Tag: Child protection laws

Police on Thursday arrested a pedophile accused of raping nearly a dozen children in Lahore’s Sanda area. The suspect, who lured minors under the pretext of training them how to use a gun, would allegedly film the assault and blackmail his victims. For more news on human rights abuses, keep reading.

An inquiry by the social welfare dept found no evidence to substantiate PTI MPA Madiha Nisar’s claims of child sexual abuse at Darul Atfal. Chuttiana police on Friday arrested one Nazir for gunning down his nephew and strangling dead his daughter, whom he suspected of having an affair, for 'honour' in Chak 317-GB. One Munir gunned down his sister Kulsoom and then fled following a row over the ownership of a house in Adda Machiwal in Gujrat

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.