ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Federal Education on 17 April 2024 directed the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) to make cleanliness drive in schools and colleges a regular feature and ensure availability of cleanliness equipment in institutions as well. ‘If we cannot keep our schools clean how can we keep our communities clean’. We should treat our schools like our homes. Cleanliness is part of our hygiene,` said a brief statement issued by the education
Child Rights in Focus
GUJAR KHAN: Police on 17 April 2024 arrested a suspect accused of killing a girl after subjecting her to sexual assault. According to details, a 10-year-old girl who had gone missing around a fortnight ago from her house situated in Dulmi village, in the limits of Gujar Khan police station, was found murdered in a well last 8 April 2024. SSP Operations Hafiz Kamran Asghar said the suspect, identified as Falak Sher, confessed to
PESHAWAR: Ten more people, including nine children, were killed in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the aftermath of the torrential rains as the provincial government imposed emergency in 13 districts for provision of relief, restoration of damaged communication networks and water supply according to Dawn report. Six children were killed in separate incidents in Lower Dir district. On Monday night, a roof collapse killed two children and injured three others in Sakhawono village
Pakistan has a population of approximately 235 million, out of which at least 26.2 million children are of school-going age but still out of school. Among several other challenges that Pakistan faces as a developing country, the education crisis is one of the major ones that encompasses issues like access to education and the quality of its provision. Though efforts and improvements have been made over the past few years, there are still some
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Federal Education and the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) have decided to discontinue the centralised examination system for grade five in Islamabad-based schools. The FDE used to conduct centralised examinations of grades five and eight every year, and students of private schools were also allowed to appear in these examinations. The directorate had a complete directorate, but this year, the results were compiled by a private firm hired for teacher
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has directed the district health officers in the province to establish medical camps in the inaccessible rain-hit areas to immediately provide medical care to the peopleinneed andpreventthe outbreak of diseases. The DHO will also take steps to `strengthen surveillance to prevent and control waterand food-borne diseases,` according to a notification issued by the director-general (health services). It added that it had become very important due to the continuous
PESHAWAR: As the new academic year in government schools of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa began on Monday, students were troubled by the failure of authorities to provide them with free textbooks, according to Dawn report. Neither the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board has printed books nor are they available on the market, according to officials. They told Dawn that usually, schoolchildren received free course books from the provincial government at the start of the academic year in
NAROWAL: The minor girl, who had been abducted six days ago, was allegedly raped and found killed in fields. Muhammad Shakeel, a resident of Marth tehsil, told the police that he had come to his in-laws village Sarai Shah Fateh Tehsil, Pasrur, along with his family. He said on April 11 at 3:30pm, his two-and-a half-year-old daughter, Jannat Fatima, suddenly disappeared while playing outside the house. He said his family members and locals searched
LAHORE: Declaring the definition of ‘child’ in the Child Marriage Act, 1929 unconstitutional, the Lahore High Court has directed the Punjab government to revise the provincial version of the legislation and end the age-based distinction between males and females. `The definition of child in the 1929 Act while making a distinction on the basis of age, is not based on an intelligible criteria having nexus with the object of the law,’ Justice Shahid Karim
MANSEHRA: With a significant number of child marriage cases, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is still without any legislation to effectively check underage wedlock. According to government`s Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Project, which has been launched in 10 of 38 districts of the province since 2021, child brides are the worst victims of physiological traumas and reproductive health issues compared with their counterparts married off in the age of 20 and above. Its report says that
A magisterial court has extended the physical remand of an accused, implicated in a sodomy case involving a minor, by three days. The extension comes after the police requested additional time to conduct further tests on the accused. Accused Qari Abubaker was once again brought before the Shahdara police, seeking an extension of his remand to facilitate additional testing. The defence counsel argued against the extension, alleging that the police had unlawfully obtained evidence
In a tragic incident on the second day of Eid, a father in the Madwala Township of Alipur, Dera Ghazi Khan, brutally slayed eight family members, including his wife and seven children, before fleeing the scene. Upon receiving reports from reports from local residents, Madwala police Chowki and SHO of Saddar Alipur police station Asmat Abbas, Accompanied by a heavy police contingent reached the scene. Regional Police Officer (RPO) Capt (retd) Sajjad Hassan Khan