KARACHI: While nurses have a critical role in improving healthcare access and quality, their workforce in Pakistan is highly underpaid and overworked — two key barriers impeding their performance and growth, shared speakers at a seminar held on 4th February at Hamdard
An 18-year-old woman was shot dead by her brother for marrying of her own free will. The incident took place in the Banaras’s Bukhari Colony locality in Orangi Town. According to police, the woman was killed when she came to her earlier
BADIN A thirty-year-old woman was tortured to death by two self-styled faith healers in Khuda Baksh Hisbani village, near Pangrio city in Tando Bagho Tehsil of Badin. As per details, the faith healers identified as Versi Kohli and Horshi Kohli were called
A court has awarded a collective sentence of six years in prison to a man for sharing indecent videos and images of a woman with her fiancé and family members on WhatsApp in 2021. Judicial Magistrate (East) Yusra Ashfaq found Muhammad Anas
In a tragic incident in Baldia Town on 23 January 2025, a man said to be a drug addict allegedly strangled his wife to death. The incident took place at a house located in Baldia Town Sector 12-E within the limits of
A judicial magistrate on 22 January 2025 remanded a suspect in police custody for four days in a killing for ‘honour’ case. A girl and her 20-year-old friend were shot dead allegedly by her father Azhar in her home in Malir’s Rafa-e-Aam
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has restrained the Sindh Health Department, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) administrations; and the Sindh Human Rights Commission from making a final decision in inquiries initiated against the accused, Dr. Shehzad,
A young man and a teenage girl were shot dead in a house in Malir’s Rafa-e-Aam Society in what police suspect to be an honor killing. Following the incident, police and rescuers reached the property and found the bodies on the upper
HYDERABAD: Experts at a two-day international conference on 16th January called for women’s participation in decision-making and agricultural practices through education and capacity-building programs and underscored the need for empowerment of rural women in livestock management through targeted training and resource allocation
KARACHI: For the protection of human rights, various official organizations are working in Sindh, among which the Sindh Human Rights Commission, Sindh Commission for the Status of Women and the Sindh Child Protection Authority are at the top. However, none of these