RAHIM YAR KHAN: A 5-year-old child underwent a ‘successful’ surgery to remove partially-formed fetus from his chest in Sheikh Zayed Medical College Hospital (SZMCH). The complex surgery was performed on Monday (Jan 12) by pulmonologist Dr Sultan Owaisi, Head of the Tharocic Surgery Department SZMCH, who said the fetus was located near the main artery of the heart. Dr Owaisi elaborated that this was a case of `fetus in feto’, a rare condition in
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LAHORE: A minor boy, who had allegedly been kidnapped three weeks ago, was found dead in a drain in Baghbanpura area on January 14. Reports suggested that two-year-old Ameer Hussain had suddenly gone missing when he was playing in the street outside his house located at Khyzerabad of Shalimar Town. The parents of the minor boy searched him everywhere in the locality and then alerted the police about his sudden disappearance. The police had
KARACHI: Residents and families of two missing children staged a protest on Garden-Nishtar Road on January 14, expressing frustration over one year of inaction in the case of their disappearance. The demonstration caused severe traffic disruption in Garden, MA Jinnah Road, and surrounding areas. The missing children, five-year-old Aliyan and six-year-old Ali Raza, went missing from the Garden area on January 14, 2025. Despite repeated assurances from the police, no breakthrough has been reported,
GUJRAT: Kamoke Saddar police have arrested a woman and her son-in-law for killing her minor adopted daughter, who allegedly walked in on them when they were in a compromising condition, to conceal their relations. The body of the seven-year-old girl was found at a deserted place three days after she went missing from Habibpura locality of Kamoke in Gujranwala district. A resident of Habibpura lodged a complaint with the police on January 12, stating
GUJRAT: Authorities concerned on January 13 launched an anti-beggary campaign, rescuing around a dozen children from begging networks in various parts of the city. On the directions of Gujrat DC Noorul Ain Qureshi, the operation was launched jointly by the teams of the Child Protection Bureau, Gujranwala, Labour Department, Rescue 1122, Gujrat police and the Social Welfare Department. During the drive, the officials identified and rescued 11 children being used for beggary at Hassan
KARACHI: A 17-year-old domestic worker was abducted and sexually assaulted in Gulshan-e-Maymar, highlighting urgent concerns over the safety of young domestic workers. Police have arrested the main suspect, while a search continues for his accomplice. According to police reports, the victim, resident of Gulshan-e-Maymar, Jehanabad, was abducted by men in a car. She was reportedly rendered semi-conscious, taken to an undisclosed location, assaulted, and later abandoned in a deserted area after four to five
LAHORE::The process for the registration of all madrasas in Punjab is set to begin soon, following the completion of consultations by the Punjab Home Department with the Wafaq-ul-Madaris and representatives of various schools of thought. According to a press release issued by the Home Department, an agreement has been reached between the Punjab government and the Ittehad-e-Tanzeemat-e-Madaris on the registration of madrasas. Taking all recommendations into account, the department has prepared an online registration
ISLAMABAD: The tally of polio cases for 2025 reached 31 on Tuesday after a sample collected last year in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district tested positive. The Polio Eradication Programme said in a statement that the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, had confirmed a case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in North Waziristan. “This is the fifth case reported from North Waziristan in 2025,
LAHORE: In a first initiative so far, the Faisalabad region police have introduced an activity-based anti-drug module for students from Grade 5 onwards and suggested to the Punjab government to replicate it to the educational institutions across the province after they detected a large-scale pervasive supply of illicit drugs – top of them the ice – to the young students. In a letter addressed to the Punjab chief secretary, Faisalabad Regional Police Officer (RPO)
LAHORE: A woman and five children lost their lives in two incidents of house fires in the province on January 13. In the first incident, three minor sisters lost their lives when a fire broke out in a room of their house in Layyah district, according to Rescue 1122. The victims were identified as one-and-a-half-year-old Fatima, three-year-old Arooj Fatima, and seven-year-old Jaweria Batool, daughters of Samiullah of Basti Baseera in Karor Lal Esan tehsil.
FAISALABAD: Police claimed to have uncovered a case in which a man allegedly kidnapped his own adopted son with the help of a friend and the friend’s wife in a bid to implicate his estranged wife in the crime. Khurrianwala police recovered the four-year-old boy, Muhammad Ahmed, from Jhang and arrested three suspects, including the child’s adoptive father Javed Iqbal, his friend Muhammad Sharif and Sharif’s wife, Asia Bibi. A police spokesperson said Javed
SUKKUR: Two siblings died of measles in Nazar Mohammad Malik village of Tangwani taluka in Kandhkot-Kashmore district on January 12. The victims were identified as seven-year-old Abdul Wahab and his five-year-old sister Qasima Khatoon, both children of Ali Gohar Malik. Locals claimed that so far six children had fallen victim to the disease, but the health department had failed in taking any action. They expressed deep anger towards the district health officer (DHO) and