LAKKI MARWAT: Unknown miscreants attacked an under-construction building of a girls’ primary school in Bannu on 6th November. A police official said the incident occurred in Shah Najeeb Landidak Naikum Kallay area in the limits of Haved police station. He said that the miscreants hurled a grenade towards the building, which exploded with a bang. However, he said the blast did not cause any loss of human lives or damage to the building. He
Child Rights in Focus
SAHIWAL: Farid Town police have arrested a youth for allegedly forcing a sixteen-year-old girl to drink acid over rejection of his marriage proposal at 90/6-R village, leaving the victim in critical condition. As per Rescue 1122 officials, the girl has been shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Sahiwal Teaching Hospital, where doctors are treating her for critical damage to her alimentary canal, kidneys and acid burns to her neck and lips.
LAHORE: Expressing its concern over the possibility of misuse of mental health law to curtail liberty of a person, the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has directed the Punjab government to consider amendments to the Mental Health Ordinance 2001 as proposed by a woman activist. The NCHR passed instructions to the provincial secretary for Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department and the Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) on a complaint against the alleged misuse
LAHORE: As smog blankets Punjab, the provincial government on 6th November announced the closure of public and private educational institutions across 18 districts from Nov 7 to 17. The decision follows an alarming rise in air quality index (AQI) levels, which have crossed into hazardous territory, especially in Lahore, where AQI peaked at a staggering 1,165 on Wednesday morning. Lahore has been particularly hard hit, with AQI readings remaining at hazardous levels throughout the day.
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan has become the 71st country to join Interpol’s International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database, according to an official statement. The move will help local law enforcement agencies in the investigation of online child exploitation, an FIA spokesman said in a press release on Tuesday. The ICSE database is used by Interpol to connect law enforcement agencies of all its member countries. This database has been operational since 2009 and provides immediate access
LAHORE: The Virtual Centre for Child Safety 05-November-2024 reunited a 12-year-old mentally challenged child with his family after 71 days. The Virtual Centre for Child Safety got information about the missing of child and dispatched police to take custody of a 12-year-old child, who was sitting outside a shop. The police took the child into protective custody and transferred him to Edhi Home. The family of the child had been searching for him for
ISLAMABAD: Poliovirus has crippled another child in Balochistan, raising the number of total polio cases to 46 in Pakistan this year so far, Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) officials said 05-Novemeber-2024. This is the second confirmed case of polio in Killa Saifullah, a district where multiple environmental samples have also tested positive for the virus. Balochistan remains the hardest-hit province this year, with 23 cases, followed by Sindh with 12, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with nine, and
ISLAMABAD: The 46th case of poliovirus this year has been reported from Qila Saifullah district of Balochistan, officials confirmed on 5th November. The case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been detected in a male child, an official of the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication in Islamabad told Dawn. This is the second case of poliovirus from Qila Saifullah this year. So far, 23 cases have been reported from Balochistan, 12 from Sindh, nine
PESHAWAR: Hundreds of primary schoolteachers from across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province staged a protest sit-in near Jinnah Park here on 5th November to press for their post upgradation demand. They warned that if the demand was not met, they would spend the night on the road and march towards the nearby provincial assembly building on November 6 (today) for a sit-in. The sit-in was staged on a service road next to Jinnah Park on
UMERKOT: A 10-year-old girl of New Chhor town, who was abducted two years ago, has finally been reunited with her family. Victim Aasoo Kolhi told Dawn that she was kidnapped from Tando Adam when she had gone to buy milk for her parents who had gone there for casual labour. Her alleged abductor identified as Abdul Rehman Sheikh, a dangerous criminal, “subjected her to abuse, forced her into begging, and used the money she
GUJRAT: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claims to have arrested at least 109 human traffickers during the month of October across the Gujranwala region. The immigration authorities have also offloaded at least 116 passengers including beggars at Sialkot International Airport for being suspected of using illegal travel documents as well as other reasons during that period. A senior official of FIA said around 206 cases of human trafficking had also been lodged and the
MUZAFFARGARH: A class seven student was reportedly kidnapped from outside the Government Girls High School in Canal Colony on 4th November. The City police registered a case against unknown suspects following a complaint lodged by the girl’s mother, Zubaida Bibi. According to the complainant, her 13-year-old daughter went missing after arriving at the school but never returned. When she inquired with the school administration, they claimed to have no knowledge of her whereabouts. She