MANSEHRA: Residents of Kaghan valley staged a sit-in on 13-October-2024 to protest the ongoing shortage of teachers and doctors at the local schools and health facilities. Maulana Sher Zaman, the prayer leader of the central mosque in Kaghan town, while addressing the demonstrators, stated, “The government earns substantial revenue from tourism in Kaghan valley, yet we still lack essential health and education services.” Chanting slogans in support of their demands and against the government,
Child Rights in Focus
PESHAWAR: Frequent administration of injections was causing “provocative poliomyelitis” as three of the four polio affected children detected so far in the province had paralysis caused by wrong injections administered mostly in rural areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Skeletal muscle injury makes sufferers exposed to complications of concurrent poliovirus infection. The phenomenon, labelled as “provocation poliomyelitis” (PPM), continues to haunt polio programme in the province as detection of polio cases in the past few months
LAHORE: Christian couples taking their marriage vows in front of a priest gleefully promise to stay bonded in holy matrimony till death does them apart. Yet few would imagine the state taking the ceremonial utterance literally by disenfranchising married women from the universal right to divorce. The Christian community in Punjab is calling for amendments to the Christian Family Laws vis a vis the Christian Marriage Act of 1872 and the Christian Divorce Act
LAHORE: Punjab police on October 13 arrested a security guard of a private college located in the Gulberg area of Lahore for allegedly raping a student, ARY News reported. As per the DIG Operations, the accused guard involved in the rape incident went into hiding after the news of the incident went viral on social media. The police managed to arrest the accused security guard of the private college within 10 hours of the
MISOGYNY is the bane of women’s lives across the globe as it robs them of autonomy over their bodies. This is reflected in the latest Unicef estimates that include global and regional assessments on sexual violence against children; they show that over 370m women and girls endured rape or sexual violence before the age of 18. The highest number of victims live in sub-Saharan Africa that has 79m female sufferers, with eastern and south-eastern
LAHORE: Pakistan is home to nearly 19 million child brides and ranks 6th globally in early child marriages, the participants of a seminar organised to mark the International Day of the Girl were informed on October 12. The speakers said the girls in Pakistan face stark challenges in their education, health, nutrition and well-being. Estimates of the number of out-of-school children in the country range from 20.3 to 22.1 million, out of which 12
LAHORE: In a major operation, the Lahore Organised Crime Unit dismantled a child smuggling ring involved in luring and trafficking vulnerable children from Punjab to Azad Kashmir. During an intelligence-based operation in Kotli, Azad Kashmir, 29 children were safely rescued, police officials confirmed at a press conference. The operation, led by DIG Organised Crime Imran Kishwar, alongside SP Furqan Bilal and DSP Mian Anjum Toqeer, resulted in the arrest of the group’s ringleader, Imran
The body of a nine-year-old boy, who had drowned in the Lyari River, was recovered on 11 October 2024. The boy, Uzair, had drowned in the Lyari River in Lasi Goth in the Sohrab Goth area on Thursday evening. Following the incident, rescuers from different welfare organisations reached the area and started a search for the missing child. After the operation halted on Thursday night due to darkness, the rescue teams resumed the search
MARDAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved establishment of inter college for special children in Mardan. Special Education Deputy Director Aneeq Ahmad said here on October 11 that the provincial government, while taking a historical step, approved the establishment of inter-college for special children in the district. He said that officials concerned in Mardan educational board had carried out registration of special children for the said college. He revealed that 23-special students had passed their
A judicial magistrate on 11-October-2024 remanded a suspect in police custody for five days in a case pertaining to the murder of a three-year-old girl. The child’s body was recovered from a street in Qabail Colony in Block 11 of Gulberg Town on October 9. The investigating officer produced the detained suspect, Nasir, before the judicial magistrate (Central) and requested his 14-day remand in police custody for investigation. The suspect was brought amidst tight
OKARA: A man was arrested by police on the charge of raping his sister at Chak 18/4L on October 11. As per FIR, the 24-year-old man used to harass his unmarried sister who complained to her mother but she did not believe her daughter. A day back, the suspect overpowered his sister as she was asleep at night and raped her. The victim girl called police emergency 15 and reported the incident. The Cantt
LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has announced that children with type-1 diabetes will receive insulin delivered to their homes. “Special cards will be made to ensure the supply of insulin to sick children,” the chief minister stated while chairing a special meeting on the health sector on October 11. She explained that a government-approved company would supply insulin in accordance with cold chain protocols and other SOPs. “The insulin for all pilot project will