Violence against women
Case after case of violence against women has laid bare the frightening extent of misogyny to be found in Pakistani society.
Updated 23 Aug, 2021 07:28am
Lament rising incidents of child abuse and harassment of women; call for blocking of porn websites.
Updated 23 Aug, 2021 08:34am
Police officials produced the suspects before the district courts under strict security arrangements.
Updated 22 Aug, 2021 07:28pm
40 others sent to jail for identification parade.
Updated 22 Aug, 2021 05:23pm
Woman suffers serious burns in acid attack by estranged husband.
Updated 22 Aug, 2021 10:44am
IO says suspects will be presented before the court after the identification parades so that their physical remand can be sought.
Updated 22 Aug, 2021 10:05am
30 suspects held; Fayyazul Hassan Chohan says civil, military agencies jointly working on case.
Updated 21 Aug, 2021 11:24am
Protesters demand justice for the young female TikTok star who was brutally assaulted in Lahore.
Updated 21 Aug, 2021 12:04pm
Police chief issues orders to identify the suspect through Safe City cameras and to arrest him.
Published 21 Aug, 2021 12:14am
Buzdar says case should be brought to logical conclusion at earliest; IGP says some suspects have been arrested.
Updated 20 Aug, 2021 09:13am
There is a tremendous amount of work to be done to correct the public narrative around women’s rights.
Updated 19 Aug, 2021 07:28am
"We demand immediate action against the culprits. They should be arrested and brought to justice," the statement said.
Published 18 Aug, 2021 07:37pm
Police appeal to the public to help identify and arrest the suspects involved in the incident.
Updated 18 Aug, 2021 10:43pm
Zulfi Bukhari says Prime Minister Imran Khan has personally spoken to the Punjab IG to arrest the men involved in the incident.
Updated 19 Aug, 2021 12:55am
People are enraged and are calling out the way our society views women after the horrifying incident.
Published 18 Aug, 2021 12:10pm
Our existence and freedoms should not be dependent on whether the men in our lives, our society or our government ‘allow’ it.
Updated 18 Aug, 2021 11:35am
Woman says huge crowd of around 300-400 people surrounded her, tore her clothes and "forcibly took" her jewellery.
Updated 18 Aug, 2021 09:24am
The 29-year-old model was found strangled at her house in DHA’s Phase V on July 11.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 08:59am
If Pakistani women are insisting on justice for Noor, abusive men in the country are likely worried that domestic violence laws.
Published 11 Aug, 2021 07:55am
District education officer says the teacher has been suspended and a departmental inquiry has been initiated against him.
Updated 11 Aug, 2021 09:06am
In a statement to police, the victim had said that she set herself on fire because she had become fed up with domestic issues.
Updated 03 Aug, 2021 09:37am
Scrutiny, protests, and swift police action are no guarantees of justice; the criminal justice system also has to work.
Published 01 Aug, 2021 07:25am
Crimes against women are not simple aberrations of desire; they are entrenched through complex systems.
Published 31 Jul, 2021 08:34am
Pakistan’s truth is that we kill women and leave children to watch over their bodies.
Updated 28 Jul, 2021 07:45am
The suspect took the deceased woman, who was a beggar, and her child to a deserted area before raping her and stabbing them.
Updated 27 Jul, 2021 09:39pm
Sherry questions delay in passage of bill against domestic violence.
Updated 25 Jul, 2021 08:54am
SSP says while a pistol was found at the suspect's house, initial investigation did not show a firearm injury.
Updated 23 Jul, 2021 02:04pm
The alleged killer has been remanded to police custody for 3 days and an investigation into his motives has been initiated.
Updated 23 Jul, 2021 10:40pm
None of the suspects has so far been arrested in one case; one of the alleged rapists arrested in second case.
Updated 17 Jul, 2021 10:06am
In the FIR, police did not mention the rape at gunpoint and the video clip of the incident.
Published 09 Jul, 2021 10:28am
