CHARSADDA: Students, their parents, political activists, and councillors staged a demonstration against the lack of teachers at a government girls’ primary school in Tangi tehsil here the other day. The protesters set a 15-day deadline for the appointment of teachers to the school in Sahibzada Kallay area of Gundheri union council or they would lock it up. The protesters said that the school had been without a teacher for the last one year. They
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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department intends to form a combined board of governors to manage the Khyber Institute of Child Health Peshawar and the recently established Fountain House Hayatabad (Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences Hospital), expediting the operations of both entities. However, the KICH and Fountain House want separate boards for themselves, citing their distinct specialties–children’s health and psychiatry the reason. Officials told Dawn that the health department had directed the project director of the
• Injuries, particularly around the neck, suggest the death was not accidental, opines police surgeon • DIG says it’s too early to call it a homicide • Efforts on to find two boys ‘kidnapped’ from Garden KARACHI: A seven-year-old boy, who had been missing from North Karachi since Jan 7, was found dead in the underground water tank of the residential apartment where he lived, police said on 18th January. While the police are
Sindh is setting a new example in the country by initiating a revolutionary change for the transgender community in the field of education. The chief minister of Sindh has directed the education department to develop the province’s first-ever transgender education policy. According to Sindh government spokesperson Sukhdev Assardas Hemnani, Sindh is the only province that is not only serious about transgender education but is also actively working on formulating a new policy for it.
LALAMUSA: A grim chapter in the Khohaar tragedy concluded when the alleged rapist and murderer of a five-year-old girl was killed in a police encounter near Bole Bridge, Civil Lines Police Station limits, on 17 January 2025. The suspect, Muhammad Nadeem, a gardener employed at a college in Rasul, had previously escaped police custody. The heartbreaking incident sent shockwaves across the community after the child, the daughter of an expatriate ‘J,’ was found dead
JHANG: A number of male and female teachers serving at afternoon schools are awaiting their monthly salaries for the last seven months. The education officials allegedly showed laxity in the affairs of afternoon schools where a large number of students were enrolled. The official sources revealed that teachers had been waiting to get their monthly salaries for seven months. The educated youngsters, especially females, alleged that because of this temporary teaching job, they had
KARACHI: Family members of two children, who were kidnapped from the Garden area three days ago, staged a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on 17th January and also met with Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori for the safe recovery of the minor boys as police have failed to make any progress in the case so far. On Jan 14, five-year-old Aliyan and six-year-old Ali Raza were playing outside their homes on Siddique
ISLAMABAD: Education Minister Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, on 17th January underscored the need to challenge societal norms hindering girls’ education. He was delivering a keynote address at a national symposium titled ‘National Education Emergency: On Out-of-School Children’ organised by Parliamentary Caucus on Child Rights of the National Assembly on Friday. The minister said harnessing Pakistan’s large youth population required collective decision-making and legislative action to curb the brain drain by creating opportunities for education
ISLAMABAD: After complaints by parents, the Directorate of Special Education on 16th January took urgent steps to restart the transport service from 17th January for the Special Education Centre for Hearing and Speech Impairments located at H-9/4. The transport service remained suspended since January 9 due to lack of funds, leaving students unable to attend classes. There are over 550 special students in the centre and out of them 437 had been using the
LAKKI MARWAT: The Bannu district administration has unveiled a manual for schoolchildren on ethics, politeness and good manners and civic sense. Deputy commissioner Abdul Hameed Khan and Brig Naveed Ahmad were the chief guests on the occasion, where assistant commissioner Syed Abrar Ali Shah, teachers of government and private schools, religious scholars, journalists, and students were in attendance. Officials said the manual, titled “Guidance for Young Minds,” had been published under the chief minister’s
BAJAUR: Three children were wounded when two mortar shells fired from an undisclosed location hit two houses in the hilly Shekhan Banda Malasaid area of Salarzai tehsil here late on 15th January. Local residents, Rescue 1122 and police officials said on Thursday that the two mortar shells fired hit the houses of local residents Saidur Rehman and Islamul Haq areas leaving three children wounded. They said the children were preparing for dinner along with
WHY is this country so against its own children and its own future? Are you surprised by this question? Look at some of the statistics and facts below and see if the question is still surprising. Some 40 percent of our children are said to be malnourished, that is, four out of 10 children are starving. We are not even able to give polio drops to all our children. We have had more than 70 cases