NAROWAL: The minor girl, who had been abducted six days ago, was allegedly raped and found killed in fields. Muhammad Shakeel, a resident of Marth tehsil, told the police that he had come to his in-laws village Sarai Shah Fateh Tehsil, Pasrur, along with his family. He said on April…
LAHORE: Declaring the definition of ‘child’ in the Child Marriage Act, 1929 unconstitutional, the Lahore High Court has directed the Punjab government to revise the provincial version of the legislation and end the age-based distinction between males and females. `The definition of child in the 1929 Act while making a…
MANSEHRA: With a significant number of child marriage cases, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is still without any legislation to effectively check underage wedlock. According to government`s Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Project, which has been launched in 10 of 38 districts of the province since 2021, child brides are the worst victims…
ISLAMABAD: United Nations (UN) human rights experts have expressed dismay at the lack of protection for women and girls belonging to non-Muslim communities in Pakistan, saying that they remained vulnerable to forced marriages and conversions, Dawn.com reported. “Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking,…
ISLAMABAD: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai after showing concerns over 26 million out-of-school children and a large number of vacant seats for teachers in Pakistan has offered a helping hand and asked the prime minister to focus on the education sector to promote education. Malala Yousafzai in a letter…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on 9 April 2024 announced that the federal government would declare an education emergency in the country and would provide all possible resources to educate children of poor families. He vowed to replicate his idea of free education to children of the poor and deserving…
DADU: An eight-year old girl, who had gone missing since evening a day before, was found dead in a desolate place in Kotri Site area on 8 April 2024. Father of the victim, Liaqat Ali Hazara, said that his daughter had left home in Mahmood Shah Colony in Kotri Site…
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training on 8 April 2024 decided to delegate financial and administrative powers to college and school heads. The decision was made at a meeting presided over by Secretary Education Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani and attended by principals of model colleges. `Today, we took…
ISLAMABAD: Unidentified persons slit the throat of a man and his two minor children in front of their house in the capital on 8 April 2024, police said. The injured were residents of Ghori Town and identified as Sheron Masih, an accountant by profession, and his seven year-old son and…
LAHORE: The Lahore police on 8 April 2024 obtained four-day physical remand of cleric Abubakar Muaviya in another child rape case lodged with the Shahdara Police Station. Police shifted the suspect to the police station for interrogation in the new child abuse case. An official said police claimed that the…
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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