Zoha Faiz

Climate-resilient School Built By Save the Children Opens

ISLAMABAD: A new climate-resilient school, built by ‘Save the Children’ and recently handed over to the provincial education department, has been opened, according to a statement issued by the international aid organisation on 19-December-2024. The school replaces a building that was destroyed in the 2022 floods and is designed to…
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Mansehra School Awaits Reconstruction

MANSEHRA: Students of the government primary school in Jabori area here are attending classes in the open amid intense cold due to along delay in reconstruction. The five-room multi-storey building was destroyed in a fire in June last year, according to residents. “Even one year and a half after the…
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Experts Urge Mothers To Breastfeed Infants For Two Years

LOWER DIR: Experts at a seminar stressed the importance of mothers regularly breastfeeding their newborns for at least two years, as breastfeeding protected them from various infectious diseases. The local health department in collaboration with the Unicef and World Food Programme organised a seminar for religious scholars, media persons and…
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Peshawar Court Acquits Man In Sexual Abuse Case

PESHAWAR: A child protection court has acquitted a man on the charge of sexually abusing his 13-year-old stepdaughter over a year ago here. The acquittal of the accused came before the conclusion of trial under Section 265-K of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which empowers the court to acquit an…
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Six Nigerians Held For Supplying Drugs To Educational Institutions

RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Narcotics Force detained six Nigerian nationals allegedly involved in supplying drugs in educational institutions and recovered 3.2 kilograms of ice and 135 grams of cocaine. A press release issued by the ANF said that following intelligence, the ANF conducted an operation against drug smugglers in Islamabad and arrested…
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Sindh Launches Year’s last Polio Vaccination Campaign

Over one million under-five children to be vaccinated against polio in three districts In Larkana, the anti-polio drive in Larkana district was kicked off on 16 December 2024 to vaccinate 480,000 children of up to five years of age. The health department has formed 1,089 mobile and 86 transit teams…
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29 Children Die In Kurram Due To Drugs’ Shortage

PARACHINAR: At least 29 children have died in Kurram district due to shortage of medicines amid prolonged road closures, an official said on 16 December 2024. Dr Syed Mir Hassan Jan, medical superintendent of District Headquarters Hospital Parachinar, said that since October 1, the hospital has been unable to provide…
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Man, Accomplices Booked for Harassing Student, Sisters

CASE: Khanewal Kuhna police registered a case on December 15 against a man and his 10 accomplices for allegedly harassing a first-year student and her three minor sisters. According to the FIR, complainant Syeda Umme Farwa, daughter of Syed Maajid Hussain Naqvi of Station Mor, Khanewal, stated that her father…
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Enrolment In Schools For Trans People Increasing

ISLAMABAD: The Transeducation Project which started three years ago with only 17 students in south Punjab has now reached the milestone of a total of 244 enrollments. More interestingly, the project, which started with only one school in Multan for imparting education to the transgender community, has now been expanded…
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