A model court has dismissed a bail application of an accused in a 17-year-old murder case. Tahir, along with his accomplices, was booked for allegedly murdering Zahid Abbasi and injuring his friend Abdul Ghaffar after an argument over a petty issue in
SUKKUR: The bodies of a TikToker and her fiance with torture marks were found lying in a car parked at a section of the old National Highway on August 24. The victims were identified as Seema Khaskheli and Zafar Abbas Hajano. The
SUKKUR: Motorcycle-riding armed men gunned down a schoolteacher near a power grid station within the jurisdiction of Kashmore police station in Kandhkot-Kashmore district on 22 August. Family sources said the schoolteacher, Fahad Khoso, was going to his school when the assailants fired
KARACHI: The Department of community health sciences at Aga Khan University (AKU) in collaboration with the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (SESSI) conducted a project under which health experts collected and analysed injury and disease-related data of 2,000 patients who worked in
KARACHI: The Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC), in collaboration with Obun2, convened a critical consultation in Karachi focusing on the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 2015. Officials said on 22 August that the issue of child domestic labour in Sindh and the
KARACHI: In a case of corporal punishment in a Korangi 1½ madressah, a minor orphan child was beaten by a seminary teacher with a thorny stick only for not memorising his lessons, said Korangi-SSP Tauheed Rehman Memon on August 22. The seven-year-old
A judicial magistrate on August 21 remanded a woman SUV driver to judicial custody in a case pertaining to 19th August’s deadly accident near Karsaz that claimed the lives of two people. The suspect was arrested after a 26-year-old MBA student, Amina,
SUKKUR: Ghotki police on 21st August 2024 claimed to have recovered a young girl, who had gone missing in Karachi, and arrested members of a gang involved in abducting children and selling them. Police officials said that they conducted a raid on
KARACHI: The first phase of the ongoing anti-polio drive was completed on 20 August with over 95 percent coverage in 40 high-risk and super high-risk union committees, officials associated with the polio eradication initiative said. Under the drive, children under the age
Family members and local political leaders on 20 August 2024 attended the funeral prayers for a man and his daughter who were killed as a result of reckless driving on Karsaz on Monday. Moreover, an FIR of the incident was also lodged.