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School Principal Arrested For Alleged Abuse Of Teachers, Students

SHEIKHUPURA: A school principal has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing several teachers and students in the Mirza Virkan area of Sheikhupura, reported Ary News. The case came to light after videos of the victims went viral on social media and WhatsApp groups. Following the emergence of the videos, the B-division station police conducted a raid on complaints of…

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…

Permitted age for employment of children as domestic workers

Do you know what the minimum age is for children in the…

Juvenile Offenders in Punjab

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

Parents Want Girl’s Murder To Be Tried By Special Court

QUETTA: Allah Dad, a resident of Dalbandin, along with his wife, has appealed to the Balochistan chief minister and top officials to transfer the case of rape and murder of their seven-year-old daughter in Noshki to the Special Court for Violence Against Women and Children in Quetta. Speaking at a…

School Van Safety

The sight of a school van reduced to a burnt-out shell in Murree should be enough to dispel any illusion that Pakistan’s existing approach to school transport is working. Children travelling to a school on Tuesday suffered burns after their van left the road and caught fire. Preliminary reports indicate…

Murree Tightens Checks on School Vans after Fire Incident

RAWALPINDI: Following the school van fire incident in Murree, the City Traffic Police has formed special squads to check fire safety arrangements in public service and school vans to prevent such incidents in future. A spokesman for the City Traffic Police Murree said in a press release that, on the orders of…

Bail Plea Dismissed in Minor Rape Case

ABBOTTABAD: The Abbottabad Bench of the Peshawar High Court has dismissed a post-arrest bail petition filed by Shahrukh Habib, an accused in a case involving the alleged rape of a minor girl, observing that the material available on record at this stage provided reasonable grounds to connect the petitioner with…

Teenager Killed 19 Days Ago Laid to Rest as Family Ends Sit-in

KARACHI: Nineteen days after he was shot dead during a house robbery in Manghopir, family and relatives of 17-year-old Rosham Hussain ended their protest sit-in outside the Manghopir police station and buried their loved one in a local graveyard on Sep 27. His funeral prayer was offered at a ground near…

Another Peshawar Girl Faces Assault

Incidents of sexual violence against girls in Peshawar have escalated into a grave crisis, with another child becoming the latest victim of a gang rape by neighbours that left her in critical condition. According to Chamkani police, the father of the 10-year-old girl, residents of Budhai, reported that his daughter…

Man held Over Girl’s Killing in Two Hours

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police on Sep 21 arrested a man in less than two hours for allegedly subjecting a three-year-old girl to abuse before killing her in the jurisdiction of Noon Police Station. An official said Noon police immediately registered a case and launched an investigation after receiving…

Accused Denied Bail in Girl Abduction, Murder Case

HARIPUR: A juvenile court here on Sep 23 rejected the bail petitions of three minors arrested on charges of kidnapping and killing a four-and-a-half-year-old girl. The three accused were also named in the charge-sheet submitted by the police investigation wing, which placed their names in column No. 2 under Section…

3-year-old Girl Found Murdered after Kidnapping in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: A three-year-old girl who was kidnapped on Sep 22 was found murdered in a wooded area, located about one-and-a-half kilometres from a police station, on Wednesday, police said. It was also suspected that the girl had been raped before her murder based on the physical condition of her body.…

Online Grooming puts Pakistani Children at Risk

ISLAMABAD: Zara Shah was targeted by a stranger while playing a computer game, drawn into a conversation that would expose her to terrifying online sexual exploitation. Zara, whose name has been changed by AFP for safety reasons, is one of an estimated 1.5 million children in Pakistan who experienced online…