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UN Rapporteurs Alarmed By Attacks On Girls’ Schools

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations special rapporteurs have expressed concern over militant attacks on girls’ schools in Pakistan and urged the government to safeguard the inalienable right of women and girls to a safe and secure education. “We are alarmed by the ongoing terror attacks against girls’ schools by organisations who…
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Health Dept Concerned Over Handover Of Anti-malnutrition Initiative To NGOs

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has expressed concern over the Benazir Income Support Programme’s decision to hand over the Benazir Nashonuma Programme (BNP) to non-governmental organisations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and said it should be allowed to continue carrying out the anti-malnutrition initiative to support the health of poverty-stricken mothers…
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Polio Virus Found In Samples Collected From 10 Districts

ISLAMABAD: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed the detection of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in environmental samples collected from 10 already infected districts. According to a lab official, sewage samples collected from Gwadar, Sibi, Khuzdar, Dukki, Hub, Lasbela, Noshki,…
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Suicidal Behaviour

CHILDREN constitute around 45 percent of the Pakistani population, with 22.7pc adolescents from 10 to 19 years. Along with their educational, safety and physical health needs, there is also an urgent need to prevent and respond to their mental health challenges. The WHO estimates that 15pc of the global burden…
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CAN MADRESSAHS BE MAINSTREAMED?

Madressah reform continues to be a major challenge. Since the state is not in a position to outrightly ban madressahs and immediately replace them with regular schools, attempts to mainstream them by encouraging them to incorporate worldly subjects are widely considered the only other alternative. However, actual enrolment trends seem…
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Two Held For Assaulting Boy In Shangla

SHANGLA: Two neighbours assaulted a nine-year-old boy and filmed the act in Dehrai of Alpuri tehsil here. The police have arrested the two accused. Alpuri police station SHO Mohammad Arif Khan said that the victim along with his father reported to the police on December 21 that he was returning…
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Six Held For Attacking Polio Team Granted Bail

KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on 21 December granted bail to six suspects arrested a day before in Korangi for allegedly attacking a polio team with shovels. The investigating officer of the case brought the six suspects — Amna, Iqra and Ibrahim, alias Faizan (all juvenile suspects) and Samina Khan, Mahjabeen Suleman and…
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Beyond Schools

IN 2019, when I was teaching full time, our institute collaborated with a university in Canada in their Global Reporting Programme where three of our students, along with students in Kenya and the US, were selected to work on an academic year-long project. The three students and I would log…
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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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