KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) launched on 11 Jan 2024 its report on the country`s health status, highlighting the multifaceted challenges confronting Pakistan in this sector, while calling for urgent comprehensive reforms. `Pakistan faces an unprecedented health crisis, compounded by its
Gangsters have been using women, children and contract killers to carry out their extortion activities in Karachi, an arrested suspect revealed on 11 Jan 2024 by a Daily News report. The suspect, Kabir Ahmed, is allegedly associated with gangster Wasiullah Lakho’s group
Mr. Iqbal Ahmed Detho, Chairperson of the Sindh Human Rights Commission, took decisive steps during a visit to different schools in District Larkana on 05-01-2024. During the visit, it was shockingly discovered that Boys Primary School, Chawan, District Larkana was closed during
According a news report by Daily Dawn on January 6, 2024, approximately 15 individuals from the Abro clan forcefully entered the residence of a Mahar family in Hekal Pat near Khanpur Mahar, aiming to take away two female family members on January
KARACHI: The challenges facing Pakistani women, particularly those who fall into the category of `working women`, are hardly given the deserved attention and coverage by the entertainment industry in the country. It is rather discouraged to highlight the issues and struggles they
A decomposed body of a five-year-old child, Ali Muhammad, who had been missing since December 15, 2023, were discovered in a drain in Korangi, near Mehran Town, on 5 January 2024, as revealed by the police. The family, asserting that Ali had
Human rights, child rights and civil society activists, along with legal experts and representatives of independent human rights institutions, police and government officials on January 4, 2024 underlined the need to finalise the law to criminalise child domestic labour in order to
According to a news report, The Sindh Community Foundation (SCF) has launched a literacy and off-season poverty reduction programme targeting women cotton workers, aiming to address their challenging working and socio-economic conditions. The initiative, supported by the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network, seeks
The Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori has promulgated an ordinance which prohibits child actors from working during school timings revealed by a news report. The ordinance, has been titled Sindh Children Drama Industry Ordinance 2023. The ordinance stated that it was aimed at
Karachi: According to a report by Daily Dawn, more than 500 women and underage girls were sexually assaulted in Karachi alone during the year 2023 which also saw 4,042 cases of physical assault on them, the police surgeon said. Separately, the Edhi