KARACHI: Expressing concern over the high incidence of breast cancer in Pakistan, experts at an event held on Saturday called for changing lifestyle and creating public awareness about the disease diagnosis and treatment, emphasizing that early detection was the key ...
Read More »Monthly Archives: October 2022
High court sets aside juvenile’s conviction in child abuse case
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has acquitted a juvenile person by setting aside the sentence of life awarded to him by a child protection court for sexually assaulting a minor boy. A bench consisting of Justice Lal Jan Khattak and ...
Read More »After KP, Sindh has highest rate of child marriages, moot told
KARACHI: The National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRH) and the Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) have organised a consultation meeting on ‘Implementation of the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act-2013’ at a local hotel here. In her opening remarks, ...
Read More »Man kills mother, wife in Karachi
KARACHI-A man killed his mother and wife in Sindh’s capital Karachi, police said on Thursday. The horrific incident occurred in Mangopeer police precincts. Police and rescuers reached the spot. The bodies were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed hospital for postmortem. A ...
Read More »Lawmakers, activists discuss challenges in implementation of anti-child marriage law
Speakers at a consultation session on implementation of the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act 2013 held on Thursday stressed the need for effective implementation of the laws pertaining to children and women rights. They called for creating awareness among the ...
Read More »