KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was on 4th November informed that over 28,500 employees of the provincial government were illegally taking benefit from the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). As many as 28,549 provincial government’s employees whose spouses were illegally enlisted as beneficiaries
UMERKOT: A 10-year-old girl of New Chhor town, who was abducted two years ago, has finally been reunited with her family. Victim Aasoo Kolhi told Dawn that she was kidnapped from Tando Adam when she had gone to buy milk for her
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has dismissed the appeal against life imprisonment of a man convicted in a murder case, observing that the prosecution successfully proved its case against the appellant. Imtiaz Ali was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Thatta additional
Karachi’s rise in vector-borne diseases reflects government failures in sanitation, not just climate change concerns The Sindh government is working overtime to blame climate change and the weather for the alarming rise in vector-borne diseases in Karachi, not because their eyes have
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the provincial child protection authority to ensure the recovery of children who went missing from different parts of the city. The direction came on two identical petitions seeking the recovery of a girl and a
KARACHI: An academic highlighted the importance of forensics, ballistics, fingerprints, etc, in the investigations of cases of sexual violence at a training programme organised for the officials of the newly established Special Sexual Offences Investigation Unit (SSOIU) on 2nd November 2024. The
HYDERABAD: A case has been registered at the Baldia police station against two doctors and other staffers of a private hospital for negligently declaring a healthy newborn dead. The FIR has been registered on the complaint of the father, Muhammad Rafiq Bhayo,
A sessions court has cancelled the interim pre-arrest bail granted to a suspect in a case pertaining to sexually abusing two teenage boys. Arslan Khan has been booked for allegedly forcing two boys, aged 14 and 16, to engage in sexual acts
The Ibrahim Hyderi police have arrested a man for stabbing and injuring a woman he wanted to marry and her husband. Police said the suspect barged into a house in Ilyas Goth in the Ibrahim Hyderi area on 31 October 2024 and
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has observed that the enactment of the Sindh Medico Legal Act, 2023 was a progressive step, but it required implementation through rule-making and appointments. The SHC directed a committee, headed by the Sindh chief secretary, to