KARACHI: A minor boy was killed and another wounded when people in a wedding ceremony resorted to firing into the air in Keamari on the evening of 6th December, police and rescue services said. Keamari SSP Faizan Ali told Dawn that five suspects were arrested and legal proceedings were initiated against them.…
A JUDGE at the Lahore High Court recently ordered that schools should arrange for and organise transport for schoolchildren by the end of the winter break. The order came in the hearings on the case about smog in Lahore. The use of public transport for schooling is expected to reduce vehicular traffic…
RAWALPINDI: Punjab government has asked the district administration to compile details of missing facilities in educational institutions so that development projects would be launched to provide them to students. This was stated in a meeting with Commissioner Amir Khattak in the chair here on Tuesday. Lawmakers from Rawalpindi, Deputy Commissioner…
NAWABSHAH: A girl, a student of class-VII allegedly killed herself in her home in Tando Adam town on 3rd November. Her body was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room. Her mother said that her daughter had been under immense mental stress due to being blackmailed by a…
ISLAMABAD: Polio cases continue to rise as the country reported three new cases on 2nd December, bringing the tally so far this year to 59. According to an official, the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication confirmed the detection of one case each of poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in Dera Ismail Khan,…
KARACHI: The province of Sindh has been declared “maternal and neonatal tetanus-free” by international experts. A debriefing session held on Monday at a local hotel was chaired by Sindh Health Secretary Rehan Iqbal Baloch and attended by officials from the federal directorate of Immunisation, EPI-Sindh, Unicef, World Health Organisation (WHO)…
LOWER DIR: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Malakand Chairman Mohammad Nasim Khan stated that no nation could develop and progress without providing quality education to its children. He was addressing a function after inaugurating a private educational institution at Shehzadi as chief guest here on Sunday. The function…
SAHIWAL: Arifwala City police arrested a teenage boy on 1st December for raping and murdering his five-year-old relative near Gillani Housing Society, Chak 63/EB. The body of a five-year-old missing boy was found in a field. Reports said the child had been missing from Bhatta No 2 locality in Arifwala…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said healthcare is a fundamental human right and acknowledged the growing HIV epidemic in Pakistan, according to an official news agency. In his message on World AIDS Day, the PM called for bold, innovative, and sustainable interventions to address the challenge, PPI reported. He reaffirmed Pakistan’s…
LAHORE: Dismissing a challenge to outsourcing the management of public sector schools through the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), the Lahore High Court has observed that the policy decisions require political judgment, not legal interpretation. “Functionality of the Foundation is governed and regulated by the Government. Petitioners in fact are seeking…
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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