Based in Karachi, Yousuf Katpar covers judiciary, social and human rights issues
Students appearing in a test. — APP/FileA judicial magistrate has returned bail applications of six suspects, including three officials of Dow...
Representational image of a judge holding a gavel. — Unsplash/FileA sessions court has sentenced a woman to seven-year imprisonment in a case...
This representational image shows a person holding a gavel. — Pexels/FileA banking court has handed down a collective sentence of 17 years in...
Police personnel stand alert in Karachi on February 2, 2024. — INPFormer Clifton SP Nayyar ul Haque and three other police officers were acquitted...
This representational image shows a person holding a gavel. — Pexels/FileA court on Thursday handed down a collective sentence of nine years in...
This representational image shows a person holding a gavel. — Pexels/FileA judicial magistrate has rejected the final investigation report...
Sindh Chief Secretary Syed Asif Hyder Shah addresses the audience at an event on October 1, 2024. — Facebook@unicefpakistan Speaking his heart...
A postman is collecting letters from a post box at GPO Cantt on October 8, 2024. — APPA consumer court has ordered three Pakistan Post employees...
A representational image showing a person handcuffed and standing behind bars. — AFP/FileA sessions court has sentenced a 54-year-old man to...
A representational image of a handcuffed man standing behind bars. — APP/FileA sessions court has awarded a collective sentence of 14 years in...
Writer-Journalist Tooba Masood Khan holding a copy of ‘Society Girl: A Tale of Sex, Lies, and Scandal’, co-authored with fellow journalist Saba...
Police personnel stand alert in Karachi on February 2, 2024. — INPThe legal heirs of a man who was found dead in the lock-up of the Darakhshan...
Representational image of a judge holding a gavel. — Unsplash/FileA model court on Monday handed down death sentence to a mugger and life...
A representational image of a handcuffed man. — APP/FileA local court on Friday sentenced a man to two-year imprisonment for his involvement in a...
An undated image of renowned businessman Zulfiqar Ahmed. — Screengrab via YouTube/Geo News/FileA judicial magistrate has accepted the police's...
This representational image shows a person holding a gavel. — Pexels/FileAn anti-terrorism court has acquitted an accused in a case pertaining to...
Uzair Baloch and others seen in this image. — Reuters/fileAn anti-terrorism court on Thursday acquitted Lyari gang war kingpin Uzair Jan Baloch...
View of the site after a traffic accident due to overspeeding on Karsaz road in Karachi on August 19, 2024. — PPIA female SUV driver who had been...
This representational image shows the gavel in a courtroom. — Unsplash/FileAn anti-terrorism court has dismissed an application seeking transfer...
Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi speaks during an interview in Karachi. — APP/FileFormer prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on...
This image shows Baloch marchers staging a sit-in in Islamabad on December 23, 2023. — X/@BYCislamabadA sessions court on Monday dismissed an...
Baloch rights activist Dr Mahrang Baloch speaking in this undated image. — Instagram/@mahrangbaloch?FilePower cuts are a routine in Karachi, but...
A MoU signing ceremony between the Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman Foundation and the British Asian Trust . — British Asian Trust Website/FileThe Mir...
Dr Shahnawaz Kumbhar seen in this image. — X/@MushRajpar/FileThe Sindh Human Rights Commission has observed that Dr Shahnawaz Kunbhar was...
A representational image of a hospital ward. — AFP/FileA consumer court has ordered a private hospital and a doctor to pay Rs15 million in...
A representational image of destroyed house by collapsed roof. — APP/fileOver four-and-a-half years after the collapse of a multi-storey building...
A representational image of reporters. — AFP/File In a society where freedom of speech and expression is continuously threatened, the press faces...
This representational image shows a gavel. — Unsplash/File An anti-terrorism court has handed down life imprisonment on two counts to four men in...
Representational image of inmates behind jail bars. — Unsplash/FileA sessions court has sentenced two muggers to a total of 12 years in prison in...
Representational image of a judge holding a gavel. — AFP/FileA sessions court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 14 years of rigorous imprisonment for...
Social workers and activists of Sindh Sujagi Forum stage a protest against killing of Dr Shahnawaz Kumbhar demanding immediate arrest of killers...
Representational image of a judge holding a gavel. — AFP/FileA civil court has ordered the owner and driver of a water tanker to pay Rs5 million...
This representational image shows a person holding a gavel. — Pexels/FileA model court has acquitted a man in a case pertaining to the murders of...
Sindh Senior Minister for Information and Transport Sharjeel Inam Memon speaks during a meeting on April 28, 2024. —...
The Sindh High Court building in Karachi. — Facebook/The High Court of Sindh, Karachi/FileSeated on a wooden bench in a small courtroom, Mukhtar...
This representational image shows the hands of an incarcerated person. — AFP/FileAn anti-corruption court on Saturday sentenced an employee of...
Advocate Hussan Bano speaks in a event seen in this image released on July 20 2024. — Facebook/@hussan.bano.52Dismissing an application seeking...
This representational image shows the hands of a person behind bars — AFP/File A sessions court has sentenced a man to two years in prison for...
A representational image of a man in handcuffs. — APP/fileA banking court has sentenced a former bank manager to a total of 13 years in prison in...
Supreme Court of Pakistan can be seen in this image released on April 6, 2022. — AFPThe provincial bar councils’ Coordination Committee has...
View of the site after traffic accident due to overspeeding on Karsaz road in Karachi on August 19, 2024. —PPIA sessions court on Friday dismissed...
This representational image shows a person holding a gavel. — Pexels/FileA sessions court has sentenced an accused to death in a four-year-old...
This representational image shows a person holding a gavel. — Pexels/FileA sessions court has acquitted four rights activists in a case pertaining...
View of the site after traffic accident due to overspeeding on Karsaz road in Karachi on August 19, 2024. —PPIA judicial magistrate on Monday...
This representational image shows the gavel in a courtroom. — Unsplash/FileA sessions court has ordered two excise and taxation officials of...
This representational image shows a person holding a gavel. — Pexels/FileAn anti-terrorism court has acquitted a man in two cases pertaining to...
Victims’ family pardoned her “in the name of Almighty Allah” and expressed no objection to her release
China’s Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong expressing his views on 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will Benefit...
