It's a grim reality that Pakistan ranks among the most challenging countries for women to live in, evident in the denial of social rights, discrimination, honour killings, rapes, abductions, marital abuses, forced marriages, and coerced abortions.
Shakirullah Marwat, the district and sessions judge of South Waziristan who was abducted by unidentified kidnappers on Dera Ismail Khan's Tank Road reached home safely after being recovered 'unconditionally', the Counter-Terrorism Department confirmed on Monday, Dawn reported.
A group of exiled Tibetans on Thursday, offered prayers in Jonang Monestry at Dingu on the occasion of the 35th birthday of 11th Panchen Lama, who was abducted by the Chinese government at the age of six.
According to Kadiam Circle Inspector B. Thulasidhar, the incident took place in the Kadiam area, where Sneha and Battina Venkatanandu, the groom exchanged vows. However, the celebrations took a dark turn as Sneha's family forcefully entered the venue, instigating violence and attempting to a
According to the report, the FIR was lodged at the request of the foreign embassy which also approached law enforcement seeking the recovery of the abducted citizen.
A minor girl from Tripura's Sepahijala district who was allegedly abducted from her locality was rescued from the neighbouring state of Assam. A total of three persons were arrested in connection with the case and subsequently produced before the Court on Thursday, a police official stated.
The families of forcibly abducted Baloch individuals blocked the Quetta-Karachi highway near the Mastung district of Balochistan on Tuesday, demanding the safe return of their loved ones, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) stated.
Some unidentified gunmen shot dead at least nine people hailing from Punjab after abducting them from a passenger bus in Noshki, officials said. Another attack on a separate vehicle killed one person and injured four
According to the same UN press release the experts expressed concern that forced marriages and religious conversions of girls from religious minorities which have been coerced are validated by the courts, often invoking religious law to justify keeping victims with their abductors rather tha
Blaming the previous caretaker government, again for the deteriorating law and order situation, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has said that for the rising incidents of street crimes, extortion, and abductions in the province particularly in Karachi, it is them who are solely responsibl
"Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence," the experts said in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday.