ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on 25th October called for mass level awareness in eradicating trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants. “However we need accurate information, informed by legal knowledge that can serve as a guideline for the government,” Mr Kundi said while addressing an interactive session with journalists on media reporting in trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants and bonded labour in Pakistan organised by the Sustainable Social Development
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THE new National Cyber Crime & Investigation Authority appears to have landed in limbo, with the authorities apparently unsure about what purpose they expect to see it fulfil. According to a news report in this paper, the government has formally repealed the rules devised to govern the body, leaving its status in doubt. Officials who spoke to this publication were unsure about whether new rules would be issued or whether the body would be
TAXILA: Two persons have allegedly sexually assaulted an eleven-year-old boy in the limits of Attock police station on 24th October, a police spokesman said. Saqib Shahzad reported to police that his nephew was playing cricket with his friends when the suspects came to the cricket ground and lied to him that his goat fell into a deep ditch in Mai Kassi area and took him there where they forcefully sexually assaulted him. When he
LAHORE: Punjab Prosecutor General Syed Farhad Ali Shah on 24th October admonished police investigators for ignoring provisions of anti-rape law in the probe into the murder case of a minor girl employed as a home help in the Defence-C area. Declaring the minor girl’s murder a high-profile case, the prosecutor general (PG) summoned the investigating officer (IO) and the in-charge of the investigation, along with the records, said a statement. During the briefing, the
The gruesome Orangi Town incident, in which a minor boy was killed, and his mother and minor sister were injured on 23-October-2024, has taken a new turn. The injured woman has claimed that the perpetrator was her husband’s cousin, who had attempted to sexually assault her. She said that when she resisted, the man attacked her and her children, then fled. FIR No. 577/24 was registered under sections 302, 324, 376 and 511 of
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Parliamentary Secretary for Information and Broadcasting Shazia Rizwan on 24th October said parents should cooperate with anti-polio workers for a healthy and disability-free society. Speaking as a chief guest at a walk arranged in connection with World Polio Day she said the Punjab government was committed to eradicating polio from the society. The walk was organised by District Health Authority Rawalpindi. The District Health Authority Chief Executive Officer Dr. Asif Arbab Khan
ISLAMABAD: The National Inter-Agency Coordination Committee (NICC) approved on 23rd October the launch of a country-wide campaign to vaccinate six million children against measles and rubella. The decision was made during a meeting chaired by Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Health, Dr Malik Mukhtar Ahmad Bharath. The meeting discussed a proposal made by the Federal Directorate of Immunisation (FDI) that children aged between six months and 59 months be vaccinated against the two
KARACHI: A woman and her two children were severely injured allegedly by her husband’s relative with a sharp object at their home in Orangi Town. Per police sources, Shahrukh had a fight with his maternal cousin Sameer and he was a suspect in the case. Following the incident, local residents transported the victims to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) where 6-year-old child Subhan Shahrukh succumbed to his injuries. The surviving victims are 35-year-old Ramsha
GUJRAT: The Gujranwala police on 23rd October arrested a man who had allegedly thrown a minor boy into canal after the child’s mother refused to marry the suspect. Complainant Imrana Bibi, residing in Riaz Town in Ferozwala police precincts, told police on Oct 22 that suspect Ali Hassan had kidnapped her four and a half years old son Ali Zamin from the street. She alleged that the suspect had been trying to persuade her
KARACHI: A minor boy was stabbed to death and his mother and sister were injured in Orangi Town on 23rd October, police said. The victims were found injured inside a house near Liaqat School. They had been stabbed with a sharp instrument. The identity of the suspect could not be ascertained immediately. Police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed said they were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where seven-year-old Subhan Shahrukh died during treatment. His
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported yet another polio case, with the nation’s tally surging to 40 this year, even as World Polio Day is observed today around the globe. According to the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad, a case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been confirmed in a 30-month-old male child from tehsil Darra Adam Khel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kohat district. “This is the second polio case
PESHAWAR: The bodies of a woman and her two children have been found in the Zaryab Colony area of Peshawar. It is suspected that all three were poisoned. The police have transferred the bodies to the morgue for a postmortem examination and have begun searching for the husband to determine the cause of the deaths. According to Faqirabad Police Station, they received information on October 23 that the bodies of a woman and two