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KASUR: The Pattoki police arrested on Thursday four people, including three women, in neighbourhood Sharifpura for buying minor girls for prostitution. The parents of the traded children said they gave them to a midwife because of poverty, police said. The ...

HYDERABAD: The special task force (STF) for Sindh of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday organised a seminar to mark the Universal Children’s Day — observed on Nov 20 every year. Students of government and private educational ...

Islamabad: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad Muhammad Aamir Zulfiqar Khan chaired a meeting with members of Human Rights Committee. It was participated by SSP (Operations) Waqar Ud Din Syed, AIG (Operations) Abdul Qadir Qamar, SP (HQ) Sumaira Azam, SP ...

RAWALPINDI: Army authorities have interviewed 11-year-old Kinza Bashir, a domestic employee who was allegedly physically abused by a serving army official and her husband, a doctor, who had employed her. According to sources close to the investigation, the child spoke of her ...

LARKANA: Speakers at a training workshop said police were not fully conversant with the laws dealing with fundamental human rights violations such as domestic violence, child abuse, tribal conflicts, violation of minorities’ rights and therefore these laws were not enforced ...