The National Emergency Operations Centre has announced that 45.4 million children will receive polio drops during the upcoming weekly polio campaign. In addition to the polio vaccine, children will also be administered a supplementary dose of Vitamin A. The national polio campaign is scheduled to run across the country from…
LAHORE: This was disclosed in a meeting on special education presided over by Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz. She announced that underprivileged children would receive free therapy and education in the Maryam Nawaz Autism School. The chief minister approved in principle the inclusion of special children in the ‘Himmat’ Card programme.…
KHANEWAL: A matric student was shot dead by his classmate at high school. According to police sources, the accused, identified as Zain, allegedly opened fire on his class fellow Rizwan, belonging to the Lodhran community and resident of Sarai Sidhu. The incident occurred around 11 a.m. when Zain reportedly fired…
KARACHI: Sindh faces a mounting women’s health crisis, with an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 abortions taking place annually — many of them unsafe, unregulated, and life-threatening. This alarming figure, combined with widespread malnutrition and anemia, is placing countless women at risk, medical experts warn. Speaking to The Express Tribune, Dr Mehwish…
FAISALABAD: Two minor boys were allegedly sexually assaulted in separate incidents in the city on October 9, as the number of sexual assaults against women and children has reached 538 across Faisalabad’s five town divisions, involving approximately 800 accused. The breakdown shows 115 cases in Sadr Division, 126 in Iqbal…
JARANWALA: A husband and wife, Shahbaz and Nadia Shahbaz, have arrested for allegedly torturing 16-year-old domestic worker, Mah Rukh Fatima, in Faisalabad. Police arrest the couple, and a case has been registered against them. According to the police report, Sana, a resident of Jaranwala, stated in the FIR registered at…
HYDERABAD: Ghotki police booked eight suspects and arrested two in connection with the murder of 34-year-old journalist Tufail Haiderani Rind and his eight-year-old niece Reena, daughter of Jameel Ahmed Haiderani Rind. The two were shot dead on October 8, allegedly over a land dispute within the Gaddani caste. Rind, who…
PESHAWAR: October 8 (today) marks 20 years since the devastating 2005 earthquake that struck Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), killing more than 85,000 people and causing massive destruction. Among the fatalities, there were thousands of school-going children, who had just gathered for the morning assembly…
HYDERABAD: An eight-year-old girl was brutally murdered in Sakrand, Benazirabad district, apparently for stealing the tiny gold jewelry she was wearing. The dead body of eight-year-old Heer Bhagri, daughter of Lalu Bhagri, was found dumped on a plot in Asghar Colony on October 7. According to SHO Sakrand police station…
PESHAWAR: Despite state authorities’ assurances that life is returning back to normal in flood-affected areas, for many pregnant women, normalcy feels like a distant dream as they confront the fear of raising their unborn babies without a home, husband, or support system. Every night, 25-year-old Javeria Bibi relives the moment…
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