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Inter Exams Put Off By Nine Days

Officials attribute the postponement to a change in XI results due to grace marks, absence of the board chairman KARACHI: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) annual examinations of XI-XII for the year 2025 have been delayed. The pre-engineering, pre-medical and science general group exams that were to start on April 28 will now commence from May 6 or…

The Age Of Consent And The Borders Of Belief

ICT Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2025 marks a pivotal step toward a safer, progressive Pakistan KARACHI. Child rights organisations and advocates, along with concerned citizens, have warmly welcomed the passage of recent legislation on child marriages, describing it as a landmark step toward protecting the rights and well-being of children.…

Man Burns Pregnant Wife, Two Minor Sons To Death

HYDERABAD: A pregnant woman and her two minor sons had died in…

Rangers Foil Kidnapping Bid, Recover 15-year-old Boy

Sindh Rangers on 16-August-2025 claimed to have busted a gang allegedly involved…

Golden Children

On the global stage, human statues are performance artists who usually stand motionless at city centres for purposes of arts and entertainment. But this trend, cloaked under the guise of street performance, has been exported to Pakistan and particularly Karachi in borderline abusive conditions. At various junctions across the city,…

Three-year-old Kidnapped Child Recovered from Moro

A three-year-old child kidnapped from Karachi was safely recovered from Moro in interior Sindh, while two suspects had been arrested, SSP Malir Abdul Khaliq Pirzada said during a press conference on December 17. According to the SSP, the child, identified as Zain, was abducted from outside his house in Shah…

22 Lives Lost to Rabies in Sindh This Year

KARACHI: Citizens across the province are paying a heavy price on account of government’s failure to control dog population, families of rabies-affected people said while speaking to Dawn. They deplored that the departments concerned failed to ensure provision of healthcare facilities and life-saving medicines, besides training healthcare providers in the management…

Child Protection Effort Unravels as Father Takes Children Back to Footpath

KARACHI: A man who took his three children living in a shelter home, has brought them back to footpath. A 14-year-old Aisha is among the three children. The Sindh Child Protection Authority, in an attempt to protect the children against seasonal hardships and social vulnerabilities, had taken the custody of…

PEBS Conducts Eye Screening of 30,000 Schoolchildren in Six Months

KARACHI: In line with the mission to eradicate blindness, Pakistan Eye Bank Society (PEBS) has completed eye screening of 30,000 schoolchildren as part of its school eye clinic project. The project is being run in collaboration with Rotary Club of Heidelberg Schloss, Germany, said a press release issued here on…

‘Rabid’ Dog bites 12 People in Karachi

KARACHI: Eighteen people, including a three-year-old, were bitten by dogs in the Jumma Goth area in Bin Qasim Town on December 15. According to the Indus Hospital staff, at least 12 of the 18 patients were bitten by a single dog. “The information we have gathered from a dozen patients…

Exploitation Thrives as Painted Children Work at Karachi’s Signals

KARACHI: Child street performers, some as young as eight, spend hours at city intersections and traffic signals with their faces and clothes painted gold. To catch the attention of passersby and earn money for their families or handlers, these children stand robotically still, appearing to any empathetic observer as little…

Private Hospitals’ Missing Data Hampering Polio Targets Analysis, Says Commissioner

KARACHI: Commissioner Karachi Syed Hassan Naqvi held a meeting with representatives of Private Hospitals and Clinics Association (PHCA), seeking their support to strengthen polio eradication efforts of the government. During the meeting, the commissioner highlighted the challenges the government had been facing in obtaining vaccination data from private hospitals, noting…

Sindh Issues Winter Vacation Schedule for Schools, Colleges

The Sindh Education Department’s Steering Committee on December 11 announced that all public and private educational institutions across the province will remain closed from December 22 to 31 for this year’s winter break. The spokesperson added that schools will reopen as normal on January 1, 2026, while supplementary examinations conducted…

Three Siblings Rescued, Search Underway for Boy ‘Sold to Beggars’

KARACHI: The Sindh Child Protection Authority has taken three minor siblings into protective custody and shifted them to a shelter home in Malir, while efforts continue to recover a fourth child, a 10-year-old boy allegedly handed over by his father to a group of beggars near Kala Pul in exchange…

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