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Five-year-old Girl Murdered After Rape

GUJRANWALA: A five-year-old girl was killed after being raped at Kamoke. Eman Fatima was playing in a street when she went missing. Receiving information about it, Wahndo police reached the spot and arrested Hassan on suspicion. During preliminary investigation, Hassan told the police that he abducted the girl and raped her. Later, he killed her and buried her in his…

Reconciliation Between Family Of Murdered Maid, Main Accused

KARACHI: In a shocking development, the family of Fatima Furiro, a minor girl found dead under suspicious circumstances at the Haveli of the influential Pir of Ranipur last year, has reconciled with the main accused, Asad Shah Jeelani. Adding to this, other eyewitnesses and close relatives of Fatima Furiro have…

App ‘Khushi Ki Baat’ Launched To Improve Mother-child Health

LAHORE: Population Welfare Department Director General Saman Rai has said that the…

Maryam Introduces Aghosh Programme For Women

LAHORE: Under Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s first-ever Aghosh program, pregnant women…

Karachi Couple Held For Burning Teenage Maid Gets bail

KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Monday granted bail to a man and his wife who were arrested for allegedly burning their teenage maid with an electric iron at their home. The couple, identified as Shahroz Muhammad Ali and Kanwal, were arrested on September 7 by the Ferozabad police, which registered…

Body of Missing Child Found in Chakdara

CHAKDARA: The body of a nine-year-old boy, who had been missing since September 06, was recovered from a nearby mountain in the Badwan area of Chakdara on Sunday. The body of 9-year-old Afaan was shifted to Chakdara Hospital for post-mortem examination after being informed by the local residents. According to…

Over 100 Million Pakistanis Overweight: Health Experts

ISLAMABAD: Chronic obesity is silently killing and crippling thousands of relatively young Pakistanis every year, with new evidence showing that more than 100 million adults are now overweight or obese. This was stated by national and international health experts at a moot in Islamabad. They said the disease was fueling…

Death Sentence for Rape and Murder

Rawalpindi: Additional District and Sessions Judge Afshan Ijaz Sufi sentenced the accused to death three times and a fine of Rs1 million in the case of kidnapping and rape of a 13-year-old boy. The Dhamial police station had registered a case against Irfan Azeem on March 15, 2023, on the…

Drive To Vaccinate 4.1m Girls Against Cervical Cancer From 15th

KARACHI: The Sindh government on 3rd September announced a cervical cancer prevention vaccination campaign from Sept 15 to 27 across the province among girls aged 9–14 years, warning that more than 5,000 women are diagnosed with the disease every year and 3,000 of them die. Announcing the campaign at a…

CTP Unveils Traffic Plan For Highways, Schools

RAWALPINDI: The City Traffic (CTP) Rawalpindi has chalked out a plan to maintain traffic flow by deploying additional police personnel on busy highways and outside schools and colleges in view of the resumption of educational activities in the district. According to a spokesperson for the CTP, as part of the…

School Student Dies Of Dengue Fever in Oghi

MANSEHRA: An eleven-year-old boy, a primary school student, succumbed to dengue fever in Oghi tehsil, raising the death toll from the mosquito-borne virus to two. The family of Mohammad Saad told reporters in Oghi that he was shifted to a nearby health facility with dengue symptoms but couldn’t survive, triggering…

School Blown Up in Lakki Marwat

LAKKI MARWAT: The building of a government girls primary school was blown up with explosives in the Wanda Zahidgul area of Lakki Marwat district on the night of August 30. A police official said that the school was located in the trans-river belt in the limits of Dadiwala police station.…

Newborns Body Found

LAHORE: Police claimed to have solved the mystery surrounding the discovery of a newborn’s body from a garbage drum in Gulshan-e-Ravi, arresting the prime suspect involved in the crime. A police spokesperson said SSP Investigation Muhammad Naveed had taken notice of the incident after the infant’s body was recovered earlier…

Man Kills Four Of His Family Over Domestic Issue

LAHORE: A man committed familicide on Wednesday by stabbing to death his wife, teenage daughter, nephew, and father-in-law over a domestic dispute in the Heyr police limits. According to police, the suspect, Imran, who was recently released from prison, attacked his wife Fouzia, 14-year-old daughter Zainab, 15-year-old nephew Raza, and…