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
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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
LAHORE: Okara arrested three suspects in connection with the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl. According to a spokesperson, the suspects were identified as Khurram, Israr and Abdur Rehman. The police said an application was submitted by the victim’s family, upon which a first information report (FIR) was registered. The suspects were taken into custody during raids. Initial investigations suggest the girl had left her home four days earlier for the 25/4-L area, where
SHANGLA: At least 30 children were injured in stray dog attacks during the last two days in different areas of Puran tehsil here, triggering fear and panic among residents. According to sources eight children were seriously injured in a single day on 25 December due to stray dog bites in Puran. The stray dogs attacked children at a madrassah in the Chela Gram area, leaving seven children critically injured, most of them sustaining facial
KARACHI: A sessions court has ruled that any conviction under the provision of the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act 2013 does not render the marriage void or invalidate the nikkah. “It is making clear that any conviction under the provision of Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act 2013 does not render the marriage void or invalidate the Nikkah from a personal law perspective. The Act is a restraint and penal statue and it does not contain provisions
An eight-year-old girl was critically injured after being hit by a bullet fired during a stray dog culling campaign launched by the Khanewal district administration, in a tragic incident reported near Ada Khaliqabad within the jurisdiction of Talamba police station. A bullet fired to kill a stray dog struck Sakina, leaving her in critical condition. She was initially left without any official transport and was rushed to hospital by her parents in a private