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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…

Helplines

There are different helplines offered by government and non-governmental organisations offering different services for children in Pakistan. 1099- Report Human Rights to Ministry of Human Rights A 1099 Helpline has been established by the Federal Ministry of Human Rights, and offers advice on human rights violations, and to facilitate and…

School Principal Arrested For Alleged Abuse Of Teachers, Students

SHEIKHUPURA: A school principal has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing…

Transport For Schooling

A JUDGE at the Lahore High Court recently ordered that schools should arrange for…

Four get Life Term, Fine for Rape of Two Boys

BAHAWALPUR: The additional district and sessions judges (AD&SJ) in Lodhran and Kahror Pacca have handed down life sentences and heavy fines to four individuals convicted in two separate cases involving the rape of young boys. In Kahror Pacca, AD&SJ Umar Farooq Awan sentenced two men, Abdullah Zafar and Shah Mir,…

Girl who set Herself Ablaze in Kasur after Acquittal of ‘Rapist’ Dies in Hospital

KASUR: The 16-year-old rape victim who attempted self-immolation after a court acquitted the accused rapist, a cop, succumbed to her burn injuries on December 24. According to details, an additional sessions court on Dec 5 acquitted the accused police constable along with his three female relatives, after a three-year trial, when the…

Introduction of New Exam System Draws Flak from Khyber Educationists

KHYBER: Educationists and representatives of teacher associations in Khyber have expressed reservations over simultaneous conducting of school-based assessment (SBA), semester and internal midterm examinations from primary to middle levels. They said that though SBA was beneficial in ascertaining and then removing flaws in educational system, it was implemented in a…

FBISE Model to be replicated Nationwide for Modernising Education Boards

ISLAMABAD: The government is considering launching a new project aimed at making educational boards of the country equipped with modern technology on the pattern of the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE). Since 2015-18, the federal government has upgraded FBISE through a Rs50 million project, “Modernisation and Standardisation…

Death Penalty for Man Convicted of Child Abduction-Rape

LODHRAN: A sessions court has awarded the death penalty, life imprisonment and a fine of Rs2.5 million to the accused, Iqbal Arain, in the case of the abduction and rape of a seven-year-old girl, Aliza. The accused had abducted the minor while she was playing outside her home Saddar Police…

Special Children’s School in Rawalpindi Faces Closure Risk

RAWALPINDI: Due to an acute shortage of government funds, the Government Institute for Slow Learners in Rawalpindi is facing serious difficulties, threatening the education of 120 young girls and boys enrolled at the school. The institute does not have its own government building and operates from rented premises. However, rent…

Promises, Gaps and Uneven Reforms

LAHORE: Punjab’s education sector is set to conclude 2025 as a year marked by ambitious claims, notable gaps and unresolved challenges. While the provincial government repeatedly highlighted reforms, digital initiatives and infrastructure plans, teachers, education experts and parents continued to question the impact on ground and sustainability of the measures.…

Shehbaz wants Autism Centre to be Completed within a Year

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on December 19 directed that the Autism Centre of Excellence being established in the federal capital be completed within one year instead of two and reaffirmed the government’s resolve to provide world-class education, therapy and vocational facilities to children with special needs. Addressing the foundation-laying…

Man Gets Death Penalty for Daughters’ Murder

RAWALPINDI: Additional District and Sessions Judge Afshan Ejaz Soofi sentenced a father, Usman Anwar, to death twice after convicting him of murdering his two minor daughters in a high-profile domestic dispute case registered at RA Bazaar Police Station. The court ruled that the convict committed an extremely serious crime by…

Schools Under Attack

ONCE more, a girls’ school has been reduced to rubble in the Mirali tehsil of North Waziristan, and with it, the promise of an education for hundreds of children. The bombing of the only girls’ school in Eppi village, just days after another school was destroyed in the same tehsil,…