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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…
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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…

Polio Cripples 4 More Children In KP, Balochistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s battle against polio has taken a devastating turn with four new cases confirmed in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), raising the total number of polio infections this year to 37, according to Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) officials on 18-October-2024. The latest victims, all young children, include a 30-month-old…

Women, Girls Make Up 70pc Of Human Trafficking Victims, NA Told

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar informed the National Assembly on 17 October 2024 that according to the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 2023-24, the number of women and girls who are victims of human trafficking stands at 24,398, making up 70.6 percent of the total victims, which…

Policeman Guns Down Daughter In Name Of Honour

LARKANA: A policeman shot dead his 16-year-old daughter early on 16th October in a graveyard near Bagan Shah Bukhari’s tomb in the jurisdiction of Qambar police station and fled. The accused was identified as Safeer Buriro. Sources in the Qambar-Shahdadkot SSP office told Dawn that the suspected policeman was currently deployed at…

Initial Report: Girl, Her Parents Deny Rape

LAHORE: A high-powered committee established by the Punjab government has released its initial findings regarding the alleged rape of a first-year girl student at a private college in Lahore. On 15 October 2024, the committee led by the home secretary met the alleged victim and her parents for three hours…

Nearly 2m Malnourished Children At Risk Of Death Worldwide: Unicef

ISLAMABAD: Globally nearly two million children suffering from severe wasting, also known as acute malnutrition, are at risk of death due to funding shortages for life-saving Ready-to-use-Therapeutic-Food (RUTF) to treat wasting, Unicef warned on 15th October. It stated that Pakistan is included in the 12 hardest-hit countries along with Mali,…

Sara: Father Admitted Killing Daughter

The body of a 10-year-old British-Pakistani girl whose death sparked an international manhunt was found with burn marks believed to have been made by an iron, a prosecutor told a London court on October 14. Sara Sharif was found dead in bed at her family home in Woking, southern England,…

Suspect Records Confession In Minor Girl Murder Case

A judicial magistrate has recorded a confessional statement of a suspect in a case pertaining to the murder of a three-year-old girl. The child’s body was recovered from a street in Qabail Colony in Block 11 of Gulberg Town on October 9. The investigating officer produced the detained suspect, Naseer,…

Police Bust Child Smuggling Ring, Rescue 29 In AJK

LAHORE: In a major operation, the Lahore Organised Crime Unit dismantled a child smuggling ring involved in luring and trafficking vulnerable children from Punjab to Azad Kashmir. During an intelligence-based operation in Kotli, Azad Kashmir, 29 children were safely rescued, police officials confirmed at a press conference. The operation, led…

Boy’s Body Retrieved From Lyari River

The body of a nine-year-old boy, who had drowned in the Lyari River, was recovered on 11 October 2024. The boy, Uzair, had drowned in the Lyari River in Lasi Goth in the Sohrab Goth area on Thursday evening. Following the incident, rescuers from different welfare organisations reached the area…
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