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Teen Girl Dies After Treatment By Quack

SARGODHA: A 14-year-old girl died due to alleged negligence committed by a quack at Gulshan-i-Aziz Colony. The mother of the girl, Ariza Fatima, told Dawn on July 2, they took Ariza to the Rashid Medical Store on the Girls College Road due to pain in her toenail. At the drugstore,…
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Archbishop Voices Concern Over Rising Child Sexual Abuse Cases

RAWALPINDI: Archbishop Dr Joseph Arshad, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, has expressed deep concern over the rising incidents of child sexual abuse and violence in Pakistan, calling the situation a national tragedy that requires urgent and effective action. Addressing an event on the protection of children’s rights,…
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Suspect Remanded In Boy’s Rape, Murder Case

KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on July 9 remanded a man into police custody in a case pertaining to the alleged rape and murder of a six-year-old boy. The investigating officer of the case produced the suspect before the judicial magistrate (South) and sought his 14-day physical remand. The IO informed…
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Minor Girl Found Dead At Tuition Centre In Lahore

LAHORE: A class six girl student was found dead in the washroom of a tuition centre at Ichhra on July 9. The 10-year-old (N) had gone along with her two other sisters (13 and 6 years old) to a nearby house where two female teachers were giving tuition services to…
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Out-Of-School Children

It has been over two years since the country declared a National Education Emergency, but Pakistan is still stuck with the second-largest out-of-school population globally. A new comprehensive comparative policy review, prepared by the Civil Services Academy (CSA) and reported on by the media earlier this week, estimates that between…
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Neighbour Held For Murdering Six-Year-Old Boy After Rape

KARACHI: The body of a six-year-old boy, who went missing on July 6, was found stuffed in a gunny bag near his residence in the Lea Market area and an autopsy found he was murdered after being raped. Police claimed to have arrested the boy’s 20-year-old neighbour, who reportedly participated…
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