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Birth Registration Of Girls Remains Low

Majority of women and girls have no legal existence in the official systems PESHAWAR: Where limited access to registration centers, particularly in remote and underserved areas, can partly explain the low birth registration rate for girls in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the social bias that confines women to the four walls of the home continues to withhold many from getting a legal identity.…

Unicef To Design Peshawar Children’s Hospital

PESHAWAR: The Unicef has pledged to design the Peshawar Children’s Hospital in a way that it will look like a children’s park instead of a hospital, according to an official. “Being a 100pc Children’s Hospital, all its buildings will wear a fantastic look when its interior designing is finished. The…
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Three Girls Killed In Quadcopter Attack In KP

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Three girls were killed and four other family members wounded in the early hours of July 5 when a quadcopter drone dropped munitions on a home in the Nar­gasi area of Birmal tehsil in Lower South Wazi­ristan, local sources said. The strike hit the residence of Mohammad Gul…
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Boy Killed In Wana Mosque In Lower South Waziristan

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: A nine-year-old boy was killed inside a mosque in the Zeri Noor area of Wana tehsil in Lower South Waziristan district, police said on 4 July. They said the deceased, identified as Waqas, belonged to the Wazir Mughalkhel tribe. Police officials said the child was allegedly murdered inside…
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Bodies Of Two Missing Children Found In Swat

MINGORA: The bodies of two young children, who had been reported missing a day earlier, were found inside a large storage chest on the second floor of their house in the Shamozo area of Barikot tehsil in Swat, police said. The victims were identified as five-year-old Malik Ahmad Khan and…
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Rain-Related Incidents kill Nine, Injure 28 Across KP, Punjab

PESHAWAR/ LAHORE: Heavy rain, strong winds and flash floods killed at least nine people and injured 28 others across Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) over the past 48 hours, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) and Rescue 1122 confirmed on Thursday. According to the PDMA (K-P), seven people were killed and…
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Child Killed, Woman Injured In Bajaur Quadcopter Attack

BAJAUR: A suspected quadcopter, reportedly operated from an unknown location, struck a house, leaving a child killed and a woman injured in War Mamund tehsil here on June 28, afternoon, the police said. Police sources and residents said the incident occurred in the Inam Khoro China Gai area when a…
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Two Held In Swat Over Assault, Murder Of Teenage Girl

SWAT: The Swat police arrested two suspects on charges of sexually assaulting and killing a teenage girl who had gone missing from her home town Abbottabad some three days ago. Police registered an FIR under multiple sections of the Pakistan Penal Code after the 17-year-old girl died at Saidu Teaching…
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Release Of Rs2.1bn For Children Hospital Lauded

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Pediatric Association Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has warmly welcomed the release of Rs2.1b by the provincial government for early operationalisation of the Children’s Hospital attached to the Khyber Institute of Child Health (KICH), Peshawar. The association expressed profound gratitude to the chief minister, Muhammad Sohail Afridi, health minister Khaliqur Rehman…
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Work On Swabi Girls’ School Begins

SWABI: Construction work on the much-awaited government high school in the Besak area of Gadoon Amazai region here has been launched, and it is expected to be completed next year if there is no paucity of funds, sources in the communication and works department told Dawn here on June 27.…
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