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The Sindh High Court (SHC) has recalled and dismissed the pre-arrest bail of a man in a case pertaining to sexual assault, attempt to murder and harassment. Mohammad Yaqoob Lakhar was booked by the Zaman Town police on the complaint ...

Islamabad: Pakistan faces significant challenges in providing its citizens with quality education. The Gross Enrolment Rate (GER) for primary education in Pakistan was only 61 per cent in 2020, and only 51 per cent of children complete primary school. Thus, ...

LAHORE: Women’s Action Forum (WAF) chapters from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Hyderabad, Peshawar and Quetta at a national convention on Sunday analysed key issues confronting women and others today. WAF condemned the indifference of the power elite who have failed the ...

SHANGLA: The police have arrested a gang of human traffickers from Upper Kohistan district and recovered a girl, ‘abducted’ from Alpuri here on Feb 4. SSP investigations Aqiq Hussain, in a statement issued here on Monday, said a resident of ...

National Assembly Speaker Raja Perviaz Ashraf on Monday said that empowering women in leadership roles was not only a matter of fairness and justice, but rather of urgency and necessity. The NA Speaker was addressing the National Convention of Women ...