SUKKUR: Over 500 women coming from different walks of life attended a gathering in the Sachal Academy Auditorium, Khairpur, on 16th June and vowed to work for safeguarding children’s rights. They belonged to 20 UCs of Khairpur district and travelled to the
KARACHI: Lawmakers finally gave bureaucrats the go-ahead to lead the intermediate and secondary education boards in the province as the Sindh Assembly adopted the controversial bill with a majority vote on 23rd May. The Sindh Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (Amendment)
LARKANA / NAWABSHAH: Sindh Minister for Prisons Ali Hassan Zardari, who also holds the portfolio of Works & Services, has said that the Sindh government wanted to see that no woman lands in jail. Therefore, he said, societal reforms are being considered.
KARACHI: A peaceful protest was organised by the unions of home-based workers and informal self-employed workers at the Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution (SESSI) head office on 19th May against the non-issuance of social security cards. Women home-based workers and informal workers’
Police arrested three suspects on 24-April-2025 after a 19-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet fired during celebratory aerial firing at a wedding ceremony in New Karachi’s Sector 11-D. The incident occurred when Laiba, a student preparing for her first-year practical
A special court for the Control of Narcotic Substances (CNS) has dismissed the bail application of a man in a drugs case. Saeed Nawab was allegedly caught with 1,030 grammes of charas (hashish) by the SITE-Superhighway Industrial Area police on February 24,
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has dismissed the bail application of a man in a murder case. The applicant, Husnain Nawaz, was booked by the Malir Cantonment police for murdering Ghulam Mustafa. According to the prosecution, the complainant, who is the slain
This article aims to explore the legislative review functions of Pakistan’s Independent Rights Commissions (IRCs), including the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR), the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW), and the National Commission on the Rights of the Child
A Karachi court has rejected a jactitation of marriage suit filed by Dua Zehra, the teenage girl who was allegedly kidnapped from Karachi and later found to have married in Punjab in 2022. Civil Judge (East) Muhammad Nouman Jatoi declared her marriage
The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa), under the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development, organised a seminar titled “Environmental Governance and Sustainability Challenges in Sindh” at Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi. The event was attended by guests, prominent environmental experts, industrialists,