Tag: Victims

Child abuse victims without parental lineage at severe disadvantage, Senate told

Senate's Special Committee on the Increasing Incidents of Child Abuse was held on Tuesday which was convened by Senator Nuzhat Sadiq. The meeting was attended...

Facilitation centres for child abuse victims, their families proposed

ISLAMABAD: The task force constituted on Zainab’s murder case to diagnose systematic issue of child abuse has recommended to set up a ‘One Stop...

Dalai Lama meets alleged victims of abuse by Buddhist gurus

ROTTERDAM: Four people who say Tibetan Buddhist teachers abused them physically or psychologically presented the Dalai Lama with written accounts from 12 alleged victims...

Pope prays for victims of Japan floods

HIROSHIMA: Pope Francis is praying for the victims of Japan's flooding and is encouraging civil authorities involved in search and rescue operations. Francis sent a...

Pakistani exchange student among victims of Texas school shooting

SANTA FE, TEXAS: A foreign exchange student from Pakistan, Sabika Sheikh was among the first confirmed victims of Friday’s mass shooting at a Texas...

Victims in Chile abuse scandal hail resignations

VATICAN CITY: Victims of Chile's most notorious predator priest are reacting with praise and hope after every Chilean bishop offered to resign over a...

Families of Kharan gun attack victims being threatened, SC told

--Court orders Okara police to provide security to families ISLAMABAD: Families of the labourers who were killed in a gun attack in Kharan on Thursday...

Peru human rights victims families ask court to nullify Fujimori pardon

SAN JOSE: The families of victims of human rights abuses under former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori testified on Friday at an international human rights...

Pope Francis shocks Chile by accusing sex victims of ‘calumny’

SANTIGO: Pope Francis accused victims of Chile’s most notorious paedophile of slander on Thursday, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal...

Three high school girls among people mutilated by Japan ‘serial killer’

TOKYO: Three high school girls, including a 15-year-old, were among the nine people mutilated by a suspected serial killer in Japan, reports said Monday,...

Japanese ‘serial killer’ confesses to killing victims over ‘two months’

TOKYO: A Japanese man, arrested after police found nine dismembered corpses rotting in his house, has confessed to killing all his victims over a...

Sexual predators in Bollywood protected by victims’ silence

MUMBAI/ABUJA: Two major Bollywood rape-revenge dramas released in 2017 had beefy heroes take on men or gangs who had sexually assaulted their wives or...

27 fall victim to dengue in Karachi in first week of...

KARACHI: At least 27 people have been infected with dengue virus during the first week of October in the metropolis, it was reported on...

These celebs are sharing awkward teen pics of themselves for Puerto...

We've all been through those awkward teenage years. No one escaped them. You could have had a bad haircut, a permanently pained expression or particularly eyebrow-raising...

Model Town victims see ray of hope after LHC order

LAHORE: Bismah, a student of intermediate second year, was standing outside the central secretariat of Minhaj-ul-Quran on Thursday in Model Town, making the victory sign...

Masarrat Misbah: A messiah for acid burn victims

In conversation with Masarrat Misbah   “I still remember when a girl walked into my salon in a burqa. Thinking she was a beggar, I told...

Pak vs Aus: Moment of silence observed in memory of PIA...

A minute of silence was observed at Cazaly's Stadium in Cairns, in the memory of victims of Wednesday's plane crash, before the warm-up match...