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NOWSHERA: An eight-year-old girl was killed after sexual assault by an unidentified person here in Nawa Kalay area on Friday, officials said. The child had gone missing on Thursday afternoon and her body carrying injury marks on different parts, including ...

KARACHI: The provincial Ombudsman has ruled in favour of Shifa Imtiaz on December 20 in the case of sexual harassment and intimidation against Hassan Abbas Zaidi, a lecturer at Karachi University’s (KU) Petroleum and Technology Department. “Accused Hassan Abbas Zaidi ...

KARACHI: Cyber harassment, whether on or off campus, is as damaging to women as physical violence and abuse. To be disconnected from technology in the 21st century is akin to having your freedom disrupted as it hinders your right to ...

When Pakistan Television anchorperson Tanzeela Mazhar filed a case against the head of her department, an Inquiry Committee was set up to look into the matter. But, instead of properly investigating the issue, and questioning the accused, the committee asked Tanzeela ‘why she had ...

LAHORE: Reports on child protection show that child abuse has been on the increase in recent years in Punjab, particularly in cases of abduction, missing children, physical and sexual violence and child marriages, said the chief of field office, Unicef ...