Prevalence of Child Labour in Balochistan by Age and Gender (%) Age (YR) Number Total % Boys Girls Total 201,351 3.7 170,643 5.70% 30,708 1.30% 5-11 46,034 1.3 33,853 1.80% 12,181 0.80% 12-13 36,577 4.9 29,889 7.20% 6,688 2.00% 14-17 118,741 9.8 106,901 14.80% 11,840 2.40% Source: Balochistan Child Labour Survey 2023-24
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LAHORE: The Hanjarwal police arrested a school principal for allegedly sexually harassing a Class IV minor female student. The minor girl’s mother, in her complaint to the police alleged that the suspect, was involved in immoral activities and had been sexually harassing her 11-year-old daughter, a Class IV student at a private school, for the last two months. She further alleged that the suspect threatened the minor girl of dire consequences if she reported
In a tragic incident on 14-August-2025 morning, a woman slaughtered her two minor children in DHA. The deceased children were identified as eight-year-old Zarrar and four-year-old Samiha. Police said the mother, Adeeba, suffered from a psychological disorder. The children’s parents had earlier divorced and a court had given the custody of the children to their father Ghufran Khalid. The incident took place on Thursday morning in a house situated on Khayaban-e-Mujahid within the limits
Islamabad: The Directorate General of Special Education (DGSE), Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (M/o FE&PT), celebrated Pakistan’s 78th Independence Day with great zeal and patriotic spirit. The day began with a dignified flag-hoisting ceremony at the National Centre for Physically Challenged Students where all enrolled students and staff of the directorate assembled for paying homage to the motherland. The day was followed by a vibrant and devoted programme at the National Institute
Prevalence of Child Labour in Pakistan by Province, Gender and Age Group (5–17 Years) Province Total Child Labour % Male Female Islamabad Capital Territory 15,180 2.4 3.6 1 Balochistan 201,352 3.7 5.7 1.3 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 745,155 9 11.7 5.9 Punjab 6,036,473 16.9 21.8 11.5 Sindh 1,610,037 10.3 13.7 6.6 Total 8,608,197 Source: Punjab-CLS 2019-20, KP-CLS 2022, ICT-CLS 2023-24, Balochistan CLS 2023-24, Sindh CLS 2023-24 Prevalence (%) of Child Labour in Pakistan by
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on 13th August issued a notice to the Peshawar Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), seeking its response to the petition of a visually impaired female student, who claimed that she was deprived of third position in the recently announced results of secondary school certificate examination in the arts group by arbitrarily altering her marks. A bench consisting of Justice Syed Arshad Ali and Justice Dr Khurshid Iqbal
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has launched Phase II of the School Nutrition Programmme. In this connection, a consultative meeting between the PFA and a UNICEF team was held on August 12, said a PFA handout. PFA Planning & Coordination Director Muneer Hussain Chopra gave a detailed briefing about the programme during the meeting. Unicef reaffirmed its commitment to work jointly with PFA on the programme as well as other initiatives. Both sides
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s environmental surveillance for July 2025 has shown remarkable progress in Balochistan, where only one sewage sample in Quetta tested positive for the poliovirus, signalling the province’s near interruption of transmission. However, Karachi continues to pose a serious threat as the largest urban reservoir of the virus, while Lahore is also sustaining transmission. Officials remain concerned about South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to persistent access challenges hampering vaccination efforts. According to the latest data
ISLAMABAD: Highlighting the alarming situation of violence against children in the federal capital, with systemic gaps in the criminal justice system for such offenses, a civil society organisation has sought specialised investigation unit sought to handle child abuse cases and violence. In its report, the Sustainable Social Development Organisation (SSDO) has described dangerous figures of violence of different natures in 2024. The report, based on data obtained through the Right to Information (RTI) law
SAHIWAL: A 12-year old seminary student was gang-raped by two youths on the mosque premises at Chak 90/6-R. According to reports, the victim, son of a grocery shop owner in the village had been attending the mosque for Hifz-i-Quran. The complainant said that over the past two weeks, he noticed his son looked distressed while sitting at the shop. On persistent inquiry, the boy disclosed that he had been repeatedly raped at gunpoint by
ISLAMABAD: First Lady Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, and parliamentarians from across the political spectrum on 11-August-2025 signed a landmark joint declaration on gender, breastfeeding, and nutrition in Pakistan, pledging coordinated action to protect child health, empower mothers, and remove systemic barriers to optimal breastfeeding practices. The declaration, endorsed during the Parliamentarian Advocacy Forum on the Prevention, Protection and Support of Breastfeeding — jointly organised by UNICEF and the
In what is a significant achievement for both the province and the country, the government of Sindh has completed Pakistan’s first real-time digital birth registration. Baby Messam Abbas was officially registered at the moment of birth at the Sindh Government Hospital, Qasimabad, Hyderabad, through the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Birth Registration/Notification Tool. Officials said this milestone was achieved under the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Pilot Project, launched in July 2025