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Enhanced Form B Introduced With Security Features For Children Aged 10+

ISLAMABAD: On the instructions of Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, it was decided on 01-January-2025 to introduce Form B with special security features for children above the age of 10 for the first time in history. As part of these new security features, fingerprints and photographs of children aged 10 and above will now be mandatory for Form B. The issuance…

The Role of Parents in Shaping Pakistan’s Education Future

PAKISTAN’S education system faces significant challenges on two fronts. Firstly, there is a staggering number of out-of-school children, estimated at 26.2 million. This means that a sizeable portion of the children are not accessing any formal education. Economic factors, cultural barriers, and inadequate infrastructure are the primary reasons. For instance,…

Polio Drive Launched To Vaccinate Over 10.6m Children In Sindh

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 21-April-2025 inaugurated a week-long province-wide polio eradication campaign targeting over 10.6 million children under the age of five, including 2.76 million in Karachi. The campaign, which will run from April 21 to April 27, will be supported by nearly 70,000 trained frontline…

44.9m Children Vaccinated Against Polio From 2018-2024: NHSRC

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination (NHSR&C) reported to the National Assembly that from 2018 to 2024, the average number of children vaccinated with the polio vaccine in the nationwide campaigns annually has ranged from 39.3 million to 44.9 million. In a reply to a question…

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…

Mother Can’t Be Denied Child Custody After Remarriage

LHC rules welfare of child must always take precedence over all else LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ruled that a mother’s remarriage cannot be the sole basis for denying her custody of a minor child, emphasising that the welfare and best interests of the child must always take…

Every Day, 675 Newborns, 27 Mothers Die In Pakistan

ISLAMABAD/UNITED NATIONS: Around 675 babies under one month of age and 27 mothers die every day in Pakistan from preventable complications—amounting to over 246,000 newborn and nearly 11,000 maternal deaths annually, alarming statistics by United Nations and World Health Organization (WHO) reveal. On the occasion of World Health Day 2025,…

Man Burns Pregnant Wife, Two Minor Sons To Death

HYDERABAD: A pregnant woman and her two minor sons had died in a fire at their home in Goth Wali Muhammad Mangrio, District Mirpurkhas, on 03-April-2025. The case took a new turn on 03-April-2025, when the woman’s husband admitted to burning them to death. The woman’s brother Gordhan Bheel filed…
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