ISLAMABAD: The tally of polio cases for 2025 reached 31 on Tuesday after a sample collected last year in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district tested positive. The Polio Eradication Programme said in a statement that the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, had confirmed a case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in North Waziristan. “This is the fifth case reported from North Waziristan in 2025,
Child Rights in Focus
LAHORE: In a first initiative so far, the Faisalabad region police have introduced an activity-based anti-drug module for students from Grade 5 onwards and suggested to the Punjab government to replicate it to the educational institutions across the province after they detected a large-scale pervasive supply of illicit drugs – top of them the ice – to the young students. In a letter addressed to the Punjab chief secretary, Faisalabad Regional Police Officer (RPO)
LAHORE: A woman and five children lost their lives in two incidents of house fires in the province on January 13. In the first incident, three minor sisters lost their lives when a fire broke out in a room of their house in Layyah district, according to Rescue 1122. The victims were identified as one-and-a-half-year-old Fatima, three-year-old Arooj Fatima, and seven-year-old Jaweria Batool, daughters of Samiullah of Basti Baseera in Karor Lal Esan tehsil.
FAISALABAD: Police claimed to have uncovered a case in which a man allegedly kidnapped his own adopted son with the help of a friend and the friend’s wife in a bid to implicate his estranged wife in the crime. Khurrianwala police recovered the four-year-old boy, Muhammad Ahmed, from Jhang and arrested three suspects, including the child’s adoptive father Javed Iqbal, his friend Muhammad Sharif and Sharif’s wife, Asia Bibi. A police spokesperson said Javed
SUKKUR: Two siblings died of measles in Nazar Mohammad Malik village of Tangwani taluka in Kandhkot-Kashmore district on January 12. The victims were identified as seven-year-old Abdul Wahab and his five-year-old sister Qasima Khatoon, both children of Ali Gohar Malik. Locals claimed that so far six children had fallen victim to the disease, but the health department had failed in taking any action. They expressed deep anger towards the district health officer (DHO) and
The East Sessions Court has summoned arguments from the lawyers of the Mayor of Karachi, the Town Chairman, the Water Board, and the BRT contractor on Friday regarding a plea to register a case over the death of three-year-old Ibrahim, who fell into a manhole near NIPA in Karachi on December 31. The hearing took place before the East Sessions Court concerning the plea to file a case against the Mayor, Town Chairman, Water
KARACHI: A minor boy who was critically injured after allegedly being tortured by a madrassa teacher in Aziz Brohi Goth, Manghopir, has died, police said on Monday. The incident had occurred on November 30 last year. Manghopir police had earlier registered a case for causing injuries and arrested the teacher, who later secured bail. Following the child’s death, police said charges in the case would be amended to include murder and other relevant sections
LAHORE: Punjab Police released Rs 720,000 for the welfare of children of its employees suffering from cerebral palsy. According to a spokesperson, 24 children received assistance of Rs30,000 each. The monthly stipend for each child has been doubled to Rs20,000. The spokesperson said that during the previous year, Rs76.56 million had bren disbursed for special children of police employees, and over the past three years, a cumulative amount exceeding Rs166 million had been provided.
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Saturday declined to grant further physical remand of a suspect and sent him to prison in a case pertaining to the murder of a woman and her three children. After the end of his first five-day physical remand, the investigating officer (IO) again brought suspect Masroor Hussain before the magistrate and sought an extension in his custody for further investigation. The IO, Inspector Mohammad Mehmood, submitted that police have
RAWALPINDI: As temperature dropped significantly in many parts of Punjab, the provincial government extended the winter vacations of public and private educational institutions by one week. Earlier, the schools were to reopen on January 12. According to a notification, in the wake of precarious cold waves and bad weather condition as well as to ensure safety and well-being of students, the government extended the winter vacations of all public and private schools across the
TAXILA: The Attock District Education Authority (DEA) has taken serious notice of a violation of the Punjab government’s winter vacation orders and recommended strict action against a Punjab Education Foundation (PEF)-affiliated school in a village of Hassanabdal that was found operating during the officially announced holidays. According to an official report submitted by the Deputy District Education Officer (Male-Elementary Education), Hassanabdal, an unannounced inspection was carried out on January 8, 2026, at Government Boys
LAHORE: Militants belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated Ustrana group carried out an attack on a government primary school in the Koh-e-Suleman mountainous region, District Police Officer (DPO) Dera Ghazi Khan Sadiq Baloch confirmed. According to officials, the government girls’ primary school located in Basti Jotar, Union Council Mithwan, Tehsil Taunsa, was destroyed after an explosion. No casualties were reported. Speaking to The News, DPO Sadiq Baloch said that the Ustrana