding committee tasked to scrutinise BIEK results submits report to minister KARACHI: The fact-finding committee established by the Sindh Assembly to scrutinise the results of the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has recommended the grant of grace marks to the first
A seminar titled “Challenges Faced by Police and Journalists in the Digital Era” was organised by the Sindh police with the Crime Reporters Association. The seminar was held at the Driving Licence Branch Clifton on 18-February-2025. Sindh IGP Ghulam Nabi Memon, Additional
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
The case of Mustafa Amir’s murder has taken a twist as the slain youth’s mother has accused a girl of orchestrating his murder. Police high-ups on 14-February-2025 claimed to have solved the case announcing that Amir was murdered by his friend Armughan.
BEING a child in this society should not be so hard. But recurrent reports of child abuse — from burying girl children alive to torturing a 12-year-old domestic worker to death for consuming her employers’ chocolate — point to a pervasive malaise.