MANSEHRA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Department has sought the help of the deputy commissioner and law-enforcement agencies to reopen schools forcibly shut by landowners who had applied for lower-grade posts but were not appointed across the district. “As educational institutions have reopened for the new academic session after summer vacation,…
KARACHI: International Breastfeeding Week 2026 commenced with an important discussion on the challenges faced by working mothers, especially journalist mothers who are breastfeeding, at a seminar organised by the Karachi Press Club in collaboration with Unicef on Saturday. One’s heart went out to the mothers who shared the challenges they…
BAHAWALNAGAR: The investigative committee, formed after the death of a five-year-old child at the Minchinabad THQ Hospital three days ago, has suspended two junior technicians for negligence under the Peeda Act, while the THQ’s medical superintendent (MS) has also been removed. The family of the child had claimed that on June 30…
LAHORE: Lahore DIG (Investigation) Zeeshan Raza claimed on July 31 that the police have solved the mystery surrounding the deaths of a US national woman and her three children in a house in a private housing society in Lahore. US national Aleena (40) and her three children — Rehan (16),…
RAWALPINDI: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Rawalpindi (BISE) asked the marking officers to check the examination papers with honesty so that hard work of the students does not go in vain. BISE Rawalpindi Chairman Professor Dr Iqbal Mahmood paid a detailed visit to the marking centre for the Intermediate…
SARGODHA: A minor boy was allegedly gang-raped by five youths, who fled away after committing the heinous crime in Iqbal Colony in the city on July 31. As per police sources, a woman, Anam Firdous, filed a complaint, alleging that five youths entered her house in Iqbal Colony and subjected…
BAJAUR: Unknown miscreants blew up a government primary school in Lowi Kharkai area of War Mamund tehsil here late on the night of July 29. Officials and locals told Dawn on Thursday that unidentified miscreants entered the Government Primary School for Boys late on Wednesday night and planted explosives inside…
BAHAWALNAGAR: Scores of citizens and the family of a five-year-old boy who allegedly died due to medical negligence staged a protest on July 30 outside the emergency department of the Minchinabad Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital, accusing the hospital staff of causing the child’s death. Speaking to the media, the child’s…
CHAKWAL: A minor girl and two teenagers were allegedly sexually assaulted in separate incidents, while two suspects were arrested by the police after an alleged shoot-out, police sources said on July 30. A ten-year-old girl along with her five-year-old sister used to go to a mosque in Munara village of…
KARACHI: Amid growing concern over the HIV outbreaks, affecting nearly hundred children at two government-run hospitals in Karachi, Sindh Labour Minister Saeed Ghani held an important meeting with labour leaders on July 30, where he promised a series of measures to rebuild their trust and clear up public doubts about the…
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