KARACHI: Youth took centre stage at the Youth Convention: Climate Change and Role of Youth, where Obun2, in partnership with Terre des Hommes and civil society allies, unveiled its landmark report “The Impact of Climate Change on Children in Pakistan.” The two-day convention, held at Beach Luxury Hotel, brought together youth leaders, climate activists, policymakers, and researchers from across the country. Organised by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), in collaboration with An Association for
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Another horrifying incident has come out of the hotbed of child exploitation, Muzaffargarh. A young boy, sent to collect his brother’s unpaid wages, was sexually assaulted and filmed by a man his family once relied on for employment. This case, shocking as it is, comes on the heels of an even darker international child pornography ring recently exposed in the same district. That Muzaffargarh has surfaced twice in a matter of weeks for crimes
Police say incident took place at suspect’s house in Adiala Jail’s residential colony RAWALPINDI: Saddar Beroni police have registered a case against a man, reportedly a jail employee, for allegedly raping his 11-year-old paternal niece. The case was registered on the intervention of Rawalpindi City Police Officer (CPO) Khalid Hamdani. The young girl had been staying at the house of the suspect identified as Irfan at the Adiala Jail’s residential colony for four days.
In a latest case of poliovirus, a 33-month-old boy has been crippled in district Bannu, raising Pakistan’s polio case count to 12 for the year. According to the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the NIH Islamabad, the recent case from Union Council Shamsikhel, District Bannu, is the sixth polio case from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa this year. As many as 12 cases of poliovirus have been reported in 2025, including six from K-P, four from
Birth registration with union council made mandatory ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has implemented major amendments to the National Identity Card (NIC) Rules, 2002, in an effort to modernise the system. The changes are designed to enhance security of the NIC system, curb fraudulent practices, and ensure greater transparency and efficiency in identity management across the country. The NIC Rules were originally formulated in 2002, following the establishment of NADRA in
BAHAWALPUR: A 13-year-old girl, who was allegedly abducted from Qasim Bela, Multan, and was raped for many days by a man, returned home after managing to escape from her abductor. The girl’s parents told the media in Multan on June 20 that their daughter ‘F’ was allegedly abducted by ‘S’. They alleged that the suspect, a friend of the girl’s father, drugged ‘F’ and took her to Chichawatni, where he detained her and sexually
“I expect my children will have a better life than I had, but they will also have to work much harder.” Such is the view of Junaid, an executive at a pharmaceutical company, and an interviewee in our research on parental expectations. Upon further probing, Junaid said, “I have more wealth and luxuries than my parents had but I also work far more, have greater stress and every few years worry about losing my
SWABI: Complaints pouring in from different circles have forced the officials of the district administration to take action against schools who failed to comply with the provincial government’s order of summer holidays. The provincial education department has closed both public and private sector schools for summer holidays on June 15, but various private schools have violated the orders and kept open their institutions. To ensure implementation of government orders regarding summer vacations, additional Assistant
SAHIWAL: Police have registered a case against three suspects and arrested two of them for allegedly molesting and blackmailing a 15-year-old ninth-grade student through a mobile phone video in the official quarters of the irrigation department in Neeli Bar Canal Colony. Reports said ‘S’ of Sarwar Shaheed Road, Civil Lines, had been subjected to sexual assault and blackmailed by three suspects ‘A’, ‘R’ and ‘Az’ for the past one year. The Civil Lines police
ISLAMABAD: Three Pakistani schools have been named among the Top 10 finalists for the World’s Best School Prizes 2025. The prizes, launched by T4 Education in 2022 following the COVID-19 pandemic, aim to highlight innovative practices in schools that are transforming lives both inside and outside the classroom, according to a statement. Sanjan Nagar Public Education Trust Higher Secondary School, a charity-run primary and secondary school in Glaxo Town, Feroz Pur Road, Lahore, has
Three underage Hindu girls who had mysteriously gone missing from Shahdadpur recently have been recovered from Karachi. Officials said on Thursday that Dr Lal Chand Ukrani, special assistant to the chief minister of Sindh on minority affairs, had taken serious notice of the incident and directed law enforcement agencies to ensure immediate recovery of the girls — Sheena, Jiya, and Diya. Upon receiving reports of the disappearance of the girls, Dr Ukrani had contacted
Hyderabad: The Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) reviewed committee has emphasised the inclusion of critical thinking, creativity and tolerance in school curricula. Officials said on 18-June-2025 that on the directives of Sindh Minister for Education Syed Sardar Ali Shah, the first meeting of the curriculum review committee formed by the Sindh Textbook Board was held to evaluate educational textbooks. During the session, education experts, scholars, and writers stressed the importance of including lessons in school