SHANGLA: The police arrested an accused and lodged the first information report (FIR) after an objectionable video went viral in WhatsApp groups in which an 11-year-old boy was being raped. Police told Dawn on February 20 that one of the two accused had been arrested and efforts were underway to arrest the other. They said the incident occurred in the Naredary area of Alpuri, and police came to know after a video of the heinous
Child Rights in Focus
MUZAFFARABAD: A child rights caucus would soon be formed in the Legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) to strengthen parliamentary engagement in child protection laws, improve access to education, and combat child labour and exploitation. This assurance was given by Legislative Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar, who is currently serving as AJK’s acting president, to a delegation of the National Assembly’s Parliamentary Caucus on Child Rights (PCCR), which called on him at
Police say she intended to extort Rs1.5m from her husband RAWALPINDI: Police have arrested a woman who falsely claimed her nine-month-old child had been kidnapped for a ransom of Rs1.5 million in an attempt to deceive her husband. According to police officials, an emergency call was made to the police from a woman named Soofia, a resident of Hazara Colony, claiming that her nine-month-old child had been kidnapped for a ransom of Rs1.5 million.
AFTER the Millennium Development Goals failed to yield satisfactory results, the world needed a more holistic approach that could provide solutions sustainable in nature and that would have a global impact. Thereafter, the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, also called the ‘Global Goals’ and the ‘2030 Agenda’, were introduced from the United Nations platform to address challenges like poverty, hunger, water scarcity, sustainable energy, and education. The SDGs set 169 targets and laid out guidelines
KHAR: The police claimed to have arrested the alleged rapist and killer of a five-year old girl in Maina area of Wara Mamond tehsil in Bajaur tribal district on 20-February-2025. Addressing a press conference, DPO Waqar Rafiq said that the police had succeeded in arresting the suspected rapist and murderer within 12 hours as the brutal murder of the girl child in Maina area of Wara Mamond tehsil had sparked widespread grief and outrage
The Sindh health department in collaboration with its partners is launching a targeted polio vaccination campaign whose first phase in 27 high-risk union committees of Karachi will start on February 22, to strengthen children’s immunity and curb the transmission of the poliovirus. This first phase of the campaign aims to vaccinate 562,163 children under the age of five with oral polio vaccine (OPV) and administer fractional inactivated polio vaccine (fIPV) to 521,953 children aged
CHARSADDA: Speakers at a ceremony here on 19th February said that provincial government established fully operational child protection units in 21 districts for safety and wellbeing of children. They were addressing inaugural ceremony of child protection unit in the district. The unit has been established by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Protection and Welfare Commission (KPCPWC) with the support of UNICEF. The provincial minister for social welfare, special education and women empowerment, Syed Qasim Ali Shah,
The Sindh government’s women development department aims to actively partner with dedicated charities and non-profits in the education sector to build quality schooling facilities for minor children of female jail inmates who live in the prisons in Sindh along with their mothers. Talking to The News in her office, Sindh Women Development Minister Shaheena Sher Ali said the minor jail inmates accompanying their mothers should get access to quality school education to enable them
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.
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
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