Azmat Habib

Man Held for ‘Raping’ Boy in Bahawalpur

BAHAWALPUR: Bahawalpur Saddar police claimed on May 31 to have arrested a man who allegedly raped a minor boy on the night of May 30. According to the police, ‘H’ (13), son of Abdul Malik, a resident of Javed Colony, Bahawalpur, was returning from the tailor’s shop, where he worked…
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Quack Among Others Booked After Woman, Newborn Die

TOBA TEK SINGH: Batala Colony police registered a murder case against six persons, including a woman posing as a doctor and her five accomplices in Faisalabad. Police arrested two of the suspects. Reports said a woman and her newborn baby allegedly died due to the negligence of a quack in…
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Rabies Toll

EVERY year, rabies, the deadliest zoonotic disease, kills more than 59,000 people worldwide. In Pakistan, it is one of myriad public health challenges poised to become an epidemic. Between January and April, Sindh recorded a staggering 85,891 cases of dog bites. Last year, it logged over 285,000 cases with 22…
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Quadcopter Attack Kills Two Schoolchildren in KP’s Bajaur

BAJAUR/KHYBER: Two schoolchildren were killed after a quadcopter drone, reportedly operated from an unknown location, struck a hilly area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on May 21. Local residents and official sources told Dawn that the fatal incident occurred in the Shahi Thangi area, located about 25 kilometres from Khar, the district…
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Ghotki Police Register Gang Rape FIR

SUKKUR: The Ghotki police have registered a gang rape case against some influential figures of Adilpur and their several associates on May 19 after much uproar on social media over the “horrific and inhuman treatment” allegedly meted out to the victim. The 15-year-old seemingly devastated girl had narrated her ordeal…
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The Polio Fight Goes On

It is enough of an ignominy that this country is one of only two, the other being Afghanistan, where polio still remains endemic. However, it is even more shameful that even those brave souls who are trying to eradicate this disease from the country are routinely the target of violent,…
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