KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has sought a comprehensive report from the Sindh chief secretary on the implementation of the Sukkur Bench order on a petition against the non-implementation of the policy of provision of early childhood education. A hearing in this regard was held before a two-member bench headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar. The lawyer of the petitioner, Usman Farooq Advocate, stated that the policy of provision of early childhood education has
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KARACHI: An allegedly mentally unstable woman tossed her three young daughters into an underground water storage tank before jumping in herself in a tragic incident that happened in Bakhtawar Goth, Sukhan, on 12-September-2024. The mother and two of the girls drowned, while the third daughter managed to survive, according to local police. Police said that the deceased woman, identified as 35-year-old Shamaila, took her daughters, two-year-old Yusra, four-year-old Rohab, and seven-year-old Sara, to the
NAROWAL: The Government Girls Elementary School at Mardwal village, Shakargarh tehsil, has been submerged by sewage water for two years and the students are forced to walk through dirty and smelly water to reach classrooms and washrooms. Students and teachers reach the classrooms through dirty and smelly water every day. About two-foot dirty water has accumulated on the premises of the girls’ school. The students put their desks in the dirty water to go
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Country Representative Unicef Sharmeela Rasool on 12th September 2024 said the world was in the climate crisis mode as the problem was no longer of the future, but of the present. She was speaking at a roundtable discussion on ‘Climate-Compatible Education’ held at the Institute of Regional Studies on Thursday. Ms Rasool said when we talk about climate crisis, we should not forget about the biodiversity loss that the world is going
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The local police on September 11 claimed to have recovered a six-year-old boy from kidnappers within 24-hours of the abduction and arrested two culprits. According to a police spokesman, the minor was kidnapped for ransom from Syed-Aliaan area of Paharpur tehsil. He said that following the directions of senior police officials, a police party recovered the boy from the fields in the Syed-Aliaan area. The police also arrested two kidnappers of
RAWALPINDI: The Grand Teachers Alliance, a coalition of Punjab teachers’ unions, on September 11 announced that teachers from the entire province would converge on Lahore on Sept 26 to protest the government’s plan to outsource educational institutions. They would also shut down schools on Sept 27. Teachers in Rawalpindi division, on the other hand, will lock down schools from September 24. This was announced by Grand Teachers Alliance Punjab President Raja Tahir Mehmood, Punjab
LAHORE: The Investigations police rescued a 16-year-old girl from Rahim Yar Khan, who had been abducted under the pretext of marriage. The suspected kidnapper was arrested. The suspect, identified as Muhammad Tariq, had lured the girl with a false promise of marriage. As she left her home, she took Rs800,000 with her, which the suspect took from her before fleeing. According to SSP Dr Anoush Masood, the police tracked down the suspect using human
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on 11-September-2024 said that monsoon floods in Sindh had forced thousands of children out of school, as Pakistan struggled with recurring extreme weather events disrupting education and putting young lives at risk. “Children in Sindh are facing serious setbacks in their education due to extreme weather conditions, with 230,000 students impacted by school closures caused by severe monsoon floods”, UNICEF’s representative in Pakistan, Abdullah Fadil said.
PESHAWAR: In a significant step towards ensuring the protection and welfare of children in the merged districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a Child Protection Unit was inaugurated in the Khyber District. The unit is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting children’s rights and will work to prevent or address cases of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of children. The inauguration event was attended by a number of senior K-P social welfare department officials, including the additional secretary and
PESHAWAR: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a suspect in the Abbottabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for sexually assaulting children, recording the acts, and subsequently blackmailing them. The operation led to the recovery of nearly 500 indecent videos of young children. A raid was conducted based on a confidential report from an international rights organisation. According to the FIA spokesperson, the Abbottabad Cyber Crime Circle conducted the operation, resulting in the arrest of
LAHORE: As many as 17 out of a total of 24 autonomous medical and teaching institutes of Punjab had been working without boards of management (BoMs) for a year, exposing the ‘incompetence’ of Health Ministry and the relevant authorities as the institutes were being run by the temporarily constituted administrative committees. The committees were formed after the expiry of the tenure of BoMs of respective institutes as a stop-gap arrangement by the then caretaker
ISLAMABAD: The number of out-of-school children across the country remained above 26 million despite several initiatives by the government in recent years as well as the commitments to bring these children back to schools. The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training informed the National Assembly that there were over 26 million out-of-school children in the country and various steps were being taken to bring them back to schools. In response to a question