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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…

Probe Launched Into Sale Of Free Textbooks In Larkana Markets

LARKANA: A special secretary of education department on 15th January began probe into reports of open sale in the town’s markets of textbooks published by Sindh Textbook Board for free distribution in government schools. Special Secretary (admin, coordination & law) Syed Imdad Ali Shah, who was appointed by secretary of…

Pakistan Confirms 71st Polio Case Of 2024 in Jacobabad

ISLAMABAD: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed Pakistan’s 71st case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) for 2024. The case involves a 58-month-old boy from Jacobabad, Sindh, with symptoms reported on December 27, 2024. This marks the fifth polio case…

Funds Demanded For Salaries Of School Employees

MANSEHRA: Local government representatives and residents on 13th January demanded that the government release funds for the salaries of teachers and other staff members of schools and colleges across the province functioning under the Elementary Education Foundation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “Five out of 88 schools and colleges functioning in our district…

Sindh Reduces Infant Mortality To 2.9pc

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has lauded the Sindh government for its remarkable achievement of reducing infant mortality in the province to 2.9 percent, compared to the national average of 5.4 percent. Bilawal expressed pride in the accomplishments of the provincial government and the ChildLife Foundation…

Don’t Validate Taliban’s Gender Apartheid: Malala

ISLAMABAD: Nobel laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai has urged Muslim leaders not to “legitimise” the Taliban government in Afgha­nistan and recognise it as “perpetrators of gender apartheid”. In her address to the International Conference on Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities on Sunday, Ms Yousafzai lambasted Israel for destroying educational institutions in Gaza…

KP’s Education System In Doldrums

19,000 children in K-P are working in agriculture and other sectors instead of attending school PESHAWAR: Illiteracy is a vice plaguing both genders in areas faring poorly in terms of human development, the problem is exacerbated in tribal districts, where girls’ education is more or less neglected. Furthermore, the fact…

KP Govt Pours Rs100bn Into Free Healthcare Since 2016

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has spent around Rs100 billion on the provision of free healthcare under the Sehat Card Plus programme to 3.89 million patients since its launch in 2016. Beneficiaries of the health insurance scheme included 2.09 million (53.07pc) women, 1.79 million (46.03pc) men, and 17 transgender…

Education Apartheid: Schooling In Crisis In Pakistan

KARACHI: Aneesa Haroon drops off her tattered school bag at her rural home in Pakistan and hurriedly grabs lunch before joining her father in the fields to pick vegetables. The 11-year-old’s entry into school at the age of seven was a negotiation between teachers and her parents in her farming…

Several Islamabad Colleges Face Teachers’ Shortage

ISLAMABAD: Several colleges run by the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) are facing a shortage of teachers while five model colleges in the federal capital were functioning without a regular teaching staff. Sources said the girls’ college in Bhara Kahu, and the boys’ colleges in Humak, Sector I-14, and Sector…

Commission Sought For Release Of Children Trapped In Blasphemy Cases

ISLAMABAD: Human rights activists have demanded that the government form an independent investigation commission to get children trapped in blasphemy cases released. The demand came from lawyer Usman Warraich, Rana Abdul Hameed Advocate, Iman Mazari Advocate, and the parents of the affected children at a news conference at the National…
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