A five-year-old girl was on Saturday married off to a 22-year-old man at village Raman Shar in the outskirts of Dakhan Town, some 40 kilometres from Shikarpur, before police intervened to arrest key individuals involved, local police said...
The police also took the five-year-old bride, the daughter of Zameer Shar, into custody along with her mother...
A 7-year-old boy was shot dead and one minor girl and three women were among 20 injured as several localities in Karachi reverberated with gunshots on New Year's Eve...
Revelers firing in the air at the turn of midnight Saturday to 'welcome' in the new year were responsible for the deaths and injuries, police officials said...
A police team conducted a raid in Sindh's Tharparkar district on Saturday, recovering a 14-year-old Hindu girl who had been married off to a 55-year-old man earlier this week...
The police arrested the accused groom and the girl's father, who had allegedly accepted money in exchange for consenting to the marriage, during the raid that was conducted on the orders of Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Thar Ameer Saud Magsi in Dhaklo...
The father of a 10-year-old girl whose death in UK sparked an international manhunt in Pakistan will face trial for her murder next year...
An early morning emergency call alerting officers to Sara’s death was made from Pakistan by a man identifying himself as the father, according to detectives...
In a landmark case, seven-year-old Rabab Ali has sued the government for violating her rights, and the rights of her generation, to a healthy life...
She and her father, who is also the environmental lawyer representing her in the Pakistan supreme court, were heartened when the chief justice overruled the rejection of her appeal by the apex court’s registrar, stating that minors can file a legal petition in the interest of public at...
Pakistan has strongly condemned airstrikes by Israel on Gaza that resulted in injuries and deaths of Palestinians, including a five-year-old girl, according to a statement by the Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday...
Gaza’s health ministry reported that a “five-year-old girl, targeted by the Israeli occupation” was among nine people killed...
The father, stepmother and uncle of a 10-year-old girl whose death sparked an international manhunt in Pakistan have appeared in court in the UK charged with her murder...
Sara’s father Urfan Sharif, 41, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28, all traveled to Pakistan to stay with relatives before her body was found...
KARACHI: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested two more suspects for allegedly raping and killing a six-year-old girl in Orangi Town...
The girl had gone missing on Jan 25 and the body was found in an underground water tank in a wedding hall in Orangi Town’s Sector-8 on Sunday...
KENTUCKY: Another young girl from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swat district – home of child activist Malala Yousufzai – has earned international recognition by being awarded the third Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for dedicating her life to ending the practice of child marriages in Pakistan...
Thirteen-year-old Hadiqa Bashir is a women's rights activist who has successfully stopped several child marriages in her area...
An Indian policeman has been arrested on suspicion of raping a seven-year-old girl, allegedly while he was drunk, a senior officer said on Sunday...
Colleagues raised the alarm after finding the girl naked in the officer's quarters in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh late on Saturday, local police superintendent Vipin Tada told AFP...
A video of a 9-year-old girl showing marks of physical abuse allegedly by her teacher went viral over the weekend and caused outrage among people in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), police said on Sunday...
In the video, the mother of the minor girl, a student of a state-run primary school in Upper Tangerran village of tehsil Abbaspur, is seen showing marks of abuse on her daughter which she says are a result of brutal corporal...
KARACHI: A 17-year-old girl committed ‘suicide’ inside her home in Shah Faisal Colony on Monday, police said...
Chaudhry told Dawn that initial investigations showed that the girl consumed some poisonous substance in her home and died...
An 11-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered before her body was thrown in a deserted area in Sohrab Goth locality of Karachi, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar said on Monday...
Dr Rohina Hassan, the additional police surgeon of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital — where the corpse was shifted for post-mortem examination — told Dawn that the girl had been subjected to sexual assault and was strangled to death... ...
Police on Sunday raided a marriage ceremony in Sindh's Badin district, foiling a bid to marry off a minor girl to a 40-year-old man...
5 area and recovered a 10-year-old girl...
A 15-year-old Hindu girl was reportedly subjected to sexual assault by two persons in village Umed Ali Lashari near Umerkot town on Sunday...
According to police, Kirshan Bheel complained that the two accused forcibly took away his 15-year-old daughter when she was collecting fodder for animals in the field...