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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…

Educational Institutions in Bajaur Closed Till 8th

BAJAUR: Authorities shut all educational institutions in Lowi Mamund and War Mamund tehsils of Bajaur until August 8 owing to the prevailing security situation in the region, according to a notification issued here on August 1. The notification issued from the deputy commissioner’s office said that the move was taken…

Heart Patients In Swat Being Denied Treatment Under Health Card

SWAT: As the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa claims to promote its flagship Sehat Card Plus health initiative as a game-changer for poor, patients in Swat and other districts of Malakand division find themselves abandoned in their most desperate hours. Despite having state-of-the-art cardiac facilities in several private hospitals in Swat,…

Girl Distressed By Matric Result Ends Life In Dir

LOWER DIR: A 15-year-old girl purportedly distressed by her matric exam result took her own life in the Gandigar Payeen area of Upper Dir the other day. According to police, the student, identified as Anmol, had secured 1010 marks out of 1200 in the recently announced SSC results by Malakand…

Programme Launched To Enrol 80,000 Children In Eight KP Districts

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has launched ‘ILMpact’, an initiative to enrol 80,000 out-of-school children in eight districts of the province and improve quality of education, in collaboration with United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The programme, according to an official statement issued here on Thursday, is being…

Child Dies After Inhaling Toxic Fumes In Kurram

PARACHINAR: An eight-year-old girl died and four other children were hospitalised after inhaling toxic fumes inside a storage room on 29-July-2025. According to hospital and police sources, the room had been sealed for a long time and contained pesticide chemicals used to protect stored grain from insects. The accumulation of…

Seminary Teacher Held For Assaulting Student

MANSEHRA: The police on 29th July arrested a seminary teacher for assaulting a 12-year-old student after forcibly confining him at his home for two days in the Lassan Nawab area here. “We have arrested the accused cleric, who assaulted a seminary student,” SHO Lassan Nawab police Akhtar Nawaz told reporters.…

Key Suspects Held In Swat Seminary Murder Case

SWAT: District police officer Mohammad Umar Khan announced the arrest of key suspects involved in the tragic murder of a minor student at a seminary in the Chaliyar area of Khwazakhela on July 28. The main accused, Qari Umar and his son, Ihsanullah, were apprehended following a determined search operation…

Three New Polio Cases Reported In KP, Sindh

ISLAMABAD: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, has confirmed three new polio cases. According to official sources, two cases were reported from the districts of Lakki Marwat and North Waziristan in South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one from District Umerkot in Sindh.…

Girls Outshine Boys In Swat SSC Exam Results

MINGORA: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Swat has announced the results of the annual matriculation examinations 2025, wherein girls outshined boys in overall and general group positions. Kashmala Habib, daughter of Habibullah and a student of Al-Zuhar Education Institute, Panr, Mingora, secured the top position by scoring…

Teahcer Arrested For Beating Child

SWABI. Police have arrested a cleric for allegedly subjecting a six-year-old boy to physical abuse for arriving late at the mosque, according to a press release issued by the District Police Officer (DPO) Office. Complainant Muhammad Asim informed the police that his son, Muhammad Esa, who is enrolled in religious…