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Senate Introduces Bill To Ban Social Media Accounts For Under 16s

Bill proposes fines of up to Rs5m for violations, with up to 6 months prison for assisting minors in creating accounts ISLAMABAD: Senate has introduced the “Social Media (Age Restriction for Users) Bill 2025,” which seeks to ban individuals under the age of 16 from creating social media accounts. The…
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Unstoppable Dumper Deaths

This past Sunday, two brothers, aged 12 and 15, were tragically crushed under a speeding water tanker near Kala Pul on Korangi Road, Karachi, while they were riding a motorcycle. Their deaths – disconcertingly bringing the total heavy traffic accident tally to at least 140 – sparked outrage and prompted…
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Teachers Reluctant To Take Management Posts

3,795 apply for over 5k vacancies of headmasters, headmistresses LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department is facing an administrative challenge as government schoolteachers are showing little interest in taking up the role of headmaster and headmistress. According to official sources, only 3,795 teachers have applied against 5,051 vacant positions to…
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BSEK Puts Off Automated Paper Checking

Matric board in search of cost effective software for checking papers KARACHI: The results of the 2025 annual matric examinations will be declared by July 31, said the chairman of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK), Ghulam Hussain Soho, on Friday. However, he added that in case of any…
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Stray Bullets Kill Four Children In Six Weeks

City reels under wave of gun violence as public outrage grows KARACHI: Four children have been killed and several other people have been injured by stray bullets in different neighbourhoods of the metro over the past six weeks, sparking widespread anger among Karachiites. In the latest incident, 11-year-old Zainab was…
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10m Kids In Punjab Out Of School

One-third children drop out of primary education: UNICEF report LAHORE. Punjab accounts for 10 million of the estimated 26 million out of school children in the country, according to a UNICEF report. The report released recently stated that Pakistan had one of the world’s highest ratios of out-of-school children. Thousands…
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Babies Deaths

The heartbreaking loss of 20 infants — mostly newborns — at Pakpattan’s District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital between June 16 and 22 is a damning indictment of systemic healthcare failures. While five health officials, including the Health CEO and Medical Superintendent, have been remanded, the initial inquiries reveal a tragedy rooted in layers…
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New Grading Policy For Matric Inter Deferred

Recently concluded 2025 annual examinations for SSC, HSC will follow the old grading system KARACHI: The implementation of the new grading policy at the matriculation and intermediate levels across Sindh and the rest of Pakistan has been postponed for one year. As a result, the recently concluded 2025 annual examinations…
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Three Neighbours Arrested For Rape, Murder Of Teen Girl

Further investigations are ongoing, with a final forensic report to provide conclusive evidence KARACHI: A case of sexual assault and murder has shaken Khokhrapar Malir Extension Colony, after the body of 16-year-old Areeba was found in a street with a noose around her neck. Police had registered a murder case…
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