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Automation, E-marking Planned in Sindh’s Education Boards

KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to introduce automation and an e-marking system in educational boards to improve the quality of education in the province. The announcement was made by the Minister for Universities and Boards Muhammad Ismail Rahoo at a ceremony organised by the All Sindh Private Schools and Colleges Association at Bahria Auditorium, Karsaz, Karachi, to mark World…

Balochistan Child Labour Survey 2023-2024 Report

The Balochistan Child Labour Survey (BCLS) 2023 provides unique information about the living conditions of children in the province as well as their daily activities, including schooling, working, and household chores. The survey employed a two-stage stratified sampling strategy to ensure district-level representativeness across urban and rural areas. In the…

The Age Of Consent And The Borders Of Belief

ICT Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2025 marks a pivotal step toward a…

Video of Teacher Assaulting Student in Gujar Khan Sparks Police Action

RAWALPINDI: In the Gujar Khan area of Rawalpindi, a video showing a…

Missing Teenage Girl Found Dead at Uncle’s House

RAWALPINDI: The body of a 15-year-old girl who went missing while on her way to a madrassa was recovered from her maternal uncle’s house in the Pirwadhai area on Oct 7. Police took the body into custody and shifted it to a hospital for a post-mortem examination. The girl’s maternal…

Onus on State to Protect Kids from Online Harm, IHC Told

• NCRC recommends boosting NCCIA capacity, setting up special units for exploitation probes • Proposes Peca review from child rights perspective • Urges integrating age verification into Digital Nation Pakistan Act ISLAMABAD: Protecting minors from online grooming, exploitation and harmful content is the state’s responsibility, the National Commission on the…

CM Sindh Orders Province-wide Drive to Bring Out-of-school Children Back to Classrooms

KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Oct 2 ordered a province-wide enrolment drive to bring out-of-school children back to classrooms on the pattern of the Thatta pilot model, where 702 students, including 409 girls and 102 out-of-school and dropout children, were enrolled in just nine days from Sept…

Unsafe Online

The internet has become an ordinary part of childhood, but the protections surrounding young users remain anything but ordinary. A new Kaspersky analysis offers a revealing picture of where Pakistani children are spending their time online. During the first eight months of 2026, YouTube accounted for 31.2% of their mobile…

28 Rabies Cases Reported at one Karachi Hospital so far this year

• Indus Hospital officials say nine rabies deaths reported at health facility in 2025 • Seminar organised to promote rabies prevention and timely post-exposure treatment • Sindh chief secy says increase in reported cases reflects greater public awareness rather than mere rise in incidence KARACHI: As many as 28 cases…

Gun Attack on Kech School

GWADAR: A private school came under attack in Kech district on Oct 2, officials said. Armed men entered the premises of Roshan Grammar School in the Menaz area of Buleda tehsil and opened fire, they said, adding that the school’s CCTV system was destroyed in the attack. Confirming the incident,…

Man Arrested for Assaulting Minor Boy in Charsadda

CHARSADDA: Police arrested a man for assaulting a five-year-old boy here on Oct 2. According to the first information report (FIR), the incident took place in the Station Kallay area of Tangi. The child’s mother told police that her son returned home crying and alleged that a neighbour, identified as…

Boy Found Strangled Inside Makeshift Hut in Naseerabad

RAWALPINDI: A 10-year-old boy was found strangled inside his makeshift hut in the New Chakra area of Naseerabad police station on Thursday night, police said. Mohammad Bilal, 34, a resident of New Chakra, lodged an FIR with the police, saying he sold flower bouquets and lived in a makeshift tent…

Sindh’s Rabies Crisis

World Rabies Day passed earlier this week, and Sindh’s official figures tell the story of a province being chewed up by a completely preventable disease. At least 35 people have died of rabies in the first nine months of 2026, while dog-bite cases across Sindh have surged past 200,000, including…

AI-guided Bid to Poison Father: Teenager Sent to Jail on Judicial Remand

LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Sep 30 sent a teenage suspect to jail on a 14-day judicial remand in a case of allegedly attempting to poison his father after seeking information about poisoning from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) produced the 17-year-old suspect before…