PESHAWAR: Minister for Education Arshad Ayub Khan on November 4 said that the powers of education boards and the examination system would remain entirely under the jurisdiction of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “No decision will be made that could adversely affect the public or students,” he assured while presiding over a review meeting of the Education Department. The meeting was attended by Secretary Education Muhammad Khalid Khan, Special Secretaries Abdul Basit and Masood Khan, and other
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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 but severe complications in cases of chronic patients. It is important that the hailstorm hints towards the setting in of winter in this region
KARACHI: The dengue situation in Sindh has further worsened as four more people, including a 16-month-old child, died from the virus during the past 24 hours, taking the year’s provincial dengue death toll to 20, officials said on November 4. According to an abstract report issued by the Directorate General Health Services Sindh, the latest victims include a 12-year-old boy from Baldia Town, who passed away at Dr Ruth KM Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi,
KARACHI: A surge in HIV cases among children in Pathan Colony has pushed Sindh’s health authorities to seek the immediate establishment of an ART (antiretroviral therapy) centre at the Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital after 18 children were confirmed HIV-positive and two of them died, officials said on November 4. Infectious diseases experts and critics said the Directorate of CDC for HIV/AIDS has once again reacted only after an outbreak instead of preventing it, exposing
SWAT: The police on November 4 registered a case against a cleric for allegedly assaulting a seven-year-old boy inside a mosque in the Rahimabad area of Mingora. According to Rahimabad police, the victim’s father filed an FIR, stating that his son was playing outside a mosque when the suspect, Qari Wajid, took him to the mosque in Takhta Band and assaulted him. The complainant stated that when the child screamed, the accused reportedly pulled
CHINIOT: A school guard has been terminated from service while the head teacher, as well as a teacher, had been given major penalties of seizure of service and increment stoppage, respectively, over a dance party at a girls school. District Education Officer (Elementary/Women) Khadeeja Bukhari has terminated the service of Syed Ijaz Raza, the guard of the Government Model Primary School, Chah Bootianwala, under the Punjab Employees Efficiency, Discipline and Accountability Act 2006. She
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on November 4 said that Sindh had pioneered rights-based legislation in Pakistan and continued to strengthen its implementation through coordinated efforts with government departments and development partners. He said this during a meeting, held at CM House, with a delegation of Punjab parliamentarians organised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). According to a press statement issued by the CM House, the meeting focused on women and
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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 3 launched a massive Extended-Age Fractional IPV Campaign, aiming to vaccinate up to 2 million children with an injectable polio vaccine as part of
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Sindh High Court at Sukkur has ordered an inquiry into substandard medicines for persons with disabilities. The bench directed the Sindh chief secretary and the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPD) to ensure implementation of the relevant Act of 2018 in letter and spirit. He was also asked to explain as to why the Act and its rules framed in 2021 had not been implemented. Comprising Justice Zulfiqar
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 had moved many passers-by to tears when they saw the parents had covered the kids in order to save their lives. The victims were