KARACHI: A 12-year-old boy from Balochistan, who had been battling rabies for the past four days at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), died at the facility on the evening of Nov 4. Sources said that the patient with a history of dog bite developed rabies despite getting the vaccine…
KASUR: The Crime Control Department (CCD) claimed on Nov 4 to have solved the blind murder of an 11-year-old boy, whose body was found near his home in the fields of Hussain Khanwala village. According to details, a case was registered against an unidentified suspect after the 11-year-old victim F…
RAWALPINDI: Four incidents involving obstruction of polio vaccination teams in different areas of Rawalpindi over the past two days have been reported to the police by district health department officials. In one incident, a female polio team member was allegedly punched and assaulted, while her mobile phone was smashed by…
HYDERABAD: Sindh Ombudsman Dr Mohammad Sohail Rajput, who is a former chief secretary of Sindh, has expressed his disappointment over the slow pace of disciplinary proceedings against 64 employees of the Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital over an HIV outbreak there. He was speaking to journalists at the local press club…
CHARSADDA: The district education officer (DEO) on Saturday ordered the sealing of 12 classrooms and the principal’s office at Government Shaheed Tariq Sentinel Model High School in Turangzai here, and the shifting of students to safer rooms due to the deteriorating condition of the building. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Dr…
KARACHI: Another child tested positive for mpox in the city on Oct 30, raising the tally of the viral infectious disease this year so far in the province to 115. Mpox is a viral infection which was earlier restricted to international travellers. It spreads through close contact with someone who…
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Minority Caucus has taken serious notice of the alleged abduction, forced conversion, and underage marriage of minority girls in Sindh and Balochistan, directing law enforcement agencies to immediately recover a 14-year-old girl. The issue was raised in a meeting of the Senate Minority Caucus held at the…
ISLAMABAD: A public-sector girls’ school in Islamabad is facing danger from excavation work being carried out for a housing scheme in the area. Islamabad Model School for Girls (IMSG), Kurri, run by the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), is facing a potential threat due to construction work being undertaken for…
KARACHI: The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) Karachi on Oct 29 claimed to have arrested two suspects allegedly involved in child sexual abuse. Speaking at a press conference at his office, Addl Director NCCIA Mohammed Tariq Nawaz said the agency had conducted an operation in the metropolis in connection…
AT the recent Act for Nutrition Conference in Islamabad, organised by DawnMedia, where I joined a panel examining the link between poor water, sanitation and child stunting, much of the discussion was rightly about food: what children eat, how mothers are supported, and why so many families still struggle to…
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