KARACHI: A young woman and minor girl were found murdered in Korangi on Wednesday, police and rescuers said. They added that the bodies of the 30-year-old woman and five-year-old girl were recovered from a garbage dump on Korangi Causeway. The bodies were
KARACHI: A man killed his father-in-law as well as his infant daughter during a quarrel in Bahadurabad, police said. SSP-East Dr Farrukh Raza said on 21 July that the incident took place inside a flat in Star Home in BMCHS where during
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has dismissed the bail application of a man in a rape case and recalled his pre-arrest bail order. Mohammad Tauseef was booked by the Zaman Town police over rape of a woman and his bail plea was
An overseas Pakistani family whose members have been residing in many countries and associated with various disciplines of academia and IT has been funding the education of over 1,000 children from deprived communities in Karachi. Syed Tariq Masood campus of the non-profit
A family court has awarded permanent custody of a teenage girl who was reported kidnapped from Karachi in April 2022 but was later found to have purportedly contracted freewill marriage in Lahore, to her parents. Judge Salamat Ali Soomro granted an application
The Sindh Government has made significant strides in advancing human rights by enacting laws safeguarding children, workers, and reproductive health rights, including the Sindh Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 2015. Sindh’s alignment with international human rights standards and the unanimous approval of
The parents of Priya Kumari, who had gone missing at the age of seven years in Sukkur on August 19, 2021, held a sit-in outside the Sindh Chief Minister House on 20 July, following which a government delegation met the girl’s family
KARACHI: Almost a year after the Council of Common Interests (CCI) ‘unanimously’ approved the results of the 2023 digital census, the country’s top data body has released detailed results of the enumeration exercise. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) released data for
The Keamari Investigation police on 16 July 2024 claimed to have safely recovered two abducted teenage sisters and arrested a cleric involved in their kidnapping. SSP Faizan Ali of the Keamari police praised the Shershah police for solving the case of the
KARACHI: Leaders of representative labour organisations held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on 11 July to reject the “anti-worker” draft of the Sindh Labour Code presented by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Sindh Labour Department without consulting