The Water and Power Development Authority on Mar 24 allocated over Rs94.2 million for 75 community-based girls’ schools in Diamer, in a fresh push to promote education, particularly for girls, under the Diamer-Bhasha Dam project. The funding, approved under the Community-Based Accelerated Learning Schools (CBALS) programme, will support the operation…
LAHORE: An eight-year-old girl died after being attacked by a stray dog in the Quaid-i-Azam Industrial Estate area. The victim, Mehar Qaiser, was reportedly bitten by a stray dog near Township’s B-Block. Police said the dog inflicted severe injuries to the child’s neck and arm, including a critical bite to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Nearly 28% of children aged 5–16 are not enrolled in school, with girls disproportionately affected, as 34% of girls are out of school compared to 22% of boys. These disparities are more pronounced in rural areas, particularly for girls, where exclusion from education is much worse, revealing a clear intersection…
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…
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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