Punjab

Video of Teacher Assaulting Student in Gujar Khan Sparks Police Action

RAWALPINDI: In the Gujar Khan area of Rawalpindi, a video showing a school teacher brutally beating a child has gone viral on social media, prompting police action. The accused teacher has been taken into custody. Authorities say the incident occurred nearly a year ago. According to police, the video shows a private school in the Gujar Khan jurisdiction where a…

Maryam Introduces Aghosh Programme For Women

LAHORE: Under Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s first-ever Aghosh program, pregnant women and mothers of children under 2 will get Rs23,000 each. “Health of a mother and her child requires special attention, a healthy mother guarantees a healthy family,” said Maryam while introducing the Aghosh program to provide medical facilities…

Punjab CM Launches Initiatives For Special Children

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has introduced a series of…

3 Nomadic Youths Rape Underage Girl

Rawalpindi: Police have launched a formal investigation after a man filed a…

14 Kids Suffer Burns as ‘Lab Chemical Bottles Explode’ at Private School in Lodhran

BAHAWALPUR: As many as 14 schoolchildren, including nine girls, suffered burns allegedly when some bottles containing an acidic chemical exploded after falling on the floor of the laboratory of a private school at Lodhran. According to Lodhran Rescue 1122 media coordinator Mr Safdar, students from Class I to IV of…

Punjab Plans Doctors’ Task Force against Polio Misinformation

RAWALPINDI: The Punjab Emergency Operations Centre has called for sustained efforts to stop poliovirus transmission through high-quality vaccination, effective surveillance and community engagement with a renewed focus on addressing misinformation and rumours surrounding polio vaccination. To strengthen the use of credible medical voices in responding to misinformation, a task force…

Two Sisters Found Dead After Father Throws Three Children into Canal

GUJAR KHAN: Rescue 1122 divers recovered the bodies of two sisters while the search for their brother was underway in a canal near the Jhelum River, after their father allegedly threw all three children into the canal. The father has been arrested by Mangla police of Jhelum district. According to…

Federal Constitutional Court moved for ban on social media use by kids under 16

LAHORE: A petition has been filed before the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC), seeking directions to shield children under 16 from unrestricted social media use and indecent content on television and other platforms. Two lawyers, Sheraz Zaka and Moin Akhtar, filed the petition at the Lahore registry, with the former identifying…

Poor SSC-I Results put Punjab Schools Under Fire

RAWALPINDI: A dispute over responsibility for this year’s poor Class 9 results across all nine educational boards in Punjab has intensified between the provincial Education Department and teachers’ organisations. The Education Department has placed the primary responsibility for the poor results on teachers, while teachers’ organisations have blamed the government…

Teen Gang-raped on Pretext of TikTok account Promotion in Sahiwal

SAHIWAL: A 16-year-old TikToker boy was allegedly gang-raped by four men after being forced to consume drug at Chak 90/9-L, tehsil Sahiwal. According to police, the victim had lost his father years ago and was living with his widowed mother. Fond of using his mobile phone, he regularly uploaded videos…

Three Children’s Bodies Found Days After Mom’s Murder in Punjab

CHINIOT: Three children who were taken away by their father after the killing of their mother days back were found murdered at Chak 126-JB. The Saddar police found the bodies of Ali Nawaz (7), Saba Zahra (5) and Ummul Baneen (2) in gunny bags after digging a crop field near…

Man Booked for ‘Abusing’ Daughters

RAWALPINDI: Police on August 27 registered a case against a man accused of allegedly engaging in inappropriate conduct with his two daughters. The case was registered at Wah Cantt police station on the complaint of the accused’s wife who said she had married Shahzad Hussain 20 years ago. The couple…

Over 200,000 Children Benefit from UK-Backed Education Initiatives in Punjab, K-P: BHC

The United Kingdom’s (UK’s) collaboration with the Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) provincial governments helped over 200,000 children improve their access to schooling, basic reading, numeracy, and life skills, the British High Commission (BHC) said on Monday. “UK collaboration with provincial governments has helped more than 200,000 children in Punjab and…

Crime Control Department Constable Held Responsible for Death of Australian girl in Chakwal

CHAKWAL: An inquiry into the killing of nine-year-old Australian national Hania Ahmed has found a Crime Control Department (CCD) Punjab constable guilty, concluding that he opened indiscriminate fire on a car without prior permission from senior officers. The incident took place on the night of June 10-11 outside the CCD police station…

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