LAHORE: The Lahore District Education Authority has recommended the sealing of 213 private schools operating without registration. The move comes as part of a drive to ensure compliance with education laws, improve student safety and regulate the rapidly expanding private education sector across the provincial capital. According to sources, the authority has forwarded a summary to the district administration, requesting action against the identified schools. Once approved, the district administration will initiate the sealing
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PESHAWAR: The Unicef has pledged to design the Peshawar Children’s Hospital in a way that it will look like a children’s park instead of a hospital, according to an official. “Being a 100pc Children’s Hospital, all its buildings will wear a fantastic look when its interior designing is finished. The Unicef is sending a team of experts from Lahore to give a fascinating shape to the facility for which the government has promised to
This video contains a discussion of abuse, including predatory and abusive behavior towards children. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. Abuse often begins not with obvious harm, but with trust, praise, and attention that slowly become grooming. In this powerful talk, Amy Saltzman, M.D., a former competitive gymnast, physician, and victim/”sur-thrivor” of decades of covert emotional abuse, explains how abusers use specialness, fear, and isolation to create dependency and control. Her message is
From Taunsa, to Ratodero and now Karachi. It seems like there is not a town or city left in Pakistan where the country’s children are safe from HIV, one of the most dangerous diseases in the world. Last week, the Sindh labour minister reportedly confirmed that at least 78 children had been infected with HIV at Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital in Karachi. Reports say that this allegedly is due to the reuse of contaminated
Some of the riskiest teen online spaces aren’t the ones parents check. Discord and Reddit work very differently from apps like Instagram or TikTok. Discord lets users join servers and private groups with little identity verification, while anonymity is a default on Reddit, making both harder for parents to track. Nukta spoke to Pakistani teenagers who described harassment and manipulation on these platforms, and also spoke with the helpline lead at Digital Rights Foundation
BAHAWALPUR: Dhanote police in Lodhran district registered a case against a man for raping a minor girl and blackmailing her with objectionable videos. According to police, the FIR against the suspect was registered on the complaint of the victim’s mother. According to the complainant, her victim’s daughter had gone to Basti Karim Dad Khan’s Mauza Jamrani Wah to meet her married sisters. During her visit, the suspect raped her and also recorded her naked
The May 2026 NCHR investigative report, “Caged in Care,” exposes systemic human rights abuses and medical malpractice within private, unregulated rehabilitation centers across Pakistan, which frequently operate as profit-driven custodial spaces rather than genuine therapeutic facilities. The investigation reveals that these centers are heavily weaponized as instruments of patriarchal control to strip adult women of their autonomy, forcibly confining and sedating them under false pretenses during family disputes over marriage, property, or perceived “disobedience”.
FAISALABAD: In a move aimed at preventing child sexual abuse and improving public safety, Faisalabad police have directed all shopkeepers, departmental stores, wholesale markets, shopping malls, and other commercial establishments across the district to install CCTV cameras within one month. According to an official order issued by City Police Officer (CPO) Tanveer Hussain, businesses that fail to comply with the directive within the stipulated time may face legal action, including the registration of criminal
LAHORE: More than two years after Pakistan declared a National Education Emergency, the country continues to struggle with one of the world’s largest out-of-school children crises, as over 25 million children remain outside classrooms despite constitutional guarantees of free and compulsory education and repeated policy announcements at federal and provincial levels. A comprehensive comparative policy review, prepared by the Civil Services Academy (CSA), concludes that Pakistan’s education crisis is no longer primarily about policy
KARACHI: Confirming that at least 78 children had been infected with HIV/AIDS at Valika Hospital, Sindh Labour Minister Saeed Ghani has promised that the government will investigate the matter thoroughly and take strict action against all those, whether doctors, officers or paramedical staff, found responsible. Last week, the Sindh High Court had given the provincial government two weeks to explain HIV outbreak at Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital — a Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution (SESSI) facility
SAHIWAL: Four separate incidents of rape of minors were reported in the region within the past 24 hours. In the first case, a 10-year-old boy, a resident of Chak 7/12-L, was taken by his two friends to an orchard where they allegedly raped him and fled leaving him unconscious. In the second incident, 14-year-old boy, a resident of Chak 164/9-L, was raped by two youths in a maize field of his village. In the
SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Three girls were killed and four other family members wounded in the early hours of July 5 when a quadcopter drone dropped munitions on a home in the Nargasi area of Birmal tehsil in Lower South Waziristan, local sources said. The strike hit the residence of Mohammad Gul Wazir. The girls aged between six and 15 years old were killed. A woman and three young boys were injured. They were rescued by