A silent epidemic of mental health issues is sweeping through workplaces and institutions in Pakistan, leading psychiatrists and mental health experts warned on 21 October 2024 and called for legislative changes to mandate mental health support across all sectors. Speaking at a
• 40 children died this year due to highly contagious bacterial infection • Outbreaks reported in three Karachi districts, Larkana and Dadu • Expert says diphtheria has staged a comeback in 2023 after 30 years • EPI director says there are 3,500
A woman was shot dead by her husband’s nephew on 20-October-2024 over a dispute regarding a marriage proposal in the Manghopir area. The police arrested the suspect identified as Ehsan and seized the weapon used in the murder. The incident occurred in
Police have registered a case regarding the murders of four females in a Lyari flat. FIR No. 279/24 was filed at the Baghdadi police station on the complaint of the head of the family, Muhammad Farooq, whose son Bilal was later arrested
The number of young people suffering from heart attacks in Karachi has been rising at an alarming rate with health experts attributing this to overconsumption of unhealthy foods such as biryani, nihari, haleem, halwa-puri, and junk food, all of which are high
The Sindh High Court has dismissed the appeal of a convict against life imprisonment in murder case observing that the prosecution proved its case. Saeedur Rehman was sentenced to life imprisonment sentence by an additional district and sessions court Malir for murdering
According to the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication in Islamabad, cases of wild poliovirus type-1 (WPV1) were reported in Sindh’s districts of Sanghar and Mirpurkhas. Pakistan has reported 39 cases of poliovirus in ten months of 2024. Of them, 20 were
WITH their unwavering courage, Pakistani women have been challenging the odds and reshaping the country’s social and political landscape. Their increasing participation in political and rights movements, a testament to their bravery, can be read as ‘change is coming’. The role of
SUKKUR: A man complained to media persons in Shikarpur on 19th October that four men subjected his 12-year-old daughter to sexual assault when she went out of the home to buy milk for the family’s breakfast at around 7 am but police
KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar called for breaking the taboos surrounding breast cancer and emphasised the need for open conversations to encourage timely medical intervention, early detection, and screening. The seminar, titled “Fight Against Breast Cancer: Early Detection Saves Lives”, brought together