KARACHI: A sessions court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for abducting and raping an 11-year-old girl. Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Zahoor Ahmed Chandio found accused Aijaz guilty of two offences under Sections 364-A (Kidnapping or abducting a person under the 14 years) and 376 (rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and handed down 10 years and life term, respectively. Meanwhile, the court acquitted the convict’s brother and sister as
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LAKKI MARWAT: Three schoolboys were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Surani Sikandakhel Bala area of Bannu district on 12th May. A police official said that unknown miscreants had planted an improvised explosive device along a road near a government high school to target police and security forces. He said the blast occurred when a police patrol party was passing by. “The policemen narrowly survived the bomb attack,” he said, adding a large
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to declare an educational emergency in the districts with 50 percent or more children out of school. The decision was made during a meeting of the elementary and secondary education department with Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur in the chair, according to an official statement from the Chief Minister’s Secretariat issued here on Monday. The meeting discussed ways to improve the quality of education in government schools,
PESHAWAR: Textbooks shortage has hit government schools in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, leaving students and teachers to struggle with course management. Students and teachers of the government high schools told Dawn that the new academic year began in the first week of April but they were still short of course books. During the last two decades, students received books from the provincial government free of charge at the start of scholastic year in April. Two years
Examines rights situation in terms of development, survival, protection, and participation ISLAMABAD: A report on child rights unveiled by the National Commission on the Rights of the Child (NCRC) seeks to draw attention to emerging issues such as climate-related vulnerabilities, child online protection and the situation of marginalised groups, said an NCRC official on May 11. The State of Children in Pakistan 2024 report, prepared in compliance with Sections 15 and 17 of the
TAXILA: The construction work worth Rs49.40 million on Government Girls School in the middle of the city has not been completed despite the passage of five years. The construction work on the school comprising 12 classrooms on 14 kanals was started in November 2021, during the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government. The plan to build the high school and its phase-wise upgradation to higher secondary level was initiated on the encroached land. The existing two government
LARKANA: Police on 10th May recovered a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly abducted from a locality in Khairpur city some three months ago. Her suspected kidnapper, Abdul Hafeez Mangrio, was arrested, the police claimed. Soon after her recovery, the Sachal police produced the girl before the fourth civil judge and judicial magistrate of Larkana for recording her statement under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code. She was allowed to go with her guardians
RAWALPINDI: An Additional District and Sessions Judge in Taxila on Saturday sentenced three convicts to a total of life imprisonment, 21 years of additional imprisonment, and fines amounting to Rs4.5 million in a case involving the sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy, blackmail through an obscene nude video, and its circulation on social media. The court sentenced convict Haseeb Khan to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs500,000 for rape, along with an additional
LAHORE: Shahdara Police arrested a rickshaw driver accused of sexually assaulting a mentally challenged girl. The suspect has been identified as Parvez, who lured and repeatedly assaulted the innocent girl. Upon receiving the tip, Shahdara Police acted promptly and arrested the accused. A case has been registered. Theft bid foiled: Police Response Unit (PRU) of Nawab Town foiled a major theft involving valuables worth lakhs of rupees. Four suspects – Dilawar, Rehan, Arsalan, and
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Food Authority (IFA) and Impact Research International organised a consultative session where experts highlighted the dangers of unsafe food, warning that contaminated food continues to harm public health, especially among children. Experts from various sectors, including stakeholders from agriculture, health, research, and small businesses urged immediate action to prevent food-borne illnesses and promote safe food handling across the country. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Tahira Siddique, Deputy Director IFA, said that
LARKANA: The Model Criminal Trial Court Qambar-Shahdadkot on 9th May handed down life imprisonment sentence to an accused after he proved guilty of subjecting a minor boy to rape. The judge Tariq Bhatti, who also heads special court for gender-based violence, also imposed on the convict Rs100,000 fine and awarded him 10 years more rigorous imprisonment in a separate case for possession of an unlicensed weapon. In case of default on the payment of
KARACHI: The Sindh government, in collaboration with Unicef, has decided to develop a five-year multi-sectoral roadmap aimed at addressing the education needs of out-of-school children and adolescents. Under this initiative, a strategy will be formulated to identify and eliminate barriers hindering access to education. A key meeting regarding the development of this roadmap was held in Karachi which was chaired by Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah, and attended by Unicef representatives. “The