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
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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
Islamabad: Federal Minister of Education Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui underscored the significance of girls’ education as both a moral imperative and an economic necessity. During the closing session of the two-day International Conference on “Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities: Challenges and Opportunities” hosted by his ministry here, Dr Siddiqui expressed pride in the conference’s success and said he was committed to ensuring that every child in Pakistan, irrespective of gender or socio-economic background, has
A delegation from the Child Rights Movement (CRM) Punjab held a meeting with the members of the National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) to discuss key child rights issues and to strengthen the collaboration between civil society organisations and the NCRC to deal with critical issues, including: Child marriage, Corporal punishment, Juvenile justice, The implementation of the Free and Compulsory Primary Education Act, Tackling child and domestic labour Improving birth registration systems
19,000 children in K-P are working in agriculture and other sectors instead of attending school PESHAWAR: Illiteracy is a vice plaguing both genders in areas faring poorly in terms of human development, the problem is exacerbated in tribal districts, where girls’ education is more or less neglected. Furthermore, the fact that several areas in these regions still lack functional schools, either due to destruction caused by terrorism or natural disasters like floods, only adds
KARACHI: In view of the growing incidents of falling and drowning in open manholes, the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation has implemented a procedure to install covers within 12 to 24 hours. A spokesman for the utility said that new Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs) had been implemented to address public complaints promptly on the directives of Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab. He said that the people could report issues related to open manholes or damaged