RAWALPINDI: As super flu spreads across the globe, four confirmed cases have been reported in the garrison city and Murree, prompting the administration to take precautionary measures, including the establishment of a 10-bed isolation ward at Holy Family Hospital. “As many as 22 suspected cases of acute respiratory illness were screened during December, out of which only four were confirmed, and all the patients recovered completely after treatment,” a spokesman for the District Health
Child Rights in Focus
An eight-year-old boy, Dilbar Ali, lost his life after he accidentally fell into a manhole in Mehran Town, Sector 6-G of Korangi Industrial Area. The sad incident is one more tragedy, highlighting administrative negligence and the persistent danger posed by uncovered sewerage infrastructure in Karachi. According to police and residents, the incident occurred at around 5pm when children were playing in the street. Dilbar accidentally fell into an uncovered manhole located adjacent to his
The newly proposed initiative has opened a deeper debate about accountability, maturity, enforcement and whether the state is regulating reality or retreating from responsibility. LAHORE: In early December 2025, a province-wide traffic enforcement drive in Punjab created a controversy after police registered over 4,600 cases and arrested around 3,100 people in 72 hours, with officials later stating that a “large number of schoolchildren” were among those detained. Videos circulated online of minors being stopped, motorcycles impounded, and students
MUZAFFARABAD: Police in the Jhelum Valley district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) arrested a mosque imam (prayer leader) and Quran teacher in the early hours of December 28 on charges of raping a nine-year-old girl. Station House Officer (SHO) Hattian Bala Manzar Hussain Chughtai told Dawn that at around 1am, women from the nearby village of Butt Khaitar, which requires travelling part of the way on foot, called the police and asked them
HYDERABAD: In a second incident of its kind in the city within a week, a young girl died after falling into a sewerage drain on December 27. Mariam, 5, had accompanied her father, Sohbat Brohi, and other relatives who had come to the Hatri area to condole the death of his (Sohbat’s) sister-in-law. Mariam went outside the hosts’ home and fell into the drain within the neighbourhood. Sohbat and his relatives mounted a long
BAHAWALNAGAR: Two youth were arrested on December 27 for allegedly gang-raping a minor girl in Chishtian. The FIR registered with the Saddar Police claimed that two youth of basti 106/F lured a three-year-old girl to a deserted place when her father sent her to get some food from a wedding function. It claimed when she did not return home after a long time, her relatives started looking for her and found the duo gang-raping
KASUR: A six-year-old girl was injured by a kite string on December 27 near Adda Maan on Ganda Singh Road, within the jurisdiction of the Saddar Police Station. The victim, identified as Zainab Fatima of Bhadian village, was riding on the front of a motorcycle with her brother, Abdul Rehman, when a chemical-coated twine slit her throat. She was immediately rushed to the DHQ Hospital for medical treatment. Following the incident, police arrested the
Rawalpindi: The biological mother sold her eleven-year-old daughter in Rawalpindi to a woman, who decided to handover the underage girl to a brothel house to make her source of income where she kept molesting for five months. However, the sold-out girl managed to escape from the brothel house and reached Kahuta police station where the police registered first information report and arrested people involved in sexual trade. Published in The NEWS on December 28,
KARACHI: A woman and three children were found hanging inside their home near Gunah Mandi in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth area on December 27, police said. The woman’s husband was taken into custody for questioning. Police identified the deceased as 35-year-old Fatima, 11-year-old Sonam, 3-year-old Arzoo and 2-year-old Arman. Fatima and Sonam were found hanging together in the centre of the house. Arzoo and Arman were found separately suspended from the ceiling on either side
RAWALPINDI: Three accused were arrested for raping an 11-year-old girl within the limits of Kahuta Police Station. The arrested accused included a woman identified as Fauzia Arif, who had allegedly been allowing the accused rapists to assault the victim in her own house. According to the police, the girl and her 9-year-old brother had been left at Fauzia’s house by her mother five months ago. Since then, four men had been coming over and
ISLAMABAD: The Bhara Kahu Police successfully recovered a 14-year-old boy who was kidnapped for ransom, rescuing him safely from Peshawar and arresting the prime suspect involved in the crime. The complainant Rifat Hussain had submitted a written application at Bhara Kahu Police Station stating that his 14-year-old son, Haris Ali, had been abducted by Bilal Ahmed along with his accomplices for ransom. The abductors demanded Rs2 million as ransom after kidnapping the child. Police
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial government has approved the recruitment of 10,000 teachers on a temporary basis in boys’ and girls’ primary schools under the Parent-Teacher Council (PTC) framework, while the Finance Department has also granted permission for the hiring of 2,802 chowkidars to address staff shortages in government schools across the province. According to official documents, the Elementary and Secondary Education Department has issued a detailed recruitment mechanism to Directors of Education and all