As Pakistan introduces the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine to its routine immunisation programme and is running the first vaccination campaign from September 15 to 27 in Punjab, Sindh, Islamabad and AJK, the media is rife with all kinds of rumours and elaborate conspiracy theories. Summarily, the HPV vaccine is administered to prevent certain…
GUJRAT: A five-year-old student of a religious seminary was tortured to death allegedly by a teacher and his two accomplices at Karariwala Kalan village in Kharian Saddar police precincts on September 26. Shah Zaman Khan of Swat, who currently resides in Amra Kalan village near Dinga town, alleged in his…
LOWER DIR: A long delay in the reconstruction of eight schools here has left thousands of students without proper learning facilities, complain residents. Information secretary of the Jamaat-i-Islami Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (north) Engineer Hafiz Yaqoobur Rehman told Dawn in Timergara that authorities razed those schools due to dilapidated condition following the…
ISLAMABAD: While rabies remains one of the deadliest yet most preventable diseases in the world, claiming nearly 59,000 lives annually, mostly in Asia and Africa. In Pakistan alone, an estimated 1,000 people, mostly children, die every year from rabies, despite the availability of life-saving treatment. World Rabies Day is being…
KARACHI: A teenage girl was allegedly killed in celebratory gunfire by her uncle during a wedding ceremony in Shah Latif Town on September 27, police and hospital officials said. Police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed told Dawn that the girl, Fatima, aged 17 or 18, was brought dead on arrival at the Jinnah…
MUZAFFARABAD: At least five police personnel, including an SHO and a woman constable, and one demonstrator were injured on September 27 when a protest against the murder of a six-year-old girl turned violent in Khuiratta, in the southern Kotli district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The clash erupted after protesters,…
• PM doubles compensation for families of victims to Rs2m • 161,000 houses, 395 health facilities damaged in Punjab, UNOCHA says • Senate panel told deluges left 1,000 dead, millions displaced ISLAMABAD: As millions of people have been affected and hundreds of casualties reported across the country during the recent floods and monsoon…
ISLAMABAD: The education ministry on September 26 directed timely completion of the ongoing missing facilities project of educational institutions in the capital. “Federal education secretary reviewed the progress on renovation and construction of basic educational facilities across schools in Islamabad Capital Territory under the project titled missing facilities,” read a…
KARACHI: Two men confessed before magistrates on September 26 to raping a seven-year-old boy and murdering him by strangling him with a shoelace and striking him in the head with a brick. The investigating officer (IO) produced both suspects before the judicial magistrate (East) and moved an application seeking to…
TOBA TEK SINGH: The Faisalabad police claimed to have recovered a kidnapped newborn baby from Sargodha. Faisalabad City Police Officer (CPO) Sahibzada Bilal Umar announced the recovery during a press conference on September 26. Giving details about the case, he said that Muhammad Yasin, a resident of Chak 215, RB…
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