PESHAWAR: Although Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has failed to pay salaries to 5,238 teachers of girls’ community schools during the last eight months. The non-payment of salaries to non-formal schools for girls functioning in far-off areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has endangered the future of 276,000 students enrolled in such institutions. These schools have been functioning under the auspices of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Elementary and Secondary Education Foundation (E&SEF) for the last many years. The institutions have
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TANK: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Usman Khan Bhitani on 03-November-2024 gave cheques worth for Rs1 million each to the families of the four children who were recently electrocuted in Tank district. The deputy commissioner, Tank, district police officer and the local elders were present at the ceremony. Speaking on the occasion, the MPA said that the cheques were distributed among the families of the victims on behalf of Chief Minister Ali
Half of staff in offices to work from home; entry of heavy vehicles banned LAHORE: Authorities in Lahore announced on November 3 the closure of schools in the provincial capital for a week, reduced staff strength in government and private offices, and banned the entry of heavy vehicles within the city limits over the weekend due to alarming environmental conditions. The air quality index (AQI), which measures a range of pollutants, exceeded 1,000 on
HYDERABAD: A case has been registered at the Baldia police station against two doctors and other staffers of a private hospital for negligently declaring a healthy newborn dead. The FIR has been registered on the complaint of the father, Muhammad Rafiq Bhayo, a resident of Muhammad Bux Shoro village of District Qasimabad. The complainant has said that on October 28 his wife was admitted for delivery in private hospital where she gave birth to
OKARA: A mosque cleric was arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old madrassa student. According to the first information report, the girl had been attending Quranic lessons at the seminary in Azam Town, Renala, where around seven months ago, the cleric allegedly raped her and threatened her into silence. Recently, noticing changes in her daughter’s condition, the girl’s widowed mother became suspicious. After questioning, the girl disclosed the incident. A medical examination confirmed that she
ISLAMABAD: A new Unesco report reveals that the global out-of-school population has decreased by only one percent over the past decade, citing chronic under-investment in education, especially in low- and lower-middle-income countries, as a key contributing factor. The UN agency’s ‘Global Education Report 2024’ says the public education expenditure globally fell by 0.4 percentage points of GDP between 2015 and 2022. According to the report published on Friday, enrolment at age five has stagnated at
BAHAWALPUR: A tutor allegedly raped his 13-year-old student at Basti Baghwala of village Khanpur Ghalwan in the limits of the Qureshiwala Police Station in district Lodhran. According to Ladhran police spokesperson Bahadur Khan, the tutor called his student from his house and took him to nearby fields on the pretext of collecting money from somebody. The suspect allegedly raped the boy in the fields where the victim’s screams attracted the people around him who
ISLAMABAD: Fed up with Pakistan’s rising polio cases, health authorities across provinces are increasingly attributing the spread of the virus to a range of unique factors, including malnutrition, gaps in Routine Immunization (RI), parental refusals, and, most recently, paralysis linked to injection neuritis a theory recently posited by health officials in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). In KP, health officials have highlighted the phenomenon of injection neuritis which occurs when untrained practitioners, or quacks, incorrectly administer
QUETTA: A bomb blast near a girls’ high school in Mastung, Balochistan, claimed the lives of nine people, including six schoolchildren, a police officer, and two passers-by. Thirty others were injured. The explosive device, planted on a motorcycle, exploded with great force, damaging several cars. Following the blast, eleven of the injured were shifted to the Trauma Centre at Quetta’s Civil Hospital, where many were reported in critical condition. Police, local authorities, Bomb Disposal
LAHORE: An accused on 01-November-2024 assaulted a teenage girl in the Shad Bagh area. According to Shad Bagh police, accused Rohit alias Chitta barged into the house of a 17-year-old girl with his accomplices and assaulted her, and took away 1.5 tola gold jewellery and Rs200,000. The police registered the case and arrested the accused. According to police sources, both the accused and the victim belong to the Christian community and are acquainted with
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has observed that the enactment of the Sindh Medico Legal Act, 2023 was a progressive step, but it required implementation through rule-making and appointments. The SHC directed a committee, headed by the Sindh chief secretary, to ensure compliance with the law, frame rules within six weeks and approve the schedule of new expenditures (SNEs) for appointment of police surgeons and medico-legal officers (MLOs). A two-bench, comprising Justice Salahuddin
CHINIOT: Saddar police have booked six persons, including two women, for the abduction and gang-rape of a minor girl at a brothel they were allegedly running in a house near Jaman Colony, Lahore Road, Chiniot, arresting the two nominated ones. The suspects, four of them, including a woman, unidentified, under sections 364-A, 375-A, 371-A, 372-B of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 3 of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act 2018 on the