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  • ATC acquits seven men in Kasur child abuse scandal

    LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday acquitted seven men in one of the nine cases police had registered in the Kasur child abuse scandal...

    Ganda Singhwala police had registered cases against them as well as some other people on charges of abducting and sexually assaulting 280 children in Kasur...

  • Sexual assault on boys in Kasur: Sociologists, psychologists to help find out causes of crime

    LAHORE: Alarmed over rising incidents of sexual assault on young boys and subsequent murders of some of them in Kasur district, the provincial government has decided to not only sternly deal with the culprits, but also engage sociologists and psychologists to dig out the reasons behind the gruesome act...

    “There is a need to go to sociological roots of the incidents being reported at a large scale from one of the central Punjab...

  • ‘Nawaz Sharif’ from Kasur files NA-120 nomination papers

    LAHORE: In what appears to be a publicity prank, a young man from Kasur, a namesake of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has filed nomination papers with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to contest by-election in NA-120, the constituency which fell vacant after Mr Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court...

    Looking to quell the confusion, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) reached out to media houses explaining...

  • ATC acquits four in Kasur child abuse case

    LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday gave benefit of the doubt and acquitted four suspects in one of the nine cases in the Kasur child abuse scandal that surfaced in 2015...

    Ganda Singhwala police of Kasur had registered the cases against the suspects and some others on charges of abducting and sexually assaulting around 280 children of Kasur...

  • CM surprises Kasur DHQ hospital’s staff, patients

    KASUR: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif paid a surprise visit to the Kasur District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital on Wednesday and suspended the deputy medical officer for his absence...

    He also sent his team to Ferozepur Road with the members of the district administration to remover encroachments from Mustafabad to Kasur...

  • Seven-year-old raped, murdered in Kasur

    A 7-year-old girl was brutally raped and murdered in Kasur on Tuesday evening, police sources told Dawn...

    According to Younis, a First Investigation Report has been registered against unidentified assailants under Sections 302 and 363 of the Pakistan Penal Code...

  • Demo against Kasur incident

    LAHORE: Students and civil society gathered at Liberty Roundabout on Monday to protest at child abuse in Pakistan...

    In the light of a recent news from Kasur involving a racket of child abusers, the protest was called by the Democratic Students Alliance...

  • Kasur child abuse case: LHC CJ seeks report on inclusion of ATA clauses

    LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday sought a report from Advocate General Punjab Naveed Rasool Mirza, Inspector General Police Punjab Mushtaq Sukhera and Home Secretary Punjab Azam Suleman to determine if the Kasur child abuse case can be tried in an anti-terrorism court (ATC)...

    Also read: Kasur scandal: 'I thought of killing myself everyday'Reports of the sexual abuse of about 280 children have shocked the country...

  • Post-Kasur: This project helps people break silence over child sexual abuse

    Trigger warning: sexual assault/child abuseAfter the shocking findings about child sexual abuse (CSA) crimes in Kasur, a Facebook page called The Parting Project has taken an encouraging initiative to stand in solidarity with all the victims...

    com, Faizan shares the reasons for using his page to give voice to the silent survivors in our society:"The horrific story that surfaced from Kasur wasn't an isolated incident," Faizan said... ...

  • Five remanded to police custody over Kasur child abuse case

    LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday remanded five men arrested in connection with the Kasur child abuse case to police custody for 28 days...

    Read: Kasur child abuse case: LHC CJ seeks report on inclusion of ATA clauses"These five men will join seven others who are already in police custody in connection with the child abuse case," added Saeed...

  • Special Branch chief, Kasur DPO removed

    LAHORE/KASUR: As the demand for punishing the suspects involved in the ghastly child abuse scandal intensified, the Punjab government removed on Tuesday the chief of the provincial intelligence agency from his post for failing to keep the chief minister informed about the incident...

    The government also removed the Kasur police chief and two DSPs and constituted a joint investigation team (JIT) to probe the scandal...

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