RAWALPINDI: Nearly 45pc of students failed the 11th-grade intermediate annual examination 2026, conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Rawalpindi. The BISE Rawalpindi officially announced the results for the Intermediate Part I (11th-Grade). The announcement was made by the Chairman of the Board, Prof Dr Iqbal Mahmood, in the conference room of the Board Complex, in the presence of Controller of Examinations Tanveer Asghar Awan, Board Secretary Muhammad Fahmeed, and other
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LAHORE: Multan police arrested a suspect involved in killing his underage worker by hitting him with his car in DHA on Oct 19. CCTV footage of the incident, available with Dawn, showed that a minor boy after watching the car tried to run. The car was seen chasing the boy and hit him. The boy who fell rammed into a nearby door of a house and died on impact. Rescue and police approached the
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government on Oct 15 directed the Communication and Works (C&W) Department to constitute technical teams to inspect all government school buildings across the province following the deadly collapse of a classroom roof at a private school in Peshawar. Earlier in the day, a roof collapse at Al-Khair Education System in Dir Colony claimed precious lives and left students and teachers injured, prompting concerns over the structural safety of educational institutions. In
• Teacher, 30 students among the dead; around 30 injured treated at Lady Reading Hospital • Chief secy forms fact-finding committee to probe incident, suggest preventive measures • Governor tells PM school owner in custody; safety audit of schools across province ordered • President, PM call for best treatment for the injured; Unicef pledges psycho-social support PESHAWAR: At least 30 children and a schoolteacher lost their lives and dozens of others were injured after
ISLAMABAD: The capital police registered at least 132 sexual assault and 709 kidnapping cases in the federal capital from January 1 to September 30, 2026, sources told Dawn. One of the cases, the victim was kidnapped, taken out of Islamabad and murdered in KP. Recently, a 26-year-old woman was abducted and subjected to gang rape in Gangal. The sources in the police said the victim was returning home from her workplace when the incident
KARACHI: The city reported its first mpox case involving an infant boy on Wednesday evening as the total number of people affected by the disease in Sindh this year rose to 94. Sources said the 40-day-old baby boy was currently under treatment at the Sindh Infectious Diseases Hospital & Research Centre (SIDH&RC). The parents are residents of Landhi. Speaking to Dawn on condition of anonymity, a senior SIDH&RC doctor said that the baby boy
QUETTA: The Balochistan Private Schools Associations Alliance has called on the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Quetta, West, to immediately clarify the legal basis for restricting the collection of three months’ school fees at a time, warning that they would be compelled to file a contempt of court petition if the matter was not resolved. Addressing a press conference on Oct 13, Alliance President Malik Rasheed Kakar, General Secretary Mohammad Nawaz Pandrani and spokesperson Haji Salim
BAHAWALPUR: A man allegedly shot dead an eight-year-old schoolboy who resisted his attempted rape in Rukanpur, within the jurisdiction of Tibba Sultanpur police station near Mailsi in Vehari district, on Oct 12. Reports said Muhammad Ali, a primary school student, went to a neighbouring house to drink water during recess when he was allegedly shot dead in mysterious circumstances. The killing triggered panic in the area. A heavy police contingent, led by a DSP,
PAKISTAN’S poverty crisis is far deeper than official indicators suggest. While the government celebrates economic stabilisation, almost four in every 10 Pakistanis suffer from deprivation in health, education, and living standards. The latest UNDP figures put multidimensional poverty at 38.3pc of the population against 19.3pc for South Asia. We are worse off than nearby countries — poverty affects 16.4pc of India’s and 14.9pc of Bangladesh’s population. These estimates are based on surveys from different
RAWALPINDI: The main suspect in the rape and murder case of a girl was killed in an encounter with Crime Control Department (CCD) police on Tuesday in the area of Ratta Amral Police Station, Rawalpindi. The suspect was the uncle of the rape victim. According to reports, the CCD team signalled the suspects to stop at Alamabad Stop, Children’s Park Main Road but they ignored and instead opened fire on the police team. During
RAWALPINDI: The City Traffic Police Murree have made the installation of fire extinguishers in all school vehicles and regular inspections of school vans mandatory under new standard operating procedures (SOPs) issued to ensure the safe transportation of children. These decisions were taken at a meeting on Tuesday chaired by Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Murree Syed Munir Ahmed Hashmi. The assistant commissioner Murree, DSP Headquarters Malik Azmat, teachers from across the district, members of the
KARACHI: With the provincial government persistently failing to control the dog population and effectively address gaps in rabies prevention, two cases of the deadly infectious disease were recorded on Oct 12, raising the total number of rabies cases reported at the city’s two hospitals so far this year to 38. Officials at the Indus Hospital stated that a 38-year-old man hailing from Diplo, Tharparkar, died of the viral infectious disease at the facility on