LAHORE::The process for the registration of all madrasas in Punjab is set to begin soon, following the completion of consultations by the Punjab Home Department with the Wafaq-ul-Madaris and representatives of various schools of thought. According to a press release issued by the Home Department, an agreement has been reached…
ISLAMABAD: The tally of polio cases for 2025 reached 31 on Tuesday after a sample collected last year in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district tested positive. The Polio Eradication Programme said in a statement that the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad,…
LAHORE: In a first initiative so far, the Faisalabad region police have introduced an activity-based anti-drug module for students from Grade 5 onwards and suggested to the Punjab government to replicate it to the educational institutions across the province after they detected a large-scale pervasive supply of illicit drugs –…
LAHORE: A woman and five children lost their lives in two incidents of house fires in the province on January 13. In the first incident, three minor sisters lost their lives when a fire broke out in a room of their house in Layyah district, according to Rescue 1122. The…
FAISALABAD: Police claimed to have uncovered a case in which a man allegedly kidnapped his own adopted son with the help of a friend and the friend’s wife in a bid to implicate his estranged wife in the crime. Khurrianwala police recovered the four-year-old boy, Muhammad Ahmed, from Jhang and…
SUKKUR: Two siblings died of measles in Nazar Mohammad Malik village of Tangwani taluka in Kandhkot-Kashmore district on January 12. The victims were identified as seven-year-old Abdul Wahab and his five-year-old sister Qasima Khatoon, both children of Ali Gohar Malik. Locals claimed that so far six children had fallen victim…
RAWALPINDI: A 13-year-old girl was raped several times and subjected to torture allegedly by her employer in Sadiqabad area, police said. A relative of the victim lodged an FIR with the police saying that since the father of the girl had died and her mother gotten a second marriage, she…
Islamabad: Japan has announced a grant of 2,910 million Japanese Yen for a major child health project in South Punjab, aiming to strengthen treatment services for newborns, infants, and children who need urgent and specialized care. The funding will be used to improve child health care facilities at Children’s Hospital…
The East Sessions Court has summoned arguments from the lawyers of the Mayor of Karachi, the Town Chairman, the Water Board, and the BRT contractor on Friday regarding a plea to register a case over the death of three-year-old Ibrahim, who fell into a manhole near NIPA in Karachi on…
KARACHI: A minor boy who was critically injured after allegedly being tortured by a madrassa teacher in Aziz Brohi Goth, Manghopir, has died, police said on Monday. The incident had occurred on November 30 last year. Manghopir police had earlier registered a case for causing injuries and arrested the teacher,…
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