Despite no changes in the examination procedure, a large number of failing students have passed their second-year exam The surprising improvement in the passing ratio of the second-year pre-engineering and pre-medical exams held by the Karachi Higher Secondary Education Board has raised several eyebrows. The doubts in the veracity of the results have been fueled by the general perception that the Board may have relaxed its grading criteria to avoid facing criticism like last
Child Rights in Focus
TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) cybercrime team raided D-Type Colony on Samundri Road on 9th November and arrested two persons for blackmailing a minor girl by sending her explicit photos. Suspects allegedly harassed the girl and took compromising photos, threatening to share them with her parents via WhatsApp. The FIA team seized two mobile phones from the suspects and registered a case under section 22 of the PECA 2016 and section
With the support of the Reform Support Unit Sindh and Unicef, the Thar Education Alliance is launching a Children’s Parliament to promote educational rights and bring out-of-school children back to school in Sindh. Children from 30 districts of Sindh will participate in this initiative. In the Children’s Parliament, two children will be selected from each of the 29 districts, while six students will be chosen from the Sajawal district due to its low literacy
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s fight against polio suffered another setback when one more child was paralysed by the virus in Dera Ismail Khan (DI Khan) district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The latest case brings the total number of Wild Poliovirus Type-1 (WPV1) cases to 48 in the country this year. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad confirmed this latest case on Saturday, reporting infection in a boy
The Sindh government is likely to adopt a law soon making the entry of Computerised National Identity Card numbers of the would-be married couples in their Nikahnama compulsory to prevent underage marriages in the province. Sindh Women Development Minister Shaheena Sher Ali disclosed this while speaking as the chief guest at a seminar organised by the non-governmental organisation, Civil Society Support Programme at a hotel on the 8th of November. The provincial minister informed
PESHAWAR: The first women and children protection unit in the province was established by Nowshera police to support and encourage women and children to report crimes against them. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Akhtar Hayat Khan, who was the chief guest at the opening event, stated that this specialised unit would be essential in safeguarding the weaker members of society. He added that it would serve as a model for other districts in
TOBA TEK SINGH: A youth allegedly raped two minor sisters at gunpoint at Chak 357-JB, Gojra, on 8th November. As per police, a labourer “S” would go for work, leaving his three minor daughters at his house in the village as his wife had died. In his absence, the suspect, a vagabond, allegedly raped Shahbaz’s eldest 14-year-old daughter “Z” at gunpoint for two months, threatening to kill her and her sisters, if she complained
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The buildings of 22 government schools in four tehsils of Rahim Yar Khan district, which were declared dangerous by the district education authority (DEA) in March 2024, are still waiting for action by the administration and departments concerned while the students are forced to attend classes in the open in inclement weather conditions. According to a letter, dated 06-03-2024, the DEA chief executive officer (CEO) had informed the executive engineer (EXEN)
LAHORE: Students of different schools on 8th November set a new world record by forming a massive ‘human national flag’ here. According to a press release, over 10,000 students, including those of the Army Public School Lahore, gathered in a ground and set a new world record by participating in the formation of the world’s largest national flag. The previous world record was held by India, where 7,368 students had formed Indian flag and
ISLAMABAD: Poliovirus has crippled one more child in Pakistan, this time in the Ghotki district of Sindh, where a 3-year-old boy who had not received a single dose of Routine Immunization (RI) has been paralyzed for life. This marks Pakistan’s 47th case of wild poliovirus type-1 (WPV1) in 2024 and the first from Ghotki, with previous cases concentrated in regions like Balochistan and Sindh. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National
Islamabad: Pakistan has made a landmark pledge to strengthen child protection systems and enhance its legal framework to safeguard children from all forms of violence. The pledge was made by Ministry of Human Rights at the inaugural Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence against Children in Bogota, Colombia on 07-November-2024. The conference, attended by representatives from more than 100 countries, brought together governments committed to addressing the pressing issue of violence against children. Pakistan’s commitments
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