QUETTA: Judicial Magistrate Court One in Gwadar has granted bail to four students of the Baloch Students Action Committee who were arrested for setting up a book stall in front of Dhoriyah Academy. The court ordered their release after they submitted a bail bond of Rs40,000 each. The lawyers representing the detainees included Advocate Mir Adil Kalmati, the Acting President of Gwadar Bar, Senior Advocate Rustam Baloch, former President of Gwadar Bar, Advocate Siddique
Child Rights in Focus
Despite intensified efforts, police have yet to recover two young boys who were reportedly kidnapped from the Garden area six days ago. Authorities are now relying on newly obtained but unclear CCTV footage showing a man and woman on a motorcycle taking the children. The footage, while pivotal, lacks sufficient clarity to identify the culprits or the motorcycle’s registration number. Parents of the missing children have expressed frustration, urging law enforcement to expand their
ISLAMABAD: With the aim of strengthening punishment for rapists, the sub-committee of the Senate committee on interior has unanimously agreed to amend the punishment for those who commit rape of a minor or a person with mental and physical disability include: “or imprisonment for life but shall not be less than 25 years, along with fine that shall not be less than 1 million rupees.” The sub-committee, chaired by Senator Samina Mumtaz Zehri, convened
Despite being a low transmission season, around 10 children are currently admitted at the Sindh Infectious Diseases Hospital (SIDH) at NIPA in Karachi with measles, while four children are undergoing treatment for diphtheria. Similar cases are being reported at other health facilities of Karachi, including the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) and private hospitals, where children are being treated for vaccine-preventable diseases. The primary cause, according to health experts, is vaccine hesitancy and
ISLAMABAD. Judicial Magistrate Ahmed Shahzad Gondal 20-January-2025 handed over Sub-Inspector Sohaib Ali Pasha of the federal police, arrested for alleged rape and kidnapping of minors, to the FIA on an additional two-day physical remand here. The FIA officials presented the arrested sub-inspector in court after completion of his three-day physical remand and requested for his five-day further remand. The investigating officer said the accused revealed during the investigation that he kept minors in illegal
MIRPURKHAS: Two children have died of measles over the past week and three ailing infants are still struggling for their lives in Haji Tariq Jalal Rajar village near Hingorno town. Villagers informed media persons on 20th January that two-year-old Rajveer Kohli and six-year-old Munaij Kohli fell victim to the disease. They said that three ailing infants, Durga, Roshni and Deepak were still struggling for their lives. Published in Dawn, January 21st, 2025
• Body found in water tank appears to be ‘four-five days old’: MLO • DIG says cause of death is yet to be determined by doctors KARACHI: Investigators are now treating the death of a seven-year-old boy, whose body was found in an underground water tank of the high-rise building he lived in 11 days after his disappearance, as a murder case after a post-mortem report confirmed that he was subjected to a sexual assault before
WHEN a country’s children go hungry, its future withers. In Pakistan, where over 40pc of children under five are stunted, nearly 18pc are wasted, and more than half suffer from anaemia, malnutrition threatens to undermine a generation. For a middle-income country with nuclear capabilities and significant agricultural output, such statistics are appalling. Yet amid this troubling landscape, there are glimmers of hope. Recent data from Sindh shows some progress. Infant mortality rates in the
RAWALPINDI: The body of a four-year-old boy, who went missing about two months ago in Rawat, was recovered from a pond close to the house where he had gone along with her mother and two siblings to attend a wedding ceremony. The mother, who also had a baby girl and a son younger than the missing boy, did not leave the house for two weeks in the hope that she would be reunited with
Islamabad: Samia, a 32-year-old mother of two from Islamabad, was thrust into an uncertain future when her husband, a 38-year-old property dealer, succumbed to a sudden heart attack. Her two children, aged six and four, now face life without their father. Tragically, Samia’s story is not unique in her locality. Three other young widows with children are also grappling with the untimely loss of their husbands due to heart attacks before the age of
BATTAGRAM: The provincial government has announced a major initiative to address the longstanding issue of teacher shortage in public sector schools. MPA Taj Mohammad Khan, chairman of the standing committee for education, said on January 19 that the government would soon recruit 16,000 fresh teachers to fill the vacancies in schools across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “This significant move is aimed at providing quality education to students and equipping government schools with necessary facilities,” he said.
Juvenile justice system addresses the needs of children which are in conflict with law. It provides child-friendly procedures and diversion instead of formal/hard judicial proceedings. It focuses on rehabilitation and reintegration of juvenile offenders into society. The specific mechanisms for administering juvenile justice have varied over time among societies. However, the concept of delinquency, as well as special trials and institutions for youth, was established in the mid-19th century in Great Britain. Juvenile Justice System Act,