7 children drown while swimming in Indus River in Pak's Sindh province
World | June 05, 2020 19:27 ISTSeven children, including three girls, drowned on Friday while swimming in the Indus River in Pakistan's Sindh province, police said.
Seven children, including three girls, drowned on Friday while swimming in the Indus River in Pakistan's Sindh province, police said.
A total of 253 children below the age of 10 years have tested positive for coronavirus in Pakistan's Sindh province, authorities said on Saturday.
At least 20 people have died and several others injured after a speeding train rammed into a passenger bus at an unmanned railway crossing in Pakistan's Sindh. The incident took place near Rohri railway station on Friday night.
India on Friday summoned a senior official of the Pakistan High Commission here and lodged a strong protest over recent cases of abduction of minor girls belonging to minority Hindu community in that country, official sources said.
New cases of polio have been reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Sindh and Balochistan region.
Riots broke out in Pakistan's Sindh province on Sunday after a school principal from the minority Hindu community was booked on charges of alleged blasphemy, according to a media report.
In India, Cyclone Vayu has changed its course and is unlikely to make landfall in Gujarat, but it will cause heavy rain in several coastal districts of the state, officials said on Thursday.
As of Monday, 700 people including 576 children were tested positive for HIV since the outbreak was first reported on April 25.
The Sindh health department blamed "quacks" or unqualified practitioners for reusing syringes which is one of the major sources of HIV spread among the general population, especially children.
Violence erupted in Phulhadiyon area of Sindh on Monday over an issue relating to a Hindu man. Ramesh Kumar, a Hindu doctor, was accused of having committed blasphemy.
According to an inquiry by the health authorities, most of the infected children had visited a private clinic of a local paediatrician named Dr Muzaffar Ghangar in Ratodero for other ailments.
Mahendra who hails from Rajasthan's Khejad Ka Paar village of Barmer was earlier supposed to take wedding vows on March 8 with Chagan Kanwar, who is a resident of Sinoi village in Pakistan's Sindh province.
His claim came a day after the provincial Minorities Affairs Minister Hari Ram Kishori Lal directed authorities to register an FIR of the abduction and provide protection to the girl's family.
In a tweet, Swaraj, while tagging a media report about the incident, said she has asked the Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to send a report on the matter.
The Sindh Hindu Marriage (Amendment) Bill 2018 not only accords the right of separation to both the spouses, but also ensures the financial security of the wife and children.
A case was filed against the boy under Section 295-A of the Pakistan Penal Code on the orders of Mirpurkhas Senior Superintendent Police Abid Ali Baloch
Malani is a Pakistani Hindu Rajasthani Pushkarna Brahamin politician. He was a member of parliament from 2003-08 on a reserved seat, nominated by the PPP.
At least 18 people were killed and another 30 hospitalised after a road accident in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President and Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora also said when the national anthem was adopted in 1950, the then President Rajendra Prasad had said if required the anthem would be amended in future.
The report noted the alarming ISIS grip over Pakistan, especially in Balochistan and northern Sindh as it carried out the deadliest attacks in those provinces. It said that footprints of ISIS wereincreasing and it “killed 153 in 6 deadliest attacks”
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