Rawalpindi: A significantly heavy rainfall on November 4, along with a considerably heavy hailstorm, would turn the weather chilly in this region of the country, including the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi and the adjoining hilly areas that may cause health threats, mainly mild to moderate for healthy persons…
KARACHI: The dengue situation in Sindh has further worsened as four more people, including a 16-month-old child, died from the virus during the past 24 hours, taking the year’s provincial dengue death toll to 20, officials said on November 4. According to an abstract report issued by the Directorate General…
KARACHI: A surge in HIV cases among children in Pathan Colony has pushed Sindh’s health authorities to seek the immediate establishment of an ART (antiretroviral therapy) centre at the Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital after 18 children were confirmed HIV-positive and two of them died, officials said on November 4. Infectious…
SWAT: The police on November 4 registered a case against a cleric for allegedly assaulting a seven-year-old boy inside a mosque in the Rahimabad area of Mingora. According to Rahimabad police, the victim’s father filed an FIR, stating that his son was playing outside a mosque when the suspect, Qari…
CHINIOT: A school guard has been terminated from service while the head teacher, as well as a teacher, had been given major penalties of seizure of service and increment stoppage, respectively, over a dance party at a girls school. District Education Officer (Elementary/Women) Khadeeja Bukhari has terminated the service of…
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on November 4 said that Sindh had pioneered rights-based legislation in Pakistan and continued to strengthen its implementation through coordinated efforts with government departments and development partners. He said this during a meeting, held at CM House, with a delegation of Punjab parliamentarians…
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Forcibly displaced children and other child migrants are at higher risk of harmful practices and protection risks, including violence, family separation, human trafficking, increased child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV), forced labour and psychosocial distress. In Pakistan, where nearly half of UNHCR’s population of concern are children, internally displaced Pakistani children,…
Provides better protection than oral variety Children up to 15 to be immunised as older kids now identified as key to transmission Drive to be extended to other high-risk urban centres, such as Karachi, Hyderabad Police rescue polio team detained at private school ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Health authorities in Punjab on November…
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Sindh High Court at Sukkur has ordered an inquiry into substandard medicines for persons with disabilities. The bench directed the Sindh chief secretary and the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPD) to ensure implementation of the relevant Act of 2018 in letter and spirit.…
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