The Malir City police on 17-April-2025 registered a case against four suspects, including a student named Faizan, for allegedly subjecting a 17-year-old girl to gang rape. According to the FIR, the incident occurred on April 14 when the victim was on her way to school. As per the complaint filed by the victim’s father, Faizan and his three accomplices allegedly abducted his daughter at gunpoint, forced her to consume an intoxicating substance, and then
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With over 220,000 children missed in the February anti-polio campaign — including nearly 43,000 children who were not allowed to have polio vaccine administered and over 177,000 children who were not available when vaccination teams tried to reach them — Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has called for intensified efforts to convert refusals and improve field supervision ahead of the upcoming National Immunisation Days (NIDs) scheduled from April 21 till 27. “Sindh
Islamabad: A significant meeting was held at the office of the Parliamentary Secretary for Education here on 17-April-2025 to deliberate on Pakistan’s future direction in the fields of education and artificial intelligence. The discussion focused on integrating AI into the national education system and fostering international collaboration for advancements in education and health sectors. Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad, an information technology and AI visionary currently based in Australia, expressed his strong commitment to leading Pakistan
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The greater part of the Juvenile Justice System Act, 2018, which repealed the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000, deals with the reintegration of the child offenders in society instead of shunning them as an outcaste. Philanthropy can prove helpful in achieving this goal of juvenile justice as demonstrated in the work of Lucy Flower and Julia Lathrop. Lucy Flower was a renowned American children rights activist who moved to Chicago in 1873, and was
A “missing” teenage boy was found murdered near Hawkesbay on the afternoon of 16 April, police and rescue services officials said. The Mauripur police said that the tortured body of 15-year-old Rajab Ali was recovered from a drain in Sher Mohammed Village. DIG-South Syed Asad Raza told Dawn that during the initial probe, it transpired that the deceased was a resident of Machhar Colony within the remit of the Docks police station. He added
KARACHI: The body of a missing girl was found floating in the Lyari river near Liaquatabad on April 16 and an autopsy found that she was subjected to a sexual assault. Police said that it appeared that the girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered. The body was dumped in the Lyari river and it floated to Liaquatabad’s Angara Goth. They said that the corpse was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) for a
Lack of a chairman at BIEK stalls exam planning and grace marks notification KARACHI: The future of thousands of students in Karachi hangs in the balance due to the delay in issuing a notification regarding grace marks for students who failed in the HSC first-year exams. Approximately 100,000 students preparing for their intermediate examinations under the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) remain unaware of the final exam schedule and their centre details. Despite
Govt teachers rely on donations for fans, coolers amid funding shortages RAWALPINDI: As temperatures soar across the region, government schools in Rawalpindi’s rural areas are grappling with a severe shortage of funds, forcing teachers to turn to local philanthropists, shopkeepers, and residents for help in providing relief from the heat. According to sources in the Education Department, many government schools in the district’s rural tehsils lack functional fans either they are completely missing or
SSDO report shows 7,608 cases in 2024, conviction rates below 1% for most offences ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is witnessing a harrowing rise in violence against children, with 7,608 cases reported across the country so far in 2024 – an average of 21 incidents per day, according to a new report by the Sustainable Social Development Organisation (SSDO). The report highlights a deep-rooted child protection crisis and exposes critical failures in the legal system, with conviction
ISLAMABAD: Despite limited progress overall, some regions of the country did show significant gains in reducing childhood stunting between 2011 and 2018, two major national and global studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition have revealed. In parts of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, stunting rates declined at an average rate of 1.6 percent per annum. Despite its fragile socio-economic indicators, the country showed modest gains in linear growth among children under
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination (NHSR&C) reported to the National Assembly that from 2018 to 2024, the average number of children vaccinated with the polio vaccine in the nationwide campaigns annually has ranged from 39.3 million to 44.9 million. In a reply to a question from Asiya Naz Tanoli, the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination said to achieve herd immunity against the poliovirus, children under the