The Sindh health department in collaboration with its partners is launching a targeted polio vaccination campaign whose first phase in 27 high-risk union committees of Karachi will start on February 22, to strengthen children’s immunity and curb the transmission of the poliovirus. This first phase of the campaign aims to vaccinate 562,163 children under the age of five with oral polio vaccine (OPV) and administer fractional inactivated polio vaccine (fIPV) to 521,953 children aged
Child Rights in Focus
CHARSADDA: Speakers at a ceremony here on 19th February said that provincial government established fully operational child protection units in 21 districts for safety and wellbeing of children. They were addressing inaugural ceremony of child protection unit in the district. The unit has been established by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Protection and Welfare Commission (KPCPWC) with the support of UNICEF. The provincial minister for social welfare, special education and women empowerment, Syed Qasim Ali Shah,
The Sindh government’s women development department aims to actively partner with dedicated charities and non-profits in the education sector to build quality schooling facilities for minor children of female jail inmates who live in the prisons in Sindh along with their mothers. Talking to The News in her office, Sindh Women Development Minister Shaheena Sher Ali said the minor jail inmates accompanying their mothers should get access to quality school education to enable them
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has granted post-arrest bail to a Christian who was a juvenile at the time of his arrest in a second FIR of blasphemy out of three registered against him at different police stations of Sargodha. The suspect was initially arrested in an FIR of Satellite Town police lodged on July 16, 2023 and later implicated in two more cases of different police stations on the basis of mere suspicion.
SAHIWAL: On Lahore High Court orders, Dera Rahim police recovered a kidnapped minor girl after six months from village 100/9-L. The eldest of the four abducted siblings reported she was gang-raped by two kidnappers throughout her captivity. Reports said that on Aug 20, 2024, six armed men had kidnapped four siblings — three minor girls and a boy. According to the police report, three of the children managed to escape the kidnappers’ custody, but
A sessions court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for the rape of a minor boy. Muneer Ahmed was found guilty of assaulting a 10-year-old boy in Chakiwara, Lyari on August 16, 2023. Additional Sessions Judge (South) Abdul Zahoor observed that the victim being 10-year-old boy provided a direct and detailed account of the incident while identifying the accused as the man who assaulted him. “The victim’s testimony coupled with immediate
Crime disguised by murderers as drowning in canal PAKPATTAN: A college freshman was allegedly murdered by his classmates in Arifwala over a personal grudge, with the suspects later attempting to cover up the crime by staging it as a motorcycle accident. According to police reports, Zahid Farooq, a first-year student at Government Degree College, Pakpattan, was killed by his classmates, Saifur Rehman and Nasibullah. The suspects initially claimed that they were riding a motorcycle
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Expanded Programme on Immunisation has launched a province-wide vaccination campaign – Big Catch-Up – aimed at immunising children under the age of five against 12 vaccine-preventable childhood diseases. The campaign was inaugurated by chief minister’s adviser for health Ihtisham Ali during a ceremony held at Maulvi Ameer Shah Memorial Hospital on Tuesday. The 12-day campaign will target 78,000 zero-dose children and 1.2 million children who have received one or two
OKARA: An 11-year-old boy was found hanged in his house under mysterious circumstances in Shahzad Colony, Dipalpur. In the first information report (FIR), registered under section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), victim’s uncle Moazzam Ali said his brother Qamar Fayyaz, a Rangers personnel, a resident of Chak 39/4L, and his family, including his younger brother Haseeb and their mother, have been living in their maternal house in Dipalpur city for schooling of
LAHORE: Sheikhupura District Education Authority Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rana Naeem sought a criminal case against the teacher of a private school for torturing a female student some weeks back. The CEO conducted a hearing of a complaint lodged by the parents of a seventh grade student, Minahil, against the teacher, Ali Jameel, of Al-Fatima Educare Schools for Girls, Kharianwala, Sheikhupura. The minor girl was beaten up by the teacher during the lecture on
Rawalpindi: City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi has urged the citizens to ensure that the children do not violate the ban on kite flying imposed by the provincial government otherwise strict action would be taken against the violators in accordance with the law. A police spokesman said on 16 February that the Rawalpindi district police were conducting raids to net the kite sellers and flyers. He informed that on the special directives of City Police
A girl who was set on fire by her uncle in the Bagh-e-Korangi area succumbed to her injuries at the hospital on 16 February 2025 after battling for her life for a week. Her mother Gulshan had died on the same day of the incident after she was burned alive. The Awami Colony police have failed to arrest the suspect. The incident took place on February 10 in a house located near Bagh-e-Korangi. At