KARACHI: While police have failed to recover a minor boy kidnapped over a week ago in North Karachi, the kidnapping of two more children has sent ripples of concern among people, forcing the Sindh chief minister to order police to take practical measures for their immediate recovery. The CM not only ordered the Karachi police chief to remain in touch with the victims’ parents and ensure immediate recovery, he also directed him to increase
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BAHAWALPUR: Three minor boys, one of them mentally-challenged, were allegedly raped by as many suspects, including a prayer leader and an 11-year-old boy, in separate incidents in the limits of different police stations in Lodhran district during the past 24 hours. According to police, in the first incident, a prayer leader allegedly raped a seven-year-old boy in a room adjacent to a mosque at Basti Khanda of mauza Kote Lal Shah in the limits
LAHORE: The Punjab police investigation department is all set to field 1,450 specially trained officers to run the Special Sexual Offences Investigation Units (SSOIUs) across the province in alignment with the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Act. These dedicated units were established in Punjab under section 9 of the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Act 2021 following the longstanding complaints of defective investigations into the rape and other sexual crime cases. The establishment of SSOIUs was
ISLAMABAD: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed Pakistan’s 71st case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) for 2024. The case involves a 58-month-old boy from Jacobabad, Sindh, with symptoms reported on December 27, 2024. This marks the fifth polio case reported from Jacobabad alone, highlighting persistent challenges in combating the disease despite repeated mass vaccination campaigns. The national tally of WPV1 cases in 2024
PESHAWAR: Beaten by his teacher with stick right on his eyebrow, Hamza Hussain, a grade six student at a historical school here on 14 January 2024, had to have multiple stitches, setting a new example of corporal punishment. Father of the wounded student told The News that he was shocked to see his son having plaster on his forehead and his uniform stained with blood. “I was there to pick him after school,” he
SAHIWAL: The body of a 10-year-old boy was found at Chak 113/12-L, tehsil Chichawatni, in what appears to be a revenge killing over a court marriage issue. The boy, Muhammad Zubair, son of Muhammad Riaz Nabi, had gone missing on January 13 and his body was found in the forest by his family and villagers on Tuesday morning. A few years ago, Riaz Nabi’s family moved to Chichawatni city. His eldest son, Iqbal, contracted
Says province’s model outperforms all other provinces and Centre KARACHI. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on January 13 that the Sindh government’s heath sector initiatives under a public-private partnership outperformed not only all the other provinces but also those undertaken by the federal government. Speaking at a ceremony at Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi, organised by the Dow University of Health Sciences, the PPP chairman lauded the Sindh government for its significant
MANSEHRA: Local government representatives and residents on 13th January demanded that the government release funds for the salaries of teachers and other staff members of schools and colleges across the province functioning under the Elementary Education Foundation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “Five out of 88 schools and colleges functioning in our district are on the brink of closure as the government hasn’t paid salaries to teachers and other staff since Feb last year,” chairman of Safada
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said on 13th January Pakistan is taking the lead in Islamic countries to tackle the issues of girls’ education and out-of -school children. The federal minister met a high-powered delegation led by former Prime Minister of Norway Kjell Magne Bondevik here. The meeting was also attended by Secretary Education Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani and former Member of the Oslo Parliament, Norway, Aamir Javed Sheikh.
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has lauded the Sindh government for its remarkable achievement of reducing infant mortality in the province to 2.9 percent, compared to the national average of 5.4 percent. Bilawal expressed pride in the accomplishments of the provincial government and the ChildLife Foundation (CLF), which have achieved a 1.2 percent paediatric mortality rate in CLF-operated emergency rooms — better than most public and private hospitals in Pakistan,
ISLAMABAD: Nobel laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai has urged Muslim leaders not to “legitimise” the Taliban government in Afghanistan and recognise it as “perpetrators of gender apartheid”. In her address to the International Conference on Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities on Sunday, Ms Yousafzai lambasted Israel for destroying educational institutions in Gaza and the Kabul regime for systemically stopping Afghan girls from getting an education. She said the Afghan Taliban have “ripped away the right to
IN the past centuries, many systems of education have been tried and tested around the world for early childhood education. Among these, the Montessori method, with its emphasis on freedom to learn and its hands-on approach, became very popular. The Reggio Emelia approach, with its focus on taking cues from the environment, linking learning to real-life experiences and involving students in projects, was a close second. Waldorf education, founded in 1919, introduced the idea