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Nadra launches platform to track sex offenders in Pakistan

Nadra, the National Database and Registration Authority, has created the National Sex Offenders Registry (NSOR) platform, which includes an SMS verification service to aid in the identification and monitoring of individuals who have been convicted of sexual offenses against children and women  . The database is connected to various law enforcement agencies and provincial governments to ensure that updates are…

Three school education depts merged into one authority

LAHORE: The Punjab government on 14 June 2024 established the Punjab Education, Curriculum, Training and Assessments Authority (PECTAA) after merger of three departments -Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB), Quaid-i Azam Academy for Educational Development (QAED) and Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) with a view to reform school education. Earlier, the…

Three arrested for raping minor in Lahore

Lahore : Three suspects have been arrested by Johar Town police for allegedly raping a minor. Reportedly, the suspects approached the victim outside his residence. They asked him to come out and started torturing him. Later they force-fully took him to their residence and raped him. The suspects have been…
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Girls education remains a challenge in militancy-hit Bara

KHYBER: The deplorable condition of most of the public sector primary schools for girls, shortage of teaching staff and inaccessibility of students to educational institutions beyond primary level have been cited to be three major hurdles to promotion of female education in the militancy-affected Bara tehsil of Khyber tribal district.…
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Minors for sale

THE curse of human trade has a doubly odious form child trafficking. Pakistan, too, is haunted by this ugly reality: its minors, boys and girls, have often been treated as commodities in this repellant business. It is in this context that the recent arrest of rights activist Sarim Burney on…
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Seminary teacher held for rape of two minor boys

MUZAFFARGARH: Police arrested on 7 June 2024 a seminary teacher for allegedly raping his two minor students students and threatening them with torture if they disclosed the assault. As per Daira Din Pannah police, the complainant, Jalal Din, said in his application that his son and a nephew, aged between…
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Alarm over surveillance of girls in private spaces

ISLAMABAD: The Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) has expressed concerns over the on going surveillance of women and girls in private spaces through unregulated CCTV cameras in women`s shelters, hostels, universities, and salons, invading their right to privacy and dignity in private spaces. According to the 2023 Gender Gap report, Pakistan…
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MPA submits child marriage restraint bill in PA

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA Sobia Shahid on 7 June 2024 submitted  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Marriage Restraint Bill, 2024 to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Secretariat. She said the bill was aimed to make child marriage a cognisable offence, adding under the bill, whoever committed the offence would be punished with…
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Six schools to be made eco-friendly

RAWALPINDI: The Education Department has approved three boys’ and 3 girls’ high schools as models eco-friendly schools in all 23 tehsils of Rawalpindi division. The Ministry of Education has asked the District Education Authority’s CEOs of all 42 districts of the province for the list of these schools by the…
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Sindh Government okays Rs520m for new children’s unit in NICVD

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah approved on 5 June 2024 an additional amount of Rs520 million for the new under construction paediatric unit at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD). He was presiding over the 82nd governing body meeting of the institute at the CM House.…
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Girls hostel staff, owners booked as camera found in washroom

LAHORE: The police lodged a case against the owners and staff of a private girls` hostel in Johar Town for recording videos of the residents through hidden cameras installed in washrooms, causing apprehensions that these clips may be sold and used in the `dark web` or social media. The matter…
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