HYDERABAD: A 10-year-old boy was allegedly shot dead by a landowner over a petty issue in the Husri area on 3rd August. The boy, Tahir Mallah, died instantly after he received a single shot, according to his parents. The bereaved family is a resident of Bacho Mirbahar village of the Seri area which falls within the jurisdiction of the Husri police station. The boy’s mother, Ms Begum alias Beego Mallah, lodged a murder FIR
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ISLAMABAD: The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP) on Friday expressed grave concern over significant increase in gender-based violence (GBV) nationwide while citing a recent report titled, “Unveiling Shadows: An Overview of Gender-Based Violence Cases, 2023”. The report, which provided an in-depth analysis of GBV trends throughout the country, focuses on cases adjudicated under the Pakistan Penal Code and the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (Peca) during 2023. In response to the urgent need
KARACHI: In a shocking development, the family of Fatima Furiro, a minor girl found dead under suspicious circumstances at the Haveli of the influential Pir of Ranipur last year, has reconciled with the main accused, Asad Shah Jeelani. Adding to this, other eyewitnesses and close relatives of Fatima Furiro have also cleared all accused persons, including Asad Shah, his wife Hina Bibi, and his father-in-law Fayaz Shah, of any wrongdoing. In affidavits submitted to
ISLAMABAD: A day after two more children were found affected by the poliovirus in Balochistan, a six-year-old boy in the Chakwal district of Punjab has been paralysed by the Wild Poliovirus 1, raising the total polio cases to 12 in Pakistan this year, officials said on Saturday. “The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health Islamabad has confirmed the detection of Type-1 Wild Poliovirus (WPV1) in the stool specimen
Islamabad: The Federal Directorate of Education has directed principals of the public sector schools and colleges in Islamabad Capital Territory to ensure that teachers hold remedial classes on Saturdays. As per the FDE notification, all public sector schools in the Islamabad Capital Territory will be open every Saturday starting August 10 for remedial classes and foundational literacy, and to promote activities like sports and mind games. These sessions will be two hours long and
A sessions court has awarded a collective sentence of 17 years imprisonment to a couple in a case pertaining to kidnapping and raping a minor girl. Ghulam Rasool and his wife Zaiba alias Naseem were found guilty of kidnapping a ten-year-old girl from Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and taking her to their house, where the man assaulted her in September 2020. Additional Sessions Judge (South) Ashraf Hussain Khowaja pronounced his judgment after recording evidence
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on 02-August-2024 stayed an additional sessions’ court order with regard to the suspension of the Gizri SHO in a girl abduction case and directed the Karachi additional IG to conduct an inquiry into the matter and take appropriate action against police officials if their negligence was proved, The interim order came on the application of Gizri SHO Tanveer Murad who sought suspension of the additional sessions court order in
THE provinces of Sindh and Punjab have, with the assistance of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), prepared draft labour codes. These new codes refashion the current fragmented labour laws. The codes are designed to comply with international labour standards by extending protection to all people who work for the first time in Pakistan’s history. Most of Pakistan’s labour laws were originally drafted in the British colonial period. They have left the vast majority of the working population largely
Imagine this: A bully enters a man’s dwelling and forces him to sign over ownership of a large piece of his land at gunpoint. To lend this theft the thinnest air of legitimacy, the bully throws the landowner a bone and puts a sale price on the papers that is far less than its true worth. The bully then proceeds to divide up the land among his associates. But the original landowner does not
SUKKUR: Police have arrested a female tutor, her sister, and three brothers on charges of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl and issuing threats to her father at their residence in Rohri taluka on the evening of 30th July. The victim’s father stated in an FIR that on July 30 he dropped his child at about 5:00 pm at the suspects’ home where the main suspect ran a tuition centre in the locality. When he
PESHAWAR: Experts at a consultative session on 1st August 2024 called upon the government to make suitable amendments to the law to remove loopholes that caused an increase in honor-related violence against women. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Commission on the Status of Women (KPCSW) convened the session to discuss the alarming increase in honour killing incidents and related crimes in the region. Speakers pointed out that owing to lacunas in law, honour-related violence had been
An anti-terrorism court has sentenced four men to death on charges of kidnapping for ransom and murder of two minor boys. Muhammad Qurban alias Irfan, Muhammad Imran alias Mann, Waseem Khan alias Waheed Pathan, Muhammad Ramzan alias Babu Odh were found guilty of kidnapping for ransom Muhammad Shahbaz and Muhammad Hassan – aged 8 to 10 years – and later murdering them in September 2016. They were also convicted of sexually abusing one of