Police have registered a case and started a search after the abduction of two children in the Garden West area. Five-year-old Aalian and six-year-old Ali went missing from Garden West on 14-January-2025 while playing outside their homes. Their parents have registered a case at the Garden police station. The FIR No 12/25 was registered on the complaint of Aalian’s mother Zainab, wife of Younis. She informed the police that she worked at a gym
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Police remain clueless about the whereabouts of a seven-year-old boy, Sarim, who has been missing since January 7. Despite investigations into his disappearance, there has been no significant breakthrough in locating him. However, there have been developments in the case as the boy’s mother received a ransom demand via WhatsApp from an international number. Sarim was allegedly abducted in North Karachi Sector 5 within the limits of the Bilal Colony police station. A case
BAHAWALPUR: Three minor boys, one of them mentally-challenged, were allegedly raped by as many suspects, including a prayer leader and an 11-year-old boy, in separate incidents in the limits of different police stations in Lodhran district during the past 24 hours. According to police, in the first incident, a prayer leader allegedly raped a seven-year-old boy in a room adjacent to a mosque at Basti Khanda of mauza Kote Lal Shah in the limits
LAHORE: The Punjab police investigation department is all set to field 1,450 specially trained officers to run the Special Sexual Offences Investigation Units (SSOIUs) across the province in alignment with the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Act. These dedicated units were established in Punjab under section 9 of the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Act 2021 following the longstanding complaints of defective investigations into the rape and other sexual crime cases. The establishment of SSOIUs was
ISLAMABAD: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed Pakistan’s 71st case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) for 2024. The case involves a 58-month-old boy from Jacobabad, Sindh, with symptoms reported on December 27, 2024. This marks the fifth polio case reported from Jacobabad alone, highlighting persistent challenges in combating the disease despite repeated mass vaccination campaigns. The national tally of WPV1 cases in 2024
PESHAWAR: Beaten by his teacher with stick right on his eyebrow, Hamza Hussain, a grade six student at a historical school here on 14 January 2024, had to have multiple stitches, setting a new example of corporal punishment. Father of the wounded student told The News that he was shocked to see his son having plaster on his forehead and his uniform stained with blood. “I was there to pick him after school,” he
MANSEHRA: Local government representatives and residents on 13th January demanded that the government release funds for the salaries of teachers and other staff members of schools and colleges across the province functioning under the Elementary Education Foundation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “Five out of 88 schools and colleges functioning in our district are on the brink of closure as the government hasn’t paid salaries to teachers and other staff since Feb last year,” chairman of Safada
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said on 13th January Pakistan is taking the lead in Islamic countries to tackle the issues of girls’ education and out-of -school children. The federal minister met a high-powered delegation led by former Prime Minister of Norway Kjell Magne Bondevik here. The meeting was also attended by Secretary Education Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani and former Member of the Oslo Parliament, Norway, Aamir Javed Sheikh.
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has lauded the Sindh government for its remarkable achievement of reducing infant mortality in the province to 2.9 percent, compared to the national average of 5.4 percent. Bilawal expressed pride in the accomplishments of the provincial government and the ChildLife Foundation (CLF), which have achieved a 1.2 percent paediatric mortality rate in CLF-operated emergency rooms — better than most public and private hospitals in Pakistan,
ISLAMABAD: Nobel laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai has urged Muslim leaders not to “legitimise” the Taliban government in Afghanistan and recognise it as “perpetrators of gender apartheid”. In her address to the International Conference on Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities on Sunday, Ms Yousafzai lambasted Israel for destroying educational institutions in Gaza and the Kabul regime for systemically stopping Afghan girls from getting an education. She said the Afghan Taliban have “ripped away the right to
Islamabad: Federal Minister of Education Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui underscored the significance of girls’ education as both a moral imperative and an economic necessity. During the closing session of the two-day International Conference on “Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities: Challenges and Opportunities” hosted by his ministry here, Dr Siddiqui expressed pride in the conference’s success and said he was committed to ensuring that every child in Pakistan, irrespective of gender or socio-economic background, has
A delegation from the Child Rights Movement (CRM) Punjab held a meeting with the members of the National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) to discuss key child rights issues and to strengthen the collaboration between civil society organisations and the NCRC to deal with critical issues, including: Child marriage, Corporal punishment, Juvenile justice, The implementation of the Free and Compulsory Primary Education Act, Tackling child and domestic labour Improving birth registration systems