Tag: child abuse
Over 17,000 children abused in Pakistan during 2013-17, says report
ISLAMABAD: At least 17,000 children were abused in Pakistan during the years of 2013 and 2017, according to a report published by the child...
Another three-year-old girl found raped, murdered in Mardan
MARDAN: A three-year-old girl, who went missing three days back, was found dead Tuesday after allegedly being subjected to sexual abuse in Mardan.
The body of...
Trauma ruins lives of sexually abused children, psychiatrists warn
Change in behavior, secretiveness, social withdrawal among common alarming factors
In recent years, 10% annual increase in such cases has been reported in Pakistan
Psychiatrists on...
Video of PML-N senator ‘groping’ girl during Karachi protest causes online...
A video that surfaced on Facebook showing a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior lawmaker "groping" a minor girl caused widespread public outrage on the...
Man held for attempted sexual assault of minor in Kasur
KASUR: A man was reportedly held for an attempted sexual assault of a minor girl in Kot Radha Kishan, district Kasur, on Sunday.
The incident...
Senate committee seeks public execution of child rapists
--Committee’s bill, entitled the Criminal Law Amendment Act 2018, seeks to amend the Pakistan Penal Code Act 1860’s Section 364-A (kidnapping or abducting a...
Another man suspected of teenage boy’s rape arrested
RAWALPINDI: Days after the arrest of the first suspect, police arrested the second alleged rapist of a teenage boy from a house on Rawalpindi's...
Ahsan Iqbal says media is exaggerating child abuse issue
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday criticised print and electronic for blowing the issue of child abuse in the country out of proportion, saying...
NCHR to be party in Zainab case: Chairman
ISLAMABAD: National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) Chairman Justice (R) Ali Nawaz Chowhan on Monday said that the NCHR would become a party in the kidnapping...
Senate body instructs setting up rapid response cell to tackle child...
Asks government to set up National Commission on Rights of Children immediately
ISLAMABAD: The Senate's Standing Committee on Interior on Monday asked all inspectors general...
Highest number of child rape cases occurred in Lahore in 2017:...
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Committee on Human Rights was informed on Saturday that out of all the cities in Punjab, Lahore saw the highest number of...
Bohemia dedicates new song Gumraah to victims of abuse
Zainab’s brutal rape and murder weeks ago touched people in ways like never before. It sparked an immense outrage against such acts and those...
Let’s call 2018 ‘year of children’: Farhatullah Babar
Child commissioner suggests linking DNA test with NADRA
Calling for compiling credible data on incidents involving child abuse, Senator Farhatullah Babar, while addressing a...
8-year-old girl molested in Sohawa
RAWALPINDI: A man identified as Muhammad Ishaq molested an eight-year-old girl after abducting her from her house in the jurisdiction of the Sohawa police station...
Mardan minor girl suffered sexual assault before murder: report
MARDAN: The four-year-old girl whose body was found on Sunday evening was allegedly assaulted before she was murdered, reports a local English daily.
This was...
Punjab govt works on practical measures to eradicate child abuse: report
LAHORE: The grisly incident of rape and murder of six-year-old Zainab of Kasur seems to have brought the Punjab government out of its slumber...
WPC plans to start awareness drive on child abuse
ISLAMABAD: Women Parliamentary Caucus (WPC) on Tuesday decided to raise awareness among the masses about child abuse by starting seminars, teachers training and parental guidance...