Child Rights Violation Cases - Page 78

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…

Five-year-old Girl Murdered After Rape

GUJRANWALA: A five-year-old girl was killed after being raped at Kamoke. Eman Fatima was playing in a street when she went missing. Receiving information about it, Wahndo police reached the spot and arrested Hassan on suspicion. During preliminary investigation, Hassan told the police that he abducted the girl and raped…

Reconciliation Between Family Of Murdered Maid, Main Accused

KARACHI: In a shocking development, the family of Fatima Furiro, a minor…

13,000 non-performing schools to be given to NGOs in Punjab

In the name of bringing reforms, the Maryam Nawaz-led provincial government is…

Class 7 Girl Kidnapped Outside School

MUZAFFARGARH: A class seven student was reportedly kidnapped from outside the Government Girls High School in Canal Colony on 4th November. The City police registered a case against unknown suspects following a complaint lodged by the girl’s mother, Zubaida Bibi. According to the complainant, her 13-year-old daughter went missing after…

Court Orders Formation Of Body To Check Bullying In Schools

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on 4th November directed the provincial secretary of the school education department to form a committee to make efforts to control physical bullying, cyberbullying, and harassment of children at the educational institutes. Justice Jawad Hassan passed the order hearing a public interest petition filed by…

PG Takes Notice Of Minor’s Rape, Boy’s Death At Workshop

LAHORE: Punjab Prosecutor General (PG) Syed Farhad Ali Shah on 4th November took notice of two recent incidents – the rape of a minor girl at a private school and burning of a juvenile labourer at a workshop – in the provincial metropolis. On being summoned, the investigating officers (IOs)…

Education Dept Initiates Inquiry Into Officials’ Involvement In Sale Of Free Textbooks

The Sindh School Education and Literacy Department with the help of police has unearthed a racket of selling free books issued by the government and has also formed a team to investigate the alleged involvement of education department officials. Officials and sources said on 04-Novemeber-2024 that a major success was…

Bara Girls College Students Seek Furniture In Classrooms

KHYBER: Most of the students of the Government Degree College for Girls, Bara, are forced to sit on the floor to take classes owing to non-availability of furniture. Established in December 2022 under the Accelerated Implementation Programme (AIP), with the main building almost 90 percent complete, the lone girls’ college…

Families Of Electrocuted Children Compensated

TANK: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Usman Khan Bhitani on 03-November-2024 gave cheques worth for Rs1 million each to the families of the four children who were recently electrocuted in Tank district. The deputy commissioner, Tank, district police officer and the local elders were present at the ceremony.…

Private Hospital’s Two Doctors Booked For Declaring Alive Newborn Dead

HYDERABAD: A case has been registered at the Baldia police station against two doctors and other staffers of a private hospital for negligently declaring a healthy newborn dead. The FIR has been registered on the complaint of the father, Muhammad Rafiq Bhayo, a resident of Muhammad Bux Shoro village of…

Mosque Cleric Rapes Girl

OKARA: A mosque cleric was arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old madrassa student. According to the first information report, the girl had been attending Quranic lessons at the seminary in Azam Town, Renala, where around seven months ago, the cleric allegedly raped her and threatened her into silence. Recently, noticing…

Tutor Rapes Minor Boy In Lodhran

BAHAWALPUR: A tutor allegedly raped his 13-year-old student at Basti Baghwala of village Khanpur Ghalwan in the limits of the Qureshiwala Police Station in district Lodhran. According to Ladhran police spokesperson Bahadur Khan, the tutor called his student from his house and took him to nearby fields on the pretext…

Misconceptions Rise as Polio Cases Surge Across Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Fed up with Pakistan’s rising polio cases, health authorities across provinces are increasingly attributing the spread of the virus to a range of unique factors, including malnutrition, gaps in Routine Immunization (RI), parental refusals, and, most recently, paralysis linked to injection neuritis a theory recently posited by health officials…