LAHORE: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISEs) Lahore and Multan announced the results of the Intermediate Annual Examination, 2025 Part-II on September 18. Task Force Committee for Boards Chairman Mazhar Mahmood, and Higher Education Boards Additional Secretary Noman Jamil announced the results. Lahore Board Secretary Rizwan Nazir and Controller of Examinations Tauseefur Rehman were also present. A total of 180,329 candidates appeared in the annual examination 2025 part-II, out of which 109,714
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Lahore: The Department of Dermatology at Lahore General Hospital organised an awareness walk on the occasion of World Atopic Eczema Day on September 18. Ameer-ud-Din Medical College (AMC) Principal Prof Dr Farooq Afzal while addressing participants of walk said that atopic eczema is a skin disease that is treatable, but negligence and delay in treatment can make the situation complicated, therefore, timely awareness, accurate diagnosis, and proper treatment are essential to control this skin
KARACHI: Four minor rape survivors identified a suspected serial rapist before a judicial magistrate while recording their statements on September 18. Investigating officer (IO) Muhammad Sajjad produced the suspect before Judicial Magistrate (South) Kalsoom Mustafa Sahto, while the survivor girls also appeared before the court to record their statements. According to the prosecution, the four victims identified the suspected rapist before the magistrate while recording their statements under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code
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Police have registered a murder case over the mysterious death of an 11-year-old girl in Surjani Town after the victim’s father refused to lodge a complaint. An FIR was registered under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Surjani Town police station on the complaint of ASI Nawaz. According to the FIR, the complainant received a phone call on September 15 informing him about the death of a minor girl. Upon reaching
SUKKUR: The Sindh High Court, Sukkur bench, has expressed its dismay over delay in the rehabilitation of flood-affected schools in Sangi area. During the hearing on Thursday, officials from the education department and the education works department appeared before the constitutional bench comprising Justice Zulfiqar Ali Sangi and Justice Riazat Ali Sahar. The petitioner, Abdul Malik Zabiullah Jatoi, told the court that school buildings were destroyed in the 2022 floods, and despite the passage of
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on September 18 urged strong action to protect children from abuse at seminaries and schools, declaring that no child should suffer in the name of education. The meeting, chaired by Senator Samina Mumtaz Zehri at Parliament House, reviewed disturbing reports of corporal punishment, torture, and sexual abuse at religious seminaries across Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Officials from federal and provincial departments briefed the committee on
NAROWAL: A four-year-old girl, who was abducted on Sept 15 at Jalalwali village of Pasrur tehsil, was found murdered after sexual assault in the fields on Thursday, as police allegedly failed to take timely measures to recover her alive. As per police sources, Qari Abdul Hafeez, a resident of Jalawali village, a Quran teacher at a local madressah, had filed a complaint, saying that on Sept 15, his four-year-old daughter, Afifa Kainat, left home
DEVASTATING floods are now an annual emergency in Pakistan. Climate change is hitting hard, manifesting in new weather patterns including cloudbursts. Sudden torrential rainfall, which continues relentlessly, can literally move mountains. This phenomenon was observed in many places in the northern parts of the country. The gushing water sweeps away boulders, trees, soil and everything else in its way, including houses, vehicles and livestock. Witnessing the aftermath of one such cataclysmic event in Qadir Nagar in Buner was
KARACHI: A federal sensitive agency has raised alarm over the growing trend of drug use among students across Sindh’s educational institutions, urging the provincial government to take immediate and strict measures to curb the menace before it escalates into a long-term national crisis. According to sources, the agency has written a confidential letter to the Sindh chief secretary, cautioning that narcotics use is spreading at an alarming rate, particularly in schools, colleges, and universities.
Nearly 685 newborns die in Pakistan every day, adding up to more than 250,000 deaths annually. However, a majority of such infants can be saved through simple measures such as newborn resuscitation, breastfeeding and kangaroo mother care. This was stated by experts speaking at a seminar on accelerating newborn survival and care. They warned that Pakistan’s neonatal mortality crisis had reached an alarming level and urged the government to act with urgency. The two-day
A judicial magistrate on September 17 extended police remand of a suspected serial rapist paedophile by three days in cases pertaining to sexual abuse of minor girls. Shabbir Ahmed, a fruit vendor, has been booked in seven cases lodged under charges of assaulting minor girls and child pornogrpahy. He was arrested on September 11 by the Defence police in Qayyumabad. The investigating officer produced the suspect before Judicial Magistrate (South) Mir Sagar Khan on