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KARACHI: As many as 358 children — 252 boys and 106 girls — became victims of child abuse in Sindh between 2014 and 2019, it emerged on Sunday. A recent police study about child abuse cases in the province showed that girls found to be more vulnerable between ages of 1-5 and 16-18 while boys found to be more vulnerable …

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has emphasised the need for preventing coronavirus from spreading through national awareness and strict compliance with “simple measures by all of us”. “It is not a political issue but a national one. The war hero’s role is yours thru ur weapons of social media & ur phone messages. Don’t stop until we have won,” he …

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi will leave for China on Monday (today) on his first visit to the neighbouring country since assuming the office in September 2018. In a statement issued here on Sunday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said that the president would be visiting China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping of China. During his two-day visit, …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and the judiciary are vying to take over the US-funded under construction Shakass Levies Training Centre in Khyber tribal district, while the donor has insisted that the facility should be specifically used for the purpose for which funds were approved by the US Congress. Sources told Dawn that Khyber district’s judiciary wanted to relocate from …

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Saturday once again accused the Pakistan Peoples Party-led Sindh government of being “corrupt, biased, and racist” and demanded that the National Accountability Bureau launch a probe into all government jobs given during the past 10 years by the provincial government. The party also warned that the ‘injustices’ if continued would only lend credence to …

LAHORE: Dolphin Force personnel allegedly shot at and injured a young man critically, declaring him “a suspected criminal” in Iqbal Town area here on Saturday. What appears to be a planned move, the four Dolphin personnel intercepted Hassan Bhatti of Sabzazar when he was returning home by his car after withdrawing Rs50,000 cash from a bank branch in Iqbal Town. …

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has cancelled all the meetings of the house committees till further order as part of the measures taken by the government to fight coronavirus in the country. This was announced by a spokesman for the National Assembly Secretariat here on Saturday, a day after the National Security Committee (NSC), headed by Prime Minister Imran …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has held that the grant of bail to an accused required in a cognizable and non-bailable offence before his arrest clogs the very mechanics of the state authority to investigate and prosecute violations of law designated as crimes. “The grant of bail to an accused required in a cognizable and non-bail offence prior to his arrest …

ISLAMABAD: Another polio case has been reported from Sindh, taking the total tally for the current year to 30, which is around four times as much for the year 2017. According to an official of the National Institute of Health (NHS), a 48-month-old female, resident of Naushahro Feroze district, Moro tehsil and Lalia union council, has been paralysed due to …

MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to close all educational institutions in the territory until Apr 6 and imposed a health emergency due to the rising threat of coronavirus, a cabinet member said on Friday. In a series of tweets, Minister for Information and Tourism Raja Mushtaq Minhas stated that a meeting held in Kashmir House, chaired …