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Local Production Of Iron, Folic Acid Supplements May Curb Anaemia In 15m Pakistani Girls

ISLAMABAD: The local production of Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFAS) in adolescent doses could prevent around 15 million adolescent girls in Pakistan from suffering from iron deficiency anemia as ensuring sustainable access to these supplements could significantly reduce costs and lessen reliance on expensive imports, according to officials and nutrition experts. Iron deficiency anaemia is the leading cause…

Federal Health Minister Urges Action As Vaccination Refusals Hindering Polio Eradication

Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal has expressed serious concern over vaccine refusals, stating that nearly 43,000 parents in Sindh — 42,000 of them in Karachi alone —have refused polio vaccination for their children, posing a major obstacle to the eradication efforts. He made these remarks while visiting the Provincial…

New Textbooks For Grade 1 To 5 To Be Delivered In Two Weeks

ISLAMABAD: The supply of newly developed textbooks for grade 1 to 5…

Children With Disabilities Showcase Talent At PNCA

Islamabad: The Directorate General of Special Education (DGSE), Ministry of Federal Education…

Schools are Out, The Bills Aren’t

When summer vacations begin, Sobia Nisar tries to let her six-year-old daughter enjoy the first few weeks without too much structure. There are visits to cousins, occasional trips to the park, time at home, and an effort to keep screen time as low as possible. But keeping a child busy…

Educational Laws, Ignored

Education, deemed as the most significant marker for progress in any nation, is kept at an unbelievably low rung of Pakistan’s priority ladder. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the country has a literacy rate of only 62.3%, and around 26.2 million out-of-school children aged 5-16. Late-stage capitalism has…

Invest in Education

Pakistan is a signatory to the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, which calls for inclusive and equitable quality education for all by 2030. Unfortunately, the country remains far from achieving this target. According to media reports, the national literacy rate has reached 63%, with male literacy at 73% and…

Pakistan’s Silent Emergency: Why Our Children Need A National Anti-Drug Policy Now

Every generation faces a defining challenge. For our parents, it was nation-building. For ours, it may well be saving our children from the growing menace of drugs. Across Pakistan, a silent epidemic is unfolding. Narcotics have found their way into our schools, colleges and universities, threatening not only individual lives…

Out-Of-School Children

It has been over two years since the country declared a National Education Emergency, but Pakistan is still stuck with the second-largest out-of-school population globally. A new comprehensive comparative policy review, prepared by the Civil Services Academy (CSA) and reported on by the media earlier this week, estimates that between…

25m Pakistani Children Are Out Of School: CSA Report

LAHORE: More than two years after Pakistan declared a National Education Emergency, the country continues to struggle with one of the world’s largest out-of-school children crises, as over 25 million children remain outside classrooms despite constitutional guarantees of free and compulsory education and repeated policy announcements at federal and provincial…

Abuse Cycle

LULLED into a sense of false security by its own denial and apathy, Pakistan is a long way from achieving tangible solutions to the curse of child abuse. The state’s refusal to address the presence of this scourge, and the lifelong traumas associated with it, is a ticking time bomb…

NCCIA Establishes Cell For Cases Of Women, Children

LAHORE: The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) Punjab has established a dedicated cell to ensure prompt registration, investigation and prosecution of cases involving women and children. According to NCCIA Punjab Director Muhammad Ali Wasim, the initiative had been taken to provide women and children with expedited legal assistance, protection…

Protecting Our Children

When the most vulnerable members of a nation are repeatedly subjected to sexual violence, torture and murder, the crisis extends far beyond law and order. It becomes a moral failure. The past week has delivered two such horrifying reminders. In Sargodha, a seven-year-old girl was reported to have been sexually…

Pakistan Child Labour Surveys Evidence For Action

Published in June 2026 by UNICEF and the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) Pakistan, this synthesis report consolidates the findings of household-based Child Labour Surveys (CLS) conducted across Pakistan’s four provinces and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) between 2019 and 2024. Utilizing the internationally recognized SIMPOC methodology on a…

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