RAWALPINDI: A minor girl, abducted by an unidentified person from outside a private hospital on the night of September 23, was reunited with her parents on September 24. Gulzar Masih, a resident of Medical College Staff colony lodged an FIR with the Banni police saying that he brought his daughter-in-law, a dengue patient, to Benazir Bhutto Hospital, along with his granddaughter, eight-year-old Kayanat and grandson Ali Shah. He was standing at the BBH gate
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HYDERABAD: An eight-month-old girl, declared a poliovirus carrier by the National Institute of health (NIH) Islamabad, already passed away before her second sample was to be collected by local health officials here. According to information shared officially by the district administration here on September 23, Umrah, daughter of Salman, resident of Union Committee-47 in Paretabad town, was admitted in Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) Hyderabad on Aug 22 after developing symptoms of weakness in her
ISLAMABAD: The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign, which has been targeting 13 million girls aged 9 to 14, has so far achieved only 34 percent of its target, it was revealed on September 24. So far, only 4.5 million girls out of the targeted 13 million have been vaccinated against the virus, which causes cervical cancer. The update was shared with State Minister for National Health Dr Malik Mukhtar Ahmad Bharath, who visited the HPV
SHANGLA: The assistant commissioner, Chakesar, on September 24 sealed a madressah in the Hospital Colony Chakesar in Shangla after a student complained of physical assault there. According to the deputy commissioner, Shangla, Muhammad Fawad Khan, a student visited the assistant commissioner’s office in Chakesar and complained to the AC about a teacher who physically assaulted him. The DC said in his statement that following the teenager’s complaint, the AC Chakesar, Shah Nawaz Khan, reached
SAHIWAL: Muhammad Tariq, Additional District and Sessions Judge, Child Protection Court, Sahiwal, formally handed over the custody of the 18 minor children, 17 of them from Balochistan, who were recovered from an orphanage to the district office of the Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CPWB) here on September 24. The minor children, all under the age of 10, were recovered from an orphanage operated by an unregistered organisation — Ahmed Welfare Foundation — in
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly and Unicef Pakistan on September 24 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) here for the promotion of child rights, education, health and social development. Under the MoU, Unicef will provide technical assistance to the Punjab Assembly and support the Parliamentary Caucuses on Child Rights, Special Children, Women and the SDGs Task Force. It will assist the standing committees in evidence-and-data-based policy making and also conduct a public expenditure review of
LAHORE: A sessions court on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment on four counts to a young man for killing his mother, two sisters and a brother under the alleged influence of the online game PUBG. Kahna police had registered a case against the convict, Ali Zain, who was 14-year-old at the time of occurrence in 2022. Additional District & Sessions Judge Riaz Ahmad announced the guilty verdict, awarding Zain life imprisonment (25 years) on four counts and
Women, students, senior citizens and persons with disabilities will travel free of cost on Punjab’s first electric bus service, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif announced on Monday while inaugurating the project in Sahiwal. After riding one of the new buses herself, the chief minister called the initiative “a milestone in modern and affordable public transport.” She said 30 buses have been allocated for the city and 62 for the division, with the regular fare
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank stated on September 23 that Pakistan’s current economic growth model does not support poverty reduction, resulting in stalled income gains, with poverty already at an eight-year high in 2024. The ‘Reclaiming Momentum Towards Prosperity: Pakistan’s Poverty, Equity and Resilience Assessment’ report by the World Bank further disclosed that the aspiring middle class, which constitutes 42.7% of the population, is “struggling to achieve full economic security”. “The aspiring middle class is
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was presented with detailed statistics regarding government schools, teachers, and students in Peshawar. According to the Education Department on Tuesday, there are a total of 1,619 government schools under the board’s jurisdiction, including 891 for boys and 728 for girls. The number of teachers across these institutions is 16,300 with 6,985 male and 9,315 female teachers. The report further revealed that in the latest examinations, the number of male students
RAWALPINDI: Due to alleged inaction by the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation, District Council and district administration, stray dogs have proliferated across the city and made life difficult for residents. Citizens are living in fear of stray dogs. Packs of dogs are seen roaming streets and neighbourhoods from morning through evening. Groups of dogs have begun to gather outside butcher shops, chicken shops and small roadside hotels. Incidents of women and children being bitten have been
KARACHI: The body of a seven-year-old boy who had gone missing was found in the Landhi area, and a post-mortem examination confirmed that he had been raped before being murdered, police said on September 23. Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed told Dawn that the body of the boy, identified as Saad, was brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Monday night for medico-legal formalities. She said the body was in an advanced