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Missing Priya Kumari

The disturbing case of missing seven-year-old Priya Kumari has sparked a wave of concern and action from her parents and civil society, who have reiterated their demands for transparency and urgency in the investigation. During a protest sit-in at Teen Talwar in Karachi last week, they called on the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) and Sindh Home Minister Zia Lanjar to…

Rangers Foil Kidnapping Bid, Recover 15-year-old Boy

Sindh Rangers on 16-August-2025 claimed to have busted a gang allegedly involved in kidnappings and recovered a teenage boy during an operation near Islamia College on New MA Jinnah Road. According to a Rangers spokesperson, four suspects were arrested: Aamir Ali, son of Roshan Ali; Bilal Ali, son of Mubarak…

Kidnapped Teenager Rescued In Joint Operation, Three Abductors Held

A joint operation by the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), Anti-Violent Crime Cell…

Slain Child Laid To Rest

The funeral prayer for Musawir Khan, a young boy abducted and brutally…

Missing minor girl found killed in fields

NAROWAL: The minor girl, who had been abducted six days ago, was allegedly raped and found killed in fields. Muhammad Shakeel, a resident of Marth tehsil, told the police that he had come to his in-laws village Sarai Shah Fateh Tehsil, Pasrur, along with his family. He said on April…

Non-Muslim women vulnerable to forced conversion

ISLAMABAD: United Nations (UN) human rights experts have expressed dismay at the lack of protection for women and girls belonging to non-Muslim communities in Pakistan, saying that they remained vulnerable to forced marriages and conversions, Dawn.com reported. “Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking,…

Three detained in Child Murder Case

The Jamshoro district police have detained three suspects in connection with the murder of an eight-year-old Asia Mughal whose dead body was found in the ruins of an old house in Mahmood Shah Colony area of Kotri. Besides rounding up the suspects for interrogation, SP Muhammad Tahir Nawaz formed a…

Missing minor girl found dead in Kotri

DADU: An eight-year old girl, who had gone missing since evening a day before, was found dead in a desolate place in Kotri Site area on 8 April 2024. Father of the victim, Liaqat Ali Hazara, said that his daughter had left home in Mahmood Shah Colony in Kotri Site…

Missing Priya Kumari

Child abduction in Pakistan is not an unfamiliar and unlamented nuisance. It is only a matter of the magnitude of visibility each case receives. Dozens of unfortunate children gone missing are never able to make it to headlines for one or the other reason, while those that do, may not…

Abducted newborn recovered, four arrested

The city police in Peshawar on 31 March 2024 safely recovered a newborn abducted from Women and Children Hospital, Rajar, and arrested four accused involved in the crime, according to news report. SP investigations lhsan Shah accompanied by SHO Taimur Saleem told a press conference here that police were informed…

Inclusion of ‘missing’ teenager in list of enforced disappearance cases irks SHC

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court took exception to a decision of authorities for categorizing the case of a 14-year-old missing boy as of ‘enforced disappearance’ and summoned the DIG (investigation) for an explanation in this regard. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto observed that it was unable to…

Court summons police in girl’s ‘abduction’ case

The chief justice of Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court has summoned the Gilgit SSP and Danyore SHO on 27 March 2024 in a case relating to alleged abduction of an underage girl and her forced marriage. A legal team of the GB High Court Bar representing the father of 13-year-old Falak Noor…

Protests held against abduction, forced marriage of underage girl

Protest demonstrations were held in Hunza and Islamabad on 24 March 2024 against alleged abduction and forced marriage of an underage girl belonging to Gilgit. The 13-year-old went missing from Sultanabad village in Gilgit four days ago. In Hunza, the protest was held at Karakoram Highway in Aliabad. A large…

Minor girl raped in F-9 Park Islamabad

In yet another episode of sexual violence in the jurisdiction of the F/9 Park, one of the biggest parks in Asia, a 12-year-old schoolgirl was raped by a youth. The man trapped the girl from her home in F-11/1 through his younger sister and took her to the F-9 Park…