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Five-year-old Girl Murdered After Rape

GUJRANWALA: A five-year-old girl was killed after being raped at Kamoke. Eman Fatima was playing in a street when she went missing. Receiving information about it, Wahndo police reached the spot and arrested Hassan on suspicion. During preliminary investigation, Hassan told the police that he abducted the girl and raped her. Later, he killed her and buried her in his…

Reconciliation Between Family Of Murdered Maid, Main Accused

KARACHI: In a shocking development, the family of Fatima Furiro, a minor girl found dead under suspicious circumstances at the Haveli of the influential Pir of Ranipur last year, has reconciled with the main accused, Asad Shah Jeelani. Adding to this, other eyewitnesses and close relatives of Fatima Furiro have…

App ‘Khushi Ki Baat’ Launched To Improve Mother-child Health

LAHORE: Population Welfare Department Director General Saman Rai has said that the…

Maryam Introduces Aghosh Programme For Women

LAHORE: Under Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s first-ever Aghosh program, pregnant women…

New Mother and Child Healthcare Centre Inaugurated in Jamshoro

HYDERABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 25-July-2025 inaugurated a newly built mother & child healthcare centre at Jamshoro’s Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences (LUMHS), a milestone in the province’s efforts to improve maternal and child health care, and a symbol of Pakistan-Japan friendship. The project,…

Newborns Gasp For Life At Dysfunctional Nurseries

LAHORE: Delays in procurement of oxygen cylinders, lack of adherence to safety protocols have caused the deaths Where the Punjab government claims to be spending billions of rupees on the health sector, nurseries at public hospitals remain in a deplorable state. With air conditioning units dysfunctional, ventilators out-of-order, oxygen short…

Murder Accused Killed In Attack On Police Team

MANSEHRA: An Afghan national, accused of murdering a minor boy, was killed on Thursday as his men launched a gun attack on police in the Ichrian area to free him. “As the police took the accused, Najeebullah, to the crime scene for evidence collection, his associates indiscriminately fired at them.…

Polio Resurfaces In KP, Karachi, Warns NA Panel

ISLAMABAD: Resurgence of polio in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Karachi is being driven by poor sanitation and repeated failure to vaccinate large numbers of children due to security and operational challenges, National Assembly’s Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination warned on 24-July-2025. The committee, chaired by MNA…

Swat Seminary Teachers Remanded Over Student’s Murder

SWAT: A court remanded 11 madressah teachers in custody for two days here on 24th July over the alleged torture and murder of a minor seminarian. The suspects’ handover to police was ordered by Khwazakhela’s judicial magistrate. The boy died from critical injuries on Monday evening after allegedly being beaten up…

Swat Police Arrest 11 In Seminary Student Murder Case

SWAT: District police officer Mohammad Umar Khan on 23rd July announced the arrest of 11 individuals, including administrator of an unregistered seminary, in connection with the brutal killing of a 12-year-old student and the systematic abuse of children at the institution located in the Chaliyar area of Khwazakhela here. Addressing…

The Children We Sacrifice

Pakistani children aren’t safe. That’s not opinion or exaggeration. It’s the bleak, burning truth we keep looking away from. They’re ignored, exploited, brutalised and abandoned on every possible front. But don’t think for a second the numbers in this piece tell the whole story. For every reported case, dozens vanish…

Fatal Corporal Punishment

The savage beating to death of a madrassa student in a Swat village, followed by a ridiculous attempt at covering it up, is a reminder of the pathetic state of education in much of the country, as unqualified teachers sadistically punish children for common negative behaviors. In the Swat incident,…

Monsoon Toll Rises To 234; Nearly Half Of Them Kids

PESHAWAR / ISLAMABAD: At least 11 more people were killed due to heavy monsoon rainfall in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) on 22nd July as the national death toll surged to 234 since late June, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Heavy rains triggered flash floods in…

Pakistan To Observe World Drowning Prevention Day on 25th

ISLAMABAD: As incidents of drowning of people in flash floods in various parts of the country, especially during the current monsoon season, continue to rise, Pakistan, like other countries of the world, would observe the UN World Drowning Prevention Day on July 25. The day is observed to raise awareness about the…