Gaps

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 home continues to withhold many from getting a legal identity.…

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…

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…

Child Safety Concerns Mount as Unregistered Shelter Homes Escape Oversight in Punjab

For hundreds of orphaned, abandoned, and vulnerable children in Punjab, a shelter home is meant to be a place of safety. Yet many of the private institutions housing these children remain outside the government’s full oversight, leaving authorities without a clear and up-to-date picture of how many children are living…

Over 45pc of 11th-grade Students Fail Pindi Board Annual Exams

RAWALPINDI: Nearly 45pc of students failed the 11th-grade intermediate annual examination 2026, conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Rawalpindi. The BISE Rawalpindi officially announced the results for the Intermediate Part I (11th-Grade). The announcement was made by the Chairman of the Board, Prof Dr Iqbal Mahmood,…

Teams Tasked with Identifying Gaps in Polio Drives

LAHORE: The Punjab Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) has assigned a task to assess campaign performance, identify missing children, and operational gaps to check the quality of the ongoing polio eradication campaigns. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by EOC Coordinator Khalid Parvaiz here on Thursday with district health…

160 Schools in Rawalpindi Issued Show-cause Notices, Action Launched against 40 Others for Poor Results

RAWALPINDI: The District Education Authority (DEA) has issued show-cause notices to teachers and principals of 160 schools where pass percentage in the 9th class exam remained around 20 per cent and launched departmental action against 40 schools with zero result. In the 9th class exam conducted by the Board of…

Pass Percentage Drops as BISE Peshawar announces Intermediate Exam Result

PESHAWAR: Almost every second student failed to qualify the annual intermediate examination conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Peshawar as results were declared on Monday. A total of 66,735 students appeared in Part-II of the examination and 35,103 of them qualified it as the pass percentage…

Sindh’s First Gender Parity Report Highlights Challenges Amid Gains

• Overall female literacy stands at 47pc, only 27.52pc for rural women • Over 4.08m girls between five and 16 remain out of school • Only 4.34pc in police force, 13.7pc in judiciary • Maternal mortality falls to 224 per 100,000 births • Number of women contesting general elections rises…

Pims Report

PAKISTAN’S health system is trapped in a loop of doom. A localised electrical failure caused the blaze that killed 14 newborns at the Pims nursery, says an inquiry committee’s report about last month’s tragedy in Islamabad. It holds the hospital management responsible for systemic and institutional collapse due to which…

Senate Body Rejects Pims Fire Inquiry Report as PM Orders Reforms in 3 Months

ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary body on Sep 16 rejected a “flawed” report on the catastrophic fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) that claimed 14 infant lives as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered authorities to complete reforms at Pims within three months. The Performance Audit Report found only 39.7 per cent compliance…

Police detain Three Women over Alleged Abduction of Newborn from PIMS

Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police recovered a newborn safely and detained three women after responding to a reported abduction of the baby from Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) late on the night of 15 Sep. An official told APP on Wednesday that the Karachi Company Police Station team took immediate action…

Need for a Rabies Policy

The suspension of four doctors and three health workers in Sindh after five rabies deaths in three weeks is an attempt to patch a much more complex problem. The victims, including two young boys aged five and six, died despite being reported to anti-rabies units. This is because the problem…

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