PESHAWAR: A local court has convicted a person and sentenced him to death on seven counts in honour-related murder of seven persons including his former wife, three children and three other relatives, here over four years ago. The additional sessions judge, Mohammad Jamil Khan, pronounced that the prosecution proved its case against the accused, Ibrahim, a resident of Charsadda district, and the evidence on record connected him with the commission of the offence. The
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BAHAWALPUR: Mailsi Saddar police in Vehari district claimed on October 4 to have arrested a six-month pregnant woman for the brutal murder of her infant nephew in Sorosani locality. Reports said Najma suspected that the mother of her two-and-a-half-year-old nephew Hadi was jealous of her pregnancy and would use ‘spiritual means’ to cause her unborn baby to die, as her previous two children had not survived. Fearing her third child might also not live,
NAROWAL: Police have arrested three suspects for the alleged gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl, an assault that reportedly took place five years ago and whose video was recently made viral on social media. The victim’s grandfather, ‘G’, a resident of Dogri Harian, Pasrur Tehsil, filed a first information report against five suspects after the video circulated. District Police Officer (DPO) Sialkot, Faisal Shahzad, formed a special team to arrest the culprits. According to district
GUJRAT: The Federal Investigation Agency has arrested two human traffickers involved in child trafficking to Italy via Libyan Coast. In the child trafficking case, the arrests were made from Gujrat and Mandi Bahauddin districts whereas the two others were arrested from Wazirabad and Hafizabad districts during a crackdown against illegal human trafficking networks in the region. A senior FIA official said the child traffickers – Muhammad Nawaz of Mandi Bahauddin and Mubashir Hussain of
ISLAMABAD: The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances disposed of 113 cases in September 2025, raising the total number of decided cases to 8,986 out of 10,636 received since its inception in March 2011. According to the commission’s monthly report, 1,650 cases were still under investigation. The overall disposal rate now stands at 84.48 percent. The commission’s regional office in Quetta, which handles cases related to Balochistan, reported that 14 missing persons returned home
THE Sindh government’s recent plan to outsource school education through public-private partnerships (PPPs) has sparked a new debate. While the move is being portrayed as a step towards improving quality, it raises more concerns than confidence. Punjab has already adopted a similar model, and Sindh has tried partial outsourcing through the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF). However, past experiences suggest that such partnerships often fail to bring about a real change in learning outcomes, while
RAWALPINDI: Family courts in Rawalpindi received a record 1,428 divorce and khula petitions in September, the first working month after summer vacations, setting a new benchmark in the district’s judicial history. According to official data, 396 runaway girls contracted court or love marriages during the same period. Additionally, 266 guardianship cases were filed in Rawalpindi city, cantonment, and tehsil areas. In Gujar Khan, 284 family cases were registered, and in Taxila, 102. Another 210
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) dismissed the pre-arrest bail petition of a man charged with committing immoral acts with a girl child on October 3. Justice Chaudhry Sultan Mahmood heard the bail plea of the suspect, Shehroz Ali, who appeared before the court along with his counsel. Opposing the bail, a deputy district public prosecutor argued that a case had been registered against the suspect with Sanda Police Station. He said the six-year-old
PESHAWAR: The cabinet of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa here on October 3 decided to outsource selected schools and colleges having low student enrolment. The decision was taken during a meeting of the cabinet held here with Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur in the chair. The decision is meant to enhance enrollment and improve quality of education. An official statement issued said that after the outsourcing of selected schools and colleges, jobs of existing teachers would
BAHAWALPUR: The police withdrew terrorism charges against a Class X student, Iqra Shafiq, and her father, who were booked and arrested, along with eight other persons, including women, by Uch Sharif police on Aug 10, over a fortnight ago. As per sources, the police removed section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) from the FIR against the father and daughter in the light of an inquiry conducted for the second time into the incident on
KARACHI: A six-member medical team tasked with investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a young girl from Thull found that her demise was not linked to her inoculation, contrary to the claims of her family. In a report to the head of the Expanded Program on Immunisation in Sindh, the Jacobabad district health officer explained that a nine-year-old girl (mistakenly identified in earlier reports as a teenager) was diagnosed with enteric fever at the
In a shocking incident in Karachi’s Orangi Town, a man killed his son-in-law in the name of ‘honour’ by attacking him with a cleaver and knife, and brutally injured six others, including his wife, three daughters and a teenage son. Police arrested the suspect and recovered the murder weapons. According to police and a statement by the suspect’s injured daughter, the man had mixed intoxicants into drinking water. Once everyone fell unconscious, he launched