Azmat Habib

Officials Adopt ‘Novel’ Way To Select Schools For Upgradation In Khyber

KHYBER: Setting aside the official criteria for upgradation of primary schools, officials of the education department in Khyber adopted a ‘novel’ way to select primary schools for upgradation by conducting a draw in Jamrud tehsil, much to the displeasure of people. Dawn learnt from both official and private sources that…

Completion of Rawalpindi’s Mother & Child Hospital by December Ordered

RAWALPINDI: The divisional administration has directed the Communication and Works Department to complete work on the Mother and Child Hospital by the end of December and ensure the quality of construction material. Work on the Mother and Child Hospital started in 2005, but the building is still incomplete. The project…

HIV Crisis

PAKISTAN’s presence among countries with the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in Asia is a matter of shame. Globally, the virus is found in drug addicts, sex workers and other high-risk sections. What makes our crisis more distressing is the victims’ profile: children and low-risk groups who have been infected because of…

Fee Discrepancies: Matric Results of 409 Candidates withheld in Sahiwal

SAHIWAL: The matriculation results of 409 candidates appearing in the Secondary School Certificate (First Annual) Examination 2026 has been halted by the Sahiwal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) due to discrepancies in their fee vouchers. According to a statement issued by the board, the accounts department had been…

Minchinabad Police ‘ignore’ Court Orders in Minor’s Rape Case

BAHAWALNAGAR: The Minchinabad Police have been allegedly ignoring court orders in a minor’s rape case even after a court ordered to register FIRs against four SHOs concerned and prohibiting the case investigating officer (IO) from any public role on account of the misconduct. As per details, a cleric was arrested…

Growth Denied

THE Sindh government’s agreement with the World Bank to combine health, nutrition, sanitation, social protection and agriculture programmes acknowledges that child stunting cannot be treated by the health department alone. The proposed secretariat, district committees and dashboard could replace scattered schemes with targets and accountability. But institutional architecture will mean…

Senate Committee Seeks Details of SHCC’s Probe into over 100 HIV Cases at Valika Hospital

KARACHI: The Senate committee on August 6 sought details of the Sindh Healthcare Commission’s (SHCC) findings from its recent inspection of Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital, run by the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (SESSI), where nearly 100 children were found to be infected with HIV/AIDs. It also asked the provincial authorities to…

Family Members, Area Residents Hold Protest after Minor Girl Goes Missing in Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI: A six-year-old girl went missing and was suspected to have been swept away in an open drain/nullah near Committee Chowk, Lunda Bazar, in the early hours of August 6. However, on the complaint of the girl’s father, the City police later registered a kidnapping case and launched an investigation.…

Preventable Deaths

THE deaths of 144 children from measles and diphtheria in Karachi during the first seven months of the year expose a grave failure of routine immunisation. That failure is evident in the large number of children who receive their earliest vaccines but are never brought back for the doses needed…

Climate & Lactation

EVERY year in August, Breastfeeding Week arrives with the same kind of messaging all over the media: ‘breastfeeding is best’. That is where the conversation begins and ends. This year, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, alongside Unicef and the WHO, has deliberately questioned the math behind it all, instead…

Officials Adopt ‘Novel’ Way To Select Schools For Upgradation In Khyber

Completion of Rawalpindi’s Mother & Child Hospital by December Ordered

HIV Crisis

Fee Discrepancies: Matric Results of 409 Candidates withheld in Sahiwal

Minchinabad Police ‘ignore’ Court Orders in Minor’s Rape Case

Growth Denied

Senate Committee Seeks Details of SHCC’s Probe into over 100 HIV Cases at Valika Hospital

Family Members, Area Residents Hold Protest after Minor Girl Goes Missing in Rawalpindi

Preventable Deaths

Climate & Lactation

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