QUETTA: A man shot dead his wife, four children and then took his own life in Wahdat Colony of Brewery Road area on June 8. According to police, Muhammad Asif, son of Musa Khan, who was an employee of the Civil Secretariat, also recorded a video message before killing himself,…
CHAKWAL: Two toddlers were left abandoned after their poverty-stricken parents died by suicide, police sources said on June 6. The incident occurred in Chak Chakora village within the jurisdiction of Dohman Police Station on Friday evening. Mohammad Nadeem, 42, was first married to a close relative. He had seven daughters…
CHILD abuse is so prevalent that the UN ranked Pakistan as the least safe country for children. Even so, more than five years after the Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Act, 2020 — Pakistan’s first national child protection law — central provisos, including the agency for rapid alerts for missing…
CHAKWAL: On the orders of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench, a case has been registered at City police station Chakwal, against Sub-Inspector Mukhtar Ahmad, in-charge of the Special Sexual Offences Investigation Unit (SSOIU), police sources told Dawn on Friday. The case was filed under Section 155C of the Police…
SAHIWAL: A woman and her daughter suffered severe burn injuries after her husband and brother-in-law allegedly doused them with petrol and set them ablaze in Shadman Colony on the afternoon of 5 June. Rescue 1122 shifted the injured mother and daughter to Sahiwal Teaching Hospital for treatment. Eyewitnesses said the…
BATTAGRAM: The police arrested a man for assaulting a boy in the Allai tehsil here on June 5. Banna police station SHO Amjid Khan said the 10-year-old boy was assaulted in a nearby forest, where he was grazing his cattle. Mr Khan said the accused, identified as Naeem, also threatened…
ISLAMABAD: The capital police have registered at least 432 cases of “sexual assault” and “kidnapping” in the federal capital under various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) during the first five months of this year, Dawn has learnt. According to the police sources privy to the data, a total…
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Minister for Health Khawaja Salman Rafique on June 5 said three state-of-the-art centres of excellence will be established in different districts under the Punjab Nursing and Health Workforce Reform Programme. “Mother and Child Hospital (near Asghar Mall) will be completed by next year and it will minimise burden…
PAKISTAN’S latest sub-national polio campaign offers encouraging evidence that the country can still push back against a virus that has proved stubbornly difficult to eliminate. Reaching more than 18.6m children across 79 high-risk districts and achieving 98pc coverage is no small feat. Behind it was the dedication of over 163,000…
ISLAMABAD: More than five years after the passage of a landmark child protection law, key provisions of the Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Act, 2020 — including the agency meant to issue rapid alerts for missing children — remain unimplemented, the Islamabad High Court was told on June 4. During the…
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