Education dept proposes Rs90b for fiscal year 2025-26 to address issues in 43,000 schools RAWALPINDI: The Punjab Education Department has proposed a budget of Rs90 billion for the fiscal year 2025-26 to address missing facilities in 43,000 public schools across the province. This marks a significant increase from the Rs20b allocated annually over the past five years — a hike of Rs70b this year alone. Detailed proposals have been formally submitted to the provincial finance
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Forced child labor is a complex issue that affects millions of children worldwide, including in Pakistan. It is a violation of children’s rights and a serious obstacle to their development, education, and future prospects. Poverty, lack of education, and debt bondage force children to work in brick kilns, often in hazardous conditions. Weak enforcement of labor laws and inadequate protections enable exploitation, trapping families in a cycle of poverty and forcing children to sacrifice
A minor boy was found dead in a religious seminary in Gadap City’s Jameel Colony near the Super Highway on 14-May-2025. The Gadap City police said that the victim’s family had alleged that he was sexually assaulted before being murdered. According to a Karachi Police spokesperson, the body was recovered from Madrassa Khalid bin Waleed. The deceased was identified as 12-year-old Mujeebur Rehman, son of Abdul Bari. The police, citing initial investigations, revealed that
QUETTA: Balochistan government has decided to integrate Bolan Medical Complex and Sandeman Provincial Hospital with the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) for registration of birth and death certificates, Local Government and Rural Development Secretary Abdul Rauf Baloch said on 13th May. Mr Baloch called the initiative a significant move towards digitisation. “The birth and death certificates have already been fully digitised in cooperation with Nadra,” he said during a meeting. “Further measures are
BATTAGRAM: Five children were injured when a masked gunman opened fire on a school van traveling from the suburban area of Peerhai to Battagram on 13-May-2025 morning. Police officials said the injured were initially provided first aid and later shifted to Ayub Medical Complex in Abbottabad for advanced treatment. They said the attacker allegedly targeted the vehicle due to a personal feud with the driver, who was not in the van at the time
Districts with 50% or more out-of-school children to face urgent govt intervention PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to declare an education emergency in districts where the rate of out-of-school children is 50 percent or higher. The decision was made during a meeting of the Elementary and Secondary Education Department on Monday, chaired by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur. The meeting included a detailed discussion on improving the quality of education in government
HYDERABAD: A couple and their two minor sons were found brutally murdered in their house in Jamshoro district on night, while their three-year-old daughter is feared to have been kidnapped by the killers. The residents of Khuda Ki Basti reported to the SITE police that stench was spreading from a house in their neighbourhood after which the cops went into the house, found the bodies with slit throats and stab wounds. The deceased have
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has granted bail to a father, who was arrested after his video of aiming gun at his minor son had gone viral on social media. A single-member bench of Justice Sahibzada Asadullah accepted bail petition of the suspect named Miandad, who is a mason by profession. The suspect was arrested by police on Mar 29 after a video footage had gone viral on social media allegedly showing him aiming a
KARACHI: A sessions court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for abducting and raping an 11-year-old girl. Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Zahoor Ahmed Chandio found accused Aijaz guilty of two offences under Sections 364-A (Kidnapping or abducting a person under the 14 years) and 376 (rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and handed down 10 years and life term, respectively. Meanwhile, the court acquitted the convict’s brother and sister as
LAKKI MARWAT: Three schoolboys were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Surani Sikandakhel Bala area of Bannu district on 12th May. A police official said that unknown miscreants had planted an improvised explosive device along a road near a government high school to target police and security forces. He said the blast occurred when a police patrol party was passing by. “The policemen narrowly survived the bomb attack,” he said, adding a large
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to declare an educational emergency in the districts with 50 percent or more children out of school. The decision was made during a meeting of the elementary and secondary education department with Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur in the chair, according to an official statement from the Chief Minister’s Secretariat issued here on Monday. The meeting discussed ways to improve the quality of education in government schools,