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LAHORE:Whether it is a new commander of the Punjab Police or a political government, both have consistently claimed a decrease in crime rates. However, data analysis of ten years — from 2006 to 2016 —aims to reveal the truth behind ...

DOMESTIC violence has been an urgent social and public health problem for decades in Pakistan, which has long believed women should bear mental and physical abuse as an unpleasant, if unavoidable, part of marriage. Instead of speaking out against abuse ...

RAWALPINDI: A paedophile wanted by the police for targeting eight girls was arrested on Thursday. Rawalpindi police claimed that the suspect, Zia Ullah, was the man who had lured eight girls at different instances and assaulted them. Police were looking for ...

Speakers at a moot on Tuesday stressed that serious nature of sexual violence and rape cases necessitates more coordinated efforts by the institutions of the criminal justice system. The Sindh government’s Women Development Department and Legal Aid Society (LAS) jointly ...

KARACHI: Women, when countering extremism, typically broach the subject with more focus on reconciliation, economic development, education and transitional justice – consisting of judicial, non-judicial measures implemented to redress legacies of human rights abuses. This view was expressed by participants at ...