Two families lose siblings in a tube well, swamp DASKA: Four children drowned in two incidents reported from the Daska area during the past 48 hours. According to local officials, nine-year-old Mudassir and eight-year-old Umair, sons of Qamar, drowned while bathing after going along with their mother to their outhouse. The siblings went to bathe in the water flowing from a tube well to irrigate the fields. Their mother got busy with some work.
Child Rights in Focus
PESHAWAR: As the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government faces a financial crisis, education in the province is likely to take a hit since the authorities have reportedly decided to sell lands owned by the education department to address the financial shortfall, sources told Geo News on 27, July. The sources said that the land bought for the Bacha Khan Greater Educational Complex in Mardan would be put on sale to clear the payments of landowners.
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Ali Zia Bajwa has directed the government to establish observation homes to provide safe shelter for juveniles in every district. Instructing the government to ensure prompt implementation of the Juvenile Act in a judgment, Justice Bajwa issued eight directives, observing that the physical separation of juveniles from adult offenders in detention facilities is non-negotiable, with separate lockups and detention centres for young offenders. Justice Bajwa disposed of a
Two women and a teenage girl were murdered by their relatives in the name of so-called honour in separate heart-rending incidents in the city on 24 July. The gruesome murders once again show the danger to life women face in our society for merely making choices about their own lives. In a tragic incident in Quaidabad, a mother-of-two whose husband works abroad, was killed at her home, with initial investigations suggesting that her brother-in-law
QUETTA: The National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) coordinator has stressed the need to launch effective anti-polio campaigns and improve routine immunisation to eradicate the poliovirus. Only three to four effective anti-polio campaigns are required to eliminate the virus fully, Anwarul Haq, a retired army captain, said while chairing a high-level meeting at the Zhob commissioner’s office on Saturday. Mr Haq acknowledged that the current year`s situation was worse than last year, with environmental samples
Child Marriage, one of the unfortunate and rampant trends, takes place in several parts of the country despite being prohibited under the relevant laws. Child marriage is a serious violation of children’s rights, something that ensures gender inequality. Young girls, in particular, are denied to enjoy their rights to education and freedom, instead bounding them into lifelong commitments. Consequently, young girls experience enormous issues of health due to early pregnancy and frequently bear the
LAHORE: For a society that still refuses to consider child labour as a gross violation of the rights of children, innumerable girls from impoverished households continue to work as domestic workers and nannies across affluent households in the country. While some of these girls are lucky to find humane employers, many others end up in the violent hold of abusive families, who in the absence of a cohesive child abuse case management system, easily
Disconnection from nature is a catalyst for the present environmental crisis and several physical, mental, and emotional illnesses. With mental health challenges on the rise in the US and climate change on the brink of becoming irreversible, there is an urgent need for educators who can help restore our sense of connection with nature. That’s the mission of Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, a nonprofit group that helps participants remember “that we are
KHYBER/DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The district administration in collaboration with agriculture and forest departments launched a billion tree-plus plantation campaign in different parts of Khyber. Deputy Commissioner Retired Capt Sanaullah Khan planted an olive sapling at the Khyber House compound to inaugurate the monsoon plantation drive. In Landi Kotal, the assistant commissioner, Adnan Mumtaz Khattak, the additional assistant commissioner Rameez Ali Shah, and district youth officer Sajid Afridi engaged a group of schoolchildren, both boys
ISLAMABAD: Following intervention by Chief Commissioner Islamabad Muhammad Ali Randhawa, services at Nadra’s death and birth registration centre have been restored. Taking notice of a report by Dawn, the Chief Commissioner on 25 July expressed his dissatisfaction to the relevant officials, stating that the suspension of this essential service for the last three days was unacceptable. Nadra on 19 July suspended services to Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) for not paying Rs2 million in dues. Mr
MUZAFFARABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has ‘unilaterally’ blocked access to local government (LG) institutions in five districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) to its civil registration management system since Saturday, causing considerable inconvenience to residents seeking civil registration certificates. Previously, the LG institutions in all 10 AJK districts – municipal corporations, municipal committees and town committees in urban areas, and union councils in rural areas – issued civil registration certificates
LET me first clarify that while the title of this article might give the impression that we are educating and training our medical students about quality Primary Health Care (qPHC), we are not. Recently though, some important policy developments have taken place, which are paving the way for sustainable education and training in qPHC in Pakistan. But before that, let us frame the problem. In my article ‘Dubious distinctions’, published on these pages on