KARACHI: A sessions court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for abducting and raping an 11-year-old girl. Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Zahoor Ahmed Chandio found accused Aijaz guilty of two offences under Sections 364-A (Kidnapping or abducting a person
LARKANA: Police on 10th May recovered a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly abducted from a locality in Khairpur city some three months ago. Her suspected kidnapper, Abdul Hafeez Mangrio, was arrested, the police claimed. Soon after her recovery, the Sachal police produced
A sessions court has handed down a collective sentence of 14 years to a mugger in cases pertaining to robbery and possession of illicit arms. East Additional Sessions Judge Shahid Ali Memon observed that the prosecution had successfully proved its cases against
KARACHI: The Sindh government, in collaboration with Unicef, has decided to develop a five-year multi-sectoral roadmap aimed at addressing the education needs of out-of-school children and adolescents. Under this initiative, a strategy will be formulated to identify and eliminate barriers hindering access
LARKANA: The Model Criminal Trial Court Qambar-Shahdadkot on 9th May handed down life imprisonment sentence to an accused after he proved guilty of subjecting a minor boy to rape. The judge Tariq Bhatti, who also heads special court for gender-based violence, also
KARACHI: Police have recovered the body of a woman who was buried inside her house near the Sukhna Bakhtawar Goth graveyard several months ago. The discovery was made based on the identification provided by an accused relative, who allegedly killed her out
Bheel was taken to the taluka hospital in Naukot and then referred to the Civil Hospital Mithi in Tharparkar. A primary school teacher and minority wing leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Soomro Bheel, died in Mirpurkhas district on Thursday after being
KARACHI: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Sindh Assembly on 6th May directed the provincial government to establish population welfare centres in all 1,600 union councils (UCs) across the province to control rising birth rate. The PAC meeting, presided over by
KARACHI: One in every four couples in Pakistan today is struggling with infertility, a major cause of which is Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) that affects around 52 per cent of women of reproductive age in the country. The information was shared by
HYDERABAD: An academic review of all the malignancies registered at the Hyderabad Cancer Registry (HCR) for a period of four years has shown the oral, prostate and urinary bladder as the most common cancers in males, while a majority of females suffered