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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.…

Father Tells Heartbreaking Story Of Losing Two Children In Swat Tragedy

MARDAN: A man from Mardan recounted the tragic incident at the Swat River last week, which claimed at least 16 lives — including his two children, 12-year-old Daniyal and 6-year-old Ishaal. Naseer Ahmed told of his ordeal as he and other people around him were helpless to pull the 17…

Cleric Arrested For Assaulting Two Minors

PESHAWAR: Badhber police arrested a cleric on charges of assaulting two minors…

Man Commits Suicide After 11-year-old Daughter Declared Vani

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A poor man ended his life by swallowing poisonous…

Education Dept’s Inaction Causes Hardships for Students in Khyber

KHYBER: A seemingly perpetual inaction by the education department and district administration over allocation and distribution of leftover prefabricated classrooms to schools without proper building or fully damaged ones has been causing immense hardships to students in different parts of Khyber tribal district, particularly in upper Bara. Sources in education…

Court Acquits Cleric in Student Assault Case

MANSEHRA: The Peshawar High Court’s Abbottabad Circuit Bench on September 11 set aside the life imprisonment sentence of a cleric who was accused of sexually assaulting a seminary student in the Perhana area of Mansehra district in 2019. “The lower court had convicted the cleric in 2024, but the Abbottabad…

KP Government to Outsource Management of 24 Underperforming Hospitals

PESHAWAR: In a major step towards healthcare reform, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to outsource the management of 24 underperforming hospitals across 18 districts to the private sector. The initiative, announced by Special Advisor on Health Ihtesham Ali, aims to improve service delivery while maintaining free treatment under government…

Thalassemia Carriers Passing Disease To Children

PESHAWAR: Chairman of Frontier Foundation, Sahibzada Muhammad Haleem, has said that a lack of awareness about genetic diseases, delayed and limited access to screening and treatment, and the high rate of consanguineous marriages significantly increase the risk of thalassemia and other hereditary disorders. He said that eliminating thalassemia, a genetic…

Two Arrested In Boy Murder Case

CHAKDARRA: Police arrested two teenage boys for their alleged involvement in the brutal murder of a seven-year-old child in Badwan here, officials said on 09 September. District Police Officer (DPO) Abdul Salam Khalid said the child, identified as Aafnan, went missing from Toro Gato village and was later found dead…

Daycare Centre Opens at BKU

CHARSADDA: A Daycare Centre was inaugurated on September 09 at Bacha Khan University, Charsadda. Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Khan Alam cut the ribbon to mark the opening of the facility. The faculty members, administrative officers, and students attended the ceremony. The vice chancellor said that the establishment of the Daycare…

Traffic Mismanagement: Abbottabad Tragedy Exposes Systemic Flaws

ABBOTTABAD: A recent accident on the Karakoram Highway (KKH) in which a dumper crushed a group of schoolchildren has once again laid bare the systemic failures of the traffic management, where rampant negligence, alleged corruption, and revenue-driven policing continue to overshadow public safety. Three students, including two sisters, were killed…

Body of Missing Child Found in Chakdara

CHAKDARA: The body of a nine-year-old boy, who had been missing since September 06, was recovered from a nearby mountain in the Badwan area of Chakdara on Sunday. The body of 9-year-old Afaan was shifted to Chakdara Hospital for post-mortem examination after being informed by the local residents. According to…

Probe Into Alleged Irregularities at BISE Swat Sought

MINGORA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-Parliamentarians (PTIP) provincial Vice Chairman Aziz-ul-Haq on September 07 asked the National Accountability Bureau and the Anti-Corruption Establishment to launch an investigation into the alleged irregularities at the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Swat. Speaking at a press conference, he alleged that the BISE Swat had…

CM Orders For Taking Urgent Anti-dengue Steps In KP

PESHAWAR: Taking notice of the potential spread of dengue fever following the recent spell of rains in the province, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur on Tuesday directed all concerned departments to launch emergency anti-dengue measures without any delay. An official handout said that the Chief Minister’s Secretariat had…