Islamabad: The Federal Directorate of Education has directed principals of the public sector schools and colleges in Islamabad Capital Territory to ensure that teachers hold remedial classes on Saturdays. As per the FDE notification, all public sector schools in the Islamabad Capital Territory will be open every Saturday starting August 10 for remedial classes and foundational literacy, and to promote activities like sports and mind games. These sessions will be two hours long and
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A sessions court has awarded a collective sentence of 17 years imprisonment to a couple in a case pertaining to kidnapping and raping a minor girl. Ghulam Rasool and his wife Zaiba alias Naseem were found guilty of kidnapping a ten-year-old girl from Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and taking her to their house, where the man assaulted her in September 2020. Additional Sessions Judge (South) Ashraf Hussain Khowaja pronounced his judgment after recording evidence
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on 02-August-2024 stayed an additional sessions’ court order with regard to the suspension of the Gizri SHO in a girl abduction case and directed the Karachi additional IG to conduct an inquiry into the matter and take appropriate action against police officials if their negligence was proved, The interim order came on the application of Gizri SHO Tanveer Murad who sought suspension of the additional sessions court order in
THE provinces of Sindh and Punjab have, with the assistance of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), prepared draft labour codes. These new codes refashion the current fragmented labour laws. The codes are designed to comply with international labour standards by extending protection to all people who work for the first time in Pakistan’s history. Most of Pakistan’s labour laws were originally drafted in the British colonial period. They have left the vast majority of the working population largely
Imagine this: A bully enters a man’s dwelling and forces him to sign over ownership of a large piece of his land at gunpoint. To lend this theft the thinnest air of legitimacy, the bully throws the landowner a bone and puts a sale price on the papers that is far less than its true worth. The bully then proceeds to divide up the land among his associates. But the original landowner does not
SUKKUR: Police have arrested a female tutor, her sister, and three brothers on charges of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl and issuing threats to her father at their residence in Rohri taluka on the evening of 30th July. The victim’s father stated in an FIR that on July 30 he dropped his child at about 5:00 pm at the suspects’ home where the main suspect ran a tuition centre in the locality. When he
PESHAWAR: Experts at a consultative session on 1st August 2024 called upon the government to make suitable amendments to the law to remove loopholes that caused an increase in honor-related violence against women. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Commission on the Status of Women (KPCSW) convened the session to discuss the alarming increase in honour killing incidents and related crimes in the region. Speakers pointed out that owing to lacunas in law, honour-related violence had been
An anti-terrorism court has sentenced four men to death on charges of kidnapping for ransom and murder of two minor boys. Muhammad Qurban alias Irfan, Muhammad Imran alias Mann, Waseem Khan alias Waheed Pathan, Muhammad Ramzan alias Babu Odh were found guilty of kidnapping for ransom Muhammad Shahbaz and Muhammad Hassan – aged 8 to 10 years – and later murdering them in September 2016. They were also convicted of sexually abusing one of
ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Rape Crisis Cell (ARCC) has been set up at the Federal Government Services Hospital, known as Polyclinic, as part of the Tahaffuz project to combat sexual violence against women and empower survivors in their pursuit of justice and healing. According to a statement, the ARCC has technical support from UN Women and funding from the US Embassy’s Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL). “These facilities will serve as essential resource
KARACHI: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on 31st July 2024 supported the Sindh government’s plan to offer free breakfast /lunch and milk to schoolchildren under its School Meal Programme (SMP). WFP Country Director Coco Ushiyama called on Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here at the CM House and discussed the issue of out-of-school children. The CM urged the WFP to support pilot programmes that could eventually be scaled up over time. The meeting
The family says Nilan, 18, and Marwan, 16, had left home late at night, found dead in the morning MITHI: It was a horrid sight for the farmers going out in the field at dusk to find two young women hanging on separate branches of a tree in the poverty-hit desert district of Nangarparkar on 31st July. It is not unusual for people to commit suicide in the sand-swept region plagued with the oppression
ISLAMABAD: Stakeholders from various international organisations and the government reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening collaboration and accelerating efforts to combat human trafficking. The affirmation emerged during the joint commemoration of ‘World Day Against Trafficking in Persons’ in Islamabad on 30 July, wherein the emphasis was placed on protecting children and upholding the rights and dignity of those most at risk of exploitation. The event, held under the global theme ‘Leave no child behind in