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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…

Missing Child Found Dead

LAHORE: A three-year-old boy who had gone missing from Kahna was found dead in a sewage pond in Bilal Town, Naseebabad. The deceased, Muhammad Hasnain’s father, Sabir, who had lodged a kidnapping case after he went missing. According to the family, the child was visiting his maternal uncle’s home from…

Completion of Rawalpindi’s Mother & Child Hospital by December Ordered

RAWALPINDI: The divisional administration has directed the Communication and Works Department to complete work on the Mother and Child Hospital by the end of December and ensure the quality of construction material. Work on the Mother and Child Hospital started in 2005, but the building is still incomplete. The project…

Fee Discrepancies: Matric Results of 409 Candidates withheld in Sahiwal

SAHIWAL: The matriculation results of 409 candidates appearing in the Secondary School Certificate (First Annual) Examination 2026 has been halted by the Sahiwal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) due to discrepancies in their fee vouchers. According to a statement issued by the board, the accounts department had been…

Minchinabad Police ‘ignore’ Court Orders in Minor’s Rape Case

BAHAWALNAGAR: The Minchinabad Police have been allegedly ignoring court orders in a minor’s rape case even after a court ordered to register FIRs against four SHOs concerned and prohibiting the case investigating officer (IO) from any public role on account of the misconduct. As per details, a cleric was arrested…

Eighth-Grader Allegedly Tortured Over Pigeon Theft

MAILSI: An eighth-grade student was allegedly tied up with ropes and subjected to physical assault by influential villagers who suspected him of stealing pigeons in Chak 187-WB, prompting his family to seek police action and protection. According to the family, the incident took place in the jurisdiction of Tibba Sultanpur…

Family Members, Area Residents Hold Protest after Minor Girl Goes Missing in Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI: A six-year-old girl went missing and was suspected to have been swept away in an open drain/nullah near Committee Chowk, Lunda Bazar, in the early hours of August 6. However, on the complaint of the girl’s father, the City police later registered a kidnapping case and launched an investigation.…

Addict Held for Injuring Wife, Three Daughters

LAHORE: An alleged chronic drug addict was arrested after reportedly attacking and injuring his wife and three daughters in the Kahna area here on August 2. The police identified the suspect as Irfan and lodged a case against him. According to initial police reports, the suspect, on the day of…

Housing Society Accused of Excessive Excavation Around School, Endangering Students’ Lives

TAXILA: The lives and safety of more than 80 children, most of them girls, enrolled at Government Boys Primary School on the outskirts of Taxila are said to be at risk due to excessive excavation around the school by a private housing society, cutting off safe access to the campus…

Child’s Death at Minchinabad Hospital: MS Removed, Technicians Suspended

BAHAWALNAGAR: The investigative committee, formed after the death of a five-year-old child at the Minchinabad THQ Hospital three days ago, has suspended two junior technicians for negligence under the Peeda Act, while the THQ’s medical superintendent (MS) has also been removed. The family of the child had claimed that on June 30…

FSC Admits Punjab Child Marriage Challenge

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Shariat Court (FSC) has removed an office objection to a petition challenging the legality of the Punjab Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2026, which sets 18 years as the minimum age for marriage in the country’s most populous province. The office had objected to the plea on the…