Sidra Haya

Deworming Drive Launched in Dir Schools

LOWER DIR: Deworming campaign in public and private schools kicked off in the district here on 4th November. According to official sources at the elementary and secondary education department, 850,000 children aged 5 to 14 would receive strawberry flavoured chewable deworming tablets at schools throughout the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province till…
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MoU Signed To Improve Family Planning, Maternal Health

PESHAWAR: Health Department and the Population Welfare Department have partnered to increase the use of lady health workers’ services in order to improve family planning services and raise maternal and child health indicators in the province. According to a press release, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on November…
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Over 5,000 Community School Teachers Without Salary For Eight Months

PESHAWAR: Although Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has failed to pay salaries to 5,238 teachers of girls’ community schools during the last eight months. The non-payment of salaries to non-formal schools for girls functioning in far-off areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has endangered the future of 276,000 students enrolled in such institutions. These schools…
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rape

Mosque Cleric Rapes Girl

OKARA: A mosque cleric was arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old madrassa student. According to the first information report, the girl had been attending Quranic lessons at the seminary in Azam Town, Renala, where around seven months ago, the cleric allegedly raped her and threatened her into silence. Recently, noticing…
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out of school

Number of Out-of-school Down Only 1pc in 10 Years: Unesco

ISLAMABAD: A new Unesco report reveals that the global out-of-school population has decreased by only one percent over the past decade, citing chronic under-investment in education, especially in low- and lower-middle-income countries, as a key contributing factor. The UN agency’s ‘Global Education Report 2024’ says the public education expenditure globally…
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Tutor Rapes Minor Boy In Lodhran

BAHAWALPUR: A tutor allegedly raped his 13-year-old student at Basti Baghwala of village Khanpur Ghalwan in the limits of the Qureshiwala Police Station in district Lodhran. According to Ladhran police spokesperson Bahadur Khan, the tutor called his student from his house and took him to nearby fields on the pretext…
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SHC

Govt Gets Six Weeks To Frame Rules For Enforcing Medico-legal Law

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has observed that the enactment of the Sindh Medico Legal Act, 2023 was a progressive step, but it required implementation through rule-making and appointments. The SHC directed a committee, headed by the Sindh chief secretary, to ensure compliance with the law, frame rules within…
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Minor Girl Lured To Brothel, Repeatedly Gang-Raped

CHINIOT: Saddar police have booked six persons, including two women, for the abduction and gang-rape of a minor girl at a brothel they were allegedly running in a house near Jaman Colony, Lahore Road, Chiniot, arresting the two nominated ones. The suspects, four of them, including a woman, unidentified, under…
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AJK to Launch New Education Policy In Collaboration with Unicef

MUZAFFARABAD: Designed to foster the growth of the younger generation and address future challenges, Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) Education Policy 2024-2040 will soon be launched in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). This was announced by Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education Deevan Ali Khan Chughtai at…
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Mastung Bombing

INSTABILITY continues to haunt Balochistan, as Friday morning’s bombing in Mastung has shown. At least nine fatalities have been confirmed — mostly children — while at the time of writing no group had claimed responsibility for this atrocity. Considering Balochistan’s complex vortex of violence, both separatist militants or religiously inspired…
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