LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has granted post-arrest bail to a Christian who was a juvenile at the time of his arrest in a second FIR of blasphemy out of three registered against him at different police stations of Sargodha. The suspect was initially arrested in an FIR of Satellite Town police lodged on July 16, 2023 and later implicated in two more cases of different police stations on the basis of mere suspicion.
Child Rights in Focus
SAHIWAL: On Lahore High Court orders, Dera Rahim police recovered a kidnapped minor girl after six months from village 100/9-L. The eldest of the four abducted siblings reported she was gang-raped by two kidnappers throughout her captivity. Reports said that on Aug 20, 2024, six armed men had kidnapped four siblings — three minor girls and a boy. According to the police report, three of the children managed to escape the kidnappers’ custody, but
A sessions court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for the rape of a minor boy. Muneer Ahmed was found guilty of assaulting a 10-year-old boy in Chakiwara, Lyari on August 16, 2023. Additional Sessions Judge (South) Abdul Zahoor observed that the victim being 10-year-old boy provided a direct and detailed account of the incident while identifying the accused as the man who assaulted him. “The victim’s testimony coupled with immediate
Police suspect wood shop owner who had quarreled with the victim RAWALPINDI. The body of a 9th-grade student, who went missing mysteriously from the Dhok Kala Khan in the limits of Sadiqabad police station, has been found. According to the police, the boy’s throat was slit and he was brutally murdered. The police have taken custody of the body and sent it for a post-mortem. On Thursday, Sadiqabad police received a complaint from Salahuddin,
Crime disguised by murderers as drowning in canal PAKPATTAN: A college freshman was allegedly murdered by his classmates in Arifwala over a personal grudge, with the suspects later attempting to cover up the crime by staging it as a motorcycle accident. According to police reports, Zahid Farooq, a first-year student at Government Degree College, Pakpattan, was killed by his classmates, Saifur Rehman and Nasibullah. The suspects initially claimed that they were riding a motorcycle
OKARA: An 11-year-old boy was found hanged in his house under mysterious circumstances in Shahzad Colony, Dipalpur. In the first information report (FIR), registered under section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), victim’s uncle Moazzam Ali said his brother Qamar Fayyaz, a Rangers personnel, a resident of Chak 39/4L, and his family, including his younger brother Haseeb and their mother, have been living in their maternal house in Dipalpur city for schooling of
LAHORE: Sheikhupura District Education Authority Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rana Naeem sought a criminal case against the teacher of a private school for torturing a female student some weeks back. The CEO conducted a hearing of a complaint lodged by the parents of a seventh grade student, Minahil, against the teacher, Ali Jameel, of Al-Fatima Educare Schools for Girls, Kharianwala, Sheikhupura. The minor girl was beaten up by the teacher during the lecture on
Rawalpindi: City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi has urged the citizens to ensure that the children do not violate the ban on kite flying imposed by the provincial government otherwise strict action would be taken against the violators in accordance with the law. A police spokesman said on 16 February that the Rawalpindi district police were conducting raids to net the kite sellers and flyers. He informed that on the special directives of City Police
A girl who was set on fire by her uncle in the Bagh-e-Korangi area succumbed to her injuries at the hospital on 16 February 2025 after battling for her life for a week. Her mother Gulshan had died on the same day of the incident after she was burned alive. The Awami Colony police have failed to arrest the suspect. The incident took place on February 10 in a house located near Bagh-e-Korangi. At
KHYBER: Breaking the shackles of so-called tribal traditions and self-imposed taboos, 17-year-old Wareesha Ameen Afridi of Jamrud has become the first female writer in Khyber tribal district by penning down a novel. A student of psychology at Government Degree College for Girls in Jamrud, she developed a liking for reading fiction and history during her school days which later ‘pushed her’ to pen down her first Urdu novel “Milan”. “I always felt deeply depressed
Poets and children have one thing in common; a sense of wonder. Albert Einstein would protest; don’t exclude the scientists. Their intuitive capability is an undying source of wonder that keeps them going in their pursuit of knowing what seems to be unknowable. With age this sense loosens its grip because of the monotony produced by uniformity which is sine qua non of success in the prevalent socio-economic structures. Sadly, we try our best
Despite laws against child marriages, the legislation and implementation of minimum age laws has been unsatisfactory LAHORE: In Pakistan, men are given precedence over women in nearly all matters. Male guests will be seated first at a family dinner, male students will be selected for accolades and scholarships while male applicants will conventionally be prioritized by recruiters. However, there is one matter where the society has ironically sanctioned women to be given precedence; the