Tag: Rape
Nigerian author believes #MeToo movement ‘long overdue’
PARIS: The great global reckoning with sexual harassment is "long overdue", says acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, however, the feminist figurehead in Africa...
Senators meet Aasma’s family to offer condolences
MARDAN: Senators Nasreen Jalil and Shahi Syed on Thursday visited the family of the deceased minor girl Aasma in Gojat Garhi area to offer their condolences...
Zainab murder case: LHC orders ATC to judge accused within 7...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday ordered a special anti-terrorism court (ATC) hearing the Zainab rape and murder case to give a...
SC acquits 11 year old’s alleged rapist, murderer
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday acquitted the alleged rapist and murderer of an 11-year-old girl due to the absence of sufficient evidence...
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...
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...
22 years sentence for two men found guilty of raping a...
KARACHI: Two men have been handed 22-year prison sentences by the Additional District and Session Court in Malir after they were found guilty of...
Yet another deadline as Zainab’s case remains unsolved
SC gives 72 hours to Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing rape, murder of seven-year-old to bring investigation to its logical conclusion
Top court...
India SC acquits director of raping American scholar
NEW DELHI: India's top court on Friday upheld the acquittal of a Bollywood director accused of raping an American research scholar in a case...
Around 600 DNA samples collected in Zainab murder case probe
Law Minister Rana Sanaullah says police close to arresting rapist-cum-murderer
With the authorities on Friday continuing to collect and examine DNA samples in a...
Police arrests man accused of raping teenage daughter
RAWALPINDI: A resident of Katarian has been arrested by the New Town police for allegedly raping his 15-year-old daughter.
According to the accused’s wife, her husband...
Police arrest grade 2 student’s alleged molester in Kahuta
RAWALPINDI: An alleged child molester who supposedly subjected a seven-year-old boy to sexual abuse in Kahuta city’s Jama Masjid area was arrested by the police...
No truth to man’s claim of rape of three daughters in...
Khurram Shahzad Victor has been camping outside LPC for three months in 'search of justice' while facts negate rape claim
Victor, involved in a...
‘We don’t know what’s happening’, says Zainab’s father
KASUR: The rape and murders of a dozen children by a suspected serial killer have terrified parents in central Pakistan, and prompted soul-searching over...
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...
Police arrest 4 suspects involved in rapes of children
KARACHI: Police officers on Monday arrested three people including a bank manager for raping a 13-year-old girl in the Korangi area of the city.
According to...
Celebrities demand #JusticeforZainab
In wake of Zainab's heart-wrenching rape and murder in Kasur, the Pakistani community is attempting to unite against the taboo of sexual harassment and...
