SARGODHA: The police have booked a youth and his accomplice for allegedly raping an orphaned boy at gunpoint and recording a video of the heinous crime in Bhakkar. According to the FIR, K, a youth from Chandani Chowk area of Bhakkar, and his accomplice S, lured an eighth class student…
When the most vulnerable members of a nation are repeatedly subjected to sexual violence, torture and murder, the crisis extends far beyond law and order. It becomes a moral failure. The past week has delivered two such horrifying reminders. In Sargodha, a seven-year-old girl was reported to have been sexually…
BAJAUR: A suspected quadcopter, reportedly operated from an unknown location, struck a house, leaving a child killed and a woman injured in War Mamund tehsil here on June 28, afternoon, the police said. Police sources and residents said the incident occurred in the Inam Khoro China Gai area when a…
LAHORE: A new community-led initiative, “Mind First, Screen Later”, was launched on June 28 urging parents, teachers and guardians to discourage mobile phone use among children under the age of 16. The campaign called for a conscious shift from constant screen exposure towards activities proven to strengthen focus, creativity and…
A boy was critically injured in Hijrat Colony after a drug addict slit his throat with a blade over a dispute involving Rs20, the Docks police said. The incident took place in a forested area near the seashore, where the suspect demanded Rs20 from the child. When the child told…
RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi police on June 28 said they have rounded up the suspect who allegedly slashed the neck of an 18-month-old girl. The injured girl, shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) with a wound on her neck, was stated to be out of danger. Shortly after the incident, Dhamial…
KARACHI: Scores of families whose children contracted HIV infection, leading to at least nine deaths, in an apparent case of serious medical negligence at a government hospital last year gathered at the Karachi Press Club on June 28 to demand the registration of an FIR against the hospital staff concerned.…
BAHAWALPUR: Police registered on June 28 two cases, one of a rape attempt on a minor girl and the other pertaining to alleged rape of a boy, reported in the limits of Gaggo Mandi, Vehari district, and Jalalpur Pirwala in Lodhran district, respectively. In the first incident reported in Chak…
TOBA TEK SINGH: Police have arrested a man for allegedly poisoning his wife and a minor daughter to death at Chak 61/15L over a domestic issue. Earlier, the suspect, Iqbal, had claimed that his wife Maryam had attempted suicide by taking poison after poisoning their two-year-old daughter Ibadat Noor. As…
SARGODHA: The Sargodha police on June 28 refused the news reports circulating on social media regarding the DNA report related to the Muntaha Zahra case, calling them baseless, misleading and contrary to facts. It was clarified by a police spokesperson who said that no forensic or DNA report had been…
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