KARACHI: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on 31st July 2024 supported the Sindh government’s plan to offer free breakfast /lunch and milk to schoolchildren under its School Meal Programme (SMP). WFP Country Director Coco Ushiyama called on Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad
KARACHI: Police on 29 July claimed to have arrested a quack doctor for murdering two minor brothers after kidnapping them for ransom in Machhar Colony within the remit of the Docks police station. The police and family said that the brothers —
KARACHI: A man allegedly axed his 15-year-old granddaughter to death for marrying of her own free will in Awami Colony, Korangi, on 24 July. The accused, Shareef was subsequently arrested, and the murder weapon was recovered from his possession. According to a
KARACHI: A young woman and minor girl were found murdered in Korangi on Wednesday, police and rescuers said. They added that the bodies of the 30-year-old woman and five-year-old girl were recovered from a garbage dump on Korangi Causeway. The bodies were
KARACHI: A man killed his father-in-law as well as his infant daughter during a quarrel in Bahadurabad, police said. SSP-East Dr Farrukh Raza said on 21 July that the incident took place inside a flat in Star Home in BMCHS where during
An overseas Pakistani family whose members have been residing in many countries and associated with various disciplines of academia and IT has been funding the education of over 1,000 children from deprived communities in Karachi. Syed Tariq Masood campus of the non-profit
A family court has awarded permanent custody of a teenage girl who was reported kidnapped from Karachi in April 2022 but was later found to have purportedly contracted freewill marriage in Lahore, to her parents. Judge Salamat Ali Soomro granted an application
The parents of Priya Kumari, who had gone missing at the age of seven years in Sukkur on August 19, 2021, held a sit-in outside the Sindh Chief Minister House on 20 July, following which a government delegation met the girl’s family
The Keamari Investigation police on 16 July 2024 claimed to have safely recovered two abducted teenage sisters and arrested a cleric involved in their kidnapping. SSP Faizan Ali of the Keamari police praised the Shershah police for solving the case of the
SUKKUR: A woman doused herself and her young daughter with petrol and was about to torch both of them in front of the Khairpur SSP office on 10 July 2024, but police officials rushed to stop her from committing self-immolation. Shabana Kalhoro