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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…

Maar Nahi Pyaar (End Corporal Punishment)

A public service message by Cities for Children on the International Day to End Corporal Punishment 2023.…

School Principal Arrested For Alleged Abuse Of Teachers, Students

SHEIKHUPURA: A school principal has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing…

Juvenile Offenders in Punjab

The total number of convicted and undertrial juveniles imprisoned in various borstal…

Man Commits Suicide After 11-year-old Daughter Declared Vani

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A poor man ended his life by swallowing poisonous pills after his 11-year-old daughter was given as Vani by a village council (panchayat) in Bhagwani Shumali area in the limits of Paharpur Police Station. Before this tragic incident, the panchayat had also taken Rs0.7 million from the…

Dua Zehra’s Plea To Declare Nikahnama Forged, Void Disposed Of

A Karachi court has rejected a jactitation of marriage suit filed by Dua Zehra, the teenage girl who was allegedly kidnapped from Karachi and later found to have married in Punjab in 2022. Civil Judge (East) Muhammad Nouman Jatoi declared her marriage with Zaheer Ahmed, as well as their Nikahnama,…

Child Waste-pickers

A SIGNIFICANT number of children in Pakistan participate in waste-picking for economic survival. Our legal framework, unfortunately, is inadequate in this respect and unable to protect and rehabilitate the children. With rapid urbanisation and population growth, waste generation is growing, overwhelming municipal managements. An estimated 49.6 million tonnes of solid…

Probe Into Trans Child’s Expulsion

MUZAFFARGARH: The deputy commissioner has asked the Chief Executive Officer of Education Miss Mah Jabeen to look into reports that a government school for special children in Alipur has expelled a class five student for being transgender. DC Quratul Ain promised action against responsible officials if the transgender allegation was…

Man Handed Down Three-year Imprisonment For Sexually Abusing Boy

A sessions court has sentenced a man to three-year imprisonment for sexually abusing a teenage boy. Sunil Anthony, alias Sunny, was found guilty of assaulting the 13-year-old boy at the former’s residence in Azam Town within the jurisdiction of the Mehmoodabad police station in October 2023. Additional Sessions Judge (South)…

Abandoned Daughters

Beyond policy measures, there must be a fundamental shift in how daughters are perceived in society. The bodies of five newborn girls, discarded like garbage and mutilated by stray animals in Sialkot, reveal a horrifying reality of Pakistan’s deep-seated disregard for female life. This is a symptom of a society’s…

Minor Girl Raped, Found Abandoned On Road

KARACHI: Unknown criminals kidnapped a 12-year-old girl in Surjani Town, subjected her to sexual assault and torture before throwing her out of a car in the Scheme-33 area on 3rd March, police said. Surjani Town SHO Ghulam Husain Pirzada said the girl had left her home in Yusuf Goth on…

High Court Allows Govt Two Months For Updating Nikahnama

PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has allowed two months’ time to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for introduction and implementation of an updated Nikahnama and enforcement of a law on premarital screening for thalassaemia and Hepatitis-C. A bench consisting of Justice Mohammad Ijaz Khan and Justice Syed Mudasser Ameer was requested by an…

Girl Raped, Murdered In Layyah

MUZAFFARGARH: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in the Kot Sultan area of district Layyah. The incident triggered anger among the local residents. Police have arrested the suspect and launched an investigation. According to the first information report, the alleged rape victim, a student of Government Girls Primary…

Bail Denied To Man Held For Molesting Minor With Disability

The Sindh High Court (SHC) has dismissed the bail application of a man in a sexual assault case. Applicant Mohammad Maroof had been arrested by the Tipu Sultan police for allegedly molesting an underage girl with a mental disability. According to the prosecution, the applicant who had a toy shop…