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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…

Parents Asked to Reject Rumours against Polio Vaccination

LAHORE: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Health Dr Asif Khan has urged the parents not to pay heed to misinformation and rumours regarding polio vaccination. He emphasised that the fractional Inactivated Polio Vaccine (fIPV) being administered to children aged four months to 15 years in 122 union councils of Lahore is…
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Teacher Arrested for Torturing Student

BAHAWALPUR: The Vehari Gaggo police claimed to have arrested a teacher of a private school for allegedly torturing his student and his father. According to police sources, Muhammad Subhan, an eighth-class student of a private school village of Adda Shah Junaid near Gaggo city, had complained to his father that…
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Cleric, Accomplice Booked for ‘Rape’

BAHAWALPUR: Sheikh Fazil police in Burewala tehsil on November 5 booked a seminary teacher and his accomplice for the alleged rape of a minor girl student at village No 433/ EB. According to the police spokesman, Sheikh Fazil police on the complaint of victim’s father ‘I’, registered a first information…
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Changing Weather may cause Health Threats

Rawalpindi: A significantly heavy rainfall on November 4, along with a considerably heavy hailstorm, would turn the weather chilly in this region of the country, including the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi and the adjoining hilly areas that may cause health threats, mainly mild to moderate for healthy persons…
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Rawalpindi Revises School Timings Amid Kachehri Chowk Development Work

The Rawalpindi district administration has revised school timings across the city and cantonment areas to help manage traffic flow, affected by the ongoing Kachehri Chowk development work including the construction of an underpass and an overhead bridge. According to a notification issued by Deputy Commissioner Hassan Waqar Cheema, all government…
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Man Abducts Friend’s Daughter Over Financial Dispute

BHAKKAR: A man allegedly abducted his friend’s four-year-old daughter over a financial dispute in Bhakkar’s tehsil Kallurkot. Police sources said the suspect, identified as Zaheer Ahmed, kidnapped the minor girl on a motorcycle and fled the scene after an argument with her father regarding money. CCTV footage from the area…
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Injectable Polio Vaccine Debuted in Punjab

Provides better protection than oral variety Children up to 15 to be immunised as older kids now identified as key to transmission Drive to be extended to other high-risk urban centres, such as Karachi, Hyderabad Police rescue polio team detained at private school ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Health auth­orities in Punjab on November…
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Truck Driver Involved in Fatal Accident Booked

LAHORE: Police lodged a case against the driver of the overloaded truck, which had overturned on an autorickshaw late on November 2, leaving four members of a family dead, outside the MAO College. The two minor children who were also traveling in the same three-wheeler, however, survived. The tragic incident…
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‘Malnutrition Causing Loss of Billions to Economy’

TOBA TEK SINGH: Malnutrition is inflicting loss of billions of rupees to the national economy through decreased productivity, higher healthcare costs and lost future earnings due to impaired physical development. Education and awareness about nutrition at the grassroots level will help address the issue at the massive scale for a…
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Two Arrested for Attempting to Sell Minor Girl to Dacoits

BAHAWALPUR: The Shah Shammas police station of Multan on November 2 claimed to have foiled an attempt to sell a minor girl to the Katcha dacoits and arrested two alleged abductors, including a woman. According to the police, one Abdul Rehman complained to the police that his neighbours Ali and…
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