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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…

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,…

Juvenile Offenders in Punjab

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

Maar Nahi Pyaar (End Corporal Punishment)

A public service message by Cities for Children on the International Day…

Man Held for ‘Raping’ Boy in Bahawalpur

BAHAWALPUR: Bahawalpur Saddar police claimed on May 31 to have arrested a man who allegedly raped a minor boy on the night of May 30. According to the police, ‘H’ (13), son of Abdul Malik, a resident of Javed Colony, Bahawalpur, was returning from the tailor’s shop, where he worked…

Four Booked Over Attempted Sexual Assault on Minor

SARAI MUGHAL: Police in Wandhar area in Pattoki tehsil have registered a case against four named suspects following an alleged attempt to assault a minor child on May 31. The case was registered on a complaint filed by the victim’s family. As per the text of the First Information Report…

Rabies Toll

EVERY year, rabies, the deadliest zoonotic disease, kills more than 59,000 people worldwide. In Pakistan, it is one of myriad public health challenges poised to become an epidemic. Between January and April, Sindh recorded a staggering 85,891 cases of dog bites. Last year, it logged over 285,000 cases with 22…

Siblings Found Dead

BUCHIANA: Police have registered a murder case and arrested three suspects, including the victims’ mother and stepfather, after the bodies of a teenage stepbrother and stepsister were found in fields in Chak No. 566-GB in Buchiana. According to police, the gruesome incident created fear and panic in the area after…

Madressah Teacher Jailed for 15 Years in Two Sexual Assault Cases

KARACHI: A sessions court on May 20 sentenced a seminary teacher to 15 years in prison each in two cases after he was found guilty of sexually abusing two of his students in a local madressah in Landhi. Additional District and Sessions Judge Naseer Noor Khan, who is also the…

Quadcopter Attack Kills Two Schoolchildren in KP’s Bajaur

BAJAUR/KHYBER: Two schoolchildren were killed after a quadcopter drone, reportedly operated from an unknown location, struck a hilly area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on May 21. Local residents and official sources told Dawn that the fatal incident occurred in the Shahi Thangi area, located about 25 kilometres from Khar, the district…

Ghotki Police Register Gang Rape FIR

SUKKUR: The Ghotki police have registered a gang rape case against some influential figures of Adilpur and their several associates on May 19 after much uproar on social media over the “horrific and inhuman treatment” allegedly meted out to the victim. The 15-year-old seemingly devastated girl had narrated her ordeal…

Sana Yousaf’s Killer Gets Death Sentence

ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad sessions court sentenced Umar Hayat, the main culprit in the Sana Yousaf murder case, to death on May 19 after finding him guilty of killing the teenager at her residence in June last year. Hayat was arrested a day after 17-year-old Yousaf was shot dead in her…

Father of Murdered Child Rejects SC Verdict Commuting Death Sentences to Life Term

ISLAMABAD: Mukhtar Ahmed Rathore, father of five-year-old Umar Rathore, who was murdered in Bhara Kahu after being kidnapped for ransom in 2019, rejected the Supreme Court’s decision to commute the two death sentences awarded to the killers to life imprisonment and termed it a murder of justice. Addressing a press…

Kidnapped Kid Recovered; One Captor Killed

TOBA TEK SINGH: A four-year-old child kidnapped from Pirmahal tehsil seven days ago, was recovered after an encounter in which one of the three suspected captors was killed and another was injured late on the night of 17th May. Toba DPO Akhlaqullah Tarar informed newsmen while handing over the child…