KARACHI: The Sindh government has dismissed from service Controller of Examinations of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Mirpurkhas, Anwar Aleem Khanzada over tampering with matric and intermediate results and the “issuance of thousands of fake certificates”. Sindh Universities and Boards Minister Ismail Rahu also announced that 1,068…
KARACHI: A missing minor boy was found dead in an open manhole on March 30 near his home off Superhighway, triggering a protest by relatives and residents against local government representatives over their failure to cover sewers. SITE-Superhighway Industrial Area SHO Mohammed Nawaz told Dawn that three-year-old Ahsan Naveed had gone missing…
BAHAWALPUR: Police claimed on March 30 that a suspect, who had allegedly raped and murdered a minor boy, was killed during an “encounter” in the limits of Hasilpur city police station. According to a Bahawalpur district police spokesperson, three suspects allegedly opened fire on a police patrolling team, which intercepted…
LAHORE: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore has intensified its crackdown against cheating during the ongoing matriculation examinations 2026. Controller of Examinations, Tauseef-ur-Rehman, visited several centres across different cities to monitor transparency during the English paper held on Monday. According to Tahir Javed, spokesperson BISE Lahore, during…
A five-year-old boy died after falling into an open manhole in the SITE Super Highway area, police said on Monday. The incident occurred in Faqira Goth near Lucky Star Hotel, where the child’s body was recovered from an uncovered manhole. The deceased was identified as Ahsan, son of Naveed, a…
LAHORE: A hotel employee has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a seven-year-old girl in the Gulberg area. According to police, the incident occurred when the minor girl was playing with her younger brothers under her mother’s supervision. While playing, the girl wandered into a nearby private hotel, where the accused,…
Islamabad: As the British Council rolls out a global Safeguarding Toolkit, developed with UNICEF’s support, to address emerging digital and behavioural risks, more than 800 schools in Pakistan will be part of this major student protection programme. The initiative comes as school safeguarding faces rapidly evolving, hard-to-detect threats, including peer-on-peer…
KARACHI: Christian organisations and rights groups held demonstrations outside the Karachi Press Club on March 29, expressing concern over the safety of minor girls and their forced marriages and conversions. Groups, including the National Christian Party, Gawahi Mission Trust, and other civil society representatives, organised separate protests. The participants, including…
SAHIWAL: As many as three minor girls were allegedly raped in separate incidents across the district in the past 24 hours and the police claimed to have registered cases and arrested two suspects. As per details, in one incident suspect R allegedly assaulted his 13-year-old cousin A in village 170/7-R.…
BAHAWALPUR: According to a spokesperson for the Bahawalpur district police, FIR No 141/26, registered under section 375-A, on the complaint of Asad Khalil says that two suspects ‘B’ and ‘W’, allegedly abducted a 17-year-old girl ‘L’ at gunpoint when she was alone at her house. The two suspects took the…
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