KARACHI: A minor boy was killed and another wounded when people in a wedding ceremony resorted to firing into the air in Keamari on the evening of 6th December, police and rescue services said. Keamari SSP Faizan Ali told Dawn that five suspects were arrested and legal proceedings were initiated against them. He said that they were carrying out firing in jubilation at the wedding ceremony in Sikanderabad. However, the bullets hit two boys, who were
Child Rights in Focus
Honouring their aspirations, CM Shah invited each child to sit in his chair one by one In a heartwarming initiative, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah welcomed 22 children from the Karachi Down Syndrome Programme (KDSP) to the Chief Minister’s House. The visit, organised on the Chief Minister’s invitation, aimed to inspire the children and offer them a unique, memorable experience. The children, accompanied by KDSP Co-founder and CEO Tabish Shehzad, were greeted
A JUDGE at the Lahore High Court recently ordered that schools should arrange for and organise transport for schoolchildren by the end of the winter break. The order came in the hearings on the case about smog in Lahore. The use of public transport for schooling is expected to reduce vehicular traffic and since vehicular traffic is the biggest contributor to smog for us, a shift away from personal transport will reduce the number of vehicles
SUKKUR: A 14-year-old boy died in the aerial firing at a wedding ceremony in a village in Mirpurkhas district on 04-December-2024. According to details, the 14-year-old boy Rajesh s/o of Tirat Bheel was killed after being struck by a bullet during the aerial firing that took place at a wedding ceremony in Nawab Muhammad Hussain Talpar Deh 297, village near Kot Ghulam Muhammad in Mirpurkhas. Accused Jamio Bheel, who was allegedly involved in the
RAWALPINDI: Punjab government has asked the district administration to compile details of missing facilities in educational institutions so that development projects would be launched to provide them to students. This was stated in a meeting with Commissioner Amir Khattak in the chair here on Tuesday. Lawmakers from Rawalpindi, Deputy Commissioner Dr Hassan Waqar Cheema, Parks and Horticulture Authority Director General Ahmed Hasan Ranjha and other concerned officials attended the meeting. The commissioner said that
NAWABSHAH: A girl, a student of class-VII allegedly killed herself in her home in Tando Adam town on 3rd November. Her body was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room. Her mother said that her daughter had been under immense mental stress due to being blackmailed by a man living within the neighbourhood. She disclosed his name to the police. The police took the body to a local hospital for a post-mortem
ISLAMABAD: Polio cases continue to rise as the country reported three new cases on 2nd December, bringing the tally so far this year to 59. According to an official, the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication confirmed the detection of one case each of poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in Dera Ismail Khan, Karachi and Kashmore. “The genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children shows that they are genetically linked to the same WPV1 virus
KARACHI: In a groundbreaking medical achievement, a team of doctors at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) in Karachi successfully operated on two-month-old conjoined twins, Naila and Shumaila, hailing from Naushahro Feroze, Sindh. The surgery, which lasted for ten hours, was a collaborative effort between specialists from NICH, NICVD, and SICH. According to Director NICH, Dr Nasir Suddle, the health of the twins is now improving steadily. “The surgery was a complex and
KARACHI: The province of Sindh has been declared “maternal and neonatal tetanus-free” by international experts. A debriefing session held on Monday at a local hotel was chaired by Sindh Health Secretary Rehan Iqbal Baloch and attended by officials from the federal directorate of Immunisation, EPI-Sindh, Unicef, World Health Organisation (WHO) and others. During the meeting, the validation mission led by Dr Nasir Yusuf of the WHO shared relevant data of the sampling districts of
LOWER DIR: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Malakand Chairman Mohammad Nasim Khan stated that no nation could develop and progress without providing quality education to its children. He was addressing a function after inaugurating a private educational institution at Shehzadi as chief guest here on Sunday. The function was also addressed by the Additional Deputy Commissioner Bashir Khan, divisional president of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Abdul Ghaffar Khan, religious
SAHIWAL: Arifwala City police arrested a teenage boy on 1st December for raping and murdering his five-year-old relative near Gillani Housing Society, Chak 63/EB. The body of a five-year-old missing boy was found in a field. Reports said the child had been missing from Bhatta No 2 locality in Arifwala city since Saturday morning. The villagers found a mutilated body on Sunday and alerted police. Later, the body was identified to be that of
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said healthcare is a fundamental human right and acknowledged the growing HIV epidemic in Pakistan, according to an official news agency. In his message on World AIDS Day, the PM called for bold, innovative, and sustainable interventions to address the challenge, PPI reported. He reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to strengthening the national HIV response and aligning it with global efforts to eradicate the disease. Mr Sharif emphasised the importance of upholding