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Anti-Beggary Drive in Sindh Focuses on Child Rescue: Minister

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was on 13th September 2024 informed that the Sindh Child Protection Authority was working in close coordination with the provincial police to conduct anti-child beggary drive for rescuing children who were forced to be involved in this worst form of child labour. Furnishing statement and replies…
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Two Years On, Sewage Swamps Plague Girls’ School

NAROWAL: The Government Girls Elementary School at Mardwal village, Shakargarh tehsil, has been submerged by sewage water for two years and the students are forced to walk through dirty and smelly water to reach classrooms and washrooms. Students and teachers reach the classrooms through dirty and smelly water every day.…
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Developing Education to Mitigate Climate Change: Experts’ Take

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Country Representative Unicef Sharmeela Rasool on 12th September 2024 said the world was in the climate crisis mode as the problem was no longer of the future, but of the present. She was speaking at a roundtable discussion on ‘Climate-Compatible Education’ held at the Institute of Regional Studies…
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Abducted Minor Recovered In DI Khan

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The local police on September 11 claimed to have recovered a six-year-old boy from kidnappers within 24-hours of the abduction and arrested two culprits. According to a police spokesman, the minor was kidnapped for ransom from Syed-Aliaan area of Paharpur tehsil. He said that following the directions…
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education

Punjab Teachers Announce Lockdown Of Schools From 27th

RAWALPINDI: The Grand Teachers Alliance, a coalition of Punjab teachers’ unions, on September 11 announced that teachers from the entire province would converge on Lahore on Sept 26 to protest the government’s plan to outsource educational institutions. They would also shut down schools on Sept 27. Teachers in Rawalpindi division,…
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Management Boards In 17 Punjab Hospitals Non-Existent For A Year

LAHORE: As many as 17 out of a total of 24 autonomous medical and teaching institutes of Punjab had been working without boards of management (BoMs) for a year, exposing the ‘incompetence’ of Health Ministry and the relevant authorities as the institutes were being run by the temporarily constituted administrative…
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10m Children Aged 5-9 Years Do Not Go To Schools, NA Told

ISLAMABAD: The number of out-of-school children across the country remained above 26 million despite several initiatives by the government in recent years as well as the commitments to bring these children back to schools. The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training informed the National Assembly that there were over…
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Van Driver Arrested For College Girl’s Death

GUJRAT: The Gujranwala police have detained the driver of a college van in connection with the mysterious killing of a 17-year-old girl student at Qila Deedar Singh. Faizan Bibi of Abbaspura Mohallah told police that had hired a van for her daughter Aden Sattar, a first year student at a…
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Polio

Sewage Samples, Fake Markings Hinder Polio Fight in KP

PESHAWAR: Emergency Operation Centre for Polio will a five-day immunisation campaign today (9th September 2024) amid challenges posed by the positivity of sewage samples and fake finger marking. “Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is yet to record any polio infection this year so far but many of its districts are endemic for the virus,…
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Kukikhels To Boycott Polio Drive Over IDPs Issue

KHYBER: Frustrated with an impasse in dialogue with the government regarding the return of the remaining displaced families, Kukikhel elders on September 8 announced to boycott the polio vaccination campaign till their demands were met. Announcing the unanimous decision of the protesting tribesmen camped in Bhagiyaree area, Malak Naseer Ahmad…
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