CDPM a subsidiary of Peshawar University, announced the launch of its flagship project RESCUE PESHAWAR: The Centre for Disaster Preparedness and Management (CDPM), a subsidiary of Peshawar University, announced the launch of its flagship project “Resilient Education for School Children Understanding Emergencies (RESCUE)” on October 13, marking the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. This initiative aligns with the theme of the international day and is crucial considering the risks of climate change in
Child Rights in Focus
WHILE basic education is a constitutional right of every child in Pakistan, millions of children and youth remain deprived of this fundamental means of living a quality life. The recently launched District Education Performance Index (DEPI) by the Ministry of Planning and Development represents a significant step towards comparing the state of education across 134 districts in Pakistan. The findings of the report reveal severe disparities in both access to and quality of education,
Karachi faces a diphtheria outbreak, with 28 child deaths in 2023, exposing gaps in vaccination and critical care. Pakistan’s healthcare system continues to show cracks as another preventable tragedy unfolds in Karachi. This year, 28 children have lost their lives to diphtheria – a bacterial disease that could have been easily avoided through proper vaccination. The Sindh Infectious Diseases Hospital has reported 166 cases of diphtheria so far in 2023, with more than 10
KARACHI: A pivotal consultation meeting was held at Dadu deputy commissioner’s office to address the implementation of the Sindh Child Marriage Act 2013. Key stakeholders including representatives from district government departments, various NGOs and community members, attended the meeting, chaired by Secretary of Human Rights Department Tahseen Fatima. Chairman of Sindh Human Rights Commision Iqbal Detho, Director Human Rights Agha Farukh Hussain and others were also present. The meeting focused on finding collaborative solutions
MANSEHRA: Residents of Kaghan valley staged a sit-in on 13-October-2024 to protest the ongoing shortage of teachers and doctors at the local schools and health facilities. Maulana Sher Zaman, the prayer leader of the central mosque in Kaghan town, while addressing the demonstrators, stated, “The government earns substantial revenue from tourism in Kaghan valley, yet we still lack essential health and education services.” Chanting slogans in support of their demands and against the government,
PESHAWAR: Frequent administration of injections was causing “provocative poliomyelitis” as three of the four polio affected children detected so far in the province had paralysis caused by wrong injections administered mostly in rural areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Skeletal muscle injury makes sufferers exposed to complications of concurrent poliovirus infection. The phenomenon, labelled as “provocation poliomyelitis” (PPM), continues to haunt polio programme in the province as detection of polio cases in the past few months
LAHORE: Christian couples taking their marriage vows in front of a priest gleefully promise to stay bonded in holy matrimony till death does them apart. Yet few would imagine the state taking the ceremonial utterance literally by disenfranchising married women from the universal right to divorce. The Christian community in Punjab is calling for amendments to the Christian Family Laws vis a vis the Christian Marriage Act of 1872 and the Christian Divorce Act
LAHORE: Punjab police on October 13 arrested a security guard of a private college located in the Gulberg area of Lahore for allegedly raping a student, ARY News reported. As per the DIG Operations, the accused guard involved in the rape incident went into hiding after the news of the incident went viral on social media. The police managed to arrest the accused security guard of the private college within 10 hours of the
MISOGYNY is the bane of women’s lives across the globe as it robs them of autonomy over their bodies. This is reflected in the latest Unicef estimates that include global and regional assessments on sexual violence against children; they show that over 370m women and girls endured rape or sexual violence before the age of 18. The highest number of victims live in sub-Saharan Africa that has 79m female sufferers, with eastern and south-eastern
LAHORE: Pakistan is home to nearly 19 million child brides and ranks 6th globally in early child marriages, the participants of a seminar organised to mark the International Day of the Girl were informed on October 12. The speakers said the girls in Pakistan face stark challenges in their education, health, nutrition and well-being. Estimates of the number of out-of-school children in the country range from 20.3 to 22.1 million, out of which 12
LAHORE: In a major operation, the Lahore Organised Crime Unit dismantled a child smuggling ring involved in luring and trafficking vulnerable children from Punjab to Azad Kashmir. During an intelligence-based operation in Kotli, Azad Kashmir, 29 children were safely rescued, police officials confirmed at a press conference. The operation, led by DIG Organised Crime Imran Kishwar, alongside SP Furqan Bilal and DSP Mian Anjum Toqeer, resulted in the arrest of the group’s ringleader, Imran
The body of a nine-year-old boy, who had drowned in the Lyari River, was recovered on 11 October 2024. The boy, Uzair, had drowned in the Lyari River in Lasi Goth in the Sohrab Goth area on Thursday evening. Following the incident, rescuers from different welfare organisations reached the area and started a search for the missing child. After the operation halted on Thursday night due to darkness, the rescue teams resumed the search