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Grace Marks by Sindh Government

In a move as surprising as it is contentious, the Sindh provincial government has decreed a generous 15% grace mark for students who faltered in their class XI examinations last year. The decision, prompted by an investigative committee report on the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi’s controversial results, comes as a beacon of hope for the academically flailing youth of…

Three school education depts merged into one authority

LAHORE: The Punjab government on 14 June 2024 established the Punjab Education, Curriculum, Training and Assessments Authority (PECTAA) after merger of three departments -Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB), Quaid-i Azam Academy for Educational Development (QAED) and Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) with a view to reform school education. Earlier, the…

Five-year-old Girl Murdered After Rape

GUJRANWALA: A five-year-old girl was killed after being raped at Kamoke. Eman…

School Principal Arrested For Alleged Abuse Of Teachers, Students

SHEIKHUPURA: A school principal has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing…

3 Children Die, Five Others Hospitalised After Having Toxic Sweets In Hafizabad

In a tragic incident in Qila Sahib Singh, a suburban area of Punjab’s Hafizabad district, three children lost their lives while five others are reported to be in critical condition after having “poisonous” sweets, according to the first information report filed by police. According to the FIR, “all eight children…

Muzaffargarh Girl Dies By Suicide After Alleged Sexual Assault

A 17-year-old girl died by suicide after she was allegedly raped and impregnated in Punjab’s Muzaffargarh, police said on April 13. According to a first information report (FIR) dated April 12, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, the girl had informed her father and elder sister that her uncle…

Adopted Children Face Uncertain Futures

Children given in the custody of childless couples are vulnerable to mistreatment LAHORE. Till date, Pakistan has not been able to devise formal legislation on the practice of child adoption, despite the fact that a significant number of married couples are given temporary custody of abandoned children each year. As…

Woman Confesses To Killing 15-year-old Daughter

Case was initially reported as a suicide; postmortem, forensics proved otherwise KARACHI: The Civil Lines police have arrested a woman for allegedly murdering her 15-year-old daughter in what was initially reported as a suicide case. According to SHO Muhammad Khan, on April 5, police received reports of a suspected suicide…

Out of 85,000: 34,000 Cases Of Polio Drops Refusal Reported In Karachi: Kamal

KARACHI: Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal said on 13-April-2025 that there is no valid justification to refuse polio drops to eligible children in Pakistan, especially when the Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan is supervising a door-to-door anti-polio immunisation drive. The minister disclosed that 85,000 people in Pakistan refused polio…

Matric Courses Face Major Delays

Lack of textbooks, trained teachers and proper labs cited as the cause Rawalpindi. In the new academic session 2025-27, the number of academic groups offered for Matric (9th and 10th grade) has been increased from three to six. However, a lack of preparedness for the newly introduced groups has caused…

Four-year-old Boy Crushed To Death By Water Tanker

A road traffic accident (RTA) in Baldia Town claimed the life of a four-year-old boy on 12-April-2025, while a motorcyclist injured in a hit-and-run incident near the Golimar pedestrian bridge a day earlier breathed his last during treatment. In Baldia’s Abidabad area a speeding water tanker ran over four-year-old Affan…

Islamabad To Have First Ever Adventure Park

ISLAMABAD: City managers have decided to set up the first ever adventure park in Islamabad. The decision was made in a meeting, which was chaired by Secretary Interior Mohammad Khurram Agha and attended by CDA Chairman Mohammad Ali Randhawa, the member environment and other relevant senior officers. The meeting discussed…

Two Boys Killed While Playing With Hand Grenade

KOHAT: Two children were killed while as many sustained serious pellet and shrapnel injuries when a hand grenade they were playing with exploded with a bang in Sheikhan area here. An official of the Saddar police station told Dawn on Friday that the children were playing with a hand grenade…

K-P Approves Canabis Rules Free Textbook

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Cabinet has approved a supplementary grant Rs1 billion for the scheme “Provision of Free Textbooks and School Bags in Merged Districts” and directed the preparation of a comprehensive plan in this regard. A marathon meeting of the cabinet was held on April 10, presided over by Chief…