Seeta Kolhi, a ninth-grade student at the Govt Girls Secondary School Wehro Sharif, is the only literate female in her community. Most girls in her colony spend their days working in the fields, picking cotton and other crops, often alongside their families
NAWABSHAH: Nawabshah police raided a brick kiln near Khadar on 28th December and recovered 20 bonded labourers who were reportedly being forced to work without wages. The police acted on the orders of the sessions court, which received a complaint from Sabagho
Unknown armed men shot and killed a 43-year-old mother of two, Razia, wife of Sanaullah, in the Landhi area on the night between 25-26 December 2024. The incident occurred at a house in Gulshan-e-Bunair, within the Quaidabad police station limits. The police
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate granted bail to five members of a family including a man accused of detaining his daughter and shaving her head as punishment for wanting to marry of her own free will. The investigating officer (IO) presented the victim’s father,
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah marked the National Working Women’s Day by recognising the significant contributions of women to the province’s economy and democracy. In his message issued on the National Women’s Working Day, the CM lauded women’s equal role
KARACHI: A young nurse was rescued by police from the alleged wrongful confinement by her paternal family, who had shaved her head as a punishment for wanting to marry of her own free will, officials said on 22nd December. Quaidabad SHO Farasat
HYDERABAD: Sindh Higher Education Commission’s chairman, Prof Dr S.M. Tariq Rafi, has lamented that the government spends huge amounts of public money to prepare doctors, who can serve the community but if female students, who dominate medical institutions, do not join the
Police arrested six people, including four women, on 20 December 2024 for allegedly attacking and injuring polio workers and policemen after an anti- polio team attempted to administer polio drops to children in Karachi’s Korangi area. The incident took place at a
A judicial magistrate on 17 December 2024 granted bail to a young man, who was arrested after a video of him exposing himself in front of a woman in the Yousuf Goth area went viral on social media. Surjani Town police lodged
The family of a woman who mysteriously died at a private hospital in the Gulshan-e-Maymar area of Karachi’s Site Superhighway industrial area has accused her husband and in-laws of beating her to death before taking her body to the hospital. According to