LAYYAH: A minor girl was sexually assaulted at Basti Jaman Shah and forced to consume sedative drugs, which caused her death. According to police sources, accused Atif Iqbal abducted the 14-year-old girl, subjected her to sexual assault, and then forced her to consume a large quantity of sedative drugs. The girl felt unconscious and later died. A case was registered on an application filed with the police by the victim’s mother. The accused and
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Biometric monitoring department finds 3,033 teachers absent UMERKOT: The Sindh education department is tightening noose around ghost teachers who have been consistently absent from their duties. The chief monitoring officer for biometric attendance, acting on the orders of Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah, found 3,033 teachers of various schools in Umerkot district, Mirpurkhas division, and Benazirabad (Nawabshah) division, absent from their duties. These absentees include primary and secondary teachers. A total, 712
KOHAT: Elders from a far-flung village in Ghorazai Payan area here have demanded basic facilities in the local girls and boys schools and an end to unannounced power loadshedding and gas outages and low pressure. In a joint message on March 1, retired Subedar Zahoor Khan, Haji Ikhtiar Khan, Khudai Khidmatgar, Haji Rehman Shah, retired Subedar Abdul Wahid and Wajid Khan said instead of goats and hens, law minister Aftab Alam should provide children
BAHAWALPUR: Police on 1st March arrested a seminary teacher for allegedly torturing his 10 years old pupil at Madressah Jamia Ghausuia in the limits of Thingi police station in Vehari district. Qari Shabaan’s arrest was made on the complaint of Muhammad Akram, father of torture victim Muhammad Waqas. Police registered case under section 328-PPC. The complainant alleged that suspect tortured and abused his son for not learning his lesson. “My son was in a
UMERKOT: A teenage youth arrested by the Dhoronaro police station of Umerkot city in a firing case was produced in the district and sessions court on 1st March and was granted bail in one of the two FIRs registered against him. The family and lawyer of the suspect, Allah Bachayo Mallah, told the media that he was picked up soon after a complaint about the firing incident was lodged by the Principal of the
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: The country has reported the sixth polio case of the year, this time from Sindh, amid an ongoing controversy over the detection of a case in Punjab. Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Polio Ayesha Raza Farooq defended the country’s polio eradication efforts, particularly in Punjab, which she said leads in routine immunisation and vaccination coverage. “Given Punjab’s impressive vaccination efforts, it is difficult for health authorities in the province to believe that a
TOBA TEK SINGH: A young woman and her two minor daughters were found slaughtered in their house in Chak 632-GB, Faisalabad, on 27th February. According to Lundianwala police, Muhammad Yasin informed them that his brother Muhammad Ibrahim’s wife, Iram Bibi, 28, and her two daughters, Kiran Bibi, 5, and Noor Fatima, 2, had been found slaughtered with a sharp chopper. He also told the police that he was not calling from the village where
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Education Rana Sikandar Hayat launched an enrollment campaign for the first early childhood education (ECE) project on 28th February. He enrolled his son as the first student at the Nawaz Sharif Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Education in the Children’s Library. The minister claimed that the institution will be Punjab’s first internationally recognised government school for ECE. “This model project will be unique in its quality and approach.” “By
LAHORE: Challenging the reported polio cases in Chakwal and Mandi Bahauddin, the Punjab government has claimed to have taken serious measures to eradicate polio from the province. In the past six months, a dedicated anti-polio drive has successfully reached every child under five years of age. These remarks were made by the Minister of Primary & Secondary Healthcare during a press conference. The minister presented visual evidence contradicting claims of polio infections, showing children
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on 27th February launched two card schemes to provide monthly stipend to orphans and widows. An official statement issued from Chief Minister’s Secretariat said that under Roshan Mustaqbil Card, 9,000 orphaned children up to 16 years of age would receive a monthly stipend of Rs10,000. It said that those children, who had lost both their parents, would be prioritised. The statement said that Sahara Card was designed to provide
JARANWALA: Seven children with congenital heart conditions underwent cardiac surgeries at Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology (FIC), performed by a team of British doctors visiting Pakistan. Provincial Minister for Health Khawaja Salman Rafique visited FIC and met with the British medical delegation, which included Dr Sandeep, Dr Omar Aziz and Dr Imran Saeed. The minister expressed gratitude to the foreign medical team for their efforts in saving young lives. He also met with the children
GILGIT: A tragic accident occurred on 27-February-2025 morning in Baseen Khari, a suburban area of Gilgit, where a speeding vehicle ran over three sisters, killing them on the spot. “They were in school uniform and heading to their school when it happened,” said a witness. Another girl accompanying them sustained injuries and was shifted to a hospital. According to police, the accident took place near the Baseen Police Station on the main highway connecting