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
Child Rights in Focus
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,
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
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.