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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…

Private Schools’ Associations all to Postpone Matric Exams Amid Admit Card Chaos in Sindh

KARACHI: The Grand Alliance of Private Schools Associations in Sindh on Sunday called to postpone the matriculation exams by a week due to incomplete and flawed arrangements, with thousands of students still without their admit cards. Examinations for the 10th grade are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, and for the 9th grade…

Rains Wreak Havoc Countrywide

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI/QUETTA/PESHAWAR: Torrential rain and severe weather swept across Pakistan on April 2, leaving devastation in Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), killing more than a dozen people and disrupting daily life. In Karachi, at least six people lost their lives, mostly due to electrocution, as heavy rain and strong winds inundated…

Open Manholes Still a Menace for Lahore Residents

LAHORE: The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) of Lahore continues to ignore the dangers posed by open manholes and yet to learn from various accidents, including the recent incident at the Bhaati Chowk remodeling project, as many manhole covers remain missing in various parts of the city. “For the last…

Gender Disparity Persists in Education

DIR UPPER/QUETTA: In the rugged terrain of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Dir Upper district, the promise of equal educational opportunities for girls remains largely unfulfilled even in 2026. Official records reveal a glaring imbalance: while girls constitute more than half the population, educational facilities for female students lag significantly behind those for boys,…

Selling Newborns

Human life should never be a commodity. Yet across the country, networks exist that buy and sell newborn babies, exploiting women driven into secrecy and desperation. A recent raid in Sheikham near Sarai Mughal, located in Kasur district of Punjab, uncovered a clinic that allegedly handled deliveries of vulnerable women…

Students Threaten Protest against Kohat Education Board

KOHAT: Around 4,000 students from Kohat, Karak, Hangu, Teerah, Shakardarra and Darra Adamkhel, who have changed schools, have accused the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Kohat, of not allowing them to sit their 9th and 10th grade exams in their new institutions. In a statement issued here, they stated…

Over 14,000 Schools, Out of 19,808 Damaged in 2022 floods, Await restoration, Sindh Govt Told

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has disclosed that while the 2022 floods damaged over 19,500 schools across the province, the government is reconstructing and repairing more than 5,000 of them under provincial, federal and donor-funded programmes, thereby restoring educational facilities for more than 1.4 million students. The meeting, held…

Nearly 28% of Pakistani Children Out of School as Gender, Rural Gaps Widen Education Divide

Nearly 28% of children aged 5–16 are not enrolled in school, with girls disproportionately affected, as 34% of girls are out of school compared to 22% of boys. These disparities are more pronounced in rural areas, particularly for girls, where exclusion from education is much worse, revealing a clear intersection…

Starved Childhoods

EVERY day, in homes across Pakistan, millions of children are quietly being left behind. Not by flood or famine, earthquake or epidemic, but by the slow, invisible erosion of chronic undernutrition. The crisis unfolding concerns the 40 percent of Pakistani children under five who are stunted, the nearly 10m children…

20,000 Schoolteachers without Pay for Three Months in Punjab

LAHORE: Around 20,000 teachers working in 4,300 schools operating under the Punjab Education Initiatives Management Authority (PEIMA) did not get salaries for the past three months, leading to severe financial difficulties for them. The situation could prompt many of the teachers to quit their jobs that would affect education of…

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