custody - Page 3

Woman ‘Suffering from Psychological Disorder’ Slaughters Her Two Children in DHA

In a tragic incident on 14-August-2025 morning, a woman slaughtered her two minor children in DHA. The deceased children were identified as eight-year-old Zarrar and four-year-old Samiha. Police said the mother, Adeeba, suffered from a psychological disorder. The children’s parents had earlier divorced and a court had given the custody of the children to their father Ghufran Khalid. The incident…

No Inheritance For Adopted Minors

LHC upholds family court ruling, declares oral adoption invalid and sides with biological parents LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has upheld a family court’s ruling, declaring that biological parents have the preferential right to a child’s custody, declaring the oral adoption arrangement unjustified. The court further observed that the…

Equal Marriage

THE Supreme Court recently issued a verdict advocating equal rights in marriage.…

Adopted Children Face Uncertain Futures

Children given in the custody of childless couples are vulnerable to mistreatment…

Man Booked For Kidnapping Teenage Girl Denied Bail

A court has dismissed the bail application of a man in a case pertaining to alleged abduction of a teenage girl from Karachi. Azhar Ali was booked for allegedly kidnapping a 15-year-old girl from Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal and trafficking her to Naushehro Feroze last month. He moved an application before Judicial…

SHC Tells SSP To Conduct Probe Into Kidnapping Of Three Children Hailing From Punjab

The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the West SSP to conduct an inquiry into the kidnapping of three children of a man from Punjab and submit a report within seven days. The high court also directed an East district court to assign magistrates to record statements of two minor…

Court Orders Medical Examination To Ascertain Age Of Girl Who Married Of Her Free Will

A local court on 24 January 2025 sent a teenage girl, who was allegedly kidnapped from Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area and later recovered from Naushehro Feroze, to a shelter home. The court also remanded a suspect arrested in connection with her alleged abduction in police custody for interrogation. The girl went…

Fathers Often Seek Kids’ DNA Test To Avoid Maintenance Cost: LHC

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has expressed its concern over the growing trend of fathers questioning the legitimacy of their children by requesting DNA analysis, often as a tactic to evade paying maintenance allowances to their ex-spouses. “It is becoming a common practice in our society that whenever a suit…

IHC Orders Recovery, Production Of Minor Girl In Custody Case

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ordered the recovery of a minor girl in her custody case and directed police to produce her before the court today at all costs. The court observed that if the girl is outside the limits of Islamabad, then she should be recovered with…

Parents Get Permanent Custody Of Teenage Girl

A family court has awarded permanent custody of a teenage girl who was reported kidnapped from Karachi in April 2022 but was later found to have purportedly contracted freewill marriage in Lahore, to her parents. Judge Salamat Ali Soomro granted an application filed by the girl’s parents — Syed Mehdi…

Indian Woman Seeks Custody Of Her Sons From Pakistani Husband

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on 19 July 2024 heard a petition of an Indian Muslim woman seeking custody of her two minor sons from the alleged illegal custody of their Pakistani father. Petitioner Farzana Begum appeared before the court along with her lawyer Bushra Qamar. The lawyer told the…

Court reunites child with mother

RAWALPINDI: “There can be no better guardian for a child than his own mother, there is no substitute for the mother.” These were the remarks of a Rawalpindi Additional District and Sessions Judge with which he declared a father’s move to send his 10-year-old child over to a friend during…

Illegal Shelter homes threaten minors

Whenever the country is hit by an economic crisis, news media starts brimming with reports of children abandoned by parents, inside garbage cans and at shrines, out of which only a lucky few end up in the custody of trusted orphanages or doting adoptive parents, the rest however, are left…

Man kills daughters, himself in Sargodha

A man from Sheikhanwala shot dead his two daughters and seriously injured the third one in the Sheeshmahal neighbourhood of Bhera on Monday before taking his own life. According to sources, Mudassar Iqbal, whose wife from Bhera divorced him in 2018, had been demanding custody of his three daughters. On…