TAXILA: A school van driver was arrested on the charge of sexually harassing a minor girl in his vehicle in Mullah Mansoor village of Attock Khurd on 22nd October. According to police sources, a citizen reported to the police that his five-year-old niece lives with him as her father was working abroad. He said when the girl returned home from school on Tuesday, she was in distress and there were bruises on her cheeks.
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KHYBER: As many as 13 civilians, mostly children, who received injuries when a quadcopter allegedly dropped explosives on a marketplace in Tirah valley here on October 21, were brought to hospitals in Peshawar for treatment, local sources told Dawn on 22nd October. Earlier, it was speculated that militants were targeted in the quadcopter strike. The sources said the people were hit by shrapnel when the blast occurred. They added two of the injured children
WITH polio cases in Pakistan rising sharply in recent weeks, the government has unveiled the National Emergency Action Plan for Polio 2024-25. The country has already reported 39 cases this year, compared to just six in 2023. The spike has raised concerns about our ability to eradicate the virus, with new cases spanning 60 districts, affecting children primarily in Balochistan, Sindh, and KP. Pakistan is at a juncture where if the spread of the
A judicial magistrate on 22-October-2024 remanded a suspect in judicial custody in a case pertaining to wrongful confinement and torture of a minor boy. Suspect Muhammad Deen was arrested on 21-October-2024 after a video of him beating the nine-year-old boy with his hands tied at his laundry shop went viral on social media. The investigating officer produced the suspect before the judicial magistrate (Central) and sought his 14-day remand for the completion of the
Four children have lost their lives out of 39 affected by polio, while the majority of the remaining children have been paralysed for the rest of their lives. This was stated by the Prime Minister’s Focal Person for Polio Eradication Ayesha Raza Farooq 21-October-2024. She urged parents to vaccinate their children during upcoming polio vaccination drives. “Poliovirus is not only paralysing our children, it is also killing some of the weaker ones. So far,
TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad’s Chak Jhumra police on 15th July arrested a so-called faith-healer who allegedly raped a 16-year-old daughter of his follower, working as a house help at his residence. The city police spokesperson said a police team formed by the city police officer, headed by Madina Town police SP, arrested the suspect in a raid on a place in Faisalabad where he was hiding. As per police sources, the girl, daughter of
KARACHI: What was she wearing? What did she say? Why was she outside the house? These are just a few of the seemingly innocent questions debated by the flagbearers of morality in the aftermath of nearly every other rape case. Amidst such shameless victim blaming, for a survivor of sexual violence to pursue a rape case in court is akin to walking through fire that is flamed by the failing criminal justice system in
RAWALPINDI: The ill effects of privatising government schools in the face of massive protests have started manifesting. A stark example is the Government Primary School in Omanga village, Gujjar Khan Tehsil, Rawalpindi district, which was handed over to the Government Primary School Education Foundation in 2016. The institution was discreetly shut down three years ago. Today, the once-thriving school lies in ruins, a testament to neglect and abandonment. Thieves have stripped the premises of
SARGODHA: The Kot Momin police arrested three people, including the would-be groom, and foiled an underage marriage. A case was registered against the accused under the Child Marriage Restraint Act and other provisions. The police were alerted that some people had planned the forced marriage of a 13-year-old girl in village Hujan, Kot Momin. The would-be groom, Hassan Mujtabi, was from New Satellite Town in Sargodha city. Kot Momin police booked Abid Hussain Kazmi
PESHAWAR: Participants in a consultation workshop on 21st October underscored the importance of making climate and environmental education part of curriculum to raise awareness among youth about the issue. The workshop titled ‘Empowering Change: A Workshop on Systems Thinking for Climate Change and Environmental Education’ was organised by the Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED), Karachi, in connection with its Climate Action Fellowship (CAF-2024) initiative. Fozia Parveen, assistant professor AKU-IED and the
HARIPUR: Three children, including two siblings, were allegedly assaulted during the last two days in different parts of the Haripur city, the police said here on 20th October. One of the accused, allegedly a prayer leader, was arrested while the man charged in another FIR was still at large, the police said. SHO Saddar police station Chaudhry Khalid Khan said father of two siblings complained that his 11-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter learnt Holy