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Two Teachers Arrested For Torturing Student In Swabi

SWABI: The police on 22nd January arrested two teachers of a private welfare institution here for allegedly torturing an 11-year-old orphan boy. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has banned corporal punishment in educational institutions. The Chota Lahor city police station booked the teachers under the Child Protection Act after a video…
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Measles Claims Lives Of Two Children

MIRPURKHAS: Two children have died of measles over the past week and three ailing infants are still struggling for their lives in Haji Tariq Jalal Rajar village near Hingorno town. Villagers informed media persons on 20th January that two-year-old Rajveer Kohli and six-year-old Munaij Kohli fell victim to the disease.…
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Seven-year-old Boy Raped Before Being Murdered, Autopsy Reveals

• Body found in water tank appears to be ‘four-five days old’: MLO • DIG says cause of death is yet to be determined by doctors KARACHI: Investigators are now treating the death of a seven-year-old boy, whose body was found in an underground water tank of the high-rise building he lived…
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Nutrition Challenge

WHEN a country’s children go hungry, its future withers. In Pakistan, where over 40pc of children under five are stunted, nearly 18pc are wasted, and more than half suffer from anaemia, malnutrition threatens to undermine a generation. For a middle-income country with nuclear capabilities and significant agricultural output, such statistics…
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Missing Boy’s Body Recovered After Two Months

RAWALPINDI: The body of a four-year-old boy, who went missing about two months ago in Rawat, was recovered from a pond close to the house where he had gone along with her mother and two siblings to attend a wedding ceremony. The mother, who also had a baby girl and…
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Govt To Appoint 16,000 Teachers In Schools, Says MPA

BATTAGRAM: The provincial government has announced a major initiative to address the longstanding issue of teacher shortage in public sector schools. MPA Taj Mohammad Khan, chairman of the standing committee for education, said on January 19 that the government would soon recruit 16,000 fresh teachers to fill the vacancies in…
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Students, Parents Protest Lack Of Teachers In Charsadda Girls School

CHARSADDA: Students, their parents, political activists, and councillors staged a demonstration against the lack of teachers at a government girls’ primary school in Tangi tehsil here the other day. The protesters set a 15-day deadline for the appointment of teachers to the school in Sahibzada Kallay area of Gundheri union…
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UNICEF’s National Ambassador for Child Rights, Saba Qamar, highlights the impact of child marriage on young girls’ futures and calls for unified action to protect children.

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