Category: National

  • Four missing girls from Lahore found in Sahiwal: Police

    Four missing girls from Lahore found in Sahiwal: Police

     Four girls who went missing for the last four days have been found in Sahiwal, Geo News reported Wednesday.

    As per reports, they went missing from Lahore’s Hanjarwal area. The mother of two of the girls said that her daughters went missing with their neighbours’ daughters at 8pm on July 30.

    “Out of fear of humiliation, we did not inform anyone and searched for the girls ourselves,” she said.

    According to the police, the four girls were found in Sahiwal and Lahore police officials had gone to Sahiwal to pick them up from there.

    The girls reportedly said that they were not kidnapped by anyone but turned off their mobile phones for fear of being scolded by their parents. The police traced their location when one of the girls switched on her mobile phone.

    Read More: Four missing girls from Lahore found in Sahiwal: police

    Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar had ordered Punjab Police to recover the missing girls and told Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Lahore to submit a report.

    In a similar incident, the Lahore police found four more girls who had run away from Pakpattan, according to a statement issued by the CCPO Lahore. The case was reported to Pakpattan police.

    According to a statement given to the police, the girls said they fled Pakpattan because they feared their uncle. The girls will be safely sent to their families, Lahore CCPO Ghulam Mahmood Dogar said.

  • Imam Masjid arrested for trying to rape two minor girls

    Imam Masjid arrested for trying to rape two minor girls

    Police have arrested an Imam Masjid in Faisalabad for trying to rape two minor girls.

    As per reports, the parents of the girls did not want to file a complaint against the prayer leader after, but the police registered a case on the complaint of an inspector.

    The applicant, Inspector Abdul Hameed, said he along with constables was on duty when he received information that a video had gone viral on social media that showed a prayer leader trying to rape a girl. The suspect, he said, also violated the sacredness of the mosque and the locals identified him.

    Read More: Karachi woman tortured to death over parking spot

    The Sandal Bar police arrested the suspect and registered a case against him. City Police Officer Suhail Chaudhry said the suspect tried to rape two minor girls and the police immediately took action and registered a case though the girls’ families were not willing to pursue the case. He said the suspect was arrested and the girls have been sent to court for a statement.

  • Karachi woman tortured to death over parking spot

    A woman was tortured to death in Karachi over a parking issue.

    As per reports, the incident was reported in Karachi’s North Nazimabad Block L, where a woman argued with a man named Farhan over parking his vehicle in front of her home.

    Later, the man along with his accomplices barged into the house of the woman and tortured her to death.

    Read More: Pakistani-Italian girl in Italy goes missing after she refuses arranged marriage

    Earlier this year in Karachi, a man was killed when he refrained boys from playing cricket in front of his house in North Karachi.

    According to the police, the incident happened in North Karachi’s Sector 5-D, where four boys attacked a 31-year-old man named Rehan with the bat and wicket when he asked the boys not to play cricket in front of his house.

    Rehan was taken to a nearby hospital, but he could not survive. Police arrested the boys.

  • This village in Punjab has 100 percent literacy rate

    This village in Punjab has 100 percent literacy rate

    Rasool Pur is a village, located in the Rajanpur district of Punjab. This amazing village not only has 100% literacy rate, but it also has zero percent crime rate.

    According to a report of Samaa News, Rasool Pur was established as a village in 1933 when people migrated from Balochistan and made this place their home.

    The villagers not only know how to read and write, but most of them have finished their high school education.

    There are two high schools in Rasool Pur, one for girls and one is for boys.

    It is one of the most peaceful places to live in Pakistan. The crime rate in the village is zero percent.

    One of the things that you will notice in Rasool Pur is the cleanliness. Although the village has limited resources, the villagers have made sure that their village does not have any garbage lying around. The sewerage system here is also well maintained.

    They have their own department to cater the issues and development projects of their village.

    Many of the women from this village are highly educated and working as doctors and engineers in different areas of Pakistan.

    The locals of this village understand the value of education and know that it is much more than simply a means of earning more.

  • ‘No child in Pakistan is safe’: Shaniera Akram on rape, murder of a six year old

    ‘No child in Pakistan is safe’: Shaniera Akram on rape, murder of a six year old

    Shaniera Akram took to her Twitter account to express her anger over the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl Maham, in Karachi who was raped and then killed in Karachi on  Wednesday. The child went missing from Karachi’s Korangi area and was later found dead in a dumpster in the city.

    As per reports, her dead body was shifted to the hospital for postmortem. The autopsy report confirmed that the girl was killed after being sexually assaulted.

