BEING a child in this society should not be so hard. But recurrent reports of child abuse — from burying girl children alive to torturing a 12-year-old domestic worker to death for consuming her employers’ chocolate — point to a pervasive malaise.
KARACHI: Police on 14th February claimed that a kidnapped youth was murdered by his own friends who stuffed the body in the trunk of his car and torched it in the Hub area. Mustafa Amir, 23, was kidnapped on Jan 6 from the
SUKKUR: Every schoolteacher should foster students’ confidence by integrating STEAM education opportunities into their classrooms. Providing the right platforms will unlock their potential and enhance their abilities. “I strongly believe in empowering the young minds of Sukkur to become the scientists and
Director of Physical Education Apa Sarwat and Professor Noor Muhammad Sahito attended as special guests, HYDERABAD: Young women and girls of the interior Sindh’s Matiari district got their long-awaited break to show their sports talent. The all-women Sindh Pink Games 2025 came
KARACHI: Emphasising the need for creating public awareness about epilepsy, experts at a programme held on 11th February shared that the much stigmatised neurological disorder largely affected young children, the majority of whom could be effectively treated, if the disease was timely
A suspect who made an inappropriate gesture towards a woman in District Central of Karachi was arrested with the help of CCTV footage. CCTV footage from Federal B Area Block 14 was shared on social media, showing a motorcyclist harassing a woman.
A man set his sister-in-law on fire after dousing her with petrol before fleeing the scene in the Bagh-e-Korangi area of Korangi on 10-Febraury-2025. As a result, a fire broke out inside the house within the jurisdiction of the Awami Colony police
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl, Haya Fatima, was killed by a stray bullet while playing on the roof of a residential building in Lyari’s Moosa Lane area. According to the Baghdadi police, the incident took place at Ali Arcade, a seven-storey building. The victim,
KARACHI: In grade 4, Zunaira Qayyum Baloch, had startled senior professor Dr Hamid Ali Baloch, and assistant professor Zahir Mengal of University of Balochistan. They were speakers at an interactive reading club session, The Importance of Reading, in the School of Intensive
From poor female employment numbers to a growing housing crisis, Karachi Census 2023 presents an accurate image of issues that need to be addressed in the city. “Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support not illumination.” —