KARACHI: Some 120,000 schoolchildren in Karachi and its surrounding areas will undergo free screening for eye ailments through the School Eye Clinic project set up by the Pakistan Eye Bank Society (PEBS) in collaboration with Rotary Club of Heidelberg-Schloss and the German Consulate during August 2026 and July 2027. This…
• FCC sets aside LHC judgement, restores revisional court’s order • Directs courts to identify minor parties at outset of proceedings ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) on July 16 laid down guiding principles for all civil and revenue courts dealing with cases relating to the property or inheritance rights…
RAHIM YAR KHAN: A woman made a suicide bid along with her four minor children by jumping into Sadiq Branch Canal in Sadiqabad on July 16. The children drowned while the woman was rescued. According to Rescue 1122 sources, a woman of Chak 182-P of tehsil Sadiqabad had domestic disputes…
Police have launched an investigation into the mysterious death of a 13-year-old boy whose body was found outside his house near the Steel Town Sindhi Goth Football Ground in Bin Qasim Town on July 16. According to rescue officials, the deceased was identified as Sabir, 13. The incident came to…
• Declares immunisation gap a national public health emergency • Blames governance failures, corruption, weak immunisation system • Calls for an immediate audit of provincial health funds KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association has issued an urgent national red alert after clinical and epidemiological data revealed that Pakistan holds a catastrophically…
BAHAWALNAGAR: A son of former divisional leader of a religious party was booked for sexually assaulting a girl student for two years inside the seminary and administering various medications to prevent pregnancy. The first information report registered on the complaint of the victim’s mother of Roopeywala village with Minchinabad Police,…
KARACHI: The prime suspect in the rape and murder of a six-year-old boy confessed before a judicial magistrate on July 14 to raping and murdering the boy and then throwing his body from the third floor into an empty plot. The investigating officer (IO), Sajid, produced the prime suspect along…
ISLAMABAD: A mounting childhood immunisation crisis is unfolding in Pakistan, which recorded the highest number of zero-dose children in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region in 2025. According to WHO and UNICEF estimates, 651,000 infants received no routine vaccinations, while another 465,000 failed to complete basic immunisation. The latest WHO/UNICEF Estimates…
LAHORE: A resolution has been submitted to the Punjab Assembly, seeking a nationwide ban on social media accounts for children under the age of 16 without parental consent, amid growing concerns over cyberbullying, online sexual abuse and digital addiction among the minors. The resolution, moved by Punjab lawmaker Sarah Ahmad,…
BAHAWALPUR: Lodhran district police on July 13 booked six persons in two separate cases — one pertaining to alleged rape of a minor girl and the other of a rape attempt on a boy. In the first case, Lodhran police claimed to have arrested a suspect, Q, who allegedly raped…
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