SUKKUR: Three armed men reportedly barged into a labourer’s house and subjected his pregnant wife to torture and sexual assault in Mochi Basti area within the limits of Saddar police station in Jacobabad late on 4th November. The labourer alleged a man
The District Keamari police on 04-Novemeber-2024 announced the resolution of a murder case involving a woman whose body was discovered in a trunk at the Metroville graveyard on October 21. The victim, identified as Shazia, a mother of five and employee at
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was on 4th November informed that over 28,500 employees of the provincial government were illegally taking benefit from the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). As many as 28,549 provincial government’s employees whose spouses were illegally enlisted as beneficiaries
A young woman’s body and her brother-in-law in unconscious condition were found in a car parked inside a workshop in Defence on 04-November-2024. Police said it was premature to conclude whether poisoning or drugs were involved, and that they were awaiting the
KARACHI: An academic highlighted the importance of forensics, ballistics, fingerprints, etc, in the investigations of cases of sexual violence at a training programme organised for the officials of the newly established Special Sexual Offences Investigation Unit (SSOIU) on 2nd November 2024. The
The Ibrahim Hyderi police have arrested a man for stabbing and injuring a woman he wanted to marry and her husband. Police said the suspect barged into a house in Ilyas Goth in the Ibrahim Hyderi area on 31 October 2024 and
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has observed that the enactment of the Sindh Medico Legal Act, 2023 was a progressive step, but it required implementation through rule-making and appointments. The SHC directed a committee, headed by the Sindh chief secretary, to
Taking exception to holding of a jirga to settle a freewill marriage case, in which the groom’s family was ordered to exchange a girl as Wani with the imposition of a fine of Rs1.5 million, the Sindh High Court (SHC) on 31-October-2024
KARACHI: The media monitoring organisation Uks Research Resource Centre hosted a webinar on ‘SafeWords: Combating Sexist Abuse in Urdu and Punjabi’ in collaboration with WACC to showcase the findings and achievements of their year-long project about sexist and abuse in Urdu and
SUKKUR: A man killed his mother, two sisters and brother-in-law over a marriage dispute in Sanghar on 30 October 2024. According to police, he later committed suicide outside police station. DSP Jam Nawaz Ali said that Lakho Bheel shot his mother Kanka,