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School Principal Arrested For Alleged Abuse Of Teachers, Students

SHEIKHUPURA: A school principal has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing several teachers and students in the Mirza Virkan area of Sheikhupura, reported Ary News. The case came to light after videos of the victims went viral on social media and WhatsApp groups. Following the emergence of the videos, the B-division station police conducted a raid on complaints of…

PAKISTAN EDUCATION STATISTICS 2022 – 2023

Pakistan’s education system spans multiple levels, including compulsory education for children aged 5-16, covering pre-primary to higher secondary education, with 349,909 institutions serving over 56 million students as of 2022-23. Despite improvements, around 26 million children remain out of school, with girls making up a significant portion. The out-of-school crisis…

Transport For Schooling

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

Closure of 86 Schools Extended In Flood-hit Areas Of Chiniot

CHINIOT: The administration has extended the closure of 86 schools for three…

CM’s Vision of Women Safety, Empowerment: Adolescent Girls’ Health Project to be Launched

LAHORE: A four-member delegation of education sector leaders visited the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on September 30 and agreed with the university to launch a pilot project on adolescent girls’ health in Lahore schools, in line with the Chief Minister’s vision of women safety and empowerment. The delegation, led…

AJK Warns Private Schools Against Closure, Involvement in Protests

MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government has warned private educational institutions against announcing holidays or suspending classes on any date — a warning seen as a veiled reference to the September 29 lockdown call by the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JKJAAC). “It has been brought to…

Eight Dir Schools Awaiting Reconstruction For Years

LOWER DIR: A long delay in the reconstruction of eight schools here has left thousands of students without proper learning facilities, complain residents. Information secretary of the Jamaat-i-Islami Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (north) Engineer Hafiz Yaqoobur Rehman told Dawn in Timergara that authorities razed those schools due to dilapidated condition following the…

10,000 Schools set for Privatisation by June 2026

RAWALPINDI: In a bid to address the ongoing financial and economic crisis, the Punjab Education Department has resolved to privatise a further 10,000 primary, middle, and high schools by the end of the current fiscal year, June 30, 2026. Preparations are already underway, with lists of the schools earmarked for…

Report Finds Drug Surge Near Schools

ISLAMABAD: During proceedings on a case concerning the proliferation of narcotics in educational institutions, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) was presented with a performance report from the federal police, detailing operations conducted between January 1 and August 31, 2025. The report was submitted in compliance with an earlier directive issued…

Floods Affect 4.2m People in Punjab

• PM doubles compensation for families of victims to Rs2m • 161,000 houses, 395 health facilities damaged in Punjab, UNOCHA says • Senate panel told deluges left 1,000 dead, millions displaced ISLAMABAD: As millions of people have been affected and hundreds of casualties reported across the country during the recent floods and monsoon…

Ministry Accelerates Work on Missing Educational Facilities

ISLAMABAD: The education ministry on September 26 directed timely completion of the ongoing missing facilities project of educational institutions in the capital. “Federal education secretary reviewed the progress on renovation and construction of basic educational facilities across schools in Islamabad Capital Territory under the project titled missing facilities,” read a…

K-P Sees Steady Increase in Enrollment

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was presented with detailed statistics regarding government schools, teachers, and students in Peshawar. According to the Education Department on Tuesday, there are a total of 1,619 government schools under the board’s jurisdiction, including 891 for boys and 728 for girls. The number of teachers across these…

Children To Get Rid of Heavy School Bags

PESHAWAR: Special Assistant to the Chief Minister for Science and Information Technology, Dr Shafqat Ayaz, has said that the provincial government’s E-Basta Project has entered its final stages, which will bring a digital revolution to the education system of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “This project will not only provide educational facilities to…

3,200 Schools Reopened, Says CM Bugti

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti has said that unnecessary posts in various government departments are being abolished and 3,200 non-functional schools have been reopened and made functional in the province. Speaking to students of various educational institutions on Monday, the chief minister said the youth represent the country’s future,…