The conference underscored severe, ongoing issues in the textile and garment industries KARACHI. Experts and union leaders demanded on January 24 that employees in the garment and textile industries be given their due rights, including standard salaries and protections, while rejecting the
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
The provincial minister for education Syed Sardar Ali Shah and the minister for prisons Ali Hassan Zardari on 23-January-2025 in a meeting decided to empower convicted prisoners’ kids through education. Officials said that the Sindh government has decided to formulate a plan
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
KARACHI: Amid their ongoing province-wide boycott of academic activities, protesting university teachers took to the streets on 22nd January and demanded that the government withdraw its plan to appoint bureaucrats as vice chancellors of public sector universities and notification regarding the hiring
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
The Government of Sindh has taken urgent measures to reduce the number of out-of-school children and is making possible the implementation of the Sindh Rights of Children’s Free Education Act, 2013. A spokesman for the Sindh government, Sukhdev Assardas Hemnani, has said
Police on 22-January-2025 recovered the body of a man found inside a blue fiber drum in the parking area of a residential apartment in the Scheme 33 area of Karachi. Police said the victim had been identified as 34-year-old Iqbal, son of