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Vaccination Centres Inaugurated in Peshawar, Mardan

PESHAWAR: Health Minister Syed Qasim Ali Shah on 14 August 2024 inaugurated the country’s first 24/7 Vaccination Centres at Maulvi Ameer Shah Memorial Hospital in Peshawar and the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital in Mardan. A handout said the inauguration ceremony was attended by Medical Superintendent Dr Akram Shah, District Health Officer Dr Idrees, UNICEF representatives, and other relevant officials in…

Stakeholders Renew Push For Child Marriage Bill In Balochistan

QUETTA: A joint consultative meeting of stakeholders—including members of civil society, human rights activists, and social and political workers —revived efforts to pass the pending Child Marriage Restraint Bill in the Balochistan Assembly. The meeting was jointly organised by National Commission on the Rights of the Child (NCRC) Balochistan, the…

Criminalizing Child Domestic Labour in Pakistan

Human rights, child rights and civil society activists, along with legal experts…

Child Marriage: Laws, Verdicts, Solutions

Pakistan turned 77 this year, yet the children harbored by the fifth…

Every Day, 675 Newborns, 27 Mothers Die In Pakistan

ISLAMABAD/UNITED NATIONS: Around 675 babies under one month of age and 27 mothers die every day in Pakistan from preventable complications—amounting to over 246,000 newborn and nearly 11,000 maternal deaths annually, alarming statistics by United Nations and World Health Organization (WHO) reveal. On the occasion of World Health Day 2025,…

Education Dept Aims To Institutionalise Sindh Children’s Parliament

The secretary of the Sindh School Education and Literacy Department (SE&LD), Zahid Ali Abbasi, has said during an interim review and way forward session that while every stakeholder is engaged in the betterment of education, the children themselves were previously often left out. The introduction of the Children’s Parliament Sindh…

Govt, Foreign Donors Reaffirm Commitment To End Polio

ISLAMABAD: Global donors and partners have reaffirmed their commitment to fully eradicate poliovirus from Pakistan. The government, alongside international donors and development partners, gathered in Islamabad to reaffirm their commitment to collaborative efforts to ensure a polio-free future for children. Organised by the Pakistan Polio Eradication Initiative, the review meeting…

Islamabad, Azad Kashmir Eradicate Maternal, Neonatal Tetanus

ISLAMABAD: After Sindh and Punjab, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir have achieved the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), taking Pakistan closer to interrupting the transmission of this life-threatening disease for mothers and newborns nationwide. The validations were confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO)…

Taqwa Ahmad: Pakistan’s First-Ever UNICEF Youth Advocate

Meet Taqwa Ahmad, a 16-year-old activist, author, and motivational speaker from Gujranwala, Punjab, recently appointed as UNICEF’s first-ever Youth Advocate in Pakistan. In this inspiring story, Taqwa shares her vision for a future where every child has access to high-quality education, healthcare, and a supportive environment.…

Child Protection Unit Opens In Charsadda

CHARSADDA: Speakers at a ceremony here on 19th February said that provincial government established fully operational child protection units in 21 districts for safety and wellbeing of children. They were addressing inaugural ceremony of child protection unit in the district. The unit has been established by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Protection…

12-day Big Catch-Up Vaccination Campaign Launched

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Expanded Programme on Immunisation has launched a province-wide vaccination campaign – Big Catch-Up – aimed at immunising children under the age of five against 12 vaccine-preventable childhood diseases. The campaign was inaugurated by chief minister’s adviser for health Ihtisham Ali during a ceremony held at Maulvi…

From Hub Chowki to World Stage

KARACHI: In grade 4, Zunaira Qayyum Baloch, had startled senior professor Dr Hamid Ali Baloch, and assistant professor Zahir Mengal of University of Balochistan. They were speakers at an interactive reading club session, The Importance of Reading, in the School of Intensive Teaching (SIT) in Hub Chowki. “Is there anyone…

40-Bed Newborn Care Unit Starts Functioning At Abbottabad Children Hospital

ABBOTTABAD: A Newborn Care Unit started functioning at the Women and Children Hospital Abbottabad today, established with the support of UNICEF to provide quality care for critically ill newborns. The unit was inaugurated by Advisor to the KP Chief Minister on Health, Ihtesham Khan, in the presence of UNICEF Chief…

Climate Change Shocks Emptied South Asia’s Schools

Half of the quarter-billion students who faced academic interruptions were in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan KARACHI: In South Asia, the climate crisis has made monsoons fiercer, heatwaves more severe, and floods more relentless —transforming nature’s wrath from a distant threat into an immediate reality that reshapes landscapes, disrupts lives, and…