The Punjab government’s recent decision to provide vocational training to transgender individuals marks a significant step towards inclusivity and empowerment for a community that, despite notable legislative progress, remains on the fringes of society. The initiative recognises the unique challenges faced by
LAST week in Islamabad, something rare happened. Judges, police officers, prosecutors, lawyers, policymakers, and rights experts gathered: not in the usual posture of mutual suspicion or institutional self-preservation, but in a shared moment of reckoning. Hosted by the National Commission for Human
A woman was murdered on April 14, allegedly by her husband over so-called honour in Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal neighbourhood, according to the police. Gulshan-i-Iqbal Station House Officer (SHO) Mohammed Naeem Rajput told Dawn.com that the 25-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband.
LARKANA: Sindh Women Lawyers Alliance (SWLA) on April 13 held a protest march from Koto Moto Chowk to the Shahdadkot Press Club over unabated incidents of murder, domestic violence and discrimination against women in the city. The family of a primary teacher,
KARACHI: Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal said on 13-April-2025 that there is no valid justification to refuse polio drops to eligible children in Pakistan, especially when the Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan is supervising a door-to-door anti-polio immunisation drive. The minister
A road traffic accident (RTA) in Baldia Town claimed the life of a four-year-old boy on 12-April-2025, while a motorcyclist injured in a hit-and-run incident near the Golimar pedestrian bridge a day earlier breathed his last during treatment. In Baldia’s Abidabad area
In a significant step toward improving healthcare infrastructure across Sindh, Chief Secretary Sindh Asif Hyder Shah chaired a meeting focused on the upgradation of emergency departments in secondary care hospitals throughout Karachi. The meeting, held at the Sindh Secretariat, was attended by
The mega city of Karachi witnessed a tragic and alarming surge in road accidents in February 2025, claiming the lives of 73 people—including eight women and five children. In addition, over 700 individuals sustained serious injuries, among them more than 90 women.
A 40-year-old woman was murdered allegedly by her husband over ‘honour’ in Shehbaz Goth near the Northern Bypass, police said on 10-April-2025. The suspect fled the scene after the murder. The woman’s body was discovered from a house in Shehbaz Goth located
HYDERABAD: Following the discovery of the hanging body of female constable Mahwish Jarwar, who was posted at the Mirpurkhas Jail, in her residential quarter on 09-April-2025 evening, police have arrested two suspects, including the deceased woman’s husband, in connection with the case.