SWAT: Speakers at a workshop on 15th February emphasised the need for professional therapy to help children with hearing and speech impairments regain their skills. The workshop on hearing and speech impairments was organised by Cochlear Implant Welfare Organisation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in collaboration with the ENT department of Saidu Group of Medical Institutes at the Saidu Medical College. Shahid Ali Khan, mayor of Babuzai tehsil, was the chief guest on the occasion. Speech
Child Rights in Focus
NAROWAL: A Class-X girl student was allegedly tortured by the principal for signing a uniform shirt during a school celebration in Muzaffarpur tehsil of Sialkot. According to Adeel Anwar, a resident of Defence Road, his 16-year-old daughter, Warda Adeel, who is a heart patient, was tortured by the principal. He has filed complaints with Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and the police, seeking justice. Anwar stated that Warda had visited the school on the
BEING a child in this society should not be so hard. But recurrent reports of child abuse — from burying girl children alive to torturing a 12-year-old domestic worker to death for consuming her employers’ chocolate — point to a pervasive malaise. The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights has, yet again, expressed concern over the escalation in cases of child abduction, murder, rape and trafficking across the country. In 2024, according to the
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Secretary for Federal Education and Professional Training, National Heritage, and Culture Farah Naz Akbar informed the National Assembly on 14th February that the Cambridge Education System was being introduced in colleges being run by Federal Directorate of Education (FDE). During the question hour, she said that the initiative was being launched as a pilot project in four government institutions and will be expanded to other institutions in phases. She added that the
SUKKUR: Every schoolteacher should foster students’ confidence by integrating STEAM education opportunities into their classrooms. Providing the right platforms will unlock their potential and enhance their abilities. “I strongly believe in empowering the young minds of Sukkur to become the scientists and innovators of tomorrow,” said Commissioner Sukkur Fayaz Hussain Abbasi, while speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Regional STEAM Festival at IBA Public School on 13-February-2025. He visited all the stalls, interacted
TAXILA: A man was arrested in Hasan Abdal for allegedly molesting a teenage boy on the school premises, police sources said on 13th February. According to police sources, a complainant told the police that his 13-year-old brother worked at a furniture market adjacent to the school. On Thursday, the suspect, who reportedly worked as a peon at a government girls’ high school, took him to the school and molested him. After a medical examination
SWABI: In a gory incident, a man slaughtered his four minor children and later committed suicide here on 13th February, the police and rescue officials said. When contacted, SHO Yar Hussain police station Abdul Wali Khan said that when they reached the house, the dead bodies were lying in a pool of blood inside a room. The neighbours of Saifullah Islam (father of the children) said that the man was a tailor and was
A RECENTLY held conference in Islamabad on the aforesaid subject is a valuable move to address the appalling condition of girls’ education in most Muslim societies. The conclusion of Clandon and his colleagues’ study of Muslim societies (2018) tells us what is obvious, that “At the global level, Muslim women are less educated and have wider gender gaps than all other religious groups. …” This is a predictable conclusion, given our perceptions and attitude
GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan government has been facing severe criticism over the poor education standard in public schools after most students in grades five and eight failed the regional exams. The poor results have also triggered protests across GB. The result of the exam, conducted by the Board of Elementary Examination Gilgit-Baltistan, was announced in the first week of February. According to the result, only 41 per cent of students in Grade 5 passed the
ISLAMABAD: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed Pakistan’s second wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case of 2025 from District Badin, Sindh. The case was detected in a 48-month-old girl from Tehsil Tando Bago’s Union Council (UC) Mithi. She developed symptoms on January 30, and her samples were collected on February 3 and 4 before being sent to the lab on February 5. According to health
50k teachers will receive Google education training starting in April. Rawalpindi. The Punjab government has decided to introduce modern technology in government educational institutions with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in classrooms. Under this project, 50,000 government teachers will receive Google education training starting in April at the beginning of the new academic year. Additionally, 100,000 students will be trained in coding and Google AI. Smart laboratories will be established in Punjab’s
RAWALPINDI: A 12-year-old domestic worker, allegedly subjected to severe torture by her employer, succumbed to her injuries in Rawalpindi on February 12. Initial police investigations have revealed that the child suffered a deep head injury, with her skull fractured, which ultimately led to her death. The accused, identified as Rashid Qureshi and his wife, who have eight children, allegedly tortured the young girl, Iqra, after their daughter accused her of stealing chocolate. Police sources