The body of an unidentified woman was found inside a trunk in Malir’s Ghazi Goth on 29-April-2025. The body was discovered in a street near the Shell petrol pump within the limits of Malir City police station after locals spotted the suspicious
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has recently dismissed the bail application of a man implicated in a rape case and recalled his interim pre-arrest bail. Mohammad Farman Qureshi was booked by the Shah Faisal Colony police for allegedly raping a girl and
Two brothers killed their sister over ‘honour’ in the Baldia Town area on 27-April-2025. Meanwhile four others, including a minor boy and a minor girl, were injured in separate incidents in Karachi. A 24-year-old woman, Ayesha, was shot dead inside a house
Women in Pakistan are also unprotected everywhere, from homes to hospitals, grounds to graves, and roads to reels Violence Against Women (VAW), once treated as a forbidden text, is now a yardstick for measuring national progress. Gone are the days when declaring
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the rights of widows are not acts of state generosity, but legal entitlements rooted in constitutional guarantees, statutory protections and evolving judicial principles. “Widows, like all citizens, are entitled to employment, dignity, equality, and
A model court on 21-April-2025 sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for murdering his wife by dousing her with petrol and setting her ablaze after an argument over her missing earring six years ago. Additional Sessions Judge Ameeruddin of the
Karachi witnessed intense heat on 21-April-2025 as the mercury soared to 40.7°C, with relative humidity recorded at 39 percent, pushing the city into the grip of a heatwave that is expected to persist through mid-week. The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) had earlier
WOMEN make up only two percent of the police force across Pakistan. Considering they constitute around half of the total population, this stark underrepresentation highlights a significant gender disparity in the country’s law enforcement. A 2024 report by the Social Development Organisation
LAST year, the Supreme Court of Pakistan affirmed that a woman is entitled to dissolve her marriage on the grounds that her husband, without her permission, married another woman. Recently, the Council of Islamic Ideology released a statement rejecting this decision, asserting that it
A woman was murdered on April 14, allegedly by her husband over so-called honour in Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal neighbourhood, according to the police. Gulshan-i-Iqbal Station House Officer (SHO) Mohammed Naeem Rajput told Dawn.com that the 25-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband.