PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has ruled that contracting a second marriage cannot be a conclusive ground to deprive a mother of the custody of her child. A single-member bench consisting of Justice Mohammad Naeem Anwar declared that in custody matters the court was required to undertake an objective assessment of…
ISLAMABAD: The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) on Sunday claimed to have busted an international child pornography network in which a father was allegedly involved in making and selling explicit videos of his own children. Islamabad NCCIA Additional Director Mohammad Shoaib Khan, speaking at a press conference in the…
For hundreds of orphaned, abandoned, and vulnerable children in Punjab, a shelter home is meant to be a place of safety. Yet many of the private institutions housing these children remain outside the government’s full oversight, leaving authorities without a clear and up-to-date picture of how many children are living…
SAHIWAL: On the orders of the Lahore High Court (LHC), Yousafwala police have registered a case against six persons, including a minor girl, her alleged husband, the witnesses and a nikah registrar under the Punjab Child Marriage Restraint Ordinance, 2026, on the complaint of the girl’s father. According to police…
BAHAWALPUR: The Miranpur police in Vehari district claimed on Oct 22 to have recovered three abducted children from the illegal custody of three suspects, who had also been booked for the alleged gang-rape of the victims’ mother in the Kukri Kalan area of Mauza Gurdawar. According to police sources, the…