    “Things have got to change, It’s got to stop. Things have to change as it stands today, no child in Pakistan is safe”, said Shaniera in a tweet.

    She highlighted the deep-rooted issue of child sexual abuse in Pakistan in a series of tweets.

  • Police rescue woman tied with chains, locked up by brothers

    Police rescue woman tied with chains, locked up by brothers

    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police rescued a woman tied with the chains and locked up in a dark room by her brothers for over a year on Tuesday.

    As per reports, police have arrested the three brothers identified as Sahir Khan, Faheem Khan, and Nadeem Khan while the fourth brother is on the run. 

    Talking to The Express Tribune, District Police Officer (DPO) Swabi Muhammad Shoaib said they had received information about the woman they raided the house after confirmation and released her from the illegal captivity.

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    Mohammad Shoaib further told the media that the woman was living with her brothers after her divorce. “She wanted to move the court to claim her children’s expenses from her ex-husband but her brothers did not want this.”

    Read More: Imam Masjid arrested for ‘torturing’ 13-year-old boy in Lahore

    “There was not even a fan inside the room. When we raided the house, we saw that she had been chained like an animal and the only light coming into the room was through a window,” said another police official.

    The policeman added that the woman had been imprisoned as her brothers blamed her for the divorce and were also against her seeking a job. 

    The woman stated in her FIR that she got married 13 years ago and had two children, a girl and a boy. A case has been filed against the accused and an investigation is underway. 

  • Case registered against five suspects for raping, killing goat in Okara

    Police booked five men for allegedly raping and killing a goat in Okara on Tuesday.

    According to the police, five men unchained a labourer’s goat and took it with them to a nearby compound. The suspects sexually assaulted the animal, tortured and killed it.

    As per reports, locals saw the suspects escaping after committing the crime.

    The owner of the goat registered a complaint with the police. Police registered a case against the five suspects.

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    Azhar Hussain, a local of Satghara police station, had his goat tied in front of his house which was untied by Naeem and his four partners. The suspects took the goat to a nearby compound where they tortured and raped it.

    Read More: ‘Do female goats also need to wear abaya?’: Mathira questions the system

    The goat was taken to a livestock hospital by the police. The medical report showed that the goat was raped before it was killed. Police have started a search operation to arrest the suspects.

    DPO Faisal Shehzad took notice of the incident and ordered Satghara SHO Javed Khan to detain the culprits as soon as possible. SHO Javed Khan said the suspects will be arrested soon.

    Residents of the area demanded from the police to strictly punish the culprits for the heinous crime.

  • Imam Masjid arrested for ‘torturing’ 13-year-old boy in Lahore

    Imam Masjid arrested for ‘torturing’ 13-year-old boy in Lahore

    A 13-year-old boy was beaten up by an Imam Masjid because he reportedly took a leave for a day.

    Lahore police on Tuesday arrested the imam of a mosque for allegedly torturing a 13-year-old boy.

    As per reports, Assistant Superintendent of Police Kahna Circle Shoaib Memon and his team went to arrest the imam identified as Tariq.

    Read More: Woman raped in front of 14-month-old baby, both die in hospital

    According to a statement issued by Lahore’s Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) office, the police took notice of the incident and released orders to instantly arrest the mosque’s imam.

    CCPO Ghulam Muhammad Dogar said that the Model Town police has already started an investigation into the matter to serve justice.

    “No incident of torture against children will be tolerated,” said Dogar.

  • Bride refuses to go with groom due to his three missing fingers

    A bride in Muzaffargarh refused to go with the groom because three fingers of the groom’s hand were cut off.

    As per reports, the incident took place in the Chowk Sarwar Shaheed area of ​​Muzaffargarh.

    Majid tied the knot with Shabana but at the time of rukhsati, the bride refused to go with the groom because of the groom’s missing fingers.

    Read More: Groom’s mother beats him with chappal during wedding ceremony

    The bride’s father said that the groom’s hand did not have three fingers, which we got to know about just now.

    Despite hours of waiting and requests, the bride did not agree to go with the groom and the groom’s family returned home after waiting for 5 hours.

  • 19-year-old Shehroze Kashif sets world record by scaling K2

    A 19-year-old Pakistani, Shehroze Kashif, has made a world record by scaling the world’s second-highest mountain, K2. Kashif has become the youngest mountaineer in the world to summit K2.

    Following his feat, President Arif Alvi lauded the young man and congratulated him on his achievement.

    Former cricketer, Imran Nazir also took to Twitter to congratulate Kashif.

    Earlier this year, Shehroze Kashif became the youngest Pakistani to scale the world’s largest mountain above the seal level, Mount Everest.