SAHIWAL: A teenage girl was gang-raped allegedly by robbers during a road robbery in the presence of her relative family near village Malik Rahmoo in Pakpattan between the nights of Sunday and Monday, 22nd and 23rd September 2024. A resident of Bahawalnagar was on a visit to family friends in Pakpattan along with his wife, a son and a minor daughter, a sister and a 17-year-old niece when the incident happened. The family left
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KARACHI: Experts at a seminar on 23rd September 2024 underscored the need for changing the narrative around suicide — from one of shame and silence to empathy and action — and improving access to mental healthcare services. The seminar titled “Changing the Narrative: Starting the Conversation on Suicide Prevention” was organised by the Jinnah Sindh Medical University’s CME department in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical
Over 15,000 cases of drug-resistant “XDR” strain reported in Pakistan, lack of widespread access to potable water only compounds issue. From his sickbed, eight-year-old Ukasha watched through heavy eyes as his siblings played with a ball in the courtyard. His head hurt and his body felt too heavy to move. Ukasha had typhoid fever — an illness he should have typically recovered from in days. It had been a month. Ukasha’s family were anxious
LAHORE: A minor girl was severely tortured by her stepmother in the Shahdara area. Nine-year-old Maryam was rushed to the Children’s Hospital with a swollen face and multiple injuries on various parts of her body. Her condition was described as serious. Maryam’s mother, Rabia, of Abdullah Park, told the police that she had left for Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah about a week ago. Before departing, she had asked Maryam’s stepmother, Shaista, to take
TOBA TEK SINGH: An employee at Allied Hospital in Faisalabad allegedly raped a teenage patient in hospital premises on 22nd September 2024. The complainant, the patient’s mother, filed a first information report (FIR) with the Civil Lines police under section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code that she brought her ailing daughter to the hospital for medical tests. The suspect, a friend of the complainant’s husband, asked her to wait outside and took the
LAHORE: The Factory Area police on 22nd September 2024 arrested the principal of a private school for allegedly assaulting a class 9 student. A case was registered against the suspect, identified as Rana Israr, who is also the owner of the school on Ghazi Road. According to the FIR filed by the complainant, Raheel Anwar, Israr allegedly tortured his son, Tabeel, using sharp-edged weapons. Anwar stated that his son suffered multiple bruises on his
HYDERABAD: Over 11,000 children could not be administered polio drops by the end of the eight-day anti-polio drive in Hyderabad district as most of the children were reportedly not present at homes. A report in this regard compiled at the end of this month’s anti-polio campaign, conducted with the collaboration of the district administration and the health department under WHO, has been sent to the relevant authorities. According to the report, a total of
TOBA TEK SINGH: A man strangled his two minor daughters at Allama Iqbal Colony in Faisalabad on 22nd September 2024. D Type Colony said 28-year-old Muhammad Akmal’s wife Zainab Bibi (24) was demanding a divorce from him, saying that she wanted to live in Toba along with her mother Surayya Bibi and sister Zarqa Bibi. After his arrest, the suspect told police his mother-in-law and sister-in-law were working as maids in people’s houses. He
MUZAFFARABAD: A 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by a peer over a petty dispute on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad late Friday night, police said, adding, six persons, including the prime suspect, were arrested in connection with the crime on Saturday, 22nd September 2024. Garhi Dupatta police SHO Adeeb Afsar said they were alerted at 11:15 pm on Friday about the incident, which took place in Nagra Palhotar village. The victim, Saad Naseer Awan, was
ISLAMABAD: The country reported three more polio cases on Saturday, raising the total to 21 for the year, with affected children belonging to Qila Abdullah in Balochistan, Karachi’s Keamari in Sindh, and Mohmand in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This prompted the prime minister’s focal person for polio eradication, Ayesha Raza Farooq, to urge parents and caregivers nationwide to ensure their children are vaccinated against the disease, warning that polio continues to silently threaten future generations. The
MANSEHRA: Students at the government high school in Khushala area here have been attending classes under the open sky due to a delay in the reconstruction. “The provincial government allocated Rs50 million for the Khushala school’s reconstruction after its demolition three years ago, but the project is still unfinished,” resident Sardar Safeer Ahmad Gujjar told reporters here on Friday. He said that the education department demolished the building but couldn’t persuade the government for
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 20th September 2024 reviewed the ongoing repair and reconstruction of 4,162 school buildings out of a total of 19,808 that were damaged during the 2022 floods, and directed the school education department to expedite the work and ensure that the schools are rebuilt to be flood resilient. He issued such directives while presiding over a meeting here at the CM House. The meeting was attended