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DADU: An influential landowners was arrested on rape charges and produced before a court, which remanded him in police custody for seven days. An uncle of the victim, a 28-year-old deaf and mute woman, lodged an FIR at the Khuda ...

FAISALABAD: Additional District & Sessions Judge Inam Elahi Wednesday awarded death sentence to a rape-cum-murder accused on three counts. The court also imposed Rs 2.5 million fine on the accused. Accused Abdur Razzaq of Muzaffar Colony had abducted 8-year-old Fiza ...

ISLAMABAD: Organ­isers of the Aurat March held to mark International Women’s Day say they have had death and rape threats on social media over the event, which prompted complaints from some conservative groups. Nighat Dad said that the march organisers ...

ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of digital illustrations highlighting various forms of harassment and violence against the women titled ‘Free from Fear’ concluded at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) on Saturday. The digital illustration exhibition was hosted by Oxfam Pakistan ...

PESHAWAR: The police have arrested a prayer leader on charges of sexually assaulting a minor girl from a village on the outskirts of the capital city, police said. The incident took place in Gharibabad village falling in the limits of ...