Talha Chughtai

Missing Teen ‘Married’ to Adult Man

RAWALPINDI: A 16-year-old girl, who had mysteriously gone missing from her home in February this year, has reportedly been married to a 25-year-old man. Ratta Amral Police have registered a case under the Child Marriage Act, along with charges of abetment, following a complaint lodged by the girl’s mother. According…
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Suspected Measles Outbreak Sparks Alarm

KHANEWAL: Reports of seven child deaths within a week in a village near Khanewal have raised alarm among residents, with initial fears of a measles outbreak later challenged by health authorities. According to local sources, the deaths occurred in Chak 2KM of Kot Islam, where residents claimed that a suspected…
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Balochistan Plans to Upgrade 1000 Schools

QUETTA:  Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti has said that incumbent provincial government has decided to take revolutionary measures to eliminate educational backwardness in the province. He expressed these views while chairing a meeting regarding the preparations for the next fiscal year budget, in which a comprehensive strategy was considered…
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Corruption of Merit

The wide-ranging scandal emerging from the Mirpurkhas Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) is an indictment of the country’s failure to improve the education system or introduce meritocracy. News reports credit a “whistleblower” who gave up the scam after being arrested — though his own wrongdoing technically makes him a…
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On-Campus Sale of Books, Uniforms Banned

RAWALPINDI: Annual examinations, results, and new admissions have formally begun across all public and private schools in the Rawalpindi division. The Education Department has imposed a ban on the sale of textbooks, notebooks, stationery, uniforms, badges, and ties within private schools of all sizes. The department has made it clear…
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child abuse

Normalising Abuse

There is something deeply wrong with how easily Pakistan has learned to absorb horrific news. Sahil, an organisation working towards developing an environment free from child abuse and neglect, has recently released figures revealing that 3,630 cases of child abuse were reported in 2025, which is an 8 percent rise…
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Child Abuse Cases in Pakistan rise 8% to 3,630 in 2025: Sahil

A total of 3,630 child abuse cases were reported across Pakistan in 2025, according to new figures released by Sahil, which monitors violence against children and women. In a statement issued on Monday, the organisation said the cases had been reported in 81 different newspapers from across the four provinces,…
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Few Takers for Govt Schools in Phase-III

RAWALPINDI: Under the Punjab Schools Reorganisation Programme, interest from NGOs, private schools and education experts in acquiring government schools in the third phase of privatisation has significantly declined. Very few applications were received for acquiring government schools, prompting the education department to extend the deadline for submission of applications in…
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Reproductive Health Awareness

Parliament has done something this week that once seemed nearly impossible in Pakistan’s legislative culture. It passed a bill mandating reproductive health education in schools. The Federal Supervision of Curricula Amendment Bill, cleared by both houses and awaiting presidential assent, requires that students aged 14 and above in Islamabad’s educational…
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