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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…

Families Of Electrocuted Children Compensated

TANK: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Usman Khan Bhitani on 03-November-2024 gave cheques worth for Rs1 million each to the families of the four children who were recently electrocuted in Tank district. The deputy commissioner, Tank, district police officer and the local elders were present at the ceremony.…

Private Hospital’s Two Doctors Booked For Declaring Alive Newborn Dead

HYDERABAD: A case has been registered at the Baldia police station against two doctors and other staffers of a private hospital for negligently declaring a healthy newborn dead. The FIR has been registered on the complaint of the father, Muhammad Rafiq Bhayo, a resident of Muhammad Bux Shoro village of…

Misconceptions Rise as Polio Cases Surge Across Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Fed up with Pakistan’s rising polio cases, health authorities across provinces are increasingly attributing the spread of the virus to a range of unique factors, including malnutrition, gaps in Routine Immunization (RI), parental refusals, and, most recently, paralysis linked to injection neuritis a theory recently posited by health officials…

Blast Near Police Van on Security Duty Of Polio Team Kills 9 in Mastung

QUETTA: A bomb blast near a girls’ high school in Mastung, Balochistan, claimed the lives of nine people, including six schoolchildren, a police officer, and two passers-by. Thirty others were injured. The explosive device, planted on a motorcycle, exploded with great force, damaging several cars. Following the blast, eleven of…

Mastung Bombing

INSTABILITY continues to haunt Balochistan, as Friday morning’s bombing in Mastung has shown. At least nine fatalities have been confirmed — mostly children — while at the time of writing no group had claimed responsibility for this atrocity. Considering Balochistan’s complex vortex of violence, both separatist militants or religiously inspired…

Balochistan Govt Urged For Steps To Address Malnutrition In Kids

QUETTA: Civil society leaders and social activists have called on the government to take concrete steps to improve nutrition for malnourished children and ensure policies that support farmers who provide healthy food to communities. Speaking at a seminar organised by Hope Balochistan, in collaboration with Welthungerhilfe, a non-governmental organisation in…

Experts Urge Accessible Reproductive Healthcare Amid Rising Maternal Mortality

KARACHI: Expressing concern over rising maternal mortalities and health complications due to unsafe abortions, speakers at the launch of a study on 30th October called for making reproductive healthcare services safe and accessible across Pakistan which saw 3.8 million abortions in 2023 from 2.25m in 2012 — a 56 percent…

Polio Cripples Another Child In Chagai

ISLAMABAD: Polio crippled another child in the Chagai district of Balochistan, where a 5-year-old girl was paralyzed by the wild poliovirus, bringing the national polio case count to 43 this year. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health confirmed the case on 30 October…

Missing Girl Found in Haripur

HARIPUR: A minor girl was found in unconscious condition in bushes outside her village, the police said here on 29th October. Saddar Police quoted Tanzeela Bibi, a resident of Banda Munir Khan village, as saying that her two and half years old daughter, Zonisha was playing in the street in…

Tally Reaches 42 as Polio Cripples Another Child

ISLAMABAD/ KALAYA/MIRANSHAH/ KOHAT/LAHORE: Polio has crippled yet another child in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where a 30-month-old girl has become the 42nd victim of the virus this year in Pakistan, officials confirmed on 29-October-2024. The diagnosis, verified by Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health, highlights…