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Federal Health Minister Urges Action As Vaccination Refusals Hindering Polio Eradication

Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal has expressed serious concern over vaccine refusals, stating that nearly 43,000 parents in Sindh — 42,000 of them in Karachi alone —have refused polio vaccination for their children, posing a major obstacle to the eradication efforts. He made these remarks while visiting the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre for Polio (EOC) in Sindh to assess…

Birth Registration Of Girls Remains Low

Majority of women and girls have no legal existence in the official systems PESHAWAR: Where limited access to registration centers, particularly in remote and underserved areas, can partly explain the low birth registration rate for girls in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the social bias that confines women to the four walls of the…

Father Tells Heartbreaking Story Of Losing Two Children In Swat Tragedy

MARDAN: A man from Mardan recounted the tragic incident at the Swat…

CII To Deliberate On Mothers Milk Registry Today

ISLAMABAD: Senior child specialists from the Sindh Institute of Child Health and…

Housing Society Accused of Excessive Excavation Around School, Endangering Students’ Lives

TAXILA: The lives and safety of more than 80 children, most of them girls, enrolled at Government Boys Primary School on the outskirts of Taxila are said to be at risk due to excessive excavation around the school by a private housing society, cutting off safe access to the campus…

Drowning the Future

THE floods are visiting us again. The death toll will be counted within days. The damage to roads, bridges and embankments will be tallied within weeks and translated into a dollar figure. Expect this assessment to dominate the coverage. It is legitimate but a wrong ledger regardless. The real casualty…

‘Over 119,000 Children Out of School in Mohmand’

MOHMAND: More than 119,000 children, including 73,000 girls, remained out-of-school in Mohmand tribal district, prompting the education department to intensify its enrollment campaign aimed at bringing every school-age child into classrooms. Mohmand district education officer (DEO) Midrarullah disclosed the figures while addressing a one-day capacity-building workshop for teachers at the…

Insecurity Hampers Polio Campaign, Watchdog Told

• Pakistan claims virus eradication is within reach as cases have dropped sharply • Informs Independent Monitoring Board that virus footprint is narrowing, but concentrated in most difficult geographies now ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has told the global Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) that the country has entered a decisive phase in its…

The Lost School Culture After Covid-19

All those who used to attend school before 2020 can relate to many things. Covid-19 was a major disruptor that entirely changed the routine and productivity of human life. When I was doing my matriculation in a government school, we used to attend a daily strict exercise and prayer routine…

Schools are Out, The Bills Aren’t

When summer vacations begin, Sobia Nisar tries to let her six-year-old daughter enjoy the first few weeks without too much structure. There are visits to cousins, occasional trips to the park, time at home, and an effort to keep screen time as low as possible. But keeping a child busy…

PMA Issues Red Alert Over 651,000 Zero-Dose Children

• Declares immunisation gap a national public health emergency • Blames governance failures, corruption, weak immunisation system • Calls for an immediate audit of provincial health funds KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association has issued an urgent national red alert after clinical and epidemiological data revealed that Pakistan holds a catastrophically…

Mounting Childhood Immunisation Crisis: Pakistan Tops Emro Region With 651,000 Zero-Dose Children

ISLAMABAD: A mounting childhood immunisation crisis is unfolding in Pakistan, which recorded the highest number of zero-dose children in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region in 2025. According to WHO and UNICEF estimates, 651,000 infants received no routine vaccinations, while another 465,000 failed to complete basic immunisation. The latest WHO/UNICEF Estimates…

Sindh’s Classrooms Leave Millions Behind

KARACHI: Despite having more than 53,000 public and private educational institutions, Sindh still has nearly 7.6 million children out of school, a senior education official said while describing the situation as one of the country’s most pressing educational challenges. The figures were shared by Dr Aftab Ahmed Sheikh, Director of…

25m Pakistani Children Are Out Of School: CSA Report

LAHORE: More than two years after Pakistan declared a National Education Emergency, the country continues to struggle with one of the world’s largest out-of-school children crises, as over 25 million children remain outside classrooms despite constitutional guarantees of free and compulsory education and repeated policy announcements at federal and provincial…

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