The research investigates the impact of digitalization and automation on women’s employment in Pakistan, revealing that women constitute only 22% of the labor force, with a staggering 67.2% employed in agriculture. It highlights significant gender disparities, noting that urban women have a
Equal rights as stipulated by the Constitution must be upheld, and the state should ensure the protection of all places of worship and the life and property of people living in smaller communities. The ‘Minority Rights March’ held at historic Frere Hall
A man and a woman were gunned down in a firing incident in Baldia Town in the early hours of 10 August 2024. Police said the incident took place at a house near the Jungle School within the limits of the Ittehad
KARACHI: Police on the 9th of August arrested a 40-year-old man and booked him on suspicion of digging up the grave of a recently-buried woman and sexually abusing the corpse, in a Korangi graveyard. Awami Colony police registered a case against the
KARACHI: With approximately 700,000 book sets distributed, the Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) has claimed to have “successfully” completed the delivery of textbooks to government schools in the Karachi region. The move came almost a week after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali
Sindh Environment Minister Dost Muhammad Rahimoon has said the fast-diminishing farmlands near urban centres due to their conversion into gated housing societies have posed serious threats to Pakistan’s food security. He stated this while speaking as the chief guest at a conference
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 8 August directed the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) to establish 300 digital ‘microschools’ to enroll 300,000 out-of-school children and hire over 600 female learning facilitators and approved Rs800 million for the purpose. He gave
In a concerted effort to combat the poliovirus, which has been detected in environmental samples throughout Karachi, around 1.037 million children between the ages of four months and five years will be targeted in the next campaign, officials said on Monday. They
A former police officer has been arrested for a firing incident in Quaidabad three days ago that resulted in the deaths of a police officer and a two-year-old child. Malir SSP Kashif Abbasi and Korangi SSP Touheed Rehman Memon announced the arrest
HYDERABAD: A 10-year-old boy was allegedly shot dead by a landowner over a petty issue in the Husri area on 3rd August. The boy, Tahir Mallah, died instantly after he received a single shot, according to his parents. The bereaved family is