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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…

Polio Crisis Deepens As New Case Takes Pakistan’s Total To 12

ISLAMABAD: A day after two more children were found affected by the poliovirus in Balochistan, a six-year-old boy in the Chakwal district of Punjab has been paralysed by the Wild Poliovirus 1, raising the total polio cases to 12 in Pakistan this year, officials said on Saturday. “The Regional Reference…
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When Education Meets Land Grab

Imagine this: A bully enters a man’s dwelling and forces him to sign over ownership of a large piece of his land at gunpoint. To lend this theft the thinnest air of legitimacy, the bully throws the landowner a bone and puts a sale price on the papers that is…
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Free Healthy Meals for Sindh Schoolchildren, Says Murad

KARACHI: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on 31st July 2024 supported the Sindh government’s plan to offer free breakfast /lunch and milk to schoolchildren under its School Meal Programme (SMP). WFP Country Director Coco Ushiyama called on Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here at the CM House and…
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What Next After Enrolment?

Twenty-six million. This figure has been doing the rounds in print and digital media for quite some time now. This is the total number of out-of-school children and adolescents (OOSCA) in Pakistan, the second highest in the world, according to the Pakistan Education Statistics. This number is 39 percent of…
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Breathing Poison

How many of us would willingly put our children in a room with toxic air? Ideally, none. But in reality, we are guilty of, and perhaps blissfully unaware of, pushing our children towards harm’s way. The latest research shows the shocking impact of passive smoking on school-age children in Pakistan…
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Schoolchildren Plant 450 Saplings In Khyber

KHYBER/DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The district administration in collaboration with agriculture and forest departments launched a billion tree-plus plantation campaign in different parts of Khyber. Deputy Commissioner Retired Capt Sanaullah Khan planted an olive sapling at the Khyber House compound to inaugurate the monsoon plantation drive. In Landi Kotal, the assistant…

Census 2023: Urban Spurt, Educational Crisis and Going Off-Grid

KARACHI: Almost a year after the Council of Common Interests (CCI) ‘unanimously’ approved the results of the 2023 digital census, the country’s top data body has released detailed results of the enumeration exercise. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) released data for the 7th Population and Housing Census 2023 at…

NAVTTC launches campaign to raise awareness of skill education

ISLAMABAD: To mark World Youth Skills Day, celebrated annually on July 15, the National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) has launched a comprehensive social media campaign to raise awareness about the value and importance of skill education. Recognising the impact of mainstream media in spreading this vital message, NAVTTC…
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Public Schools Outperform Private Institutions

LAHORE: Public schools have outperformed their private counterparts in the 2024 matriculation examinations across Punjab. A total of 1.2 million students appeared for the annual examination, with 929,238 passing, yielding a pass percentage of 75.88. In detail, 655,867 regular candidates from public schools participated in the science group, and 101,249…
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Poliovirus Alert: NIH Detects Cases in 2 More Districts

ISLAMABAD: Poliovirus is continuously spreading across the country, and the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad has confirmed Type-1 Wild Poliovirus (WPV1) in two new districts, Abbottabad and Gwadar, including six other previously-affected districts. This brings the total count of infected districts…

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