Banned groups continue activities in Karachi during crackdown on September 29, 2016 KARACHI: Amid crackdown against terrorist groups under National Action Plan, the banned militant outfits continue their activities like collecting funds, extorting money from citizens, bombings, targeted killings and kidnappings, independent observers and studies reveal. Sindh Rangers had launched the Karachi Operation in the largest commercial city of Pakistan on September 5, 2013 to uproot terrorism. […]
Sindh stalls on bid to outlaw forced conversions of Hindu girls on August 12, 2016KARACHI: Neelam Kohli 13, was kidnapped in 2014 from Kot Ghulam Muhammad, a small village in Tharparkar. She was forcibly converted to Islam and then allegedly raped by the kidnappers. The kidnappers, local influential Muslims could not be tried in the court of law because there is no law against forced conversion in Sindh. “She was […]
Marriage registration law brings dispute within minorities in Sindh on June 17, 2016KARACHI: Sikh community in Sindh has rejected the Hindu Marriage Law recently passed by Sindh Assembly for registration of marriages of religious minorities. For the first time in Pakistan, the provincial assembly has passed a bill in February 2016 to register the marriages of religious minorities in the province. The bill was welcomed by the Hindus; […]
No water for parched fisher colonies suffocating under heatwave on June 13, 2016KARACHI: Every morning, instead of leaving for work, 40-year Farhan Ahmed has to fetch water for his family of four as he fears that his two youngest children will suffer from dehydration due to the severe heat. He resides in a coastal slum in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi. Ahmed is often late for work because […]