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Autism On The Rise Among Children In Pakistan: Experts

ISLAMABAD: While consolidated data on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is unavailable, there is a noticeable increase in the number of children being diagnosed with the disease. Health experts claimed this during an event held in connection with World Autism Day at Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad. The day is observed…
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Hyderabad Continues To Struggle With Poliovirus

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad, the second largest city of the province, continues to struggle to eradicate poliovirus as its environmental sample remained positive for the month of March once again, throwing yet another challenge to health and administration officials. Last year, Hyderabad had reported two polio cases. Sindh has currently four polio…
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Classroom Reflections

IN the quiet moments between lessons, standing before my students, I am struck by the profound disconnect between what education could be and what it has become in Pakistan. The world is constantly evolving. Today, our survival as a species depends on education systems that prepare minds to tackle the…
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Girl Murdered After Rape

☰  BAHAWALPUR: A minor girl was allegedly killed after rape here on 24th March in the fields of Chah Aliachiwala in Baqirpur locality. According to complainant ‘G’, her 11-year-old daughter (class-III student) went to fetch drinking water from a hand pump near the local mosque after Iftar on Monday night.…
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SRH At School

A FRIEND once received a panic call from a mother just as I was heading out to give a talk to middle-school students on growing up. As a paediatrician who deals with adolescent medicine, I give talks at schools to students about puberty — what changes occur physically, emotionally, and…
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50 Afghan Children Sent Back Through Torkham On Humanitarian Grounds

KHYBER: As many as 50 captured Afghan children were sent back to their country by the Pakistani authorities via the Torkham border on ‘humanitarian’ grounds late on 23rd March evening after the intervention of a tribal jirga. Local police official Adnan Khan told Dawn that those children, including 17 girls, were seized at…
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106 Children Registered With AIDS Control Programme

DERA GHAZI KHAN: The Health Department has initiated HIV/AIDS screening for children and adults at the Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital in Taunsa Sharif. A screening and treatment center has also been set up at the THQ to facilitate early detection and treatment of the disease, says DG Khan Commissioner Ashfaq…
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Karachi, Dhaka To Receive 5.4m Climate Migrants By 2050: UN

ISLAMABAD: Karachi and Dhaka will be the only two cities in Asia-Pacific region among the 10 cities of the Global South that will receive eight million climate mig­rants by 2050 if the world warms by more than 1.5 centigrade above pre-industrial levels, a UN study finds. Of those 10 cities,…
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Distribution Of Free Textbooks To Begin In Khyber Next Week

KHYBER: The education department will start the distribution of free textbooks among the students of all government schools from next week in Khyber tribal district with officials conceding an overall deficiency of 30 percent in comparison to their required number of books. Officials said that textbooks were already dispatched to…
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