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
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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
TAXILA: A school van driver was arrested on the charge of sexually harassing a minor girl in his vehicle in Mullah Mansoor village of Attock Khurd on 22nd October. According to police sources, a citizen reported to the police that his five-year-old niece lives with him as her father was working abroad. He said when the girl returned home from school on Tuesday, she was in distress and there were bruises on her cheeks.
KHYBER: As many as 13 civilians, mostly children, who received injuries when a quadcopter allegedly dropped explosives on a marketplace in Tirah valley here on October 21, were brought to hospitals in Peshawar for treatment, local sources told Dawn on 22nd October. Earlier, it was speculated that militants were targeted in the quadcopter strike. The sources said the people were hit by shrapnel when the blast occurred. They added two of the injured children
WITH polio cases in Pakistan rising sharply in recent weeks, the government has unveiled the National Emergency Action Plan for Polio 2024-25. The country has already reported 39 cases this year, compared to just six in 2023. The spike has raised concerns about our ability to eradicate the virus, with new cases spanning 60 districts, affecting children primarily in Balochistan, Sindh, and KP. Pakistan is at a juncture where if the spread of the
