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
A judicial magistrate on 22 January 2025 remanded a suspect in police custody for four days in a killing for ‘honour’ case. A girl and her 20-year-old friend were shot dead allegedly by her father Azhar in her home in Malir’s Rafa-e-Aam
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has restrained the Sindh Health Department, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) administrations; and the Sindh Human Rights Commission from making a final decision in inquiries initiated against the accused, Dr. Shehzad,