KARACHI: Child street performers, some as young as eight, spend hours at city intersections and traffic signals with their faces and clothes painted gold. To catch the attention of passersby and earn money for their families or handlers, these children stand robotically
KARACHI: The children of Faryal Ashraf, who was stabbed to death allegedly by her husband, Waseem, some three-and-a-half years ago, evoked emotions like pity, sympathy and love, all at once in everyone’s heart at the Karachi Press Club on December 11. The
HYDERABAD: Key equipment in Liaquat University Hospital’s (LUH) radiology department has remained out of order for around almost a year for resource constraints that has plagued the hospital. The situation has put the entire LUH in a pathetic state of affair as
KARACHI: Commissioner Karachi Syed Hassan Naqvi held a meeting with representatives of Private Hospitals and Clinics Association (PHCA), seeking their support to strengthen polio eradication efforts of the government. During the meeting, the commissioner highlighted the challenges the government had been facing
KARACHI: The Sindh Child Protection Authority has taken three minor siblings into protective custody and shifted them to a shelter home in Malir, while efforts continue to recover a fourth child, a 10-year-old boy allegedly handed over by his father to a
• Over 75pc of environmental samples tested positive since mid-2025, meeting told • CM Murad directs officials to look into emerging public health crisis • Week-long anti-polio drive to begin from 15th KARACHI: There has been a sharp surge in circulation of
SUKKUR: An ex-serviceman was shot dead allegedly by extortionists near Madeji Bypass in Shikarpur on December 8. The attack also left a 12-year-old girl dead and another man wounded. Police and locals told media that unknown armed men opened fire on the
The Sindh Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on December 9, calling upon the government to fix a uniform legal age of marriage of 18 years for both girls and boys across Pakistan, reaffirming Sindh’s leadership in protecting children’s rights and ending child
KARACHI: Three women were found dead under mysterious circumstances inside a flat in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on December 7, while a man was also found in an unconscious state, according to the Karachi police spokesperson. Chhipa sources identified the deceased women as Sameena, 52,
KARACHI: A sessions court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment in a case of rape of a 12-year-old girl. The court found Syed Muhammad Ali Abdi, alias Mobi, guilty of subjecting his minor neighbour to a sexual assault in Gulbahar in