LOWER DIR: The elders of Nagri Bala village of Talash on 13th March said that the local primary school for girls was short of teachers. Talking to journalists in Timergara, the elders including Shakirullah, Ghaniur Rehman, Iqbal Hussain and Shah Khalid urged provincial minister for education, director of education depart and deputy commissioner of Lower Dir to take notice of the issue of teachers’ shortage at Nagri Bala primary school for girls and resolve
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MANSEHRA: Police claimed to have arrested a schoolteacher here for harassing and blackmailing female students. “A blackmail victim’s brother approached the police with objectionable video clips made by the teacher in a classroom of the Government High School Chandor, so I formed an investigation team headed by the senior superintendent of police that led to the teacher’s arrest,” DPO Shafiullah Khan Gandapur told reporters here on March 13. He quoted the complainant as claiming
KHYBER: Communication and Works department handed over 12 newly-built primary schools to the education department in Bara. The schools, destroyed by terrorists, were reconstructed with the financial assistance of China Aid. Officials in education department told this scribe that the 12 new schools included six each for boys and girls while two more such schools would be handed over to them very soon. Consisting of a sprawling five-classroom building, the new schools also have
A joint operation by the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC), and federal intelligence agencies successfully rescued a kidnapped youth from Balochistan and led to the arrest of three abductors. The targeted operation, based on technical data analysis, was conducted in the Winder area of Hub on the night between 12& 13 March by personnel of the Sindh CPLC, AVCC/CIA and a federal law enforcement agency, with the assistance of Hub police.
GILGIT: The quality of vaccines provided by the Unicef to the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Health Department has been at risk since the dedicated power line for the Provincial EPI (Expanded Program on Immunization) store was disconnected two years ago. The situation has been worsened by load-shedding and non-utilization of essential equipment donated by the WHO and the Unicef. This alarming issue was highlighted by WHO representative in GB Abdullah Durrani during a meeting chaired by
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s ‘School meal program’ has helped reduce malnutrition among students. In its first phase, the program saved Rs1.780 billion while impacting the health and well-being of thousands of children. The program has also witnessed remarkable success in boosting school enrolment. Within months of its initiation, over 55,000 new students enrolled in schools, demonstrating the program’s positive effect on student attendance and engagement. In addition, the initiative provided 40 million
ISLAMABAD: Prolonged exposure to high temperatures and extreme precipitation for the last one and a half decades is worsening malnutrition among children under the age of two in Pakistan, leading to increased stunting and wasting, a recent study revealed. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the research highlights that each one-degree Celsius rise is linked to a significant decline in a child’s length-for-age z-score (LAZ). Increased precipitation also negatively impacted growth indicators,
PESHAWAR: Badhber police arrested a cleric on charges of assaulting two minors in Telaband area on the outskirts of the provincial capital on 12th March. Father of one of the minors told Badhber police that his nine-year-old daughter and 11-year-old nephew were enrolled in a seminary in Telaband area. He got registered an FIR, stating that on March 3, the children informed them that the prayer leader had assaulted them multiple times four days
LAHORE: The Punjab government claimed on 12th March to have increased enrollment in public schools from 242,000 to 368,000 and number of teachers from 8,037 to 15,114 across the province under Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s Public School Organisation Programme. According to a news release, the programme is going on successfully as better-educated youth are in the management of the public schools. School Education Department (SED) authorities briefed the chief minister in a meeting and
LAHORE: Taking cognizance of rising incidents of child abuse in recent months, the Punjab home department has written a letter to the school education department (SED) urging it to educate school children about personal safety. In a letter addressed to the SED secretary, the home department has requested that the department might take measures to raise awareness about “Good Touch and Bad Touch” by equipping them with the knowledge to recognise and report inappropriate
ISLAMABAD: Special Education Director General Asif Iqbal Bhatti on 12th March said that the National Library and Resource Centre will be turned into a hub of learning activities for special persons. He said that the facility would be equipped with Braille-based devices, Chrome books and other latest IT accessibility tools. Mr Bhatti said this while speaking at an event organised by the Directorate General of Special Education in collaboration with Allah Wala Trust at
KARACHI: The Sindh government has launched the “country’s first-ever” program to support the education of children of convicted prisoners. The launch ceremony was held at the Karachi central prison and attended by Education Minister Sardar Ali Shah and Prisons Minister Hasan Ali Zardari. This program is a joint initiative of the education and prisons departments and Paigham-e-Pakistan under which children of 4,684 convicted inmates across Sindh will receive educational support from primary to university