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KARACHI: Incidents of violence against women continued to make headlines in the departing year  2018. Throughout the year, several reports surfaced whereby women and young girls were either killed in the name of ‘honour’ or rape and murdered. Earlier this year, ...

QUETTA: The Aurat Foundation will commence a 16-day awareness campaign from November 25 to December 10 in Baluchistan, aiming to reduce violence against women in different fields. Every year the campaign starts on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination ...

MULTAN: A man was injured in an acid attack by his in-laws for contracting second marriage here on Monday. Haq Nawaz, a resident of Kehror Pacca, had contracted second marriage against the will of his first wife and in-laws. On ...

QUETTA: Police on Friday apprehended a girl named Irum and two of her accomplices for an acid attack on her elder sister and mother, they said. The incident took place on October 26, when unknown men threw acid on the ...

RAWALPINDI: A woman suffered acid attack near her residence in Chaklala Scheme 3 for refusing advances of a man in the neighbourhood. A motorbike rider intercepted her in the narrow lane of the low-income area where she lived with her brother-in-law ...