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Nadra launches platform to track sex offenders in Pakistan

Nadra, the National Database and Registration Authority, has created the National Sex Offenders Registry (NSOR) platform, which includes an SMS verification service to aid in the identification and monitoring of individuals who have been convicted of sexual offenses against children and women  . The database is connected to various law enforcement agencies and provincial governments to ensure that updates are…

Juvenile Offenders in Punjab

The total number of convicted and undertrial juveniles imprisoned in various borstal institutes and jails of Punjab province was 645 as on 15 March 2022 (Prisons Department, Govt. of Punjab). Out of the total number of juvenile offenders, 81% (523) juveniles were on trial (under trial) and 19% were convicted…

Police Team Formed To Probe Sarim’s Rape-murder

The investigation into the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a seven-year-old boy, Sarim, in North Karachi has been handed back to the concerned district police from the Anti-Violent Crime Cell. Subsequently, DIG West Irfan Ali has constituted a four-member Special Investigation Team to ensure a thorough probe into the case.…
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Police Yet To Recover Two Children Who Went Missing Six Days Ago

Despite intensified efforts, police have yet to recover two young boys who were reportedly kidnapped from the Garden area six days ago. Authorities are now relying on newly obtained but unclear CCTV footage showing a man and woman on a motorcycle taking the children. The footage, while pivotal, lacks sufficient…
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Punishment For Rapists Of Minors Or Special Persons To Be Toughened

ISLAMABAD: With the aim of strengthening punishment for rapists, the sub-committee of the Senate committee on interior has unanimously agreed to amend the punishment for those who commit rape of a minor or a person with mental and physical disability include: “or imprisonment for life but shall not be less…
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SI Remanded in FIA Custody For 2 More Days In Minors’ Kidnapping Case

ISLAMABAD. Judicial Magistrate Ahmed Shahzad Gondal 20-January-2025 handed over Sub-Inspector Sohaib Ali Pasha of the federal police, arrested for alleged rape and kidnapping of minors, to the FIA on an additional two-day physical remand here. The FIA officials presented the arrested sub-inspector in court after completion of his three-day physical…
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Seven-year-old Boy Raped Before Being Murdered, Autopsy Reveals

• Body found in water tank appears to be ‘four-five days old’: MLO • DIG says cause of death is yet to be determined by doctors KARACHI: Investigators are now treating the death of a seven-year-old boy, whose body was found in an underground water tank of the high-rise building he lived…
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Missing Boy’s Body Recovered After Two Months

RAWALPINDI: The body of a four-year-old boy, who went missing about two months ago in Rawat, was recovered from a pond close to the house where he had gone along with her mother and two siblings to attend a wedding ceremony. The mother, who also had a baby girl and…
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Missing Boy Found Dead In Water Tank 11 Days After His Disappearance

• Injuries, particularly around the neck, suggest the death was not accidental, opines police surgeon • DIG says it’s too early to call it a homicide • Efforts on to find two boys ‘kidnapped’ from Garden KARACHI: A seven-year-old boy, who had been missing from North Karachi since Jan 7,…
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Rapist-murderer Of 5-year-old Girl Killed In Police Encounter

LALAMUSA: A grim chapter in the Khohaar tragedy concluded when the alleged rapist and murderer of a five-year-old girl was killed in a police encounter near Bole Bridge, Civil Lines Police Station limits, on 17 January 2025. The suspect, Muhammad Nadeem, a gardener employed at a college in Rasul, had…
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Three Children Injured As Mortar Shells Hit Houses In Bajaur

BAJAUR: Three children were wounded when two mortar shells fired from an undisclosed location hit two houses in the hilly Shekhan Banda Malasaid area of Salarzai tehsil here late on 15th January. Local residents, Rescue 1122 and police officials said on Thursday that the two mortar shells fired hit the…
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