SUKKUR: A man complained to media persons in Shikarpur on Saturday that four men subjected his 12-year-old daughter to sexual assault when she went out of the home to buy milk for the family’s breakfast at around 7am but police refused to register the case and issue a letter for medical examination of the victim. The victim’s father said that when his daughter did not return home, he along with his relatives and neighbours
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ISLAMABAD: Two more polio cases were confirmed on October 19, making it six cases in two days. According to the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication in Islamabad, cases of wild poliovirus type-1 (WPV1) were reported in Sindh’s districts of Sanghar and Mirpurkhas. Pakistan has reported 39 cases of poliovirus in ten months of 2024. Of them, 20 were reported from Balochistan, 12 from Sindh, five from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab
In a shocking incident in the Lyari area of Karachi, the mutilated bodies of four females — a middle-aged woman, and her daughter, granddaughter, and daughter-in-law — were discovered in a residential building on 19 October 2024. Police suspect that someone from the family, or among the relatives or neighbours may be behind the brutal murders. The gruesome discovery was made on the seventh floor of a flat located in Zainab Arcade on Bantwa
SUKKUR: A large number of schoolchildren, teachers and residents of villagers took out a procession in Hassan Phulpoto village, Khairpur district, on 18th October in protest against harassment of female teachers by local thugs, who tried to kidnap the teachers when they were returning home on a rickshaw a day ago. The protesters’ leaders Al-Khair School’s headmaster Zohaib Rahujo, teacher Abdul Qadeer and villagers Amanullah Phulpoto, Punial Phulpoto, Ghulam Asghar and others, said that
RAWALPINDI: Local courts on 18th October ordered the release of 388 students arrested for holding violent protests against the alleged rape of a student in Lahore a day earlier. As many as 367 of the students arrested in the garrison city were discharged from the cases by concerned courts of judicial magistrates while 21 others were granted bail in Wah Saddar. The police rounded up the students after baton charging and lobbing them with teargas to push them back
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Aalia Neelum on 18th October expressed her deep displeasure over the failure of authorities to remove a viral video, based on ‘misinformation’ about an alleged rape involving a female student of a private college, from social media. “Why wasn’t the viral video stopped from circulating on social media,” the chief justice asked Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Dr Usman Anwar during the hearing of a petition against incidents of alleged
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s battle against polio has taken a devastating turn with four new cases confirmed in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), raising the total number of polio infections this year to 37, according to Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) officials on 18-October-2024. The latest victims, all young children, include a 30-month-old girl from Lakki Marwat, an 18-month-old girl from Pishin, a 9-month-old boy from Chaman, and a 5-year-old boy from Noshki. Despite global efforts to
LAHORE: Raiwind Police thwarted forced marriage of a 12-year-old girl and arrested multiple individuals involved, including the girl’s mother, the groom, witnesses, and Nikah registrar. According to a police spokesperson, the operation was initiated after receiving a report from M Sharif, the elder brother of the girl. Sharif informed the authorities that his mother was attempting to marry off his sister to an older man in exchange for money. Acting promptly, the police arrived
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government has launched technical and vocational training courses in 11 religious seminaries under its “Skilled Kashmir” programme, where 192 male and female students are currently benefiting. This information was shared on October 10 during the meeting of an official committee established to oversee the introduction of technical and vocational courses in religious seminaries. The meeting, chaired by Maulana Imtiaz Ahmed Siddiqui, Chairman of the AJK Ulema and
LAHORE: The Punjab government closed all education institutions, including public and private sector institutions on Friday (today), after student protests that started in Lahore earlier this week against the alleged rape of a student spread to other cities and towns of the province on October 17. According to an official notification, all public sector universities, colleges, and schools in Punjab will be closed on Friday (today). Simultaneously, the universities in the province also postponed
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar informed the National Assembly on 17 October 2024 that according to the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 2023-24, the number of women and girls who are victims of human trafficking stands at 24,398, making up 70.6 percent of the total victims, which is 34,533. In response to a question posed by Shahida Rehmani during the Question-Hour, Information Minister Atta Tarar shared that the total number of