Over 250 engineers from NUST and the Institute of Space Technology are teaching in primary and middle schools across Islamabad — and it’s making a real impact. Kids are more excited, more curious, and more motivated to learn. This is the kind of innovation we need in classrooms everywhere.” — Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani, Federal Secretary, Inter-provincial Coordination Division, (Outgoing Federal Secretary for Education).
Child Rights in Focus
In this highly informative video podcast, we have brought together Shafia Rafique, Principal of Littlefellows Daycare and Elementary School, and Khadija, an educationist, CEO of Pakistan Alliance for Early Childhood, and a mentor. As experts in the field of Early Childhood Development (ECD) and parenting, they engage in a dynamic discussion addressing the most common questions related to parenting and education. Shafia and Khadija tackle pressing concerns such as why we struggle to raise
The Islamabad Capital Territory Child Labour Survey (ICTCLS) 2023–2024 offers valuable insights into the living conditions and daily lives of children in the territory, covering aspects such as education, work, and household responsibilities. To ensure representation at the district level across both urban and rural areas, the survey used a two-stage stratified sampling approach. Stage 1: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) selected Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) within each Tehsil. Stage 2: After conducting
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
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