Class-wise Enrolment by Education and Gender 2023-24 (Public, Other Public & Private) Class Public Other Public Private Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Pre-Primary Un- admitted 217,483 217,385 434,868 103,385 86,064 189,449 562,822 533,752 1,096,574 883,690 837,201 1,720,891 Kachi 2,208,219 2,028,094 4,236,313 88,977 71,868 160,845 1,743,735 1,738,814 3,482,549 4,040,931 3,838,776 7,879,707 Total 2,425,702 2,245,479 4,671,181 192,362 157,932 350,294 2,306,557 2,272,566 4,579,123 4,924,621 4,675,977 9,600,598 Primary Class
Child Rights in Focus
MIRANSHAH: Suspected militants destroyed a portion of a government-run girls’ school in a village of Mir Ali tehsil in North Waziristan tribal district, local police said on 22 July. They said that militants had planted explosives in the Government Girls Middle School in Zairki village and triggered a blast with a remote-controlled device late Sunday night As a result, four out of seven rooms of the school building collapsed and a nearby house was
QUETTA: A simultaneous vaccination campaign will be launched on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border next month as officials blame cross-border movement for the dozen cases of the virus reported from Balochistan this year. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries where polio is still endemic. Since January 2024, the former has reported 16 cases of poliovirus, 12 of them from Balochistan, which borders five Afghan provinces. In a press conference on Thursday, Inamul
Pakistan is in the spotlight for having the largest number of out-of-school children (26 million) and millions not learning the basics (ASER 2010-2023). Deficits in access and quality morph into an equity gap with gender and generational impacts. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, within nine weeks of stepping into office, declared a National Education Emergency (May 8, 2024), followed by 14 time-bound directives through the mobilization of the ministries of Finance, Health, and Poverty
A child in Zhob district of Balochistan whose parents had refused to get him vaccinated against polio, bringing the total number of polio cases in 2024 to nine in Pakistan, Pakistan’s Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) officials said on 20 July 2024. “An 18-month-old male child from Union Council Hassan Zai Urban 2 in Zhob district, Balochistan, has been paralysed by poliovirus. Preliminary investigation revealed that the child did not receive any dose of Oral
The parents of Priya Kumari, who had gone missing at the age of seven years in Sukkur on August 19, 2021, held a sit-in outside the Sindh Chief Minister House on 20 July 2024, following which a government delegation met the girl’s family and assured them of full cooperation. The delegation comprised Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar, and Pakistan Peoples Party MPAs Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Lal Chand Ukrani, and Sham Sunder Advani. Civil society
Islamabad: In a significant effort to reduce electricity costs and promote sustainability, the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training has announced a plan to convert 100 primary schools to solar energy in the next two months. The initiative is part of a larger effort to harness renewable energy sources and reduce the city’s carbon footprint. “This project will not only reduce electricity costs but also provide a clean and sustainable source of energy
HYDERABAD: HRCP Coordinator for Hyderabad Ghufrana Arian, while opening a session on 19 July, said that 40 incidents of sexual assaults on children have been reported in Sindh in the last three months, and victims include 15 minor girls and 25 minor boys. Talking to the participants of the meeting, she said that the purpose of today’s session is to mobilize civil society, human rights defenders, volunteers of the relevant government departments, lawyers, and
Police on Saturday apprehended a man accused of attempting to assault a child in Sherpao Colony, located within the jurisdiction of the Quiadabad police station in District Malir. The incident came to light when a minor girl was found in a gunny bag. Police responded, managing to arrest the suspect, identified as Javed, son of Mumtaz, and a resident of Sherpao Colony, within an hour of the girl’s discovery. Initial reports suggested that Javed’s
A family court has awarded permanent custody of a teenage girl who was reported kidnapped from Karachi in April 2022 but was later found to have purportedly contracted freewill marriage in Lahore, to her parents. Judge Salamat Ali Soomro granted an application filed by the girl’s parents — Syed Mehdi Ali Kazmi and Saima Kazmi — seeking her permanent custody. He directed them to submit a surety of Rs2 million along with an undertaking
ISLAMABAD: Another child has been paralyzed by polio in the Zhob district of Balochistan, bringing this year’s total number of polio cases to nine. Additionally, sewage samples from one new district, Hangu, and six previously infected districts have tested positive for wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1). With the latest addition, the number of districts where poliovirus has been found in environmental samples has jumped to 51. This development comes shortly after Pakistan’s health team
KARACHI: Almost a year after the Council of Common Interests (CCI) ‘unanimously’ approved the results of the 2023 digital census, the country’s top data body has released detailed results of the enumeration exercise. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) released data for the 7th Population and Housing Census 2023 at an event in Islamabad on 18 July 2024. The district-level data included information on various demographics and metrics, including population, gender, age, religion, language,