Based in Karachi, Yousuf Katpar covers judiciary, social and human rights issues
This representational image shows a person holding a gavel. — Pexels/FileAn anti-terrorism court has acquitted two men in a case pertaining to...
The accused in his statement, however, claimed he was innocent and had falsely been implicated in the case
This representational image shows a person holding a gravel. — Pexels/FileA judicial magistrate on Thursday handed the custody of two minor...
This representational image shows a person holding a gavel. — Pexels/FileA gender-based-violence court has sentenced a man to two-year...
This representational image shows urinal in toilet. — Unsplash/File Under-trial prisoners brought to the judicial lock-ups in the City Courts...
Consul General of the Peoples Republic of China in Karachi Mr. Yang Yundong in a group photo during International Women’s Day celebration ceremony...
Representational image of a judge holding a gavel. — UnsplashAn anti-terrorism court has acquitted two men, said to be associated with the...
A representational image of men holding on to bars while being in prison. — AFP/FileA gender-based violence court on Friday jailed a man for...
Uzair Baloch. — The News FileAn anti-terrorism court on Thursday acquitted Uzair Baloch, chief of the outlawed Peoples Amn Committee , and three...
View of the KE headquarters in Karachi. — Facebook/K-ElectricA court has dismissed a civil appeal filed by K-Electric against an order for the...
In addition, he added, investigation officers do not call police experts for making sketches of the culprits
An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday handed down rigorous imprisonment for life to two men said to be associated with the proscribed Balochistan...
The Floral Art Society of Pakistan’s Gardenia Chapter on Monday honoured its members for their achievements at the recently held flower show in...
When citizens will see their needs are being met, their trust in the system, federation and state will increase. If you desire a robust state, you...
A sessions court on Friday granted interim pre-arrest bail to former District South SSP Imran Qureshi in a case pertaining to a robbery during a...
Judge says 8 accused, who are out on bail, would have to obtain bail afresh once reference is filed before relevant court
A model court has awarded rigorous imprisonment for life to an accused in a murder case. Jaffer Ali alias Meer was found guilty of killing his...
A model court on Saturday dismissed an application of an accused seeking post-arrest bail in a murder case. This representational image shows...
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan , which could not win any National Assembly seat from District East in the last general elections, has been...
Maryam, 18, is content and happy as she exits a polling station with her mother in Karachi’s NA-236. Glancing at her freshly inked thump, she...
Case was transferred from Hyderabad to accountability court in Karachi on orders of Sindh High Court
With a total population of 949,760, it has 561,283 registered voters -- 293,269 men and 268,014 women
With the February 8 elections a week away, NA-237, a National Assembly seat in Karachi's District East, has been witnessing heightened...
A sessions court on Monday sentenced two men to rigorous imprisonment for the remainder of their lives on the charges of gang raping a teenage...
Under a well-thought-out plan, the powers that be distorted Pakistan's political history. The current curriculum taught in universities, colleges...
Karachi's NA-235, a National Assembly constituency in the East district, stands out for its vibrant ethnic mix comprising a blend of middle and...
Sohail Abdul Salam Mughal was found guilty of shooting to death Munawwar Ali within jurisdiction of New Town PS
An anti-terrorism court has transferred an extortion case to a sessions court for trial in compliance with the Sindh High Court order that held...
The embattled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has fielded lawyers for around a dozen seats of the National Assembly and Sindh Assembly in Karachi. In the...
A sessions court has sentenced a man to three years of rigorous imprisonment on charges of sodomising his wife, in what her lawyer described...
Javeria Shahani, Mohammad Faraz Sheikh's marriage was registered in US on Aug 21, 2017, and out of this wedlock, Rohan was born on Jan 8, 2019, in US
The Rababi Fine Arts, in collaboration with the Pakistan Medical Association, held an exhibition and prize distribution ceremony for an art...
A sessions court has sentenced a rickshaw driver to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to abduction and rape of a teenage girl. A...
An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday indicted seven police officers on charges of killing four men, including aspiring model Naseemullah alias...
A book by defence analyst and security expert Ikram Sehgal's daughter Haya Fatima Sehgal was launched at the Quaid-i-Azam Museum on Monday on the...
KARACHI: A sessions court on Tuesday granted post-arrest bail to Deputy Superintendent of Police Umair Tariq Bajari in a case pertaining to the...
A sessions court has dismissed the application of the principal/owner of a private school seeking post-arrest bail in a case pertaining to sexually...
A sessions court has acquitted Uzair Baloch, chief of the outlawed Peoples Amn Committee , in as many as three 11-year-old cases pertaining to...
A court has handed down a collective sentence of nine years to a Christian man for contracting a second marriage despite his first wife being...
Senior prosecutors on Friday demanded the removal of Sindh Prosecutor General Dr Faiz Shah over what they said defaming and demoralising the entire...
An anti-terrorism court has indicted two alleged facilitators of a terrorist attack on the Karachi Police Office in February this year.Abdul Aziz...
An anti-terrorism court has dismissed an application seeking the transfer of an extortion case to a sessions court for trial, ruling that it...
After months of foot-dragging to fill vacant posts of judges in Karachi’s accountability courts —commonly known as NAB courts -- the federal...
The convict was ordered to pay Rs200,000 as compensation to the legal heirs of the victim
Titled 'Dasht Mein Saman Aur Gulab: Creating Public Cultural Spaces', the session was moderated by Shoaib Ahmed