Violence against women
“I was kidnapped and taken to Rawalpindi where the kidnapper raped me when I refused to marry him,” girl tells court.
Updated 31 Jan, 2018 10:50am
Sadiqullah has been arrested a day after police confirmed the prime accused fled to Saudi Arabia after the murder.
Updated 30 Jan, 2018 11:26am
The third-year medical student was shot dead in Kohat for refusing a marriage proposal.
Updated 29 Jan, 2018 07:54pm
Woman alleges four men dragged her into a room and attempted to rape her.
Published 20 Jan, 2018 08:29pm
Court orders judicial commission to investigate social worker's murder that took place in 2013.
Published 17 Jan, 2018 02:10pm
Muhammad Ali said he had stabbed women because he 'hated them'.
Updated 12 Jan, 2018 03:56pm
Police have been protecting the prime accused in the case of DI Khan girl who was forced to parade naked, says senator.
Updated 03 Jan, 2018 08:35pm
Victim suffers serious burn injuries on her arm and shoulder.
Published 03 Jan, 2018 01:02am
Provincial chief justice takes suo motu notice of Hindu girl's alleged rape by influential person.
Updated 02 Jan, 2018 07:42am
The man attacked the 30-year-old victim with a stick and kept hitting her until she died, police say.
Published 01 Jan, 2018 09:58pm
Though Pakistan has more than its fair share of social ills, some of these incidents are bound to leave lasting scars.
Updated 31 Dec, 2017 12:10pm
The couple had confessed a day earlier that they had been involved in killing the politician and burning her body.
Published 29 Dec, 2017 05:56pm
When sexual violence is perceived to be almost the norm, the world becomes a dangerous place to be a female.
Updated 28 Dec, 2017 08:01am
Prime accused Aliul Hasan's in-laws from second marriage are suspected to have facilitated murder of his first wife.
Published 27 Dec, 2017 08:14pm
Father-in-law says victim raped by members of a panchayat approached by girl's own father to bring her home.
Updated 27 Dec, 2017 09:39pm
Former goalkeeper Syeda Sadia had accused the women's hockey team coach of sexually and physically assaulting her.
Updated 26 Dec, 2017 06:40pm
Police uncover husband's confession by going through phone records.
Updated 24 Dec, 2017 06:22pm
SHO says the girl left her home to buy bread from a nearby restaurant when she was taken away by a suspect.
Published 23 Dec, 2017 06:03pm
Police arrest groom and relatives; case to be registered under the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929.
Published 23 Dec, 2017 05:04pm
Man flees scene of crime, police register case against suspect.
Updated 20 Dec, 2017 02:11pm
The girl’s father alleges that the house owner compelled him to sign blank papers in the presence of policemen.
Updated 18 Dec, 2017 10:54pm
Police book suspect for double murder.
Updated 11 Dec, 2017 07:48pm
Police say the murder was carried out by the older sister with the help of her fiance.
Updated 10 Dec, 2017 04:08pm
Victim appears before Senate's human rights committee to narrate her ordeal, seek justice.
Updated 07 Dec, 2017 12:45am
9 of the 15 suspects named in the FIR are in custody.
Updated 28 Nov, 2017 03:09pm
A Swedish newspaper has quoted 18 women accusing the literary figure of rape and harassment.
Published 24 Nov, 2017 07:48pm
A lack of sustained willpower to implement reforms has, day by day, ossified weaknesses of the criminal justice system.
Published 24 Nov, 2017 09:59am
LAST month, in a remote village in Dera Ismail Khan, a teenage girl’s life was upended. Setting out one morning to...
Updated 24 Nov, 2017 10:06am
The court has also ordered authorities to take steps to curtail the circulation of a video of the victim being abused.
Updated 21 Nov, 2017 05:49pm
Issues notices to Ministry of Human Rights secretary and to secretary of interior Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Published 21 Nov, 2017 01:44pm
