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
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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
LAHORE: All Government Employees Grand Alliance (AGEGA) on 16th January protested outside the Civil Secretariat against the government decision to cut salaries, pension, and gratuity and leave encashment. Protests were held in other major cities of Punjab as well. The interim Punjab government had issued notifications for these cuts, prompting AGEGA activists to demand that Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz revoke them. During the interim government’s period, a crackdown on protests led to the detention
ISLAMABAD: Anemia, a debilitating condition affecting millions of children, adolescent girls, and women in Pakistan, is silently draining the nation’s economy. With annual losses estimated at $2.5 billion for children alone and an additional $595 million for adolescent girls and women, the total economic toll from anemia exceeds $3 billion, according to Nutrition International’s recent Cost of Inaction (COI) report. Despite some improvements, anemia remains a severe public health challenge. Among children aged 6-59 months, 53pc
ISLAMABAD: The country reported a polio case on 16th January, marking the second consecutive day of new cases and bringing the tally for 2024 to 73. An official at the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health confirmed the detection of the 73rd wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case from Thatta. “This is the first polio case from Thatta for 2024. Since the sample was collected in December last
A speeding heavy vehicle claimed the life of a six-year-old girl in Karachi on 16-January-2025, bringing the total number of fatalities in heavy vehicle accidents to six since the start of the year. According to reports, the girl, identified as Tania, daughter of Usman, was struck by a dumper truck near Usmania Restaurant on the Super Highway, within the jurisdiction of the Gadap City police station. The accident occurred as Tania was crossing the