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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…

Cleft Children Fight for Treatment

Pakistan is confronting a serious but largely overlooked public health challenge, with thousands of children born every year with cleft lips and palates. Although the condition is treatable, many patients remain without timely care due to gaps in the healthcare system. Experts estimate that nearly 300,000 children are affected nationwide,…

Child Labour Crisis Grips Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: An estimated 8.6 million children aged between 5 and 17 are currently engaged in child labour in Pakistan, according to figures shared during a briefing held in Islamabad to mark World Day Against Child Labour. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) organised the media briefing on Thursday to highlight the…

IHC Seeks Answers on Action under ‘Zainab’ Child Protection Law

ISLAMABAD: More than five years after the passage of a landmark child protection law, key provisions of the Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Act, 2020 — including the agency meant to issue rapid alerts for missing children — remain unimplemented, the Islamabad High Court was told on June 4. During the…

115,000 Children Out of School in Mohmand, Moot Told

MOHMAND: Participants of a youth conference here on Monday called for the declaration of an education emergency, expressing concern over the growing number of out-of-school children and the deteriorating state of educational infrastructure in the district. The event, titled Education for All, was organised by the Mohmand Students Union in…

KP Children’s Hospital Looks to Govt for Promised Funds to Become Operational

PESHAWAR: Officials in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department warn that the opening of the 300-bed Peshawar Children Hospital, affiliated with the Khyber Institute of Child Health, is likely to remain in limbo if the Rs2 billion bridge financing promise for the project isn’t fulfilled by the provincial government by the…

DGK School Roof Collapse kills Four Children

LAHORE: At least four children were killed and 20 others injured after the roof of a classroom at a private school in Punjab’s Dera Ghazi Khan collapsed on May 7. According to a preliminary report issued by the district administration, the injured included 16 students, two teachers and two labourers.…

Capital Grapples with School Dropouts

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Education has been informed that 17,000 children across 30 union councils in the federal capital are currently out of school, while Cambridge has acknowledged the leak of a Mathematics examination paper and has been asked to submit a detailed report on the matter.…

Education Corruption

The expanding corruption probe into Sindh’s education boards has laid bare a rot that goes far deeper than initially feared. What began as an investigation into irregularities at the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Mirpurkhas, has now spiralled into a province-wide scandal, implicating senior officials and the administrative hierarchy…

Several Class-IX Candidates Caught Cheating; Exam Staff Suspended

LAHORE: Several candidates were caught using unfair means during the ongoing Class-IX annual examination at centres by inspection teams across Punjab on May 4. Punjab Minister for School Education Rana Sikandar Hayat formed 10 special monitoring squads to conduct surprise visits to examination centres across the province to detect cheating.…

Half of Textile Workers’ Children are Out of School, Study Finds

KARACHI: A fresh study has shown that roughly half of the children coming from textile supply chain workers of Karachi cannot afford to go to school despite two to three people in the family working full-time. The study conducted by the National Organisation for Working Communities (NOWCommunities) has shown that…

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