LAHORE: A woman and her three minor children were found dead in their house in Multan under mysterious circumstances on May 5, 2026. Initially, Rescue 1122 and police received calls that a woman hanged herself, along with her three minor children, in a house in a katchi abadi (slum) near…
The State of Children in Pakistan 2025 is the second annual flagship report by the National Commission on the Rights of Child under the NCRC Act, 2017. It provides an updated assessment of children’s rights in Pakistan, covering progress, gaps and emerging risks across federal, provincial and ICT jurisdictions. Guided…
The NCRC Child Advisory Panel (CAP) comprises 37 children from across Pakistan, including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, Islamabad Capital Territory and Gilgit-Baltistan. CAP members come from diverse backgrounds, including children from religious minorities, the transgender community and children with disabilities. They worked collaboratively to make the Committee on the…
BAHAWALPUR: A woman, along with her three children, including two daughters and four unidentified accomplices, allegedly killed her husband and concealed his body in a trunk at their house in Basti Kukranwali, within the jurisdiction of Baghdadul Jadid police station in Bahawalpur. According to police PRO Naeem Ahmed, a team,…
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and Unicef Pakistan on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to transform the provincial metropolis into a “child-friendly city” under the global Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI), marking a significant step towards promoting children’s rights and inclusive urban development. The MoU-signing ceremony was…
LAHORE: Several candidates were caught using unfair means during the ongoing Class-IX annual examination at centres by inspection teams across Punjab on May 4. Punjab Minister for School Education Rana Sikandar Hayat formed 10 special monitoring squads to conduct surprise visits to examination centres across the province to detect cheating.…
RAWALPINDI: A teenage housemaid was allegedly tortured by her employer’s wife using electrical devices in Bahria Town’s phase VIII, police said. Police raids were underway to arrest the accused, a police spokesman said. Mohammad Adeel Riaz, a foot constable lodged an FIR with the Rawat Police saying that he was…
PAKISTAN’S HIV surge is no longer a slow-burning public health concern. It is now a system failure unfolding in real time. What makes the crisis particularly alarming is not just the rising numbers — estimated at over 350,000 people living with the disease — but the profile of those newly…
GUJRAT: The Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CPWB) rescued 24 children during an anti-beggary drive in parts of the city on May 4, 2026. The CPWB officials were also accompanied by the teams of social welfare and labour departments, police and Rescue 1122. The team carried out the operation in…
In this episode of DigiPod on Dawn News English, Usama Khilji speaks to technology policy lawyer Hassan Niazi about a major US case involving Meta and Google, where social media companies faced liability over allegedly addictive platform design and harm to young users.…
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