Tag: Child protection laws

A judicial magistrate on Wednesday ordered the registration of rape charges against Arzoo Raja case prime accused Syed Ali Azhar. Non-bailable arrest warrants have been issued for all absconded suspects. For more human rights stories, keep reading.

Over 12,600 cases registered in child protection units in Larkana, Dadu, Shikarpur and Jacobabad by parents and service providers, reveals Sindh Child Protection Authority. Read on for more.

Sindh High Court orders simplified SOP for investigative practices in rape and assault cases. While the Supreme Court had earlier called for reforms in existing investigation methods for sex crimes, the order has yet to be implemented.

Anti-harassment posters put up in BRT buses, terminals to inculcate safe spaces for women and raise public awareness;

Protests erupt in Lower Dir against the murder and alleged rape of two-year-old Hareem Shah; woman gang-raped by two men impersonating police officers in Sheikhupura; man stabs his wife and her alleged paramour to death for honour in Karachi.

Eight-year-old boy raped by 'multiple persons', bludgeoned to death in Kalat, Balochistan; two-year-old girl who had been missing for the past five days found dead in Lower Dir; eight-year-old boy raped by imam in Faisalabad, accused at large.

A GCU Faisalabad Campus student was gang raped and filmed by her classmate and his three accomplices in Chiniot, prime accused nabbed by police while remaining three suspects at large; a seven-year-old was raped in Swabi, prime accused arrested after confessing to the crime; minor sisters burned in acid attack by neighbour for refusing proposal in Faislabad; three sent to judicial remand for threatening female neighbour with acid attack on refusal of proposal.

Lahore policeman arrested for allegedly raping a performer in a Garden Town hotel; ten-year-old boy raped by teacher in a hostel in Ahmadpur East; senior couple accused of blasphemy for allegedly "defiling" Quran.

A fourteen-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl were raped in Jaranwala, district Faislabad, while a thirteen-year-old boy was gang-raped in Lahore. A young, married woman was raped at gunpoint in Jaranwala. A man was gunned down in Mansehra for honour by wife's brother and nephew, as she had contracted the marriage against her family's wishes. Four Dolphin Force policemen have been booked for torturing, looting and illegally detaining two youths in Islamabad.

28-month-old Zainab’s mother has been suffering seizures since the day her daughter was found murdered after being sexually assaulted some three days ago in Charsadda district. Her entire family is in shock.