SAHIWAL: A nine-year-old child was tortured to death by his neighbours over a minor dispute at Chak 40/12-L, Chichawatni tehsil. Nasir, the son of Imran, was playing with a child of his neighbours, identified as Bilal, son of Muhammad Rafaqat, in the street on March 31. The children exchange harsh words over some matter and Nasir slapped Bilal. Bilal went home and complained to his family. Bilal’s grandfather Muhammad Ashfaq Gul took hold of
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Secretary Health Balochistan Abdullah Khan has ordered data system for monitoring maternal and childcare, nutrition targets and health facilities effective in the districts of the province. DG Health, Dr. Farooq Hot, Additional Secretary Health Arif Achakzai, Director Public Health, Dr. Faheem Khan and the other day. The meeting presided over by the secretary health department discussed district-wise classification of health facilities related to maternal and newborn child and other health indicators. Secretary Health Balochistan
OKARA: A woman teacher of a private school was booked for torturing a fifth class student at Chak 20/2-L, Renala Khurd, on 2nd April 2024. As per the first information report (FIR), Maaz was allegedly beaten by his teacher, Samaha, with sticks as a punishment. When he returned home, he told his parents about the incident. His father complained to school principal Anwar, who turned a deaf ear to the complaint. Later, Maaz`s father
The Punjab government has launched the largest routine immunisation catch-up activity in all the 3,572 union councils of the province from April 1 and it will continue till April 30, 2024, to vaccinate each and every child in the province. The activity will be carried out in all the districts of the province with the technical and financial support of WHO. ‘This is a specially-designed catch-up activity which aims at reaching out to all
A man from Sheikhanwala shot dead his two daughters and seriously injured the third one in the Sheeshmahal neighbourhood of Bhera on Monday before taking his own life. According to sources, Mudassar Iqbal, whose wife from Bhera divorced him in 2018, had been demanding custody of his three daughters. On Monday, armed with a pistol, he went to his ex-wife and upon her refusalto send daughters with him, he shot dead his two daughters
The city police in Peshawar on 31 March 2024 safely recovered a newborn abducted from Women and Children Hospital, Rajar, and arrested four accused involved in the crime, according to news report. SP investigations lhsan Shah accompanied by SHO Taimur Saleem told a press conference here that police were informed that on March 26 a newborn baby went missing from the hospital`s gynaecology ward. Taking notice of the kidnapping, district police officer Nazir Khan
The 2024 observance of World Autism Day is aligned with the implementation status and progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition representing human evolution and neurodiversity among all world populations. The SDGs are universally agreed goals adopted in 2015 by the UN to bridge economic disparities in 17 overlapping areas including access to quality health, education and safety. They promote gender equality and inclusive economic growth and employment for all.
The Provincial Education Department has formally issued a notification announcing the commencement of the new academic year session 2024-25 from April 1 for all government schools. Simultaneously, an inflation bomb has been dropped on the parents of students as a new admission policy has been introduced, which restricted admission for a significant number of students in government schools. Cutting down on admission quotas may prove detrimental to school-aged children The Education Department has directed
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court took exception to a decision of authorities for categorizing the case of a 14-year-old missing boy as of ‘enforced disappearance’ and summoned the DIG (investigation) for an explanation in this regard. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto observed that it was unable to understand on which basis a joint investigation team (JIT) for missing persons had declared the case of an underage boy as enforced disappearance whereas
While there has been a slight decrease in measles` cases with the weather conditions getting warmer in a couple of days, the highly contagious infection remains a serious public health concern in Karachi as complicated cases continue to be reported at the city’s tertiary care hospitals, it emerged on 30 March 2024. According to experts, the majority of children being brought to hospitals are unvaccinated and malnourished. ‘This month, 80 children have been admitted
Nine more environmental samples, collected from all the four provinces, have been found to be positive for Type-1 wild poliovirus (WPV1), taking the tally of positive tests for the current year to 83. Besides, Badin has been included in the list of 30 districts whose sewage water carries the virus of the crippling disease. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, has confirmed the detection of WPV1
LAYYAH: A 9-year-old mentally challenged was sexually assaulted in the district headquarters hospital within the limits of City Police Station. A police spokesperson said 15-year-old Abrar raped the minor girl who came to visit her grandmother in the surgical ward. The accused, who worked at a nearby General Bus Station as a porter, lured the victim to a deserted area of the hospital by offering her candies. A CCTV footage of the incident was