PESHAWAR: Police arrested a transgender person on the charges of kidnapping a girl. It was learnt that officials of Chamkani Police Station arrested a transgender, Iftikhar for allegedly kidnapping a girl to marry her. The transgender is said to be an employee at a hospital and was operating social media accounts as a boy. “He befriended the girl on social media and convinced her to leave her house for him last month,” said an
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LAHORE: An important meeting regarding the Chief Minister’s Children’s Heart Surgery Programme was held in the Department of Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education under the chairmanship of Provincial Health Minister Khawaja Salman Rafique. Parliamentary Secretary Rushda Lodhi participated in the meeting. Punjab Health Secretary Azmat Mehmood Khan, Special Secretary Development Syed Wajid Ali Shah, Special Secretary Operations Tariq Mehmood, Additional Secretary Dr Waheed, Vice Chancellor University of Child Health Sciences Prof Masood Sadiq, CEO
Punjab goes virtual again as schools shut down As Punjab province wrestles with deadly smog and an alarming AQI, the provincial on November 6 announced the closure of all educational institutions from November 7 to 17, sending students back to online learning reminiscent of the pandemic-times shift. The drastic measure came in response to an alarming spike in the AQI which has soared past 1,000, prompting an environmental emergency. The decision, made in consultation
ISLAMABAD: The education ministry has started work to set up the Islamabad Education Authority (IEA) to merge several educational departments in a bid to “promote” quality education in the federal capital. According to sources, a draft to establish the authority has been prepared and after consultations, a bill to this effect will be tabled in parliament for approval. Education Joint Secretary Syed Junaid Akhlaq told Dawn that the education authority was under consideration. An officer said
LAKKI MARWAT: Unknown miscreants attacked an under-construction building of a girls’ primary school in Bannu on 6th November. A police official said the incident occurred in Shah Najeeb Landidak Naikum Kallay area in the limits of Haved police station. He said that the miscreants hurled a grenade towards the building, which exploded with a bang. However, he said the blast did not cause any loss of human lives or damage to the building. He
SAHIWAL: Farid Town police have arrested a youth for allegedly forcing a sixteen-year-old girl to drink acid over rejection of his marriage proposal at 90/6-R village, leaving the victim in critical condition. As per Rescue 1122 officials, the girl has been shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Sahiwal Teaching Hospital, where doctors are treating her for critical damage to her alimentary canal, kidneys and acid burns to her neck and lips.
LAHORE: Expressing its concern over the possibility of misuse of mental health law to curtail liberty of a person, the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has directed the Punjab government to consider amendments to the Mental Health Ordinance 2001 as proposed by a woman activist. The NCHR passed instructions to the provincial secretary for Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department and the Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) on a complaint against the alleged misuse
LAHORE: As smog blankets Punjab, the provincial government on 6th November announced the closure of public and private educational institutions across 18 districts from Nov 7 to 17. The decision follows an alarming rise in air quality index (AQI) levels, which have crossed into hazardous territory, especially in Lahore, where AQI peaked at a staggering 1,165 on Wednesday morning. Lahore has been particularly hard hit, with AQI readings remaining at hazardous levels throughout the day.
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan has become the 71st country to join Interpol’s International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database, according to an official statement. The move will help local law enforcement agencies in the investigation of online child exploitation, an FIA spokesman said in a press release on Tuesday. The ICSE database is used by Interpol to connect law enforcement agencies of all its member countries. This database has been operational since 2009 and provides immediate access
LAHORE: The Virtual Centre for Child Safety 05-November-2024 reunited a 12-year-old mentally challenged child with his family after 71 days. The Virtual Centre for Child Safety got information about the missing of child and dispatched police to take custody of a 12-year-old child, who was sitting outside a shop. The police took the child into protective custody and transferred him to Edhi Home. The family of the child had been searching for him for
ISLAMABAD: Poliovirus has crippled another child in Balochistan, raising the number of total polio cases to 46 in Pakistan this year so far, Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) officials said 05-Novemeber-2024. This is the second confirmed case of polio in Killa Saifullah, a district where multiple environmental samples have also tested positive for the virus. Balochistan remains the hardest-hit province this year, with 23 cases, followed by Sindh with 12, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with nine, and
ISLAMABAD: The 46th case of poliovirus this year has been reported from Qila Saifullah district of Balochistan, officials confirmed on 5th November. The case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been detected in a male child, an official of the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication in Islamabad told Dawn. This is the second case of poliovirus from Qila Saifullah this year. So far, 23 cases have been reported from Balochistan, 12 from Sindh, nine