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Automation, E-marking Planned in Sindh’s Education Boards

KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to introduce automation and an e-marking system in educational boards to improve the quality of education in the province. The announcement was made by the Minister for Universities and Boards Muhammad Ismail Rahoo at a ceremony organised by the All Sindh Private Schools and Colleges Association at Bahria Auditorium, Karsaz, Karachi, to mark World…

Education Boards All Set For E-marking

KARACHI: Preparations are underway in Sindh for the introduction of e-marking in the 2025 annual matriculation and intermediate exams. Both the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) and the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) have finalised plans to embrace this digital assessment method, which will be applied to the…

Local Production Of Iron, Folic Acid Supplements May Curb Anaemia In 15m Pakistani Girls

ISLAMABAD: The local production of Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFAS)…

Free-of-cost Heart Surgeries Performed On Over 6,000 Children

LAHORE : A meeting was held in the Specialised Health Care and…

Four in 10 Children in High-Risk Areas Found with Lead in Blood: Study

Four in every ten children aged between 12 and 36 months living in high-risk areas across seven cities in Pakistan were found to have lead in their blood, according to a study released by the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination in collaboration with UNICEF. The findings highlight a serious…

Work Starts on Relocated Schools in Kohistan

MANSEHRA: The Upper Kohistan district administration, the other day, laid the foundation stone of two relocated schools falling within the reservoir area of the Dasu Hydropower Project (DHPP). “These educational institutions are being built under the Local Area Development Programme initiated by DHPP to provide quality education and foster socioeconomic…

Balochistan Sees Revival of 3,700 Closed Schools

QUETTA: The Balochistan government on April 21 said it was making headway in education by bringing out-of-school children back into classrooms and reopening long-closed institutions. Speaking at an event at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti, along with senior officials, shared progress on the ongoing campaign.…

Afridi Steps Up School Reform Push

PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Muhammad Sohail Afridi on April 20 chaired a high-level meeting at the Chief Minister’s House to review ongoing reforms in the education sector and deliberate on proposed initiatives aimed at transforming the province’s learning landscape. The meeting assessed progress on current reforms and held detailed discussions…

Karachi Records Dramatic Increase in paediatric HIV Cases

• 159 patients admitted to three city hospitals this year • Majority of them contracted the incurable virus due to ‘unsafe healthcare practices’ • Alarm raised over lack of basic infection control protocols in hospitals KARACHI: Three hospitals in Karachi have recorded a dramatic increase in the number of paediatric…

Premature Babies Face Rising Risk of Preventable Blindness: Report

RAWALPINDI: Premature babies in Pakistan are losing their sight at rates far above global averages as a treatable eye condition, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), continues to go undetected across large parts of the country, according to data compiled by Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital. The Al-Shifa Trust report stated that ROP…

Mpox Cases Rise in Sindh, Other Provinces

ISLAMABAD: A joint investigation into a suspected Mpox outbreak in Sindh’s Khairpur district has been launched by a high-level team of epidemiologists, laboratory scientists, and infection prevention experts. This comes as federal authorities express concern provincial government remains in denial despite laboratory confirmations and a growing number of cases among…

Khairpur Sees Mpox Outbreak as Seven Babies Test Positive

• Health dept confirms four of seven children who died last month in Khairpur hospitals had mpox • Claims deaths not directly linked to zoonotic viral infection • Sukkur commissioner asks DHO to initiate ‘comprehensive contact tracing’ • Babies seemed to have infected from unsterilized hospital equipment: sources • Many…

British Council’s Safeguarding Toolkit to Cover 800 Schools

Islamabad: As the British Council rolls out a global Safeguarding Toolkit, developed with UNICEF’s support, to address emerging digital and behavioural risks, more than 800 schools in Pakistan will be part of this major student protection programme. The initiative comes as school safeguarding faces rapidly evolving, hard-to-detect threats, including peer-on-peer…

Over 3,600 Out-of-school Children Identified in Islamabad

Islamabad: The federal capital is witnessing a significant breakthrough in the “No Child Left Behind” initiative as the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training begins to see the fruits of its “Carpet Coverage” campaign. Following several days of rigorous field operations across various Union Councils in Islamabad, authorities have…