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Insights From the 2023 Census Report

The 2023 Census conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics released its complete report in July 2024 indicates that the total population of Pakistan is 240 million out of which the population of children under 18 is 112 Million (47% of the total population). Children Population (under 18) Population under 18 Total Male Female Transgender Pakistan 112,472,700 58,099,978 54,370,121 2,601…

Girls Clinch Top Two Slots In BSEK General Group Exams

KARACHI: Female students have grabbed first two positions in the Class XII (Science General Group) annual examinations 2024, according to the results announced by the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Tuesday. BIEK Chairman Prof Amir Hussain Qadri said that Maniha Noor Rifat, a student of Aga Khan Higher…

PAKISTAN EDUCATION STATISTICS 2022 – 2023

Pakistan’s education system spans multiple levels, including compulsory education for children aged…

Over 4,200 children sexually abused in 2023, says Sahil

ISLAMABAD: The data compiled by Sahil shows that 11 children were abused…

Letting Federal Wealth Go

The first meeting of the 11th National Finance Commission (NFC) to discuss and finalise a new award was postponed last week due to flood emergency in the country, which demanded urgent government attention and resource mobilisation to mitigate potential human and material losses. Background research, however, revealed that, compared to…

Our Antibiotic Crisis

Antibiotics are among humanity’s most remarkable discoveries, emerging unexpectedly over the past century. The credit for this groundbreaking development goes to the Scottish physician and microbiologist, Alexander Fleming, who was studying fungi in 1928 when he inadvertently discovered what we now know as antibiotics. Following the discovery of penicillin, the…

Good Governance Roadmap: Govt Introduces Reforms to Strengthen Healthcare in KP

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, under the Good Governance Roadmap, has unveiled a set of reforms aimed at transforming the healthcare system in the province. The reforms are directed at strengthening primary and secondary care, workforce development, digitization, and institutional restructuring. The Health Department announced that the roadmap, endorsed at…

PIC Saves Lives Of 14 Children Through Modern Heart Surgeries

PESHAWAR: Heart specialists at the public-sector Peshawar Institute of Cardiology have saved the lives of 14 children, including two Afghans, through the first-ever modern Fontan and Rastelli surgeries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Riffat Anjum, spokesperson for the PIC, told Dawn that the complex lifesaving Fontan and Rastelli surgeries were performed in…

KP Govt To Outsource 1,500 Primary Schools To Private Organisations

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa elementary and secondary education department has initiated work to outsource 1,500 government primary schools in the province to private organisations over low enrolment and poor academic performance, say officials. They told Dawn that the schools would be outsourced to the private organisations working in the education sector, preferably…

79 School Buildings Declared Hazardous in Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI: As many as 79 buildings of government schools in Rawalpindi district have been declared dangerous. The local administration has asked the District Education Authority to conduct a survey and present a report about remaining school buildings. There are more than 1800 schools in the district and 323 of them…

Rs654 Million Paid To Heirs Of 350 Flood Victims, Says Gandapur

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur said here on 28th August that provincial government paid Rs654 million as compensation to the families of 350 persons, who lost their lives due to recent floods, while pending cases involving minors were being processed through accounts opened by deputy commissioners. In a…

Groups Of Children At High Risk Of Developmental Delays Identified

KARACHI: A study conducted by the Aga Khan University (AKU) has found that one in four children, aged three to eight, attending public schools in Karachi are at high risk of developmental delays. The developmental delays mean a child has not achieved expected age-related skills in one or more areas,…

Psychiatric Problems Haunt Flood Survivors

PESHAWAR: As health department continues to record incidence of communicable diseases in flood-stricken districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, psychiatrists say that most people face acute stress disorders due to loss of relatives and properties in the affected areas. “Many people are passing sleepless nights as they have lost brothers, fathers, sisters,…

Swat Floods Leave Over 125 Schools Unusable

SWAT: The recent floods caused extensive damage to the education sector in Swat district, rendering 128 government schools, both for boys and girls, partially or completely unusable. Officials of the district education department told Dawn that the natural calamity hit primary, middle, high and higher secondary educational institutions in multiple tehsils. They said the…