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Court Orders Medical Examination To Ascertain Age Of

girl ‘who married of her free will’ A local court on 24 January 2025 sent a teenage girl, who was allegedly kidnapped from Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area and later recovered from Naushehro Feroze, to a shelter home. The court also remanded a suspect arrested in connection with her alleged abduction in…
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Sindh Govt To Empower Convicted Prisoners’ Kids Through Education

The provincial minister for education Syed Sardar Ali Shah and the minister for prisons Ali Hassan Zardari on 23-January-2025 in a meeting decided to empower convicted prisoners’ kids through education. Officials said that the Sindh government has decided to formulate a plan to assist the children of convicted prisoners in…
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62 Children Rescued, 133 Beggars Detained In Peshawar Crackdown

PESHAWAR: About 62 underage children were rescued and 133 professional beggars were arrested during a crackdown against organized begging networks on 23-January-2025. Conducted under the supervision of Commissioner Peshawar Division Riaz Khan Mahsud under the directives of Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ali Amin Gandapur, the campaign aims to rehabilitate vulnerable…
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Policy Dialogue Held On School Dropout Issue

Islamabad: The Pakistan Institute of Education (PIE) and the Data and Research in Education – Research Consortium (DARE-RC) jointly hosted a policy dialogue on ‘Initiating an Early Warning System (EWS) to Identify Students at Risk of Dropout’ here. The event brought together policymakers, education experts, and key stakeholders to address…
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Sindh Govt Taking Steps To Reduce Number Of Out-of-school Children

The Government of Sindh has taken urgent measures to reduce the number of out-of-school children and is making possible the implementation of the Sindh Rights of Children’s Free Education Act, 2013. A spokesman for the Sindh government, Sukhdev Assardas Hemnani, has said that the government is actively working to address…
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Pakistan Reports First Polio Case Of 2025 From DI Khan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported its first case of polio in 2025, a 45-month-old male child from Dera Ismail Khan (DI Khan), Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), according to Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) officials on January 22. Health officials confirmed that the child, a resident of Union Council Lachra in tehsil DI Khan, belonged to…
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Students Granted Bail In Bookstall Case

QUETTA: Judicial Magistrate Court One in Gwadar has granted bail to four students of the Baloch Students Action Committee who were arrested for setting up a book stall in front of Dhoriyah Academy. The court ordered their release after they submitted a bail bond of Rs40,000 each. The lawyers representing…
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Police Yet To Recover Two Children Who Went Missing Six Days Ago

Despite intensified efforts, police have yet to recover two young boys who were reportedly kidnapped from the Garden area six days ago. Authorities are now relying on newly obtained but unclear CCTV footage showing a man and woman on a motorcycle taking the children. The footage, while pivotal, lacks sufficient…
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