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
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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
A judicial magistrate on 22-October-2024 remanded a suspect in judicial custody in a case pertaining to wrongful confinement and torture of a minor boy. Suspect Muhammad Deen was arrested on 21-October-2024 after a video of him beating the nine-year-old boy with his hands tied at his laundry shop went viral on social media. The investigating officer produced the suspect before the judicial magistrate (Central) and sought his 14-day remand for the completion of the
Four children have lost their lives out of 39 affected by polio, while the majority of the remaining children have been paralysed for the rest of their lives. This was stated by the Prime Minister’s Focal Person for Polio Eradication Ayesha Raza Farooq 21-October-2024. She urged parents to vaccinate their children during upcoming polio vaccination drives. “Poliovirus is not only paralysing our children, it is also killing some of the weaker ones. So far,
TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad’s Chak Jhumra police on 15th July arrested a so-called faith-healer who allegedly raped a 16-year-old daughter of his follower, working as a house help at his residence. The city police spokesperson said a police team formed by the city police officer, headed by Madina Town police SP, arrested the suspect in a raid on a place in Faisalabad where he was hiding. As per police sources, the girl, daughter of
KARACHI: What was she wearing? What did she say? Why was she outside the house? These are just a few of the seemingly innocent questions debated by the flagbearers of morality in the aftermath of nearly every other rape case. Amidst such shameless victim blaming, for a survivor of sexual violence to pursue a rape case in court is akin to walking through fire that is flamed by the failing criminal justice system in