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QUETTA: Local authorities and the police refused to grant permission to protesting nurses to hold a rally on Wednesday. The nurses associated with state-run hospitals have been on a strike for the past three days to press the government for ...

KHUZDAR: A man and a woman were shot dead in the name of honour in a village near Kalat on Sunday. Police said that two armed men opened fire on the woman and the man in the village, killing both ...

THATTA: Two cousins were killed and four of their relatives were injured when their rivals attacked them over a dispute involving a girl’s freewill marriage in Allah Bachayo Mallah village near the coastal town of Jati, 60km from here on ...

By Feisal Naqvi In April 2014, the Sindh Assembly passed a law which made marriage to a female under the age of 18 punishable by up to three years months in prison. Previously, the bar had been set at 16 ...

By Arsalan Altaf ISLAMABAD: Police on Monday arrested two men for allegedly raping a teenaged boy in a suburb of the capital. This is the second sexual assault case against a teenager which has been reported from the same area of ...